Uttar Pradesh

[ oot-er pruh-deysh, -desh ]

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noun

a state in N India: a former province of British India. 93,933 sq. mi. (243,286 sq. km). : Lucknow.

Uttar Pradesh

/ ˈʊtə ˈprɑːdɛʃ /

noun

a state of N India: the most populous state; originated in 1877 with the merging of Agra and Oudh as the United Provinces; augmented by the states of Rampur, Benares, and Tehri-Garhwal in 1949; the N Himalayan region passed to the new state of Uttaranchal (now Uttarakhand) in 2000; now consists mostly of the Upper Ganges plain; agricultural. Capital: Lucknow. Pop: 166 052 859 (2001). Area: 243 350 sq km (93 933 sq miles)

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While states like Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, and Gujarat have been recording high infection numbers for a few weeks, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh reported their biggest single-day jumps in cases over the past few days.

From Quartz

The police in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh had acted on one of the complaints filed against him last year and a warrant was put out for his arrest.

From Time

Laxmi Kumari, an 18-year-old in grade 12 in the state of Uttar Pradesh, managed to avoid getting married once before, thanks to the intervention of a local nongovernmental organization.

From Washington Post

The state government of Uttar Pradesh, in India’s north, was the first to scale up distribution, beginning in late 2016.

From MIT Technology Review

In Uttar Pradesh, the police arrested more than 100 people in just a single day of protests in January and beat some brutally in public view.

From MIT Technology Review

But it is indeed in Uttar Pradesh that we see the deepest sympathy for this deleterious machismo.

From The Daily Beast

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