HIGH STAKES: Organisers set cash prizes up to Rs 2.5 lakh fuelling rivalries MEERUT: As the midnight hour casts shadows across the state highway to Garh Mukteshwar, an ancient tradition pushes modern boundaries, escalating from celebration to confrontation. Bullock cart races, held to celebrate Kartik Purnima, see rival villages from across the region clash in…
MEERUT: Six members of a family, including a pregnant woman and a toddler, died, and two others were critically injured when an oxygen cylinder used by an ailing woman exploded inside their house in the Sikandrabad area of Bulandshahr, police said on Tuesday. The blast in Ashapuri Colony, Bulandshahr, around 8 pm on Monday, flattened…
Representative image Lucknow: To promote the gems and gold jewellery sector, the Uttar Pradesh government has approved a multi-storey flatted factory complex in Ved Vyas Puri, Meerut, government officials said on Wednesday. “The project, overseen by the Meerut Development Authority (MDA), is moving forward, with work already underway on the detailed project report. The construction…
Meerut: A 96-year-old farmer, Balbeer Singh from Sisauli village, staged a protest at Partapur police station in Meerut on Thursday, threatening to end his life over farmers’ demands. Singh, a former associate of late Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Mahendra Singh Tikait, arrived on a bicycle with cow dung cakes, built a pyre and has…
Meerut: A 15-year-old boy stabbed his father, a police constable, to death with a kitchen knife after he refused to give him the keys to the family’s car at their home in Yamunapuram colony in Bulandshahr, police said on Thursday. At the time of the incident, four family members were at the house: Praveen Kumar,…
NEW DELHI: At least nine people died after a three-storey building collapsed in Zakir Colony, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.The Information Department reported that out of 15 people trapped, 14 were rescued from the rubble.Rescue efforts by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams, supported by sniffer dogs, are ongoing despite…
NEW DELHI: A building collapsed in Meerut’s Zakir Colony on Saturday and 8-10 people are believed to be trapped, reports news agency ANI citing Selva Kumari, commissioner Meerut division.“A building has collapsed in Zakir Colony. 8-10 people are trapped under it. Rescue operation is underway. Police and fire officials are carrying out rescue operation.Army, NDRF,…
MEERUT: Following a Chief Judicial Magistrate court order, police in Meerut lodged an FIR against principal and yoga instructor of a govt-run Army Public School in Meerut Cant, for ‘slapping a Class 7 student who later turned blind’.The student’s mother, Indu Devi, said her son is suffering from a retinal problem and had very low…
Meerut: A driver of an unidentified car struck and ran over a woman staff at the Kashi toll plaza situated on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway in the Paratapur area. A video of the incident shows the driver engaged in a conversation with a female toll worker for a period before abruptly accelerating the car to escape…
MUZAFFARNAGAR/MEERUT: BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday said her party will take concrete steps to make western UP a separate state if voted to serve at the Centre.At a rally in support of BSP candidate from Muzaffarnagar Lok Sabha seat Dara Singh Prajapati, Mayawati also said BJP has a very slim chance of coming to power…
