Couple, two children hacked to death in UP

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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” […]