LUCKNOW: A 21-year-old gang-rape survivor in UP‘s Ambedkar Nagar hanged herself after a police sub-inspector allegedly refused to register a case against three men for the crime and instead coerced her father into writing a complaint that omitted details. The case has sparked outrage over police inaction.Police said late Wednesday the autopsy report ruled out…
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…
NEW DELHI: A married woman in Ludhiana was allegedly gang-raped by a man and three of his family members in an act of revenge, according to police officials. The accused reportedly committed the crime after the man’s daughter eloped with the victim’s brother. The accused, hailing from Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, allegedly recorded the act on…
PILIBHIT: Wildlife experts have suggested local communities in close proximity to tiger reserves in Uttar Pradesh should be partners in wildlife conservation programmes to mitigate man-wildlife conflicts. Mudit Gupta, WWF’s (World Wide Fund for Nature), head of Terai Arc Landscape (TAL), which stretches 30,000 sqkm across Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar, presented this view.After attending…
Sketches of suspect released by police NEW DELHI: A man accused of killing nine women in the past 14 months in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district, has been arrested by Bareilly police on Friday.Notably, Nine women have been found dead in the Shahi-Sheeshgarh area within the past year, and police suspect the same person is behind…
MEERUT: A 19-year-old kanwariya was killed and nearly half a dozen injured during a clash between two groups of ‘dak kanwariyas’ (fast-moving devotees) along a route in Baghpat district of UP. Police said the fight happened when the groups tried to win a race in reaching their village temple in Haryana first to offer holy…
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh police arrested Wednesday two men after charging them under the state’s anti-conversion law for allegedly offering a villager in Ambedkar Nagar and his friends Rs 10,000 each and promising to build them houses if they converted to Christianity.Police said the accused G Raju and Ram Avadh Nishad were taken into custody following…
LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: “Jab hum ye maan ke chalte hain ati atma-vishwas mein ki hum to jeet hi rahe hain to swabhavik roop se humen khamiyaja bhi bhugatna padta hai. Jo vipaksh chunav ke pehle himmat haar ke baith gaya tha wo aaj phir se uchhal kood karne ka karya kar raha hai (BJP paid the…
LUCKNOW: As many as eight members of a family were killed when a sand-laden truck going from Kanpur to Hardoi in UP lost control and overturned on a hut in Hardoi district, around 120 km from Lucknow.The incident took place on Unnao road around 3.30am. The driver has been detained.Police said the victims lived in…
Of the 12 Union ministers who contested from UP, only five, including PM Narendra Modi (Varanasi) and defence minister Rajnath Singh (Lucknow), managed to save their seats.Dubbed a “giant slayer” for defeating Rahul Gandhi in Amethi in 2019, Union ministerSmriti Irani (women and child development) lost the seat to Gandhi family loyalist Kishori L Sharma…
