
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Four senior Income Tax officers in an alleged bribery case. Those arrested included Director (Investigations) Kunal Singh of the Indian Revenue Service who is currently posted as the Director (Investigations) in Kanpur. The agency arrested IRS officer Kunal Singh, Joint Director Investigations Ratan Singh, also an IRS officer, Assistant Commissioner Uma Kant and Income Tax inspector Harish Daundiyal, CBI sources...

03:09 PM, Jun 04, 2012

New Delhi: Contending that IIT Council's nod to hold the engineering entrance test under a new format is a "breach of trust", IIT-Kanpur faculty federation on Sunday said any new system should not be introduced before 2014. "For students aspiring to appear in JEE 2013, the IIT Council proposal is a breach of trust. Both the processes and content of the new examination will not be clear to them any...

04:19 PM, Jun 03, 2012

CNN-IBN's Environment Editor Bahar Dutt tracks the river Ganga, from the Himalayas down to the Sunderbans to find out what it will take to revive India's most sacred river. ...

05:30 PM, May 12, 2012

Jajmau: A cocktail of chemicals is being dumped into the river Ganga in Kanpur. What is even worse is that Rs 900 crore of the Ganga Action Plan have simply gone down the drain. In the historic city of Kanpur, a thriving leather industry is central to the crisis facing the Ganga. Rakesh Jaiswal, an eco-crusader, explains, "This is a failure of the Ganga Action Plan. The water that should...

10:53 AM, May 11, 2012

Kanpur: In a country where bunking classes is common, a 17-year-old Muslim boy stands out in stark contrast. He has not missed a single class in 14 years of school life. Meet Mohammed Omar, student of St Aloysius School who took his Class 12 exam last month. Teachers say Omar has not been absent even a single day. Omar said that he did not do this intentionally initially but was...

10:19 AM, Apr 08, 2012

Kanpur: An Uttar Pradesh Police officer who was shot at along with a constable inside a police station in Kanpur by a drunken youth succumbed to his injuries in hospital on Friday, police said. Sub-Inspector Devendra Singh who was critically wounded in the incident at Naubasta police station, where he was the station officer, died at Regency Hospital, Amitabh Yash, deputy inspector general, Kanpur, said. He said as per departmental...

01:54 PM, Mar 30, 2012

Kanpur: The 17-year-old class XI student, who was raped in Kanpur by a friend and two others after being given cold drink laced with sedatives, attempted suicide but was saved by doctors, police said on Sunday. Unable to bear the trauma of being gangraped, the girl attempted suicide late last night by consuming poison, but was rushed to a nearby medical college where doctors saved her, DSP Jay Narayan Singh...

12:20 AM, Mar 26, 2012

Kanpur: A 17-year-old girl studying in class XI was on Saturday gangraped in a hotel by her friend and two others after one of them offered her cold drink laced with sedatives, police said. The girl was offered the laced drink by her friend Rajeev on Saturday afternoon when he took her for a drive, they said. When she lost consciousness, Rajeev and his friends took her to a hotel...

11:49 PM, Mar 24, 2012

In Kanpur a vehicle theft was caught on CCTV and police are on the hunt for the thieves who were seen standing next to a bike, climbing on to it and driving it away.. ...

04:49 PM, Mar 23, 2012

Kanpur: In another question mark on the law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh under Samajwadi Party rule, there are reports of fresh violence erupting in Kanpur. The police had to resort to lathi charge after a Samajwadi Party worker allegedly killed a man. Clashes broke out between two groups after the Samajwadi Party worker, Prashant Tiwari, who owns a dhaba, beat up a truck driver who refused to pay...

06:02 PM, Mar 20, 2012

New Delhi: Union Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday defended Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi over the controversy surrounding his roadshow in Kanpur as part of the campaign for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. The Congress leader said that the party was earlier given the permission to hold the roadshow, which was withdrawn in the last minute. He said, "The permission was given to us on February 17. It was withdrawn...

01:26 PM, Feb 21, 2012

New Delhi: Union Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday defended Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi over the controversy surrounding his roadshow in Kanpur as part of the campaign for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. The Congress leader said that the party was earlier given the permission to hold the roadshow, which was withdrawn in the last minute. He said, "The permission was given to us on February 17. It was withdrawn...

01:26 PM, Feb 21, 2012

Kanpur: An FIR has been filed against Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi for alleged model code of conduct violation by not taking up the route it had prescribed to the leader for his road campaign in Kanpur. The case has been filed in Kanpur for violating Section 144. Kanpur District Magistrate Hari Om on Monday said that Rahul stuck to his route, despite having been assigned an alternative route by...

08:59 PM, Feb 20, 2012

Kanpur: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Monday invited the Election Commission's wrath by not taking up the route it had prescribed to the leader for his road campaign in Kanpur. Kanpur District Magistrate Hari Om said that Rahul stuck to his route, despite having been assigned an alternative route by the EC. "We had allotted a separate route for Rahul's roadshow considering he would have faced traffic," the official...

05:13 PM, Feb 20, 2012

Kanpur: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday kicked off the Congress campaign from Kanpur on Friday. Addressing the crowds, he said, "We have sent funds under various national schemes to Uttar Pradesh. Rs 24000 crore have been given to Uttar Pradesh government for roads alone. However, none of it has trickled down to the common man." He added, "The Congress will win UP elections. Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi will...

03:16 PM, Feb 17, 2012