Uttar Pradesh

Kanpur: Underground Metro Corridor-2 (Chunniganj to Phulbagh/Nayaganj's Bada Chauraha) metro station's launching shaft (from where the tunnel boring machine goes under the ground) has been completed.

From here the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) will go under the ground.

These machines, which came from Hong Kong and Lucknow, after making the track of the Up-Down line up to Phulbagh / Nayaganj, will be retrieved from there and will be relaunched at British India Corporation (BIC), Chunniganj.

It is likely to be launched in early June at Bada Chauraha.

Lucknow, Apr 26 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday directed his ministers to declare within three months all property owned by them and their families and asked IAS and IPS officials to put similar details online.

He also said that the ministers' family members should not intervene in the government work.

Kanpur: The STF unit here arrested three smugglers of an international gang smuggling narcotics from Nepal in the early hours of Monday.

Charas worth 4.5 crores were recovered from them, which were to be supplied to the city and adjoining districts.

STF Inspector Shailendra Singh said that Roshan Patel, a resident of Motihari, Ashish Takkar, a resident of Barra, and Shailendra Kumar Soni alias Shilu, a resident of Auraiya, have been arrested.

About 85 kg of charas was recovered from them. All three were smuggling for about a year and a half, it had been reported.

Kanpur: How the school vehicles are running unbridled, refuting norms, its hallmark was seen in front of many schools in the city on Monday.

Children come out one by one after school is over the holiday in Kalyanpur. Several school vans are parked outside. The drivers start filling the kids in the van.

Most of the vans have neither a yellow stripe nor the letter 'School Van'.

Double the vehicle's capacity i.e. 14 to 15 children are stuffed like straw in the van.

Kanpur: A 40-year-old man, who had come to the city, to attend a wedding, was found allegedly hanging from a tree, police said here on Monday.

Virendra Singh Kallu, a resident of Kannauj, had come to the guest house located in the Bilhaur area. On Sunday, he was found allegedly hanging from a tree with a towel.

The guests who had come to the wedding ceremony identified the man and informed him of the incident to his relatives.

Bilhaur police station Inspector, on Monday, said, that the investigations are underway.

Kanpur: There are more than 650 shops in the market of Barra-5 area here. Solidified (pucca) shops of electronics, clothes, cosmetics, sweets etc. exist but what remains annoying is the pavement shops of vegetables, fruits, clothes, groceries, bakery etc. arranged in front of the shops. 

It is alleged that these footpaths and street vendors had to pay between Rs 50 and 500 per day. This appears to be a pavement deal.

Many times people start quarrelling with each other about setting up shops back and forth instead of sidewalks, it is reported.

Basti (UP), Apr 24 (PTI) A 12-year-old boy has allegedly been kidnapped and a ransom of Rs 50 lakh demanded from his parents, police said on Sunday.

An FIR was registered by Ashok Kumar Gupta at the Rudhauli police station on Saturday, alleging that his son Akhand Kumar Kasaudhan had gone to purchase vegetables and was kidnapped, they said.

Superintendent of Police Ashish Srivastava said an unidentified person took away the boy on his bike.

Sitapur (UP), Apr 24 (PTI) Samajwadi Party MLA Ravidas Mehrotra on Sunday alleged that he was not allowed to meet senior party leader Azam Khan who is lodged in the district jail here.

Mehrotra also alleged that Khan might be killed inside the Sitapur Jail.

"Jail administration did not allow me to meet Azam Khan and I was told he is unwell and is sleeping," Mehrotra told reporters outside the district jail.

Amethi, Apr 22 (PTI) A 33-year-old woman police outpost in-charge allegedly hanged herself here on Friday, police said.

The deceased, Rashmi Yadav, was posted at Mohanganj Police Station.

Banda, Apr 22 (PTI) The body of a 17-year-old girl was exhumed for post mortem a day after she was buried, authorities here said on Friday.

The girl was buried on Wednesday after she died in mysterious circumstances in Gurha Kala village under Naraini Police Station area, they said.