AGRA: A 41-year-old Indian Air Force Warrant Officer (WO), Ramkumar Tiwari, from UP’s Pratapgarh died during a routine para jumping exercise in Agra on Saturday morning due to a technical malfunction that prevented the parachute from deploying. An IAF statement said: “A para jump instructor from Akash Ganga Skydiving Team succumbed to injuries sustained during…
AGRA: Over a month after 30-year-old IT professional Manav Sharma died by suicide in Agra, leaving behind a note to say he was harassed and that it’s not always men who are at fault for crumbling marriages, a police team from UP tracked and arrested his 28-year-old wife and father-in-law in late Friday night in…
AGRA: A case was registered against three men for allegedly hitting a Dalit groom with the butt of a pistol and threatening to kill him if he did not dismount his horse and walk to the wedding venue. The accused also hurled casteist slurs and threatened to forcibly disperse the wedding procession, following which the…
AGRA: A 30-year-old executive of an IT major in Mumbai took his life over strained relations with his wife, recording an agonised video before the final act. Manav Sharma was found hanging in his native home in Agra, police said on Friday, adding that they came to know of it from the widely circulated video…
AGRA: Two gunners of Etawah MP Jitendra Kumar Dohare have been booked for intimidating toll plaza staff and forcibly getting 30 cars and a bus to pass without payment, police said on Thursday. Agra DCP Sonam Kumar said that a case has been registered against two gunners under charges of “misconduct, attempted provocation and damaging…
This comes after a months-long internal probe by AMU authorities with the help of local police. AGRA: A senior professor in the chemistry department at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has been suspended for impersonating female students to file fake harassment complaints against a colleague. This comes after a months-long internal probe by AMU authorities with…
The land in question includes a mosque and four shops, and according to its ‘caretaker’ was registered with waqf board in the 1930s AGRA: A plot of land associated with the family of Pakistan’s first prime minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, near the railway station in Muzaffarnagar, has been declared as “enemy property”. This comes after…
NEW DELHI: A model was reportedly held hostage digitally by cybercriminals for two hours and lost Rs 99,000, police revealed on Wednesday.Shivankita Dixit, who claims herself as a former Femina Miss India, West Bengal 2017, reported the incident to authorities. Dixit received a WhatsApp call on Tuesday from individuals claiming to be CBI officers, assistant…
AGRA: A hotel owner’s son has been accused of holding a 13-year-old girl captive and raping her at gunpoint at the hotel situated on Fatehabad Road on Monday. On Friday night, the girl’s mother filed a complaint at the Tajganj police station following which police registered a case of rape and abduction. The complaint filed…
AGRA: A district court in Kasganj has sentenced a 48-year-old man to life imprisonment for forcing his five-year-old daughter into a sack and setting her ablaze, resulting in severe burns which ultimately led to her death. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the convict. According to additional district government counsel (ADGC),…
