Uttar Pradesh

Kanpur: Given the forthcoming Eid ul Azha prayer the religious heads have appealed to the Muslims to offer special prayer as per guidelines of the state government.

However, Sahar Qazi Mushtaq Ahmad Mushahidi said the Muslims should offer Eid prayers by the numbers fixed by the district administration.

In the meantime, it has come to the notice that members of Eidgah Management Committee and Qazi Abdul Quddoos Hadi had met the police commissioner lately.

Preparations for the special Eid prayers have been going on, it is also learnt. 

Amethi (UP) Jul 16 (PTI) A 16-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and raped for five days by a youth here, police said on Friday.

According to the family of the girl, she had gone to fill water from a hand pump near her house on July 9 when the youth abducted her and raped her, they said.

The girl managed to escape from the clutches of the youth after five days and informed her family about the matter, he said.

A case has been registered under the POCSO Act and the girl has been sent for medical examination.

Kanpur: How can the rate of medicines remain untouched before the increase in petrol, diesel and LPG?

All those medicines that were much in demand during the high wave of coronavirus have got new rates under the fresh batch number.

According to the traders, the rate pattern shows an increase from ten to thirty per cent. Medicines are also dearer due to their separate batch and division.

Kanpur: There were recommended several transfers at Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Medical College here. 

As many as 25 doctors received their respective orders for their so-to-say homecoming on Thursday. They were said to have been transferred during the Covid wave. It was a sort of surprise for them. 

A total of 8 doctors including two HoDs and one senior doctor of the medicine department have been transferred from the medical college here.

Kanpur: If ambulances are running on the road without certified fitness, accidents can occur at any time. There is no strictness in the maintenance of the ambulances. Why does this unfortunate laxity prevail upon?

Although the ARTO officers have now started to show alertness by despatching notices to the owners of the ambulances, yet there is much to initiate in this regard.

Lucknow, Jul 14 (PTI) The Samajwadi Party on Wednesday appointed former Aligarh Muslim University student union leader Mohammad Fahad as the national president of the party's youth wing.

Fahad, a resident of Kasganj, was the secretary of AMU Students' Union in 2017-18, he said.

"On directions of party president Akhilesh Yadav, Mohammad Fahad of Kasganj has been appointed national president of the SP Yuvjan Sabha," said Naresh Uttam, the party's state president.

Bulandshahr (UP), Jul 15 (PTI) A 70-year-old woman caretaker was allegedly murdered in a temple in this district, police said on Thursday.

The incident took place at the Chamunda Devi temple in Buklana village on Wednesday night, they said.

On Thursday morning, a visitor spotted the body of Bhagwati inside her room built on the temple premises, Syana Circle Officer Alka said.

The elderly woman had been living there and looking after the temple for the last 10 years, according to police.

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Jul 15 (PTI) A 26-year-old woman was shot dead by unidentified assailants on Thursday while she was waiting for a bus outside a medical college here, police said.

The incident took place outside the Muzaffarnagar Medical College, Begarajpur, where the married woman had come for a check-up from her village Shernagar, they said.

While she was waiting for a bus outside the college on the Dehradun-Delhi National Highway, two bike-borne men shot her, police said.

 Kanpur: Not only repetition of questions but a misprint in LL.B. first semester examinations papers have also come to the knowledge of Kanpur University.

According to the news reports, examinees participating in the fourth question paper of first-semester law have complained of a misprint in alternatives of the answers printed in the paper. They were at odds after the distribution of the question paper at the examinations centres here on Wednesday.

Lucknow, Jul 13 (PTI) Senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan and his son Abdullah Khan were discharged from a hospital here Tuesday after recovering from COVID-19 and are being taken to the Sitapur district jail where they were lodged in various cases before being hospitalised, officials said.

The 72-year-old Rampur Lok Sabha MP and his son (30) were admitted to the Medanta Hospital on May 9.