The turnouts were lower compared with 2014 in most of the 13 Uttar Pradesh seats that voted on Monday, repeating a pattern seen during last year’s by-elections when the BJP lost Gorakhpur, Phulpur a...

Kafeel Khan, the paediatrician who had been jailed over the deaths of children at a Gorakhpur hospital but later cleared of wrongdoing in a government probe, was arrested at Mumbai airport on the char...

Authorities in two Uttar Pradesh districts have “identified” over 60 people and sent them notices asking why action shouldn’t be taken against them for damaging public and private property durin...

Few governments in India step up to acknowledge their culpability after a public tragedy. It was not surprising, therefore, that the government of Uttar Pradesh, headed by Yogi Adityanath, refused to ...

Five policemen including the deputy jailer at Gorakhpur jail were injured on Friday when a group of inmates attacked them at 6.30am and took control of the prison for about three hours.Two possible tr...

Kafeel Khan, the Gorakhpur doctor jailed for alleged medical negligence in the BRD Hospital where 63 children had died in 2017, has been given a clean chit in a state investigation into his role.Khan,...

Not long ago, a special ambulance service was launched by the state government for injured cows. But a senior official at the local Baba Raghav Das Medical College tells me that most of the trauma pat...

Nightmares are often recurrent. In the Gorakhpur tragedy in 2017, over 1,300 infants died owing primarily to the lack of essential resources — the shortage of oxygen cylinders in this instance. A si...