Over 1,200 villages hit by floods in Uttar Pradesh
The Hindu
State records above average rainfall in last 24 hours
LUCKNOW: The number of villages in Uttar Pradesh from 605 to 1,243 across 23 districts, impacting the lives of over 5.46 lakh persons, officials said on Thursday. Of these, 104 villages remain cut off, while in 361 villages both residents and farming were affected, said the U.P. Disaster and Relief Department. Mirzapur (404 villages), Prayagraj (169), Jalaun (114), Banda (79), Hamirpur (76), Ballia (68) and Varanasi (58) were among the worst hit.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday pledged to mobilise people in resistance against the BJP-led Union government’s “anti-agricultural worker, anti-farmer, anti-worker, anti-people” laws and policies till they are all repealed, the party said on Friday. In a statement issued here, the CPI(M) said the members took the pledge following a three-day meeting held at Thiruvananthapuram.

Expressing the need for more number of socially responsive engineers and lawyers for furthering development of the country, Governor Thaawarchad Gehlot here on Friday lauded St. Aloysius institution for widening its service in the education sector by opening separate institutes for engineering and law











