Uttar Pradesh

UP: Man found dead in suspected suicide

4:58 pm January 7, 2021

Bulandshahr (UP): A 50-year-old man was found dead here inside an under construction shop on Thursday in a suspected case of suicide, police said. They said a suicide note was recovered from him in which he apparently attributed the extreme step due to poverty and financial constraints faced by him. Senior Superintendent of Police Santosh […]

Man shot dead by business partner in Greater Noida

11:59 pm January 6, 2021

Noida: A 35-year-old man was shot dead allegedly by his business partner in Uttar Pradesh’s Greater Noida on Wednesday evening, police said. The accused has been taken into custody over the incident that took place in a forested area near Murshadpur under Ecotech 1 police station limits, a senior officer said. “Atai Muradpur-resident Hemchand was shot dead […]

UP horror: 50-year-old anganwadi worker gang-raped, killed by priest, accomplices

8:12 pm January 6, 2021

Badaun: A 50-year-old anganwadi worker was gang-raped and murdered allegedly by a priest and his two accomplices in Budaun district of Uttar Pradesh, triggering an opposition’s outcry and a comparison with Delhi’s 2012 Nirbhaya case. While the priest is on the run, his two accomplices were arrested on Tuesday night after the post-mortem report confirmed […]

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 […]

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Prisoner dies in Noida after ‘chest pain’

4:36 pm January 6, 2021

Noida (UP): A 63-year-old inmate of a jail here died at a hospital where he was taken following breathlessness, chest pain and shivering, officials said on Wednesday. Munawwar was sentenced to life imprisonment in a murder case in 2012 in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district and was transferred to the Luksar jail in 2018, prison officials […]