India

Chandigarh, Oct 7 (PTI) A five-member Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) delegation will on Thursday leave for Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh to meet the families of farmers killed in violence during a protest four days ago, party chief Sukhbir Singh Badal said.

He said the delegation would also meet representatives of the Uttar Pradesh government and urge them to arrest the perpetrators of the violence immediately.

Kanpur: Pinched-faced, middle-aged and short-sized street vendor, who by chance appears in a certain locality of Jajmau remains quite proficient. 

He was in every way endowed with his servicing skill of the defective gas stove.

That's why the housewives if facing defects in the gas stove call him at the house for repairing the modern-day chulha.

Though such types of street vendors are not normally available these days, so when they happen to appear in the locality their service is taken up.

Kanpur: The festival of Diwali is approaching fast. Is there a ban on firecrackers in Uttar Pradesh? Of Course, it is not reportedly.

The Yogi Adityanath government has not announced the ban on the sale and use of firecrackers all over the state.

The bursting of fire crackers are supposed to carry pollution. That was why there was put a ban on its use in as many as 13 cities of Uttar Pradesh were not enabled in the year 2020.

However, this kind of ban has not been reported on the sale and use of firecrackers across the state for this year so far.

Mumbai, Oct 5 (PTI) A Mumbai court on Tuesday granted bail to BJP leader Kirit Somaiya in two defamation cases filed against him by an NGO and a social worker for allegedly making false and defamatory remarks.

The complaints had been filed before a magistrate court here by the NGO Earth, and its founder and social worker Praveen Kalme in personal capacity.

The court last month issued summons to the BJP leader over Kalme's complaint.

Accordingly, Somaiya appeared before the magistrate's court at Sewree on Tuesday.

Muzaffarnagar, Oct 5 (PTI) A POCSO court here on Tuesday sentenced a man to seven years of imprisonment for abducting and raping a minor girl.

Special Court Judge Arti Faujdar also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on the Raju after holding him guilty under Sections 363 (kidnapping), 366 (abducting, inducing a woman to compel her for marriage) and 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Jaipur, Oct 5 (PTI) A Jaipur court on Tuesday sentenced a 25-year-old man to 20 years in jail for raping a 9-year-old girl, imposing the punishment within nine days of the commission of the crime.

Setting a benchmark mark on the swiftness of the delivery of the verdict that, experts say, also enhances the deterrence value of the punishment, the special POCSO, decided the case within five working days and convicted the accused.

The court also imposed a penalty of Rs 2 lakh on convict Kamlesh Meena.

Kanpur: The violence at Lakhimpur Kheri has political indications, as many political pundits see it as a major poll plank in the upcoming UP Assembly polls.

The farmers named the union minister's son as the prime accused in the deaths of four farmers. They demanded that Ashish be booked on murder charges.

This appeared in the background of beliefs that the state's Brahmins were walking away from the ruling party.

Political analysts point out that the party was doling out favours to the OBCs and Dalits at the cost of the Brahmin community.

Kanpur: The online classes seem to have been given lesser priority. Though it was announced that the online classes will continue to run parallel.

The message of the online link comes for joining the class but a few subject teachers are not taking the classes with the same interest as others are concerned, as has been viewed.

On most of the occasions, the periods after the halftime end without the teaching.

The students wait for the link for those periods and if it remains available the subject teacher is not found.

Bengaluru, Oct 5 (PTI) JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday said the BJP governments at both the Centre and in Karnataka were functioning on the directions of the RSS, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi was its "puppet".

"I'm observing the developments in national politics. Whether it is the central government or the government in our state, they are not the governments of elected representatives. These governments are functioning on the directions of the RSS," Kumaraswamy said.0

New Delhi, Oct 5 (PTI) The Aam Aadmi Party claimed that its MP Sanjay Singh and some other party leaders were arrested while trying to go to Lakhimpur Kheri on Tuesday to meet the families of the victims killed during a farmers' protest recently.

However, there was no statement on the issue by the authorities.