Uttar Pradesh

Police offer security to inter-faith Bareilly couple

7:53 pm December 26, 2020

Bareilly (UP): The Uttar Pradesh police has offered security to two interfaith couples after two Muslim women married youths after converting to Hinduism in Bareilly district. Both the women have claimed themselves to be adults on the basis of official documents and married youths of other community on their own accord. These incidents have nothing […]

IMD warns cold wave in 9 Odisha districts, Phulbani coldest at 7.5 degree Celsius

Bitter cold in eastern UP

7:45 pm December 26, 2020

Lucknow: Severe cold-wave conditions prevailed at isolated places over eastern Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. The meteorological department said that the lowest temperature in the state was 3.2 degrees Celsius was recorded at Churk observatory in Sonbhadra district, while the highest was 25.1 degrees in Allahabad and Jhansi district. The weather will most likely remain dry […]

MP: Sunday 'corona' curfew to be lifted as pandemic under control now, says CM

Madhya Pradesh cabinet gives nod to Freedom of Religion Bill 2020

1:17 pm December 26, 2020

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Bill 2020 has been approved by the cabinet on Saturday in a special meeting chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. “We won’t allow forced conversions in Madhya Pradesh. Under new bill, anyone who does it will face jail term up to 10 yrs and minimum Rs 50,000 fine. […]

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

12:46 pm December 26, 2020

Lucknow: Having apprehended about 35 people so far, the Uttar Pradesh police have made more than one arrest a day since the controversial anti-conversion ordinance came into effect a month ago. Meanwhile, nearly a dozen FIRs have been lodged since the Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, was notified on November 27. Eight […]

Worker found hanging in Noida factory, suicide suspected

3:56 pm December 25, 2020

Noida: The body of a factory worker was found hanging inside the facility in Uttar Pradesh’s Noida on Friday, with police suspecting it to be case of suicide. The man, a resident of Khoda village, had used his muffler to hang himself in the factory located in Sector 64, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Central […]