40 shops gutted as major fire breaks out in UP’s Kanpur

10 Apr 2023

Around 40 shops were gutted in a massive fire that broke out in one of them and quickly spread to adjacent structures in the Kidwai Nagar area of Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur on Monday morning. No casualty or injury to anyone was reported in the incident. Kanpur City Fire Department officials...

UP Deputy CM assures help to fire-affected Kanpur businessmen

31 Mar 2023

Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Brajesh Pathak assured that the state government will provide all kinds of help to the businessmen who lost a huge amount of money after a fire broke out in the early hours of Friday at AR Tower near Hamraj Market in Bansmandi, Kanpur. The...

Kanpur anti-encroachment: Magisterial inquiry ordered in death of mother-daughter

15 Feb 2023

A Magisterial inquiry has been ordered into the death of a mother-daughter duo after a fire broke out during an anti-encroachment drive. Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya assured that the accused would be arrested and the culprits won't be spared. Meanwhile, the mother-daughter killed in a fire...

UP: Teacher in Kanpur drills student’s left hand for not reciting Table 2

27 Nov 2022

A teacher in a private school in Kanpur allegedly used a drill machine on a student’s left hand to punish him for failing to recite a table number of two. The victim was a student of class 5 in the upper primary school at Premnagar in the Kanpur district of...

Kanpur: 50-year-old Muslim man fakes identity to lure and molest Hindu girl

21 Nov 2022

A Muslim man, 50, was detained in Kanpur for using a false identity to lure a Hindu woman from Bihar. The accused has been identified as Shahenshah Alam. The girl from Motihari district was purportedly befriended by the Muslim man on Facebook. On his social media account, the man posted...

IT raids over 30 locations in Maharashtra

15 Nov 2022

As part of a probe into tax evasion, the Income Tax has raided over 30 locations of the close aides of Samajwadi Party Maharashtra MLA Abu Azmi. Meanwhile, the raid was conducted on Tuesday in Varanasi, Kanpur, Lucknow, Mumbai, and Kolkata. Moreover, at the office of Abha Ganesh Gupta in...

Kanpur stages a half marathon to raise awareness of cleaning up Ganga

06 Nov 2022

A half marathon was organised by the civic society on Sunday along with the Kanpur District Administration. This 10-kilometer race served to connect and educate the general public about the need to keep Ganga and Kanpur clean. A significant number of individuals showed up. "This event has been organised to...

Up to 26 people died in road accident in Kanpur

02 Oct 2022

The number of fatalities in the Kanpur road accident in Uttar Pradesh, where a tractor-trailer carrying pilgrims crashed, increased to 26 on Saturday. On Saturday night, a tragedy happened in the Ghatampur region of the Kanpur district. Devotees were being transported back from Unnao in a tractor-trailer. The police arrived...

In fit of rage, man strangles wife to death over an argument

10 Sep 2022

A man in Kanpur strangled his wife to death after an argument over some domestic issues. Reportedly, the accused stuffed the body of the deceased into a bag and dropped it inside the warehouse of the liquor store. The incident was discovered when the woman's family attempted to call her...

IIT Kanpur condoles death of Ph.D. student Prasant Singh

07 Sep 2022

The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur condoled the death of Ph.D. student Prasant Singh on Wednesday. "IIT Kanpur condoles untimely and unfortunate demise of Ph.D. student Prasant Singh. At about 8.30 pm on Sept 6, he was found hanging from his room’s ceiling; pronounced dead when taken to Institute’s health...