Day: September 14, 2020

MP: 4 tourists from UP drown in waterfall, 2 missing

7:33 pm September 14, 2020

Rewa: Four tourists from Uttar Pradesh drowned while taking bath in a waterfall in Madhya Pradesh‘s Rewa district, a police official said. Two others were also swept away and efforts were on to trace them, he said. The incident took place on Sunday at the Keoti Falls, located about 40 km from the district headquarters, […]

Beds in COVID hospitals should be increased: Adityanath

7:27 pm September 14, 2020

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath directed officials on Monday to increase the number of beds in the COVID hospitals being run under the Health Department. All the medical colleges and hospitals in Lucknow, Kanpur Nagar, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Varanasi and Meerut have been asked to work at full capacity. The drug controller has been […]

UP love jihad law completes one month; 35 arrests, dozen FIRs

Kanpur police forms SIT to probe ‘love jihad’ cases

7:24 pm September 14, 2020

Kanpur (UP): An eight-member SIT formed by the Kanpur police is looking into allegations of forced conversion on the pretext of marriage and has come across over a dozen such cases, an official said. The SIT was formed about a fortnight ago after some members of Hindu organisations met Kanpur IG Mohit Agarwal, alleging love […]

Shibu Soren, 14 others take oath as RS members

7:20 pm September 14, 2020

New Delhi: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha chief Shibu Soren, DMK leader Tiruchi Siva and BJP’s Syed Zafar Islam were among the 15 newly-elected members who took oath in Rajya Sabha on Monday. On the opening day of the Monsoon session of Parliament that is being held with several restrictions in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, the […]

Mahoba stone trader, shot dead mysteriously, cremated

7:08 pm September 14, 2020

Mahoba: Mahoba-based stone trader Indrakant Tripathi, who was shot dead in mysterious circumstances days after accusing the district’s former SP of demanding bribe to allow the transportation of ballast, was cremated on Monday amid heavy police presence. Tripathi, had been shot at and injured critically by unidentified assailants last Tuesday, days after he had levelled […]