Category: UTTAR PRADESH

• AGRA
• LUCKNOW
• JHANSI
• NOIDA
• Ghaziabad
• Manikpur
• Kanpur
• Maholi
• Varanasi
• Aligarh
• Mirzapur
• Mathura
• Shamli
• Sonebhadra
• Saharanpur
• Ayodhya
• Shahjahanpur
• Bijnore
• Bareilly
• Bulandshahr
• Firozabad
• Unnao
• Muzaffarnagar
• Hamirpur
• Rae Bareli
• Prayagraj
• Meerut
• Chitrakoot
• Sambhal
• Gorakhpur
• Hapur
• Sitapur
• Azamgarh
• Jalaun
• Barabanki
• Pilibhit
• Gonda
• Aurraiyya
• Etawah
• Gautam Buddha Nagar
• Lakhimpur Kheri
• Moradabad
• Amethi
• Ballia
• Kannauj
• Rampur
• Bhadohi
• Mainpuri
• Saifai
• Fatehpur
• Bahraich
• Ghazipur
• Baghpat
• Kanpur Dehat
• Jaunpur
• Amroha
• Dhaurahra
• Maharajganj
• Hathras
• Mahakumbh Nagar

The mahant told the police that she met him about a decade ago and since then, she used to visit him every 3-4 months as she would find mental peace in the place and became like a family member.

At least four people were dead and about two dozen others feared missing after a boat carrying some 40 persons capsized in the Tamsa River in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district on Monday.

Several hawala rackets for laundering black money have been unearthed in Noida in the last few months. The business that is thriving in Noida, has made it a hub of hawala deals.

A school principal and an assistant teacher have been booked while a computer teacher of a government school in a village in Tilhar in Shahjahanpur district has been arrested for allegedly attempting to sexually assault 15 girl students, mostly Dalits, police said.

Neurosurgeons at the King George's Medical University (KGMU) operated upon an 85-year-old ex-IIT Roorkee professor whose urgent brain surgery was held up due to lack of consent from the family for the past over 20 days.

With the BJP sweeping the municipal elections and the victory margin widening with every passing hour, the party had proved, once again, that it remains invincible in Uttar Pradesh and that Yogi Adityanath is its lucky mascot.

In a bizarre incident, a man was arrested for his audacity to sit on the chair of a police station in-charge and pour a drink for himself in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur. The in-charge of the police station has now been suspended in connection with the incident.

Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA Rakesh Pratap Singh thrashed a BJP leader's husband inside a police station in Amethi while officials made half-hearted attempts to save the victim.

State chief of Rihai Manch, Mohd Shoaib has been picked up from Lucknow while ATS teams are interrogating Najam Qamar from Bahraich. PFI suspect Abdul Khaliq has also been detained.

Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Singh, accused of sexual harassment and intimidation by women wrestlers, has said that he would "hang himself if even a single allegation against him was proved".

The court of additional district judge-IV (MP/MLA), Ghazipur, Durgesh Kumar, has fixed May 20 as the date for delivering his order in a Gangsters Act case lodged against jailed gangster Mukhtar Ansari.

Speaking to reporters here, Thakur said, "A demand was there to form a committee and it was constituted, FIR has been registered by Delhi Police, the Supreme Court also gave its verdict. The Delhi Police are conducting a fair investigation.

He was feared in parts of Western Uttar Pradesh and ran an organised criminal gang. The slain gangster had 62 criminal cases registered against him including, 18 of murders, extortion, robbery and land grab.

A 15-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and gang-raped by three minors in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district. The three accused are absconding and the police are conducting raids to arrest them.

In a shocking development, the forensic examination report has confirmed that the blood stains found in the partially demolished office of gangster Atiq Ahmed in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj district was human blood, police said.

A message issuing a life threat to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was sent on the UP 112 WhatsApp group, police said, adding that a case has been registered at the Sushant Golf City police station and a probe is currently underway.

A police team that reached the office of slain gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad in Chakia on Monday morning for a routine investigation, was shocked to find a blood-stained knife and clothes in one of the rooms.

Lovelesh Tiwari, Sunny Singh and Arun Maurya, the three assailants who gunned down mafia-politician Atiq Ahmad and his younger brother Khalid Azeem a.k.a Ashraf here on April 15, had come to Lucknow before reaching Prayagraj by bus to carry out the killings.

Rita Bahuguna Joshi, who is now in the BJP, said: "Sonia Gandhi did call me up and asked to intervene following which I called the district administration and consequently Atiq Ahmed pulled back in that case."

The three assailants, who shot dead gangster Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf, were trained to behave like real journalists before they joined a group of media persons at the hospital where the brothers were shot dead.

"Under no circumstances should any religious event be held by obstructing the road and traffic. In the past, we have been able to do this through proper communication and coordination. This year, too, we have to make a similar effort," he remarked further.

Days after mafia Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf were shot dead, a lettter of Atiq's wife Shaista Parveen is going viral on social media in which she had expressed apprehension that the duo might be killed on the pretext of remand in the case.

The Enforcement Directorate has also dealt a severe blow by exposing assets worth over Rs 1,400 crore and discovering nearly 50 shell companies that Atiq and his gang used to convert their black money earned from extortion into white money.

Zigana is a semi-automatic pistol produced by Turkish firearm manufacturing company TISAS. The production of the said pistols started in 2001 and is one of the first pistols in Turkey with an original design.

The three had posed as journalists and joined a group of media persons after which they shot dead Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf from point-blank range while they were speaking to reporters in Prayagraj on Saturday night.