Uttar Pradesh Peons

Fifteen job openings for peons, drivers and watchmen in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior saw nearly 11,000 unemployed young men flock to the city on Saturday and Sunday not just from within the state but also neighbouring Uttar Pradesh.

A government job vacancy for 62 peons with a technical wing of the Uttar Pradesh police has attracted a massive 93,000 applications -- that's an average of 1,500 applicants per post.

As the football frenzy peaks in the World Cup season, a small town boy from western Uttar Pradesh's Muzarffarnagar is making it big. Nishu Kumar, 21, has made it to the national football team. Son of a college peon, neither poverty nor lack of training opportunities stopped Nishu Kumar from following his dream.

Alok Chaurasia has a degree in electronics and communication engineering. The job that he is desperately waiting for these days is that of a peon.

An electrician and a peon, both employees of a central government enterprise, were found dead at their office in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Police said on Monday. The bodies of electrician Dev Narayan Singh and peon Vansh Raj Yadav were recovered from the Mahanagar office of public sector Instrumentation Limited on Monday. They died at least two days a...

Fifteen job openings for peons, drivers and watchmen in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior saw nearly 11,000 unemployed young men flock to the city on Saturday and Sunday not just from within the state but also neighbouring Uttar Pradesh.

A government job vacancy for 62 peons with a technical wing of the Uttar Pradesh police has attracted a massive 93,000 applications -- that's an average of 1,500 applicants per post.

As the football frenzy peaks in the World Cup season, a small town boy from western Uttar Pradesh's Muzarffarnagar is making it big. Nishu Kumar, 21, has made it to the national football team. Son of a college peon, neither poverty nor lack of training opportunities stopped Nishu Kumar from following his dream.

Alok Chaurasia has a degree in electronics and communication engineering. The job that he is desperately waiting for these days is that of a peon.

An electrician and a peon, both employees of a central government enterprise, were found dead at their office in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Police said on Monday. The bodies of electrician Dev Narayan Singh and peon Vansh Raj Yadav were recovered from the Mahanagar office of public sector Instrumentation Limited on Monday. They died at least two days a...