Lucknow: Police have busted a gang of vehicle thieves headed by an engineering student in Uttar Pradesh. The gang used to lift luxury cars from Noida, adjoining Delhi, and sell them in Gorakhpur and Bihar, a police official said on Saturday. A Honda City car was seized from the student. The police stumbled upon the criminals when they intercepted a car and sought to see its papers. When police verified...
08:23 AM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: A day after a shootout in broad day light in Uttar Pradesh, a minister has said that even God could not control crime in the state. Minister for Stamp, Court Fees and Registration Durga Prasad Yadav said, "Crime keeps on happening. Even God cannot stop it. Strict action needs be taken against the culprits." Six gunmen had attacked a Samajwadi Party worker in broad daylight outside a market...
09:33 AM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: Six gunmen attacked a Samajwadi Party worker in broad daylight outside a market in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh. The incident left four people including an eight-year-old boy critically injured. The incident occurred on Monday when six armed men on two bikes opened fire in a busy street. Their target was Pappu Nishaad, a local leader associated with the Samajwadi Party. The shooters then chased Nishad into a crowded...
10:28 AM, May 08, 2012
Gorakhpur: In a tragic incident on Sunday, nearly 18 people were killed when two buses rammed into each other on a busy road in Gorakhpur. The mishap took place at Chiluwatal area, when a private bus and a state roadways bus collided into each other, injuring many. The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital. The police were, meanwhile, investigating the accident. Lallan Singh, Additional SP, Gorakhpur, said, "Nearly 16...
03:16 PM, Apr 29, 2012
Mumbai: She had played a bit part in the 2011 horror film '404' that spooked audiences. But, the uncut tale of small-time actress Meenakshi Thapas murder is considerably more unnerving. According to cops, the two advocates-cum-struggling actors, who were arrested by unit IX of Mumbai crime branch on Saturday night, were carrying the severed head of the 26-year-old for two days before throwing it out of a moving bus. According...
02:58 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Lucknow: Nearly 56 per cent of 1.92 crore voters on Saturday exercised their franchise for 59 seats spread over nine districts in the by-and-large peaceful second phase of the fiercely-fought Uttar Pradesh assembly election. The fate of 1,098 candidates, including two state party chiefs, 31 MLAs and 24 former ministers was sealed in the Electronic Voting Machines in Saturday's exercise. Polling for the second round, in which 59 assembly seats...
06:06 PM, Feb 11, 2012
New Delhi: It seems domestic troubles are plaguing the BJP which is facing opposition from its own people now over opening the party doors to former BSP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha. RSS mouthpiece Panchajanya snubbed the BJP for inducting Kushwaha, urging the people of Uttar Pradesh not to vote for "party hoppers and criminals". RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav said the issue of tainted candidates could not be ignored by the...
01:23 PM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: Fourteen people have tested positive for Japanese Encephalitis in the capital. The viral disease which has affected Delhi for the first time this year has been spreading since it first surfaced in October. Earlier this year, it claimed 195 lives in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh alone. Delhi health authorities are worried that next year onwards Japanese Encephalitis might become endemic to Delhi. Chairman MCD Health Committee VK Monga said,...
08:29 AM, Dec 17, 2011
Gaya: More than a thousand children are feared to have been affected by the Japanese encephalitis in Bihar's Gaya district. One child has been dying everyday for the last three months in the district. This outbreak comes even as Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh battles against Viral encephalitis. Shafina Khatun's world has come crashing down on her. Her 2-year old daughter succumbed to Japanese encephalitis, but she hasn't even had time...
08:17 PM, Nov 16, 2011
Gorakhpur: Junior doctors at the BRD Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur have called off their two-day strike after assurance from authorities that their demands for better security and facilities will be met. Medical services were restored on Friday at the hospital, grappling with the influx of Encephalitis patients from eastern UP, after the strike was called of last night. The strike was called off after District Magistrate Sanjay Kumar and...
11:04 AM, Nov 11, 2011
Gorakhpur: Doctors at the BRD Medical College in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur where encephalitis patients are being treated have gone on a strike. One hundred and fifty resident doctors went on strike after a patient's family reportedly roughed up one of the doctors. The doctors are demanding better security for themselves. The strike comes at a time when Gorakhpur is reeling from an outbreak of encephalitis. At least 500 children have...
04:07 PM, Nov 09, 2011
New Delhi: A CNN IBN investigation has found that despite warnings of an encephalitis crisis were given as early as in the first week of September, the health ministry and the minister sat on the report. In the BRD medical college in Gorakhpur, 500 children have died of encephalitis in the last 2 months, 10 in the last 48 hours alone. Could the health minister of the country Gulam Nabi...
09:41 PM, Oct 24, 2011
New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry did not act on early warnings over encephalitis. 500 lives could have been saved had the ministry acted on the warnings. CNN-IBN has learned that the ministry also sat on a field report from National Disaster Management Authority on encephalitis. Sources say officials from the National Disaster Management Authority met Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on September 15 and asked him to visit Gorakhpur...
01:28 PM, Oct 24, 2011
New Delhi: Following CNN-IBN's continuing focus on encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh, Rahul Gandhi on Thursday asked Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh to visit the state and asses the situation. More than 400 children have died so far this year in a problem that's gone for decades. Eight children have died at the BRD medical college in Gorakhpur in the last 48 hours. "We have...
10:09 PM, Oct 20, 2011
New Delhi: In a move that's likely to embarrass the Mayawati government, the Congress on Thursday dispatched two top leaders to Gorakhpur to look into the deaths caused by Japanese encephalitis. Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh and Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad accompanied by a health team are expected to reach Gorakhpur later in the day. Sources said Rahul Gandhi had asked them to review the situation. The epidemic has...
10:03 AM, Oct 20, 2011
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