Tag: Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow: Nine persons were killed on Saturday in Uttar Pradesh when their vehicle travelling at high speed rammed into a truck parked on the roadside in Lakhimpur Kheri, police said. Nine of the 17 people in the mini van were killed instantaneously. The injured were rushed to a hospital, where the condition of three is […]

Lucknow: Thirteen school children were killed and six others seriously injured on Thursday when a train hit their van at an unmanned railway crossing in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar, police said. Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Kushinagar district, Akhilesh Kumar told IANS that one child and the driver of the van were in critical condition. The […]

Lucknow: A special CBI court here on Saturday sent, to seven days CBI custody, rape accused Uttar Pradesh BJP legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar, while the medical examination of the 17-year-old victim was conducted at a hospital here earlier in the day. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had sought a 14-day remand but the court […]

Lucknow: The CBI on Friday arrested Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, an accused in the rape of a 17-year-old girl in the state’s Unnao. Sengar, the MLA from Bangarmau in Unnao district, was arrested after being questioned at the CBI office here. The agency filed three FIRs in the case late on Thursday […]

Agra: Entry to the Taj Mahal will be restricted to only three hours starting from Sunday, according to a notice issued by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). The decision was taken to reduce “human load” on the fragile, 17th century monument of love which has started showing signs of fatigue and ageing, the notice said. […]

Mathura: Three doctors of the AIIMS were killed and four seriously injured when their car rammed into a stationery vehicle near the Maant toll plaza in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura district on Sunday, police said. The injured were immediately shifted to the Niyati Hospital and the bodies to the district hospital, a police officer said. The […]

Lucknow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday announced that his government will establish a Rs 20,000-crore defence industrial production corridor in Bundelkhand — a region divided between Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh — that will generate 250,000 jobs and bring development to one of the most impoverished regions of the country. “I am making an […]

New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government in its report to the Union Home Ministry on Wednesday said it was in the process of ascertaining if the violence and arson were pre-planned in Kasganj where communal riots broke out after a youth was killed on Republic Day. In the report, the Uttar Pradesh Police said it […]

Lucknow: Clashes erupted between two communities in Kasganj in Uttar Pradesh on Friday over celebrating Republic Day, police said. Over 36 youngsters from a community had taken out a bike rally with tricolours in their hands and were booed while passing through a locality of another community. There was a verbal altercation after which stones […]

Lucknow: Many theatres and multiplexes in Uttar Pradesh, including the state capital, on Thursday refused to screen controversial film “Padmaavat”, citing “lack of security”. The 10.15 a.m. show at the Wave multiplex in Gomti Nagar here was cancelled as owners of the mall feared for the safety of the property and cinegoers. Not a single policeman […]

Lucknow: A train accident was averted on Tuesday when the New Delhi-Puri Neelachal Express brushed past a loaded truck parked close to the tracks in Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh district, officials said. No one was injured. According to a Northern Railway official, the truck loaded with sand was parked close to the tracks when the footboards […]

Lucknow: Extreme cold wave conditions prevailed in most parts of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. Lack of night shelters and amenities have already led to the death of over 70 homeless and poor people. Phone calls to senior officials, including Director Information Anuj Jha have remained unanswered. Twenty two deaths have been reported from Poorvanchal; three […]

Lucknow: Three prisoners escaped from the high-security Mathura jail in Uttar Pradesh early on Monday, police said. Security has been beefed up. One of the accomplices got injured as he fell down trying to scale the boundary wall, a police officer said. The prison inmates, who escaped around 2 a.m. on New Year day were […]

New Delhi:The BJP has decided to field Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri as its candidate in a Rajya Sabha bypoll in Uttar Pradesh, a party release said. Puri, a former Indian Foreign Service Officer, was inducted as a minister in the Narendra Modi government in September. The seat fell vacant following the […]

Lucknow: Five children were injured in Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday when decorative helium gas-filled balloons exploded and caught fire, police said. The children were part of an event in the village of Hisavada, where Bihar Governor Satyapal Malik arrived. Hisavada is Malik’s native village and to make the occasion special, the locals had […]