Lucknow, Jan 31 : A couple and their two sons were axed to death by unidentified assailants in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Wednesday. The bodies were found in the house in Chotapurwa locality by neighbours. Police suspect the attack took place late on Tuesday. A son and daughter of the couple survived […]
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HC serves contempt notice on UP official
Lucknow, Jan 30 : The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Tuesday served a contempt notice on top state Home Department official Arvind Kumar for non-compliance of its earlier order in which it had quashed a government order putting the office of Lokayukta out of the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI). The […]
Amethi tense after youth shot dead in broad daylight
Lucknow, Jan 30 : One person was killed and another injured in Amethi on Tuesday when bike-borne assailants opened fire near a private bank, triggering tension in the area. The assailants fled after firing many rounds in the air. Superintendent of Police (SP) K.K. Gehlot has suspended the station house officer (SHO) of Jagdishpur for dereliction […]
BJP upset with official who spoke on Kasganj violence
Lucknow, Jan 30 : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the BJP are miffed with Bareilly District Magistrate Raghvendra Vikram Singh who criticized mobs which ran into Muslim areas raising anti-Pakistan slogans. Singh’s now deleted Facebook comment slamming “forces running into minority dominated localities and raising anti-Pakistan slogans”, like in Kasganj on Republic Day, is […]
Man reported killed in Kasganj violence surfaces, trashes rumour mongers
Lucknow, Jan 30 : A young man rumoured to have been killed in the communal clashes in Kasganj district of Uttar Pradesh on Republic Day, surfaced on Tuesday and trashed reports of his death. The 24-year-old youth, Rahul Upadhyaya, said his death was falsely reported and after he was informed of this by a friend he […]
Violence-hit UP town tense, SP removed
Lucknow, Jan 29 : Three days after clashes between two communities left one dead and many injured, the situation in Kasganj district of Uttar Pradesh remained tense but under control, as the Yogi Adityanath government on Monday removed the district SP Sunil Kumar Singh. Sunil Kumar Singh has been replaced with Piyush Srivastava, who has been […]
One killed, many injured in communal clash in UP on R-Day
Lucknow, Jan 26 : One person was killed and another critically injured as two communities clashed on Republic Day in Kasganj district of Uttar Pradesh on Friday, police said. The incident took place when a “Tiranga Yatra” in the form of a bike rally was taken out by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and some […]
Clashes in UP town over R-Day celebrations
Lucknow, Jan 26 : Clashes erupted between two communities in Kasganj in Uttar Pradesh on Friday over celebrating Republic Day, police said. Over 36 youngsters from a community had taken out a bike rally with tricolours in their hands and were booed while passing through a locality of another community. There was a verbal altercation after […]
Two labourers buried alive in under-construction UP mall
Lucknow, Jan 25 : Two labourers were buried alive in an under-construction mall, which belonged to CPI-M leader Atul Singh, in Faizabad on Thursday, police said. The accident occurred when the basement of the mall collapsed in Naharbagh area on the Ayodhya-Faizabad road. As the incident happened in the basement, 30 feet below the ground level, […]
Democracy threatened under Yogi Adityanath: Akhilesh
Lucknow, Jan 25 : Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said that democracy was threatened in Uttar Pradesh under Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as the government led by him was “out to destroy all democratic norms” and muzzle dissenting voices. The former Chief Minister also raised questions on what he called the “poor” […]