Woman SP Kalpana Saxena assaulted by subordinates in UP

Bareilly, Sept 3 : A woman police officer was physically assaulted and dragged on the road for almost one kilometer by her subordinates in Bareilly town of Uttar Pradesh when she caught them red-handed while extorting money from truckers.

The incident happ

Supreme Court lets Mayawati rename Amethi

The apex court on Wednesday awarded a “political victory” to Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati by vacating the Allahabad High Court’s stay order on rechristening Amethi city and declaration as Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar district.

Mayawati was all

Uttar Pradesh seeks security ahead of Ayodhya verdict

Uttar Pradesh has sought 35,000 paramilitary personnel for security duty from the centre as the state prepares to deal with any fallout of the much-awaited verdict in the volatile 125-year-old Ramjanmbhoomi-Babri Masjid legal dispute.

A three-judge special

11 electrocuted in Uttar Pradesh

Three women and eight men, engaged in Uttar Pradesh government-sponsored construction work, were electrocuted and two others injured in Lakhimpur Kheri district Tuesday, an official said.

“The accident took place at a construction site, where labourers were

Child killed as school bus overturns in Uttar Pradesh

An eight-year-old student was killed and 15 were injured when their school bus overturned in Uttar Pradesh’s Deoria district Tuesday, police said.

The Norman Public School’s bus carrying around 20 children overturned in the Rudrapur area.

“Sandeep, a Cla

Management institute student commits suicide from the ceiling fan of his bedroom

Ghaziabad, A management institute student hanged himself to death from the ceiling fan of his bedroom in his house here, police said Monday.

According to police, Punit Mishra, 22, pursuing his Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM) as a dista

Kanpur(UP) engineering student ragged by his seniors, hospitalised

A first-year engineering student in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur district was hospitalised after he was allegedly ragged and assaulted by his seniors because he declined to mouth abusive words, police said Monday.

Rajanshu, a B.Tech student of the Pranveer Singh

Husband, wife found dead in Shah Ganj, Agra

A state roadways bus driver hanged himself to death and his wife was found dead with deep bruises around her neck in this Uttar Pradesh city’s Shah Ganj locality, police said.

According to the police, Sagir Qureshi, 43, and Shabnam, 35, were found dead by t

Four CRPF recruits collapse in training session, two died

Four Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) recruits were hospitalised Saturday after they fell unconscious during a training session in Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad district. Later, two of them died in the hospital, officials said.

The four CRPF recruits fainted

No pressure on us in Mayawati case, CBI tells court

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has contested Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati’s charge that the agency had acted “under political pressure” against her in the disproportionate assets case.

In its affidavit before the Supreme Court bench of J

Tiger kills man in Shahjahanpur district (Uttar Pradesh)

Feline fear continues to haunt villagers in Uttar Pradesh after a tiger killed a man near a forest in Shahjahanpur district – the eighth case of human-killing by the big cat in the state’s terai area since May.

Gopal Singh, 30, was killed late Thursday by t

Samajwadi Party workers protest against Yamuna Expressway

A large number of Samajwadi Party workers Thursday hit the streets in parts of Uttar Pradesh demanding scrapping of the multi-crore Yamuna Expressway project, party officials said here.

While the protests remained peaceful in most parts of the state, includ

Lucknow’s civic body gnashes teeth against stray dogs

Civic authorities in this Uttar Pradesh capital can do little but to gnash their teeth and grunt against the growing stray dogs menace in the city. They have virtually no staff to catch the stray dogs, and no space where the caught canines can be confined befo

Congress not to join march on farmers’ demands

The Congress party Wednesday said it will not join the march to parliament Thursday being organised by the Rashtriya Lok Dal and some other parties to support Uttar Pradesh farmers demanding higher compensation for their land acquired for the Yamuna Expressway

‘March to parliament to divert attention from farmers’ issues’

The Congress party Wednesday termed the proposed call given by the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) to lay siege to the national parliament as an attempt to divert the attention of the masses from the real issues of the farmers.

In a statement issued here, Uttar Pra

Yamuna river level was rising, flood threat in Agra

The threat of flood looms large in the lower reaches and along the banks of river Yamuna in this Taj Mahal city with authorities sounding a danger alert and advising people to move out as the water level was rising every hour.

The level was expected to touc

Shutdown against Yamuna Expressway, train stopped near Mathura

Farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura district Wednesday stopped a train and disrupted rail routes while joining in the statewide shutdown called by the Kisan Sangharsh Samiti for enhanced compensation for farmers’ land acquired for the Yamuna Expressway, officia

Five held with heroin worth Rs.1 crore

Five drug peddlers were arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur district and heroin worth Rs.1 crore was seized from them, police said Tuesday.

The five men were nabbed late Monday from a hotel in the Charkhambhakua area following a joint operation by the police

Five Bangladeshi nationals arrested with fake passports

Five Bangladeshi nationals were arrested Monday at the Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport here with fake passports, police said.

The five men, who are being interrogated by police and intelligence officials, had managed to get the fake passports from Kathmandu

Two killed in explosion at scrap dealer’s shop in Jhansi

A scrap dealer and his son were killed in an explosion in their shop in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi district, police said Monday. Two people were injured in the incident.

The explosion took place in the Baruasagar area late Sunday. The scrap dealer, Govind Das,