Tag: uttar pradesh
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Expelled UP Congress leaders urged Sonia Gandhi to ‘rise above affinity for family’ to revive the party
(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist): Nine expelled Congress leaders have written to party president Sonia Gandhi, asking her to “rise above the affinity for the family (parivaar ke moh)” and run the organization by establishing mutual trust and restoring the constitutional and democratic values. In the letter dated September 2 and addressed to Gandhi, the nine Congress…
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Four men held for strangling cab driver to death in Ghaziabad
(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist): Four men have been arrested here for allegedly strangling a cab driver to death using a towel over an argument on non-payment of travel fare, police said on Sunday. The accused were identified as Rupesh, Sanjay, Ankur, and Sunny who are all residents of Ghaziabad district, they said. The incident happened…
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UP records single-day spike of 6,777 Covid-19 cases
(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist): Uttar Pradesh on Sunday registered yet another highest single-day spike of 6,777 cases due to Covid-19 disease, the state’s health department said. The over tally stands at 2,66,283. As many as 77 people lost their lives, taking the death toll to nearly 4,000. The previous single-day highest spike of 6,692 Covid-19…
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UP: Police Seize Pirated NCERT Books Worth Rs 10 Lakh
(Rishitha Jaladi, Intern Journalist) UP: Uttar Pradesh Police’s Special Task Force (UPSTF) seized duplicate National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) books well worth ₹10 lakh from Amroha’s Gajraula location in Uttar Pradesh. The police have arrested 4 in the case and nearby BJP chief Sanjeev Gupta and his nephew Sachin have been booked…
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Uttar Pradesh: Journalist Shot Dead
(Rishitha Jaladi, Intern Journalist) UP: Nearly a month after a journalist was once shot at in the front of his daughters in Ghaziabad, another journalist was shot lifeless in Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh on August 24. A journalist working with a Hindi information channel was shot dead on Monday night in Phephana. He has…
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UP Police Chief gets notice over allegation
(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist): The NHRC has sent a notice to the head of the Uttar Pradesh Police over a Kanpur circle officer reportedly asking a 16-year-old girl to dance as she went to file a report of sexual assault, officials said on Monday. The Commission has asked the state police chief to submit a…
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Three arrested in gang-rape case in Sitapur
(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist): Cases of rape and molestation are increasing continuously. The rape cases in Hapur, Lakhimpur, and Gorakhpur have been fresh in the minds of the people for the last week now that the teenager was allegedly raped in Sitapur. Three youths forcibly gang-raped the teenager. When the matter complained to the police,…
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Two arrested in Gorakhpur gang-rape
(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist): On Friday, a 17-year-old Dalit girl was abducted and gang-raped in the Gorakhpur district of eastern Uttar Pradesh. The two men who raped her singed her body with cigarette butts, the girl’s mother said. Police arrested Arjun Nishad and his partner Mahesh Yadav aka Chotu on Sunday, who are now being…
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2 people killed during panchayat meeting in UP
(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist): A violent clash between two factions in a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh district on Sunday led to the deaths of a man and his son. The clashes took place over a land dispute, during a panchayat meeting. Police officials said that following the clash in Sheikhpur village in the Raniganj…
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Three IPS officers along with 9 others shifted in UP
(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist): Taking a strict word to incidents of murders in Pratapgarh, Gorakhpur, and Azamgarh, the Uttar Pradesh authorities ordered switch of those three district police chiefs together with 9 others on Sunday. Senior superintendent of police, Gorakhpur, Sunil Gupta was shifted in the identical capability as SP Training and Security at DGP headquarters in Lucknow,…