Uttar Pradesh

Odisha’s Padampur sees highest voter turnout, 65.28 pc till 3 pm

05 Dec 2022

Padampur in Odisha had the highest voter turnout at 65.28 percent up till 3 o’clock among the six assembly byelections held in five states on Monday, In Gujarat, voting for the second round of the assembly elections took place concurrently with the byelections. Data from the Election Commission of India...

UP: Man beaten to death for stealing sugarcane

04 Dec 2022

In a bizarre incident, a man allegedly stole sugarcane from a farm in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district. Following which, the man was beaten to death, the police informed on Sunday. Two people have been arrested in connection with the incident. Ramdev Yadav and Shaukat Ali, who are both residents of...

UP: Woman kills another to pretend to be dead, inspired by TV

02 Dec 2022

A woman and her lover were detained after they were accused of killing another woman to fake her own death. According to authorities, the accused woman was motivated by a television programme. The victim was killed by the accused woman, Payal, and her partner, Ajay Thakur, according to the police....

UP: More than 1,400 students to enrol at ‘Atal residential schools’

01 Dec 2022

The Atal residential schools will start taking admissions from the following academic session across the state with the goal of providing quality education to underprivileged and needy students for their overall development. The Atal residential schools will take in around 1,440 children. There will be two sections at each school...

UP: Man gets life sentence after 6 years for throwing acid

30 Nov 2022

A man who threw acid on a student in Deoria, Uttar Pradesh, was given a life sentence after six years. Shashwat Pandey, an additional session judge, gave the verdict on Tuesday. In 2016, the defendant, identified as Azad alias Laddu, flung acid on a woman he had once liked. There...

Cheated on in love, commits suicide at IPS officer’s farmhouse

30 Nov 2022

A man was discovered hanged at the house of Indian Police Service (IPS) officer BK Maurya in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. BK Maurya is employed by the DG Logistics division, and a preliminary investigation identified the deceased as the manager of the farm house. The deceased has been identified as Vijay,...

UP: Six held for duping people by putting glue in ATMs

30 Nov 2022

The Cyber Cell in Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh, busted an interstate group that was tricking people who went to withdraw money from ATMs. Up to six members have been detained, and their belongings, including a number of SIM cards, ATM cards, cash, and more, have all been seized. Sumit Kumar, Gajendra Singh,...

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...

Man charged for drowning rat in drain after tying it to brick

29 Nov 2022

A man who drowned a rat in Budaun, Uttar Pradesh, after attaching it to a brick has been charged under the relevant sections of law. When animal rights activist Vikendra Sharma recorded the entire encounter and reported the perpetrator, Manoj Kumar, the strange episode came to light. The incident's video...

16 IPS officers posted to Banaras, Agra, Noida, Ghaziabad, Prayagraj

29 Nov 2022

Following the approval from the Uttar Pradesh cabinet as many as 16 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers were sent to new postings on Monday. As per an official statement to implement the police commissioner system in the cities of Prayagraj, Agra, and Ghaziabad, this has been approved. Meanwhile, to maintain...

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