Police arrested the victim’s wife Pushpa Maurya, 30, and her paramour Neeraj Maurya, 30. LUCKNOW: A week after the body of a 32-year-old property dealer was discovered in Krishna Nagar, police on Monday cracked the case.A missing motorcycle was allegedly the first step in a murder plot that ended with the man being killed with … Read more
A 17-year-old girl from Balrampur has alleged gang-rape by a truck driver and his helper (Representative image) LUCKNOW: A 17-year-old girl from Balrampur has alleged that she was gang-raped by a truck driver and his helper after being offered a lift, and said she remained with them for nearly 150 km before escaping and reaching … Read more
Barabanki: Three children drowned while bathing in a rainwater-filled pit at Baina village under the Kursi police station area on Sunday evening. The victims were identified as Deva (13), Sumit (10) and Divyansh (15).According to police and local residents, the pit had been dug on the premises of an under-construction factory for excavation work and … Read more
Kalpana Tiwari and children with husband Vivek Tiwari (38) LUCKNOW: Nearly eight years after Apple area sales manager Vivek Tiwari (38) was shot dead by a police constable in Lucknow, a sessions court on Monday sentenced constable Prashant Kumar Chaudhary to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.Sessions Judge Malkhan … Read more
Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya Lucknow: Former Uttar Pradesh minister and MLA from Kunda in Pratapgarh, Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya, received relief on Saturday after a special CBI court in Lucknow accepted the agency’s closure report in the 2013 murder case of deputy superintendent of police Zia-ul-Haq, who was then serving as … Read more
After Products Found Stored For Packing/Labelling At Later DateLucknow: In a move aimed at improving consumer transparency and food-safety, the Uttar Pradesh Food Safety and Drug Administration department directed food businesses to clearly declare the actual date of manufacture or processing on packaged food products.The directive follows special inspections of food manufacturing units, during which … Read more
The deceased teacher was identified as Nishat Fatima, a resident of Hidayat Nagar locality under Sadar Kotwali area. (Image-Social Media) LAKHIMPUR KHERI: A 26-year-old teacher was allegedly shot dead by a 28-year-old man inside a school in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district on Monday. The accused later allegedly shot himself and died, police said.The deceased … Read more
Lucknow: A court in Barabanki has sentenced a contractor to life imprisonment and imposed fines totalling Rs 42,000 for assaulting a labourer’s son with an iron rod during a wage dispute, an attack that later led to his death.Additional district judge Rakesh Kumar Singh delivered the verdict on Saturday in a case registered at Deva … Read more
Visitors at the Gomti Book Festival on Sunday Lucknow: In an age when screens compete for every spare minute, the city of Nawabs appears to be turning the page—literally. The fifth Gomti Book Festival drew around 4.5 lakh visitors and recorded book sales worth Rs 2.75 crore during its nine-day run at Lucknow University, offering … Read more
Himanshu Tayal alias Shami Lucknow: A 40-year-old Bahraich woman looking for weight-loss advice on Instagram allegedly fell into a blackmail trap after a person posing as a female doctor befriended her online, persuaded her to share photographs and later threatened to circulate them, police said.Bahraich police have arrested Himanshu Tayal alias Shami (46), who allegedly … Read more