NEW DELHI: A member of the Samajwadi Party chained himself and staged a demonstration in front of the home of Akhilesh Yadav, the party’s leader on Friday morning. Supporters of the Samajwadi Party in Lucknow are protesting against the Uttar Pradesh government for allegedly obstructing the main entrance of the Jayaprakash Narayan International Centre with…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav confirmed on Thursday that the party’s alliance with the Congress will continue. This announcement came a day after the SP declared its candidates for six of the ten assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, where bypolls are scheduled for later this year.Yadav made this statement while addressing reporters…
LUCKNOW: Chandan Verma, 26, accused of murdering a Dalit teacher and his family in Amethi, was shot in an encounter with the police in the early hours of Saturday. The encounter occurred while he was being taken to recover the pistol used in the crime, the police said.Additional SP, Amethi, Harendra Kumar, stated that Chandan…
LUCKNOW: The gruesome murder of a Dalit schoolteacher, his wife and two daughters in Amethi on Thursday was carried out by a youth who was in love with Poonam Bharti, the wife of the teacher, police claimed on Friday.Identifying one Chandan Verma as the prime suspect, police said he was in love with Poonam, and…
Amroha DM (File photo/UP Govt Department of Appointment & Personnel website) BIJNOR: After Allahabad HC pulled up Amroha district magistrate, Rajesh Kumar Tyagi, for showing “sheer negligence amid procedural lapses” while giving his approval for slapping the stringent Gangster Act against three local residents last month, the state government, admitting lapses had been committed, transferred…
NEW DELHI: A case has been registered against Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA Zahid Beg and his wife, Seema Beg, for allegedly torturing and assaulting a minor maid at their residence. The action follows the suicide of another teenager at the MLA’s house earlier this week.The Labour Department filed the case based on a recommendation from…
Mangesh Yadav, the main suspect in the Sultanpur jewellery shop robbery, was killed in a shootout with Uttar Pradesh Police’s Special Task Force. LUCKNOW: The mastermind of Sultanpur daylight dacoity at a jewellery shop was killed in exchange of fire with the Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh Police on Thursday.The accused Mangesh Yadav,…
LUCKNOW: A five-year-old girl sleeping in her house in Girdharpurwa village of Uttar Pradesh‘s Bahraich district was injured in a wolf attack early Tuesday, a day after wolves killed a two-and-a-half-year-old girl and injured two women in back-to-back strikes in less than 24 hours Monday.This was the third wolf attack in the region in the…
BAHRAICH: In back-to-back strikes in less than 24 hours, wolves killed a toddler and injured two women in separate attacks in Hardi area of Uttar Pradesh‘s Bahraich district that has been in the grip of a wolf menace for two months now. As many as nine people, including eight children, have been killed and 20…
LUCKNOW: Wolves have inhabited the region nestled between the Ghaghara and Katarniaghat forests for centuries. But a ‘killer’ pack hasn’t been known to be on prowl for decades. The question that’s bothering the wildlife officials is what has changed now. Forest department and wildlife experts studying the causes behind the recent wolf attacks believe that…
