LUCKNOW: A flexi hoarding came up outside the Samajwadi Party headquarters in Lucknow on Saturday morning with an appeal to all citizens to mourn the death of ‘former MLA’ Mukhtar Ansari and not to celebrate Eid this year. The giant hoarding was later removed by the district administration.The hoarding came up a day before Akhilesh…
LUCKNOW: A 34-year-old woman attempted suicide on Wednesday by climbing an electric pole and grabbing onto a high-tension wire in Gorakhpur. The incident arose from a dispute with her husband regarding her involvement in an extramarital relationship.According to the police, the woman, identified as Suman Devi, 34, and a mother of three, was engaged in…
LUCKNOW: Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari will be buried at his native Ghazipur district on Saturday, in the family’s Kalibag graveyard in Yusufpur Mohammadabad. The autopsy on the body of the former five-term MLA revealed that “myocardial infarction (heart attack) was the cause of Ansari’s death“, said a senior police officer. The viscera has been preserved for…
PRAYAGRAJ: Allahabad high court has directed a Varanasi court to decide, “preferably within eight weeks”, a petition seeking unrestricted right to worship the purported Shivling found inside Gyanvapi mosque premises in May 2022.This application was filed before Varanasi’s civil judge (senior division) in a petition seeking a permanent injunction against Anjuman Intezamia Masjid (AIM) restraining…
Lucknow: During the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, the Special Task Force (STF) of the UP Police confronted the listed gangster Vinod Upadhyay in Sultanpur. Acting on a tip-off regarding his movement in Sultanpur, the STF launched an operation and successfully intercepted the target. Officials said that in the ensuing exchange of fire, one…
LUCKNOW: A doctor posted at Jalaun community healthcare centre(CHC) was suspended on Sunday for negligence on duty by the state government. The doctor, Dr Uday Kumar, was allegedly performing duty under the influence of alcohol and was also referring patients to private pathology labs.The incident came to light after the death of a 26-year-old patient,…
LUCKNOW: The war of words between SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and deputy CM Brajesh Pathak took a peculiar turn on Friday after the latter rechristened himself as ‘Servant Brajesh Pathak‘ on ‘X’. Watch: Denied permission to enter JP Narayan International Centre, SP leader Akhilesh Yadav jumps its boundary wall The development came two days after…
DEORIA: Six people, including two women, were killed in violence apparently stemming from an already resolved land dispute in Fatehpur village, 20 km from the district headquarters, on Monday morning. Five of the deceased were from the same family. Fourteen people have been detained by police.Post-mortem examinations of the six bodies had been conducted by…
