Uttar Pradesh, a complete picture

1. BY
SHEKHAR BHATT

2.  Uttar Pradesh "Northern Province"), UP, is
a state located in northern India. It was created on 1
April 1937 as the United Provinces, and was
renamed Uttar Pradesh in 1950. Lucknow is the
capital and Kanpur is the commercial capital and the
largest city of Uttar Pradesh. On 9 November 2000, a
new state, Uttarakhand, was carved from the
mountainous Himalayan region of Uttar Pradesh.
 The state is bordered by Rajasthan to the
west, Haryana and Delhi to the
northwest, Uttarakhand and the country of Nepal to
the north, Bihar to the east, Jharkhand to the
southeast, Chhattisgarh to the south and Madhya
Pradesh to the southwest.

4.  AYODHAYA
 KURUSHETRA
 MATHURA
 AGRA
 JHANSI
 LUCKNOW
 BRINDAVAN
 ALLAHABAD
 VARANASI
 KANPUR

21.  80 Seats to the lok sabha
 404 seats to the vidhan sabha
 8 out of 14 prime ministers have been voted
to power form this state
 Narendra modi, arvind kejriwal, Rahul Gandhi
are fighting lok sabha elections 2014 from
uttar pradesh

24.  2013 Muzaffarnagar riots
 Hashimpura massacre took place on 22 May
1987, during the Hindu-Muslim
riots in Meerut city
 On December 6, 1992, a large crowd
of Hindu Karsevaks (volunteers) entirely
destroyed the 16th-century Babri
mosque in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh,India, in
an attempt to reclaim the land known as Ram
Janmabhoomi.

25.  The 2006 Varanasi bombings were a series of
bombings that occurred across the Hindu holy city
of Varanasi on 7 March 2006. At least 28 people
were killed and as many as 101 others were injured
 In the afternoon of 23 November 2007, within a
span of 25 minutes, six consecutive serial blasts
occurred in the Lucknow, Varanasi, and Faizabad
courts, in which 28 people were killed and several
others injured

26.  IIT BHU
 IIT Kanpur
 IIM Lucknow
 HBTI Kanpur
 Aligarh Muslim University(founded by sir syed
ahmed khan in 1875)