BIJNOR: It was a call no one should ever make and none have to answer. On Wednesday night, a four-year-old girl dialled her grandmother on video, holding up the phone so she could see the room behind her. “Papa hung mom. She’s not responding,” the child said. On the screen was her mother’s lifeless body,…
MEERUT: A major accident occurred during the Nirvana Laddu Festival of Lord Adinath in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, when a wooden platform in the Manastambha complex collapsed, trapping over 50 devotees underneath, officials said on Tuesday. The collapse caused chaos and panic at the site, with several devotees reportedly injured. Rescue operations are underway, and authorities…
SHAHJAHANPUR: At least 10 people sustained injuries after a bus crashed into a tractor-trolley in Uttar Pradesh amid heavy fog on Monday, according to police reports. The bus was traveling from Nepal to Chandigarh.Three passengers, including a young child, have sustained severe injuries and are in critical condition.According to superintendent of police (SP) Rajesh S,…
MEERUT: UP police arrested a 38-year-old man, identified as Mohd Mehtab, on Saturday for allegedly assaulting and forcing a 17-year-old girl, who was with her younger sister (16) and heading home, to remove her hijab to make a video after the accused claimed that she was speaking to a “Hindu man”. Mehtab was purportedly among…
NEW DELHI: A terrifying incident unfolded at a fair in Uttar Pradesh when a 13-year-old girl was seen hanging precariously from a high Ferris wheel. The incident occurred on Wednesday in Rakehti village, located in the Nighasan area of Lakhimpur Kheri district, approximately 130 kilometres from Lucknow.As the Ferris wheel began to move, the girl…
BAREILLY: In Sambhal, another survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid was conducted on Sunday. The survey team arrived at 6am in the presence of DM Rajendra Pansia, SP Krishna Bishnoi, SDM Vandana Mishra, circle officer Anuj Chaudhary and Tehsildar Ravi Sonkar. Multiple teams of local police, PAC, and Rapid Response Force were deployed at the…
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 govt doctor at a community health centre (CHC) in UP allegedly left an inch-long surgical needle inside the head of an 18-year-old girl while stitching up a deep cut she suffered during a scuffle with neighbours at Garh in Hapur. After her family raised the matter, Hapur chief medical officer (CMO) Dr Sunil…
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…
