Uttar Pradesh

COVID-19: Noida extends night curfew till April 30

Noida: One more succumbs, COVID-19 death toll 81

9:56 pm November 26, 2020

Noida (UP): Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Buddh Nagar recorded one more fatality linked to COVID-19 that pushed its death toll to 81, even as the district’s infection tally surged to 22,111 with 97 new cases being reported on Thursday, official data showed. Active cases in the district came down to 1,285 from 1,357 the previous day, […]

Delhi Chalo march: Punjab farmers face water cannons, push through Haryana barricades

9:46 pm November 26, 2020

Chandigarh/New Delhi: Farmers from Punjab faced water cannons and broke police barriers at the state’s border with Haryana as they pushed towards the national capital Thursday on their Delhi Chalo march against the Centre’s farm laws. By late evening, a large number of protesters from Punjab and Haryana were close to Delhi, where too police […]

Man shot, killed on bus in UP’s Muzaffarnagar

8:13 pm November 26, 2020

Muzaffarnagar (UP): Unidentified assailants stopped a bus and fatally shot a 56-year-old passenger in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district on Thursday, police said. The man, Radhey Shyam Mittal, was shot dead on the bus near Transport Nagar locality under the New Mandi police station limits, they said. Mittal was travelling from Morna to Muzaffarnagar, police said. […]

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 […]

Yogi Adityanath calls for strict action against those ignoring farmers’ interest in paddy purchase

5:43 pm November 26, 2020

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday directed the officials concerned to take strict action against those compromising on the interest of farmers in paddy purchase and said there was a need to give further momentum to the procurement process. In a meeting to review the paddy purchase, the chief minister said the government is […]