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Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has instructed the officials concerned to ensure their distribution in order to help those crucial in implementation of women and child welfare schemes in rural areas.

After hours of persuasion, when the bride refused to relent, the wedding was called off and the families decided to return the gifts they had earlier received from each other.

Assembly elections are scheduled in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur during February - March next year. Gujarat Assembly polls are also slated for 2022 end.

The state government extended relaxations in the "corona curfew" to Bareilly and Bulandshahr districts from June 7, allowing shops and markets outside the containment zones to open for five days a week.

The move came after it was found that vaccine hesitancy was higher among women than men, said an official statement issued by the Uttar Pradesh government.

Hyderabad: The Rachakonda Anti-Human Trafficking Unit has cracked 30 complicated cases from January till May and rescued 102 victims in the process. The unit also nabbed 81 human traffickers, including sex buyers or customers, of whom 28 have been detained under the Preventive Detention Act, officials said. “All of them were complicated cases and had […]

On May 29, a video went viral on social media that showed PPE-clad persons dropping a corpse into the Rapti river.

The police said the girl, a student of class 8, had gone out of her house early in the morning when the accused dragged her into his shop and raped her.

The incident occurred in Raipur Kala village on Sunday, they said, adding, the victim was identified as Vinay.

Adityanath also took cognizance of the rising demand of medical oxygen in the state.

The four arrested persons have been identified as Maulana Mohammad Afzal, an Imam of a local mosque who hails from Kanpur Dehat, Salman, Shahid, and Meraj- all residents of the area.

Cyclone is very likely to move northeastwards and weaken gradually during next 12 hours.

The members of the groom's side allegedly attacked the bride's kin in Nawabganj area in Bareilly on Monday night.

Police said the accused Umesh Nishad, who was arrested on Sunday, has been booked under relevant sections, including section 376 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

The Prime Minister spoke to the chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Puducherry.

This is the second time that a gangster has killed another gangster inside the jail.

"Someone killed my daughter and hanged her. Her body had injury marks and blood was there in her private parts," the girl's father alleged.

States may face delays in getting approvals from Indian drug regulatory authorities

The curfew, which was earlier scheduled to end on 7 am on Monday, has been extended.

Additional returning officer (ARO) Virendra Kumar has been booked for cheating, forgery and fraud on a complaint from Returning Officer Sunil Kumar, a senior police official said.