India

KANPUR: A farmer's family faced pangs of suicides one after another in Bidhnu. Less than a month ago the farmer's daughter had died. This tragedy doubled with the son's suicide on Tuesday evening. His dead body was found hanging on a tree outside the village. The mother was not consolable.

KANPUR: A girl Priya Chauhan (26 years) d/o Dhirendra Singh Chauhan r/o Tirwa Kannauj hanged herself to death out of frustration at Shivli Road here on Tuesday.

She appeared at the assistant teacher recruitment examination held on Sunday. She was extremely disturbed with the papers not answered appropriately.

KANPUR: Enraged traders expressed disapproval at the driver’s harassment at the Pheelkhana police station here on Tuesday. They were resenting at the detention of a sweets shop’s loader driver who was unloading goods in Naughada Cloth Market area on Monday evening.

They staged a sit-in and recited the religious manuscript Hanuman Chalisa. Following an assurance by the City Magistrate of strict action against the policemen, they ended their agitation.

New Delhi, Jan 8 (PTI) No one can save Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Rafale investigation and the entire nation will know "without a shadow of doubt" that he has taken Rs 30,000 crore of people's money and given it to his "friend" Anil Ambani, Congress president Rahul Gandhi said on a day the Supreme Court reinstated CBI Director Alok Verma.

New Delhi, Jan 8 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea seeking removal of AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal as chief minister of the national capital as he was facing prosecution in a criminal case.

A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao said prosecution was still pending in the case and elected authorities cannot be removed like this.

"Prosecution is still going on. He may get acquitted. What will you do then? Come after he is convicted," the bench said.

"Nothing doing, dismissed," it said.

Hyderabad, Jan 8 (PTI): Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao Tuesday told TRS MPs to take up the state assembly resolution of providing 12 per cent reservation for backward Muslims and 10 per cent for STs with the Centre.

This demand comes in the wake of the Central government seeking to provide 10 per cent quota to economically backward sections.

Rao told the MPs to seek amendment of the bill proposed by Centre accordingly, an official press release said.

Sambhal (UP), Jan 8 (PTI) A man was arrested here for posting a defamatory video on social media against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the police said Tuesday.

Tohit Salmani, a resident of Narauli area was arrested on Monday night, police station in-charge of Baniyather, Sanjay Singh said.

Following a complaint by one Mukim Singh, a case was registered against Salmani and further investigations are on, he added.

Pilibhit (UP) Jan 8 (PTI) Five members of a family died on Tuesday after allegedly consuming poisonous milk in Benipur village here, police said.

According to villagers, one Chetram had come to meet the head of the family, Begraj, early on Tuesday and gave him some milk which the family is said to have consumed, they said.

The deceased were identified as Begraj (65), his wife Ramwati (60), their son Nem Chandra (35), daughter-in-law Mamta (32) and daughter Gayatri (28), the police said.

Gorakhpur (UP), Jan 8 (PTI) National Green Tribunal (NGT) has slapped a fine of Rs 5 crores on BRD Medical college in Gorakhpur for failing to ensure proper disposal of medical waste, said sources in the Pollution Control Board office here.

As per a senior official in the PCB office, a team of NGT had visited the medical college in November and subsequently asked the college to pay Rs 5 crore fine.

New Delhi, Jan 8 (PTI) Congress president Rahul Gandhi Tuesday met former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and discussed a host of issues of mutual interest.

Blair is in the national capital to participate in the 'Raisina Dialogue', considered India's flagship annual geo-political and geo-strategic conference.

"I met with Mr Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the UK, in Delhi today. I enjoyed our discussion, that covered a wide range of topics of mutual interest," Gandhi said in a Facebook post.

Blair was the prime minister of Britain from 1997 to 2007.