Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath government, on Thursday, removed the district magistrate of Amethi, Prashant Sharma from his post. The action was taken after Sharma misbehaved with the family of a slain BJP leader and Union Minister Smriti Irani chided the official for his behavior through a tweet. Sharma has been put on the waiting list while […]
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Amethi police in the dock over custodial death of a businessman
Amethi: The Amethi police is in the dock over a businessman who died in its custody on Tuesday. The case is related to a loot of Rs 26 lakh from a bank in Amethi on October 5. The police picked up Satya Prakash Shukla as a suspect on Tuesday morning and he died hours later. According […]
Labourer lynched over child-lifting rumour in Amethi
Amethi: A labourer was lynched to death, while eight others were injured in an attack by a mob, which suspected them of being child lifters. The incident took place in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi district on Sunday evening. A video shot by an eyewitness shows a severely injured man, covered in dust, writhing on the ground. A […]
Retired army captain beaten to death in Amethi
Amethi: A 64-year-old retired Army captain was beaten to death by unidentified assailants in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi district, police said on Sunday. The incident took place on Saturday night in Godiyan ka Purva village under Kamrauli Police Station limits. Amanullah, and his wife were in their house when a group of people attacked them with sticks, […]
Rahul to hold meeting with Congress workers in Amethi on Wednesday
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi, who has stepped down as Congress President, will visit Amethi on Wednesday for the first time since he was defeated in his traditional Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh. Gandhi will hold a closed door meeting with party workers. Party leaders told IANS that Gandhi will be on a day’s visit […]
Rahul to visit Amethi on July 10
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi, who has stepped down as the Congress President, will visit Amethi on Wednesday for the first time after he was defeated in his traditional Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh. Party leaders told IANS on Monday that Rahul Gandhi will be on a day’s visit to Amethi. His sister and Congress General […]
Smriti Irani will build a house in Amethi
Amethi: Union minister Smriti Irani on Saturday did what Congress President Rahul Gandhi did not do in the past one-and-a-half decade. Irani announced on Saturday that she will construct her own house in Amethi and has already identified a plot in Gauriganj. She said that Amethi would now be her permanent home and she would […]
Smriti Irani gets ailing woman admitted to hospital in Amethi
Amethi (UP): Union Minister Smriti Irani on Saturday stopped her convoy during her visit to Amethi to enquire about an ailing woman whom she later sent to hospital. The minister saw the ailing woman while travelling in Amethi. She stopped and inquired about her and learnt that the woman had met with an accident and […]
Goa CM visits Amethi, Congress says he’s avoiding work
Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Saturday visited Baraulia village in Amethi constituency in Uttar Pradesh to pay condolences to the family of a BJP party worker who was shot dead in May, soon after the Lok Sabha polls. Criticising the visit, the Congress in Goa accused Sawant of running away from pressing issues […]
Illegal mining case: Gayatri Prajapati’s house among 22 places raided in UP
Amethi: The CBI on Wednesday carried out searches at over 22 locations in Uttar Pradesh, including the residence of former state minister Gayatri Prajapati in connection with a case of illegal sand mining between 2012 and 2016, officials said. The CBI started investigating the case on the directions of the Allahabad High Court in January this […]