Asserting that it is mandatory on part of the state to ensure a child's right to live, UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday called for combined efforts to bring down country's infant mortality rate.

The defeat of the Congress in the Moga by-poll has triggered a blame game within the party's state unit with two senior leaders Randeep Singh Nabha and Brahm Mohindra locking horns with PCC chief Amarinder Singh for issuing show cause notices to them.

A class V student of a government school here was hospitalized after he was allegedly thrashed by a teacher.

Himachal Pradesh Transport Minister GS Bali and two others were injured in a road accident early Sunday in Sonepat in Haryana, an official here said.

Swine flu on Friday claimed another victim at a private hospital in Indore, raising the death toll in the city this year from the disease to four.

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday described the State's budget for the year 2013-14 as a budget of the "Aam Admi", which is people centric and investment friendly.

A team of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited has inspected a site at Rajouli in Nawada where Bihar has assured to provide land and water for a 1400 MW nuclear power plant.

The alleged phone tapping of about 1,200 persons during the previous BJP regime will be probed by the state vigilance department and the names of those under surveillance made public, Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh said on Saturday.

Madhya Pradesh is witnessing a rising trend of Tigers being poached by electrocution with five felines losing lives because of it in 2012-13, an RTI query has found.

The Haryana government, which tabled its Budget for the financial year 2013-14 in the Assembly on Friday, presented for the first time the concerned financial documents in a digitized format.