India

Kanpur: A stir erupts here when the condition of two real brothers began to be deteriorated after eating macaroni.

One brother is reported to have died, while the condition of the elder brother remains critical. There was chaos in the village.

There was a pall of gloom pervading over the bereaved family. The names of the brothers are Mohit and Rohit.

On receiving the information, the police reached the spot and sent the body for a post-mortem.

The incident occurred at the Haniya village of Maharajpur police station area.

Kanpur: The State Assembly Speaker Satish Mahana could not keep himself away from the delicious taste of bread and butter after performing Yoga at the Green Park here on Tuesday.

Thousands of Yoga lovers performed the excise at the Green Park, the news said.

Following his exit from the stadium, he stepped near a roadside handcart.

Along with him, the party's MLC Salil Bishnoi was also seen on the spot.

He not only enjoyed eating bread but put the butter on the bread with his hands.

Kanpur: Though sunny weather continued much of the time in the day, there was a drizzling at about 3.15 p.m. in Jajmau here.

It was a sudden shift in the weather that recorded a maximum temperature of 35 degrees Celsius on Tuesday. 

The dry caraway got drenched and Window  AC sets were also dripping.

As the unstable shower disappeared in a few minutes, the smell of atmospheric air quickly altered into that of the rainy season.

The clouds got dispersed within no time. The scorching sun once again began to throw its unbearable heat. 

NEW DELHI, Jun 20 (NNN-PTI) – The incidence of COVID-19 pandemic continues to rise again in India, as around 80,000 new cases have been registered over the past one week.

The number of active cases increased by almost 60 percent over the past seven days. However, the concerned health authorities have ruled out an outbreak of a fourth COVID-19 wave.

NEW DELHI, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Amid the ongoing protests against the Indian government's new recruitment policy for armed forces, the defense ministry said on Sunday that the scheme would not be rolled back.

"No, why should there be a rollback?" Lt. Gen. Anil Puri, additional secretary in the defense ministry, said at a press briefing when answering a question on whether the government was reviewing or rolling back the scheme because of the protests.

Kanpur: A college student from Kanpur staged his own kidnapping after losing money for his fees in an online game.

The first-year BSc student, named Shivshankar, also demanded a ransom of Rs 1 lakh from his family.

Student's family informed the police, which found him within 24 hours.

This incident took place in the Mangalpur Jaitipur village of Kanpur where Shivshankar's parents gave him Rs 30,000 to pay coaching fee and buy books.

But he lost the money on online gaming and later staged his own abduction to extract money from the family members.

Kanpur: A heart-wrenching incident came to light in Shyam Nagar of the Chakeri police station area on Sunday evening. An elderly man with mental psychosis took his family hostage and nibbled the police for hours.

After hours of effort, the police finally overpowered him and arrested him.

Locals and family members say that the mental balance of the elderly was not good. Treatment was going on. The incident happened because of not taking medicine on Sunday, as was allegedly reported.

Kolkata, Jun 20 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday slammed the BJP-led central government over the Agnipath' scheme, alleging that the saffron camp was trying to create its own "armed cadre base through the new defence recruitment programme.

Terming the scheme as an insult to the armed forces, Banerjee also wondered whether the BJP plans to hire Agniveer' soldiers as "watchmen" at its party offices, after their four-year service period.

NEW DELHI, Jun 19 (NNN-PTI) – India’s federal telecom minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, said, 5G deployment will begin in the country from Aug to Sept, this year.

“In 2022, we are going to start the deployment of 5G from Aug to Sept. But what is more important is, at the same time, complete 4G and 5G technology stacks have been developed in the country and tested for a billion calls simultaneously,” Vaishnaw said.

GAUHATI, India (AP) — Massive flooding and mudslides in northeastern India’s Assam state have claimed eight more lives, officials said Sunday, taking the death toll to 62 from weeks of heavy rains that caused one of Asia’s largest rivers to overflow.

Assam’s disaster management agency said 32 of the state’s 35 districts were underwater as the swollen Brahmaputra River broke its banks, displacing more than 3 million people. The Indian army was called in for rescue efforts and the air force remained on standby.