UP: A lightning strike in Mainpuri resulted in 3 deaths and 3 injuries

09 Jul 2023

Three persons, including a woman, were killed while three others were injured after being struck by lightning in separate incidents in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri district, officials said on Sunday. Officials said that the incidents of lightning occurred on Saturday. "Three persons including a woman were killed, and three others were...

Mainpuri: 21 students fall sick after drinking contaminated water, 7 hospitalised

10 Feb 2023

Over 21 students fell ill and seven other students were hospitalised after allegedly drinking contaminated water at Government Engineering College in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri, a health official said on Friday. The matter came to light when district health officials learnt that a large number of students from a college in...

Akhilesh Yadav slams UP police amid by-polling: “Biased and misleading central forces”

05 Dec 2022

Akhilesh Yadav, a former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, and his wife, Dimple Yadav, a candidate for the Samajwadi Party in Mainpuri, arrived in Saifi on Monday to vote in the tense by-election for the coveted Lok Sabha seat that his father Mulayam Singh Yadav once held. Akhilesh Yadav gave...

6 killed in UP’s Firozabad; CM announces Rs 2 lakh ex-gratia

30 Nov 2022

A massive fire broke out in a building in the Firozabad district of Uttar Pradesh in which six members of a family, including three children, were killed on Tuesday. An electronics and jewelry shop owner, Raman Kumar died and used to live in the building that caught the fire along...

Dimple Yadav to file nomination for Mainpuri constituency

14 Nov 2022

Samajwadi Party leader Dimple Yadav is all set to contest the elections from the Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh and on Monday Dimple will file her nomination. Meanwhile, to carry the legacy of her father-in-law Mulayam Singh Yadav constituency SP chief Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple Yadav will fight...