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Telangana: Union Minister of State, Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated India’s first unique ‘Rock Museum’ in Hyderabad. The Open Rock Museum, set up with the aim to educate and enlighten the masses about several lesser-known facts, displays around 35 different types of rocks from different parts of India with ages ranging from 3.3 billion years to […]
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Hyderabad: Two handloom workers from Uttar Pradesh who opened up to 40 accounts in different banks and worked as money mules for some fraudsters from Nigeria were arrested by the Hyderabad police on Saturday. The police seized mobile phones and ATM/ Debit cards from them. The arrested persons are identified as Mohd Nayeem (23) and […]
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New Delhi: Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur and Goa will be held between February 10 and March 7 in seven phases with counting of votes on March 10, the Election Commission announced on Saturday, and banned physical rallies and roadshows till January 15 due to Covid concerns. The elections have huge political […]
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Lucknow: The Congress on Wednesday cancelled its four marathon races listed this week and also decided not to hold any big rallies in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh amid rising cases of the novel coronavirus infection. Party sources said apart from the infection scare, the decision also took into account the recent stampede-like situation in Bareilly where […]
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Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Prisons Department has decided to ban visitors to meet inmates in view of the increasing number Covid-19 cases in the state. The Department had allowed visitors to meet jail inmates on August 16 after suspending visits on March 24, 2020, due to Covid-19. Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Avanish Awasthi has instructed […]
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Sonbhadra: School children in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district were reportedly made to take a pledge to make India a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ A video of the incident has gone viral on social media, creating a fresh controversy. The children, dressed in their school uniforms, had gathered in the park after school hours. Some kids visiting the […]
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Hyderabad: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s brainchild initiative of demonetisation has become a “failure” as evident in seizure of a huge pile of cash from a businessman’s residence in Uttar Pradesh. “You should ask the Prime Minister as to how so much of cash was found despite the demonetisation […]
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Lucknow: What is in a name, asked Shakespeare. But it is a lot if one belongs to a place that has changed its name. Well-known poet Akbar Allahabadi has been mentioned as ‘Akbar Prayagraji after the name of Allahabad was changed to Prayagraj by the Yogi Adityanath government, three years ago. The name of the […]
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Hyderabad: The BJP will be dealt a deadly blow in the upcoming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, former Deputy Chief Minister and MLC Kadiam Srihari said on Tuesday. The anti-BJP forces will unite in future and Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao will decide the TRS party’s role in this regard to oust the […]
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Hardoi: In a shocking incident, a woman provoked her husband to kill their daughter after the latter saw her with her paramour. The accused, Kamla, apparently panicked after her daughter Pratibha saw her with her lover Ram Naresh. She later told her husband Nagendra that she had seen Pratibha with Ram Naresh in an objectionable […]
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Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has acquitted a man who had been awarded death penalty in the rape and murder of a minor. The high court said that the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt. While rejecting the reference for affirmation of death sentence and allowing the appeal of Nazil against the […]
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Moradabad: A seven-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped and murdered in a village in Moradabad, police said. The girl, belonging to a minority community, had gone missing while she was playing outside her house on December 22. Her body was found later in a sugarcane field, nearly two kilometres away from her house on Friday night. […]
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Muzaffarnagar: Two people were arrested here for allegedly drugging a Class 10 student and gang-raping her, police said on Saturday. The minor girl had gone for tuition classes on Thursday from where two people allegedly drugged her and took her to a forest area near Sadpur village, according to a complaint lodged by her family. […]
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The coronavirus night curfew will be applicable from 11 pm to 5 am, a senior official said here.
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Firozabad: An 18-year-old girl from Firozabad was allegedly raped by two men in a moving car in the Sikandra area in Agra. The incident took place on Sunday, but the complaint was lodged on Thursday. According to the police, the girl had made friends with 24-year-old Krishna Baghel, one of the two accused, on Instagram […]
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Pilibhit: A pregnant woman and her five-year-old daughter have been admitted to a hospital in a critical condition after being attacked by a pack of stray dogs. The incident took place on Tuesday at the Barha village on the outskirts of Pilibhit city under Sungadi police circle. The woman, Seema, was cooking when she heard […]
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Hyderabad: Looks like cheating in exams is not just restricted to schools and sometime even colleges. While there have been odd instances of cheating in public exams, it is not every day that someone gets caught cheating in a competitive or public exam. Cheating in these exams is a difficult task given the strictness of […]
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Etawah: A 33-year-old farmer allegedly committed suicide after strangling his wife to death in Etawah district. Station House Officer (SHO) Sudhir Kumar said that the farmer Rajneesh Kumar Dubey, on Saturday, first killed his wife Kanchan, 25 in his house in the Nagla Nariya village under Jaswantnagar police circle and then consumed some poisonous substance. […]
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Lucknow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Tuesday transfer Rs 1,000 crore into the accounts of 1.60 lakh self-help groups (SHGs) and Rs 20.20 crore to 1.01 lakh beneficiaries of the Mukhya Mantri Kanya Sumangala Yojana in Uttar Pradesh. He will also lay the foundation stone of 202 supplementary nutrition manufacturing units when he visits […]
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Moradabad: Three teenagers were caught by locals, tied to a tree and thrashed for several hours as ‘punishment’ for allegedly molesting girls in the locality. The boys, all 19 years old, remained tied to the tree and were beaten for several hours until they were rescued by the police. The incident took place on Wednesday […]
