Uttar Pradesh

Unnao (UP), May 1 (PTI) A 18-year-old nurse was found hanging from a pillar of a nursing home in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh on the first day at work, with her family alleging that she was raped and killed.

Police, however, said the post-mortem examination ruled out rape.

The body of the nurse was found hanging at New Jeevan Nursing Home in the Bangarmau area of the district on Saturday, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Sashi Shekhar Singh told PTI on Sunday.

Kanpur: Two teenagers who went to bathe in the Ganges at Koyla Ghat in the Cantt area died due to drowning.

The police, who reached the incident, with the help of divers, took out the bodies of both of them after a struggle of about an hour.There was concern among the families.

Relatives of the deceased said that Sushant, 17-year-old son of Neeraj Pal, resident of Chakeri police station area, was staying at his maternal aunt's house for some days.

Kanpur: The weather reports said that there has been no rain in the district since February.

In the previous years, usually, the pre-monsoon activities began with a surge in heat. Light rain at an interval of a few days brought a feeling of relief.

The month of March was considered the hottest in the last 121 years.

Now the month of April has also been untouched by monsoon activities.

Kanpur: This city has unique example of ecclesiastical decency.Tatmill chowk, in the heart of the city, presents a spectacle of a Hanuman temple and a mosque that share a common entry door.

Aarti and azaan take place with the cooperation of the two communities.

When the state government issued orders for the removal of loudspeakers from mosques, the orders were followed here with mutual understanding.

Devotees who came to offer namaaz say it is a good move and that they have no problems with it.

Noida, Apr 28 (PTI) A scuffle broke out between police personnel and Vishwa Hindu Parishad-Bajrang Dal activists in Uttar Pradesh's Noida on Thursday, leading to a brief detention of some members of the right-wing organisations, officials said.

A policeman was injured in the scuffle that took place in the afternoon after the right-wing activists, including their office-bearers, reached the Sector 39 police station in connection with a rape case involving a minor girl and a boy, they said.

Lucknow, Apr 28 (PTI) BSP supremo Mayawati on Thursday trashed SP chief Akhilesh Yadav's remark suggesting that the BJP could make her the President, saying she would prefer becoming the country's prime minister someday to realise her goals for the downtrodden.

Reacting to the dig at her on Wednesday, Mayawati said she never aspired to be the President and the Samajwadi Party leader was dreaming about it only to clear his own path to become the Uttar Pradesh chief minister.

Kanpur: On Thursday afternoon, the joint squad of traffic police and anti-encroachment squad reached the Ramadevi intersection to remove the encroachment.

First of all, the illegal tempo stands operating on the Naubasta route from the intersection were removed.

After this, those who had occupied the pavement were chased away with sticks. It was reported that many shopkeepers had made permanent pucca platforms on the sidewalks.They were smashed with a bulldozer.

The Municipal Corporation may have taken the title of Open Defecation Free, but there is a lack of women facilitation (toilets) in a city with a woman mayor.

In the preparations for the cleanliness campaign and ODF, the Municipal Corporation built toilets in many places but did not pay attention to the problem of women's toilets.

There are toilets in the small streets of the markets but only for men. In the name of the women's facility, their number is only three.

Banda (UP), Apr 27 (PTI) A 35-year-old BJP leader on Wednesday here allegedly hanged herself due to a dispute with her husband, police said.

Shweta Singh Gaur, who was also a district panchayat member, was found hanging from the ceiling of her room in Indira Nagar locality, Superintendent of Police Abhinandan said.

Prima facie it seems Gaur had a dispute with her husband because of which she killed herself, he said.

Police are probing the matter and a post mortem report of the victim is awaited, he said.

Kanpur: Three men, including a father-son duo, were killed after a speeding loader collided head-on with their bike on Shivrajpur road in Kanpur district on Wednesday morning.

The accident took place when the trio, travelling on the same bike, were heading towards Nevada village to take part in a programme.

SP Outer Kanpur Ajit Sinha said the three men travelling on the same bike were heading towards Nevada village to attend a ceremony.

It was when they reached Shivrajpur road that a speeding loader collided ahead with their bike, killing the trio on the spot.