A mother and her three-year-old daughter were killed in Uttar Pradesh late on Friday after they jumped off a speeding truck while resisting a sexual assault by the driver, police said on Saturday.

A senior district official and two policemen were among the seven persons injured in a clash between agitators protesting the murder of a 12-year-old girl and police in Chapati village.

A man killed his three children before committing suicide by jumping before a speeding bus on Wednesday in Uttar Pradesh, the police said. He took the extreme step as he suspected his wife to be in an illicit relationship with one of his relatives.

In a setback to the previous Prem Kumar Dhumal-led BJP government in the state, the Himachal Pradesh High Court quashed appointments of 480 teachers made in 2011 saying these (appointments) were not in accordance with law.

Uttar Pradesh Home Secretary RN Upadhyaya on Wednesday stirred a row after he brushed of a reporter's query about the death of four of family in a lighter vein, saying "birth is the reason behind the death."

An Uttar Pradesh policeman was in critical condition on Wednesday after he and a colleague clashed with each other with bamboo sticks in media glare, leaving them bleeding from the face.

One person has been arrested in connection with the murder of seven members of a family at their home in Ghaziabad district, a senior officer said in Lucknow on Thursday.

Two persons on Thursday have been sentenced to life imprisonment and five others were awarded seven years of jail term by a local court here for rape and murder of a minor girl.

Eleven members of a marriage party were killed on Tuesday and 30 others got injured when a truck in which they were travelling collided head-on with a roadways bus at Gonda district in Uttar Pradesh, the police said.

Miffed over the performance of its eight zonal in-charges, including two central ministers, in politically crucial Uttar Pradesh, the Congress appointed a new team on Monday.