Uttar Pradesh

Kanpur (UP), Sep 23 (PTI) Two unidentified men allegedly barged into a woman's house and raped her in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district, police said on Wednesday.

The incident took place late on Tuesday night in Bidhnu area here, said SHO Pushpraj Singh.

The 45-year-old woman, who is married, told police that she was sleeping in her room when the two masked men barged into her house and raped her.

The men fled when the woman's son woke up hearing the noise, the station house officer said.

Kanpur: Now, the long wait is over. It is after a gap of 180 days the devouts get a chance to offer prayers at respective religious places. What they have been told to oblige is certain duties in the midst of deadly corona.

They were strictly warned if norms would not be followed strict action will be taken.

The pious ones are happy at this news as they will go at the prayer place of their respective choice and feel contended.

Kanpur: It is indeed a big relief for students of ISC and ICSE who are going to appear at the Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations, 2021.

They are given another cut in the syllabus of the Class 10th and 12th respectively. Has it been done for the second time?

Giving this important information, KV Vincent, Coordinator, ICSE, said that the students are relieved by this very relaxation in all the subjects.

He further said that about 25% syllabus has been reduced to lessen the load of study in this scary period of Coronavirus.

Ballia (UP), Sep 22 (PTI) A 16-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district was in for a shock when she came to know that nearly Rs 10 crore was deposited in her bank account.

According to a complaint, a person named Neelesh Kumar from Kanpur Dehat district had called Saroj two years ago and asked her to send Aadhaar card and photograph in the name of getting funds under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. She did so.

Lucknow, Sep 22 (PTI) The administration in Uttar Pradesh's Ambedkar Nagar district on Tuesday demolished 20 shops worth around Rs 1.40 crore belonging to gangster Khan Mubarak, an official said.

As many as 35 cases are registered against Mubarak in various districts of the state. The action at a complex in Hansvar market has been initiated under the Gangsters Act, according to the official.

Properties of Khan worth over Rs 3 crore had been seized earlier.

Kanpur: Online classes have their own crucial disadvantages. During the school's Viva, the voice problem remained a cause of concern for the students. 

Talking to the students it comes to be patently clear that sometimes mobile set starts hanging, faces bad networking, restricts unmistakable voice or mic fitted into the set develops sudden snags.

Due to all these reasons, the little students start panicking and promptly solicit repetition of the questions. However, they do not instantly realise the annoyance caused to the teacher.

Kanpur: Atheists talk about themselves all the time while we talk more about the mishaps occurring owing to plying of the e-rickshaws on as many as six designated routes in the city areas. But strangely enough, where is this mode of transport not available?

According to an estimate, there were running as many as 40 thousand rickshaws on the six routes. Oddly, only a figure of 15thousand is holding the license for running this light rickshaw. What is more surprising for us is that about 20% minor drivers are also plying this rickshaw that almost reduced the paddle rickshaw.

Agra, Sep 21 (PTI) Agra's Taj Mahal was opened to tourists on Monday after 188 days of its COVID-19-led closure.

The Taj Mahal and Agra Fort were closed to tourists from March 17 amid the COVID-19 outbreak in the country.

With a Delhi resident entering the 17th-century ivory-white marble monument on the southern bank of the Yamuna from its western gate and a Chinese woman from its eastern gate, the duo became the first visitors to the monument after its reopening.

Kanpur: The third container yard will be developed at Juhi Coal Yard in view of increasing load of goods sent to foreign destinations.

Giving this information the deputy CTM Himanshu Sekhar Upadhyay said that it would give impetus to the city's small and large scale industries.

The businessmen would be able to book their goods effortlessly, he added.

It was as if the long-pending facility for the traders was going to be fulfilled with the news of turning the space available at Juhi coal rack into a little bigger purpose.

Kanpur: As many as 9461 candidates appeared at the UP State Entrance Examination,(UPSEE), 2020 at nearly 13 centres here on Sunday. This test was meant for admission to a total of 9 different courses like the computer, technical and management streams. I

The Nodal Officer Prof Mukesh Singh told that as many as 9461 candidates appeared while 4214 candidates remained absent.