Uttar Pradesh

Kanpur: Firefighting systems have been tested in large factories in the Kanpur Dehat district. According to the news, about 20 factories do not have No-Objection Certificates.

Reacting to this lapse, the chief fire officer Surendra Singh said that the notices will be issued to 13 hotels and four private hospital operators.

At the same time, instructions have been given to factory operators to make arrangements for fire fighting, added the officer. 

Bhadohi (UP), Sep 7 (PTI) A local BJP leader and 21 others were booked after a man died as the politician and his supporters allegedly thrashed him at his house, police said on Wednesday.

Police said seven people have been detained and additional force are deployed in the area to avoid any untoward incident.

Kanpur: A PhD student in IIT-Kanpur ends his precious life by suicide on campus, police said here on Wednesday.

The incident had reportedly taken place on Tuesday night. That was known only after a student informed the security personnel that Prashant Singh's room was closed from the inside.

Most importantly, he was not responding to knocks, he also made it clear.

The institute's administrators forcibly opened the door and found Prasant Singh hanging from the ceiling with the help of a bedsheet.

Ghaziabad, Sep 1 (PTI) Three men were arrested in connection with the alleged rape of a 20-year-old girl at a factory under the Link Road police station limits of the district, police said on Thursday.

The incident took place on August 28, but came to the fore on Wednesday evening when the victim narrated her ordeal to her mother who reached the police station and lodged an FIR against the three youths.

Kanpur: A youth was seen climbing up the OHE Line near Barrrajpur railway station in Kanpur's town Shivrajpur on Anwarganj- Kasganj rail route on Friday morning.

After passing the train some distance away from the level crossing gate, people started making noise when they saw the young man climbing on the OHE pole.

People informed the police of the apprehension of an accident due to the 25 thousand kV current running in the OHE line.

When the police reached the spot, brought the young man down after persuading him to get down.

Kanpur: More than half an hour of rain in the Jajmau area of the city gravely aggravated the woes of the public.

The water logging on the road crossing at Nai Chungi gave a bad look at traffic jams.

The highway was almost blocked due to rainwater. The drivers applied all the ways to speed up the motors, bikes and cycles.

Owing to jam on the road the traffic moved slowly. What was worse on the road was potholes? For a short-distance vehicle users followed a long distance to reach the school.

Kanpur: Three unknown miscreants entered a house and looted a couple at gunpoint in district's Mardanpur village. The thieves also stole gold jewellery & Rs 45,000 cash from the house.

On Monday night, the thieves entered the house of a grocery trader named Amit Sahu. On account of the ongoing construction on the first floor, Amit, wife Lalita and their son were sleeping on the ground floor.

Muzaffarnagar, Aug 29 (PTI) A POCSO court in this Uttar Pradesh district has sentenced a man convicted of raping and abducting a teenage girl to 10 years of imprisonment.

According to district government council and special POCSO lawyer, a 17-year-old girl was abducted and raped by the accused named Deepak in a village that falls under Gharipukhta police station in Shamli district in January, 2021.

The special judge has also imposed a fine of Rs 35,000 on the accused.

Shamli (UP), Aug 30 (PTI) Locals and traders in Kairana town here staged a dharna condemning the theft of artifacts from a temple.

On Monday night, unidentified people had barged into the temple after breaking open its lock and fled away with an idol of 'sheshnag' and a silver 'chatra' (umbrella).

Condemning this, the locals and traders launched a dharna at Chowk Bazar on Monday night and it continued on Tuesday, president of Kairana Vyapar Mandal Anil Gupta said.

Kanpur:  A few women visiting a nursing home here were trying to comprehend how do the stones form in the human stomach. They were all attending a mother of two children at the private hospital.

She was more precisely admitted to endure an operation for the removal of stones from her belly.

The doctors have told her that the operation remains the only process to provide relief from the severe abdominal pain.

Out of curiosity, the gathered relatives tried to know the cause of the formation of stones in the abdomen. None knows of the reason.