Uttar Pradesh

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UP farmer beaten to death by cousins over land dispute

7:13 pm March 13, 2021

Budaun (UP): A 65-year-old farmer was beaten to death with sticks allegedly by his cousins over a land dispute at a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Budaun on Saturday, police said. The incident took place at 6 am when the farmer, identified as Satyaveer, had gone to give fodder to his cattle in Davtori village, Additional […]

20 lakh jabs on Friday, highest so far: Govt

4:27 pm March 13, 2021

New Delhi: The Health Ministry said on Saturday that more than 20 lakh vaccine doses against the coronavirus were administered across the country the previous day, the highest single-day count so far. As many as 16,39,663 beneficiaries — healthcare workers (HCWs) and frontline workers (FLWs) — were vaccinated for the first dose and 4,13,874 such […]

Man kills niece in UP’s Bulandshahr

7:22 pm March 9, 2021

Bulandshahr (UP): A man allegedly stabbed his 26-year-old niece to death in a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district, accusing her of “cheating on” him, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place in the village under Shikarpur police station limits on Monday, they said. The accused, Vineet, a resident of a village in Dibairpur […]

Man targets CM, held for staging ‘death rites’

7:19 pm March 9, 2021

Ballia (UP): A man was arrested here after he allegedly placed a photograph of Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath on the bank of the Ganga and performed rites usually associated with death, according to police. Additional Superintendent of Police Sanjay Yadav said Reoti area’s Dalchhapra village resident Brijesh Yadav was arrest on the complaint five […]

School bus driver held for raping Class 11 girl in UP

10:17 pm March 8, 2021

Bulandshahr (UP): A school bus driver in Uttar Pradesh‘s Bulandshahr district has been arrested for allegedly raping a Class 11 student, police said on Monday. The arrest has been made following a complaint by the teenager’s uncle who claimed the incident took place in January this year, Bulandshahr Senior Superintendent of Police Santosh Kumar Singh […]