Shrawasti

Five devotees, including four women, were run over by a truck when their tempo turned turtle after hitting a brick-laden tractor trolley at Buddha Circuit area in Uttar Pradesh's Shrawasti district, police said today.

A 22-year-old woman was allegedly beaten to death by her husband and in-laws and the body set on fire in Uttar Pradesh's Shrawasti, police said on Monday, as her family claimed she was killed because she had refused to accept talaq given to her on phone.

Uttar Pradesh's Shrawasti district has the maximum number of girls marrying below 18 years of age in the country while Bahraich of the same state comes second.A whopping 82.8 per cent of girls in Shrawasti are married off before the legal age of 18 with the corresponding figure in Bahraich being 70.7 per cent.Bihar and Rajasthan are the two other s...

Five devotees, including four women, were run over by a truck when their tempo turned turtle after hitting a brick-laden tractor trolley at Buddha Circuit area in Uttar Pradesh's Shrawasti district, police said today.

A 22-year-old woman was allegedly beaten to death by her husband and in-laws and the body set on fire in Uttar Pradesh's Shrawasti, police said on Monday, as her family claimed she was killed because she had refused to accept talaq given to her on phone.

Uttar Pradesh's Shrawasti district has the maximum number of girls marrying below 18 years of age in the country while Bahraich of the same state comes second.A whopping 82.8 per cent of girls in Shrawasti are married off before the legal age of 18 with the corresponding figure in Bahraich being 70.7 per cent.Bihar and Rajasthan are the two other s...