Uttar Pradesh

Meerut; A BJP councillor named Munish Kumar from Meerut has been arrested for assaulting a Sub-Inspector after a video showing him thrashing and abusing a Sub-Inspector went viral.

According to The Indian Express, “The sub-inspector, who was accompanied by a lady lawyer, got into an argument with a waiter which later turned violent as Kumar intervened. The councillor could be heard accusing the cop of being drunk and also hurled abuses at him, to which the lady lawyer retaliated similarly.”

KANPUR: Uttar Pradesh High School & Intermediate Board will declare its list of examination centres on October 25, this year.  

As many as 147 examination centres were arranged last year.

A total of 55,936 class 10 students and 47,253 class 12 students are expected to appear for the final examinations this year.

Muzaffarnagar, Oct 18 (PTI) A 28-year-old woman was allegedly poisoned to death by her in-laws over dowry demand at Nawla village in Muzzafarnagar, police said Thursday.

Circle Officer Rajive Kumar Singh said a case has been registered against the woman's husband Nitin kumar, father in-law Rakesh, mother in-law Dulari and brother in-law Sachin.

He said they are absconding.

Minu married Nitin four years ago.

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Oct 19 (PTI) A 65-year-old farmer was allegedly beaten to death by unidentified miscreants in Shamli district's Titoli village, police said Friday.

The farmer, Karan Pal had gone to irrigate his fields Thursday but he did not return home, SHO Adarsh Mandi Police station Anil Singh said.

After a search, Pal's body was found with injuries and bruise marks in his field. It was sent for postmortem, the SHO said.

A case of murder was registered under the Indian Penal Code, he added.

Lucknow, Oct 19 (PTI) The VHP Friday hailed the Uttar Pradesh government's decision to adopt a proposal to rename Allahabad as Prayagraj and demanded that the name of Faizabad be changed to "Sri Ayodhya".

VHP spokesman Sharad Sharma said the renaming of Allahabad aimed to free the mindset of slavery and added all sections of people had hailed this step of the state government.

KANPUR: The engine of Farakka Express ran without the guard on the tracks. Lucknow bound train got moving up without the guard from the Central station here on Tuesday.

As the train’s guard arrived at the platform no. 9 of the railway station, he did not find his record box. Therefore he right away approached the GRP office to register the first information report.

KANPUR: In order to lessen the pollution in the city areas, the Kanpur region of Uttar Pradesh State Roadways Transport Corporation has taken a decision to run electric buses on its roads.

Although one air-conditioned bus and two non-air-conditioned electric buses were already plying on trial from Kanpur to Lucknow yet there was ample plan to bring electric buses on the city roads from the next year.

An inspection was carried out in the district’s every polling booths on Sunday. During the check-up of the document, the district magistrate Vijay Viswas Pant found several irregularities in the voting list. An action was taken against as many as 8 BLOs including one supervisor in Cantt and Kalyanpur assemblies’ constituencies respectively.       

KANPUR: Three city's budding archery players have been selected in Uttar Pradesh Sub-junior Archery Team after the trial conducted in Mathura. They are Ajay, Arif and Bhumi. Reacting on their selection they said that they would try their best to perform well.

KANPUR: On reaching at the city along with her 40 members group, the mountaineer Bachhendri Pal said that cleaning of the river Ganga was more difficult than scaling the Mount Everest. However, it was not impossible. Public support was vital in this movement.

She has been on a river rafting expedition with the Clean Ganga message. She arrived here from Farrukhabad on Sunday.