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Spurious liquor kills 5 in UP’s Bulandshahr; accused held

11:06 pm January 8, 2021

Bulandshahr/Lucknow: Five people have died and 16 others hospitalised after allegedly consuming spurious liquor in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district, police said on Friday. The authorities have suspended four policemen and removed three senior Meerut zone excise officials from their post for laxity. An excise inspector and three other members of the department have also be suspended. Police have also […]

Cold wave conditions prevail in north India; minimum temperature in Delhi drops to 9.6 deg C

10:40 pm January 8, 2021

New Delhi: Cold wave conditions continued unabated in several parts of north India on Friday with the minimum temperature in Delhi dropping to 9.6 degrees Celsius and a MeT official predicting severe winter for Rajasthan in the coming days. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast that due to the prevailing of dry north or northwesterly winds over most parts of northwest India, minimum […]

UP govt orders probe by EOW into Ghaziabad roof collapse incident

8:01 pm January 6, 2021

Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday ordered a probe by the SIT of Economic Offences Wing (EOW) into the Muradnagar roof collapse incident in which 24 people died. The SIT will probe the entire incident, including the construction work, Additional Chief Secretary (Information) Navneet Sehgal said, adding that a detailed report has also been sought from the ADG. ”The […]

Farmers continue protest at Delhi border points for 3rd day, refuse to move to Burari ground

11:10 pm November 28, 2020

New Delhi: Thousands of farmers continued to protest the Centre’s new farm laws at the Singhu and Tikri borders on Saturday blocking national highways for the third day as they refused to move to the designated protest site in north Delhi, a day after they clashed with security personnel who stopped them from entering the […]

Parts of Uttar Pradesh receive very light rains

7:22 pm November 26, 2020

Lucknow: Very light rains occurred at isolated places over western districts of Uttar Pradesh, while the weather remained dry over eastern parts with shallow to moderate fog at isolated places in the past 24 hours, the MeT office here said. There was no large change in maximum temperatures in Uttar Pradesh. The maximum temperature remained […]