BAREILLY: The Alvida Juma and Eidgah prayers will not be conducted on the streets, nor will prayers be offered on rooftops. The govt guidelines regarding loudspeakers must also be followed. On Wednesday, a peace committee meeting was held at Sadar Kotwali under the leadership of Additional SP Shrish Chandra, SDM Dr Vandana Mishra, and Circle…
NEW DELHI: A local BJP leader in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district died on Monday after three unidentified men allegedly injected him with a poisonous substance, police said. Circle officer (Gunnaur) Deepak Tiwari said that 60-year-old Gulfam Singh Yadav was sitting at his farm in Daftara village under Junawai police station limits when the assailants arrived…
BAREILLY: In a significant historical discovery in Sambhal, the district administration found ancient coins and pottery at the memorial site of Guru Amarpati, a contemporary of Prithviraj Chauhan. This site has been under the protection of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) since 1920. It is noted that the coins found are 300-400 years old….
BAREILLY: A 17-year-old girl from Moosajhag village in Uttar Pradesh’s Budaun district caused a stir on Tuesday evening when she climbed up a water tank and threatened to jump. The incident reminded people of a famous scene from the movie Sholay, where the character Veeru climbs atop a water tank to fulfil his wish to…
PILIBHIT: A 29-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly stripped in front of several villagers in a sugarcane field when she tried to rescue her husband’s younger brother from the clutches of his attackers, who were brutally beating him over some dispute. Six accused were booked following a complaint.The victim, belonging to a village under Kheri police…
BAREILLY: A family of three — a widow in her 50s and her son and daughter — was forced to seek shelter at a friend’s house after they were evicted from their home in Chandausi town in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district within an hour after officials served an evacuation notice claiming the structure encroached on…
BAREILLY: The file of the riots that occurred in Sambhal 46 years ago will be reopened following the Uttar Pradesh government’s order. In Sambhal, which was a part of Moradabad district then, nearly 184 people reportedly died, and the accused were acquitted by the court due to lack of evidence in 2010. Now, the UP…
BAREILY: Police are now suspecting that the Nov 24 violence in Sambhal was “orchestrated by absconding gangster Shariq Satha“, a native of the western UP town who is allegedly settled in the UAE. This comes after they found “unusual money transfer to account holders in Sambhal and foreign-made cartridges”. Earlier, police had said they had…
The district administration and Municipal Corporation in Sambhal have commenced the revival of 68 pilgrimage sites and 19 ancient wells, including the Mrityu Koop BAREILLY: In their attempt to restore 68 pilgrimage sites and 19 ancient wells, the district administration and Municipal Corporation in Sambhal have started reviving the “Mrityu Koop (death well).” The excavation…
BAREILLY: An ambulance carrying the bodies of three Khalistan Zindabad Force terrorists, killed in a joint operation by Punjab and Uttar Pradesh Police crashed on late Tuesday night, police officials confirmed.The accident took place near the Rampur bypass.Read also: 3 pro-Khalistan terrorists killed in police encounter in UP’s PilibhitRampur district superintendent of police, Vidyasagar Mishra,…
