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The members of Bhartiya Janta Party set on fire the effigy of coal minister, Shriprakash Jaiswal in Benajhabar crossing on Tuesday.

The Union Minister of Coal, Shriprakash Jaiswal has raised a strong objection over the extension of Shatabadi Express till Allahabad.

With CBI planning to register separate preliminary enquiries (PEs) into coal block allocations since 1993, the agency’s probe into the case related to the Jayaswals and the Dardas is turning complicated.

Expressing concern over the delay in construction of a parallel bridge at Govindpuri, Union coal minister Shriprakash Jaiswal on Thursday wrote a letter to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to hasten the work on approach road which was to be handled by the state government.

The Mirzamurad police on Monday succeeded in arresting one Shriprakash Seth for making the MMS of a girl while she was bathing and forwarding it to several persons in his village. One accomplice of Shriprakash is still at large.

A 30-year-old security guard was found murdered with multiple sharp injuries on Tuesday morning, inside a two-wheeler showroom — where he worked — at Begampur in northwest Delhi’s Rohini district.

Union coal minister Shriprakash Jaiswal on Monday said, “An inter-ministerial committee has been constituted to search the missing documents of the alleged coal scam.

Union coal minister Shriprakash Jaiswal on Monday said about 95% of missing documents of the alleged coal block allocation scam have been traced and they would be handed over to the CBI by September 10.

In a rare case, in-laws of a man who died due to burn injuries were booked for his murder on Friday

A 15-year-old boy in Varanasi,Uttar Pradesh, tragically died by suicide after feeling neglected by his father. The boy, Abhishek Patel, was upset after his father bought winter clothes for his younger brother but not him. His father had promised to buy him clothes later, but Abhishek left home and jumped in front of a moving train.

Industrialists having projects in Chandrapur and nearby areas with captive coal blocks have started transferring units to giant industrial groups fetching hefty profits running into hundreds of crores of rupees.

The closed Elgin Mills Limited and Kanpur Textile Limited, associated with British India Corporation Limited, will be revived soon. The employees of these mills will get their dues and other benefits.

The four members of the Jayaswal family — Manoj, Arvind, Abhishek and Anand — who were questioned by the CBI on Wednesday in connection with the coalgate scam, "justified their act of misrepresentation for getting coal blocks for their companies".

Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday staged protests across the city, demanding resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the coal blocks allocation scam. They also condemned Sunday’s police action on hundreds of BJP men, who had gone to stage protest in front of the house of coal minister Shriprakash Jaiswal.

Union coal minister Shriprakash Jaiswal has written to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry seeking upgrading of the Kanpur station of FM Rainbow channel.

Taking cue from the October 10 self-immolation bid by a mother and her daughter over police inaction in a house-grabbing case, a degree college principal on Sunday issued a similar threat at a college function chaired by Union Coal Minister Shriprakash Jaiswal in Civil Lines area.

Dolly, a six-month-old girl, was killed while her mother Shanti (22) sustained serious injuries when the part of a balcony collapsed in Sudamapur area under Bhelupur police station on Saturday morning.

The new Ganga bridge may get illuminated.At present, there no streetlights at the bridge which forces the drivers to drive in dark.

The coal minister also boarded the same train and arrived at Kanpur Central railway station where he was welcomed by the Congress party workers.

With one-and-a-half-year left for the Lok Sabha elections, Union coal minister Shriprakash Jaiswal used the intercity flagging off ceremony as a platform to highlight his achievements before hundreds of passengers.

With an eye on general elections, local politicians are expressing resentment over poor power scenario of the industrial city like never before.

The inauguration of Kanpur-Kolkata flight, scheduled for April 27, has been postponed once again.

One of the accused who hurled crude bombs in Friday's shootout where Umesh Pal, the prime witness in the 2005 murder of BSP MLA Raju Pal, was shot dead along with one of his police gunners has been identified as Guddu Muslim. Having once planned to target slain gangster Shri Prakash Shukla at the behest of a Barabanki gangster, Guddu Muslim is known for his expertise in making hand grenades even while riding pillion on a bike. Having worked with the top names of the underworld, Guddu's name had also figured in the murder of a teacher in Lucknow.

Rajan Tiwari has 40 cases including that of murder, attempt to murder, robbery, extortion, kidnapping for ransom from as long as 1996. It also includes cases against him in New Delhi, Bihar, and Jharkhand.

Several students along with traders and members of NGOs gheraoed the house of Union Coal Minister Shriprakash Jaiswal on Sunday, demanding capital punishment for the six accused in the Delhi Gang-rape case.

Ahir's demand has come a day after Union coal minister Shriprakash Jaiswal said here that there were no untapped coal reserves left in the state for WCL and it may have to look to other states for getting new mines.

International Travelling Uranium Film Festival will begin here on January 15 to spread awareness on nuclear issue and engage people in developments related to nuclear energy.

A PIL was recently filed before the Bombay high court seeking directions to the election commission to ask Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and MNS leader Raj Thackeray to disclose their assets.