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…
MEERUT: Three persons, including a minor, died and three persons were missing after a three-storey building in Meerut’s congested Zakir Colony collapsed on Saturday evening. Rescue teams pulled out five minors, two women, and a man to safety, with search efforts ongoing, despite the challenging weather conditions in the area.District magistrate Deepak Meena, said, “We…
NEW DELHI: At least 10 people died and 27 others were injured after a pickup van collided head-on with a bus coming from the opposite direction in Salempur, UP, on Sunday.The accident occurred on the Budaun-Meerut state highway.The injured have been sent to the hospital,” according to district magistrate Chandra Prakash Singh.Chief minister Yogi Adityanath…
BIJNOR: Punching holes in a police case against three alleged auto lifters who were arrested following an “encounter” in Amroha Monday night, the court of chief judicial magistrate (CJM) Om Pal Singh not only cancelled the remand of the men but also acquitted them of charges that they had attempted to murder cops, reports Harveer…
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…
Shamli: A man was arrested and sent to jail on Saturday for allegedly offering ‘azan‘ at a 250-year-old dilapidated structure spread across nearly 4 bighas in UP’s Shamli, considered by many as a Mughal-era mosque.Shamli SP, Abhishek (who goes by his first name), said, “The accused, identified as Umar Qureshi, is a resident of Jalalabad….
