Fourteen persons were on Friday killed and 28 others injured when a truck carrying a marriage party lost control and fell into a canal here. The accident took place when the mini-bus carrying 40 people from Sakrauli to Agra fell down in canal near Village-Saraineem, in Etah district. Senior district officials, including the District Magistrate and the Senior Superintendent of […]
» Read moreA village in Uttar Pradesh has banned women from using mobile phones in public in an attempt to restrict their contacts with men, and plans hefty fines for violators, police said on Wednesday. Village elders ruled that women found using a mobile phone outside their homes would be fined ₹21,000 — a sum it would take several months for rural […]
» Read moreEight coaches of the Meerut-Lucknow Rajya Rani Express derailed near Rampur in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday leaving at least two passengers injured, railway officials said. The accident happened between Mundha Pande and Rampur railway stations, Northern railway spokesperson Neeraj Sharma said. He said while two passengers — Amit Katiyar and Megh Singh — have been injured there was no casualty […]
» Read moreAn Army jawan allegedly committed suicide in Trimulgherry area here in the wee hours today, police said. Sandesh R. (34), a native of Uttar Pradesh, was working with the Army Supply Corps. He allegedly hanged himself to a tree near his barrack at around 2 a.m., Inspector, Trimulgherry police station, R. Satyanarayanaraju said. As per preliminary investigation, the jawan resorted […]
» Read moreThe BJP on Saturday named Yogi Adityanath as the next chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. State unit chief Keshav Prasad Maurya and Lucknow mayor Dinesh Sharma were nominated as deputy chief ministers. At a meeting in the state capital Lucknow, BJP legislators elected Adityanath after a close race among several chief ministerial candidates. He will take oath as UP chief […]
» Read moreUttar Pradesh Congress chief Raj Babbar on Wednesday offered to resign, taking moral responsibility for the poll debacle+ in the state His offer of resignation comes amid demands for structural changes and fixing responsibility+ in the party for the defeat in the Assembly elections. Babbar also echoed Rahul Gandhi on the need for making structural changes to strengthen the party […]
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