Violence swept a village in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district on Tuesday after a man died after he was allegedly beaten up and shot by police, while another person died in police firing later and at least six others were injured. A probe has been ordered, said officials. ...
01:50 AM, Mar 20, 2013
Taking serious note of the attempt to molest a foreign tourist in Agra, Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi on Tuesday ordered suspension of the three-star rating of Hotel Agra Mahal, where the incident took place. The Tourism Ministry also issued a show cause notice to the hotel asking it why its licence should not be cancelled. ...
11:40 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Faced with unrelenting criticism on the state's poor law and order, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday pulled up senior police officials and asked them to improve their and the force's functioning and act tough against criminals. ...
06:00 AM, Mar 19, 2013
Police teams have been constituted to nab the two absconding accused in the abduction case of Alstom managing director Rathin Basu even as the four arrested, including the mastermind, were sent to 14-day custody. The two accused - Awdesh and Rakesh, who are on the run could not be traced till late evening, Station Officer Surinder Kumar Yadav told PTI. ...
11:03 PM, Mar 18, 2013
A teenaged girl was allegedly abducted and gangraped by four persons in a moving vehicle in the Phulpur area of the district, police said on Monday. The incident took place on Sunday when the class XII student, on her way back home from a tuition class, was abducted by the accused and gangraped by them, Superintendent of Police Arvind Sen said. ...
05:27 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Suspended for unruly behaviour during the Corporate Trophy, Praveen Kumar is remorseful and has vowed not to repeat the incident in future. ...
05:00 PM, Mar 18, 2013
There are 2,63,697 cases pending in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court as of October 2012, the UP government informed the Assembly on Monday. ...
03:53 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on Saturday expressed disappointment at the performance of the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP) government, saying she was hopeful that it would be different from previous regimes led by his father Mulayam Singh Yadav. ...
02:28 AM, Mar 17, 2013
As the government gets ready to present its anti-rape Bill in Parliament, first arrest for stalking under the amended section of the Indian Penal Code was made in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi on Saturday. A Mumbai police team arrested a man accused of stalking a woman, even after she moved to Mumbai. ...
05:28 PM, Mar 16, 2013
The key accused in the murder of Kunda Gram Pradhan Nanhe Yadav, Kamta Pal, has surrendered before the CBI probing the Kunda killings in Uttar Pradesh. Kunda DSP Zia-Ul-Haque was also killed at the same place along with Nanhe Yadav and his brother. ...
03:23 PM, Mar 16, 2013
A 15-year-old girl who had set herself on fire after being allegedly sexually harassed by a boy in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad town died at a Delhi hospital on Saturday, police said. The girl died at the Safdarjung Hospital after infection spread to her vital organs owing to the burn injuries. ...
12:20 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Akhilesh Yadav on Friday completes his first year as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and maintaining law and order remains his biggest challenge. In the latest controversy to have hit his government, his cabinet minister, who later quit, has been named in an FIR in the murder of a senior police officer. ...
08:59 AM, Mar 15, 2013
The Supreme Court on Thursday sought response from the Centre for classifying people as VIPs and VVIPs other than constitutional functionaries for providing them security cover. ...
04:07 AM, Mar 15, 2013
Differences have cropped up between the father and wife of slain Kunda DSP Zia-ul-Haq. The father of the slain policemen has accused his daughter-in-law Dr Parveen Azad of keeping all the relief money with herself and not sharing the amount with the family. ...
09:50 PM, Mar 14, 2013
A 17-year-old girl set herself on fire after reportedly reading about her molestation in a Hindi daily on Wednesday. According to the police, the girl was molested on Monday and the culprit was arrested on Tuesday after filing of an FIR in Civil Lines area of the city. ...
11:28 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Activists heading the Yamuna Bachao Andolan on Tuesday threatened to sit on an indefinite fast from Wednesday if the government failed to release more water into the river. ...
04:12 AM, Mar 13, 2013
Retired Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) commandant BC Joshi on Tuesday allegedly committed suicide by jumping before a speeding Metro train in Noida, police said. Joshi, a resident of Jal Vayu Vihar in Greater Noida, was apparently in a state of depression, SP City Yogesh Singh said. ...
11:14 PM, Mar 12, 2013
A court in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday sent two of state MLA Raja Bhaiya's aides to the custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the murder case of Kunda DSP Zia-ul-Haq. ...
05:54 PM, Mar 12, 2013
A man died after he was allegedly set on fire by some policemen on Monday night in Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh. The victim's family has filed a case and police are investigating the incident. ...
10:50 AM, Mar 12, 2013
The CBI has moved court seeking 14-day custody of Rajiv Singh and Sanjay Singh, arrested in connection with Kunda DSP Zia-ul-Haq's murder case. Both the accused were arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police last week. ...
06:36 PM, Mar 11, 2013
