Tag: Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow: Just over 47 per cent of eligible voters exercised their franchise in the by-polls to 11 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh on Monday. Polling began at 7 am amid tight security, officials said, adding that 47.05 per cent of electors exercised their franchise. Gangoh in Saharanpur district saw the highest turnout with about 60.30 […]

Lucknow: The Yogi Adiyanath government of Uttar Pradesh will celebrate the annual Diwali event ‘Deepotsav’ on Saturday with the illumination of 5.51 lakh diyas or earthen lamps. The government will also launch schemes worth Rs 226 crore on the occasion. Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Deputy Speaker of Republic of Fiji […]

New Delhi: As many as 350 crimes were committed every day against children in 2017 in the country with Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh emerging as the top two states, child rights body Child Rights and You (CRY) said. The CRY said the recently published National Crime Records Bureau data revealed a 20 per cent […]

Ayodhya: The Deepostav organised by Uttar Pradesh’s the Yogi Adiyanath government has found a place in the Guinness World Records as a total 5.61 lakh earthen lamps were illuminated on the occasion on Saturday in Ayodhya. During the event four lakh 10,000 diyas were illuminated on ‘Ram ki paudi’ ghats and one lakh 51,000 thousand […]

Sambhal: An alcoholic father shot dead his 17-year-old daughter who tried to stop him from drinking in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district, police said. The father has been arrested and he has confessed to killing her. Nem Singh, 52, a resident of the Bandarai village in the Sambhal district, allegedly shot dead his daughter, Nitesh, from […]

New Delhi: Days ahead of the Ayodhya verdict, senior RSS and BJP leaders reached out to prominent Muslim clerics and intellectuals and held a meeting with them here on Tuesday during which it was stressed that irrespective of the nature of the court ruling there should neither be ‘junooni jashn’ (excessive celeberation) nor ‘haar ka […]

Lucknow: All educational institutions in Uttar Pradesh will remain closed from Saturday to Monday in view of the Ayodhya verdict, officials said on Friday. The Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce on Saturday its verdict in the politically sensitive case of Ram Janmbhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute in Ayodhya. All schools, colleges, educational institutions and training […]

Muzaffarnagar: A 24-year-old college student was allegedly abducted and raped in a moving car by a 26-year-old man with the act also being filmed by his friends in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district, police said on Sunday. New Mandi station house officer Sanjiv Kumar said the victim, who is a BSc student, was heading to college […]

Muzaffarnagar: A consumer court in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar has imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on actors Govinda and Jackie Shroff for endorsing a pain relief oil. The company producing the oil has also been fined. The court verdict was delivered on a complaint filed by a youth five years ago against a herbal oil […]

Sonbhadra: In a government school in Uttar Pradesh’s Chopan block one litre of milk was allegedly mixed in a bucket of water and served to 81 children as part of their midday meal, following which a teacher was suspended on Friday. The incident reportedly took place on Wednesday and it came to light after a […]

Unnao: A teacher and an assistant teacher of a higher secondary school in Unnao have been suspended after they failed to read a paragraph from an English textbook during an inspection by the Unnao district magistrate Devendra Pandey on Saturday. “It was a random inspection at the higher secondary school in Chaura and I asked […]

Mirzapur (Uttar Pradesh): Four persons, including a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan and the son of a retired jailor, have been arrested for allegedly abducting a class 10 student and then gangraping her at a deserted place. The car in which the girl was taken had a police logo on it. Inspector of Halia […]

Firozabad (UP): A 20-year-old girl was gangraped by four men and thrown at a secluded spot in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad district, police said on Wednesday. The girl, hailing from neighbouring Agra, was on her way to a coaching centre situated under the Hari Parvat police station area. The accused told the victim that her brother […]

Lucknow: A gang rape victim from Unnao in Uttar Pradesh was allegedly set ablaze early on Thursday morning by five men, including one who was accused in the crime, police said. The incident occurred at Sindupur village under Bihar police station area. The victim has been shifted to a government hospital in Lucknow and is […]

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday termed the death of Unnao gangrape victim “extremely sad” and conveyed his condolences to the aggrieved family. “All the accused persons have been arrested. The case will be taken to a fast-track court, and punishment will be given,” he said in a statement issued here. The […]