Uttar Pradesh

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Feb 13 (PTI) Union Minister Sanjeev Balyan on Thursday appeared in a local court here in connection with a case of violating prohibitory orders and inciting communal tension during the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots.

Special court judge Ram Sudh Singh fixed April 3 for appearance of the other accused in the case involving BJP leaders, including UP minister Suresh Rana.

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Feb 13 (PTI) A court in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district has sentenced a police sub-inspector and his parents to two years imprisonment for harassing his wife for dowry.

Chief Judicial Magistrate Raj Magal Singh Yadav has also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on the convicts.

Rekha was being harassed for dowry demands for many years, her lawyer said. The couple got married in 2007.

Firozabad (UP), Feb 13 (PTI) Thirteen people were killed and 31 seriously injured as the private bus in which they were travelling collided with a truck on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Firozabad district of Uttar Pradesh, a senior police official said on Thursday.

Senior Superintendent of Police Sachindra Patel said the accident happened around 10 pm on Wednesday in Nagla Khangar police station area.

Lucknow, Feb 12 (PTI) BSP supremo Mayawati on Wednesday attacked the Centre over a steep hike in the price of LPG or cooking gas cylinder, terming it as a "cruel decision" against the poor.

Reacting to the hike of Rs 144.5 per LPG cylinder due to spurt in benchmark global rates of the fuel, she said the move will hit crores of poor and hard-working people who are already facing "severe inflation".

Ghaziabad 10 February (PTI) A youth has been booked for allegedly raping a woman and threatening to make her objectionable photographs viral on social media, police said here on Monday.

Police said the woman stated in her complaint that she had met Deepak at a birthday party after which they became friends on Facebook.

Aligarh (UP), Feb 9 (PTI) Noted Urdu poet Munnawar Rana's daughter Sumaiyaa has alleged police high-handedness in "crushing the anti-CAA protest" at Eidgah here.

Addressing women protesters who have been agitating against the new citizenship law since the past 22 days, she said on Saturday, "We are holding all-women protest which is totally peaceful and is our democratic right.

Kanpur: Once this city boasted of trams running at selected destinations now gears up for the metro rail.The work on this modern fast transport system continues at a fast pace. 

In this connection, Kumar Keshav, MD, UP Metro Rail Corporation, conducted an  inspection of metro rail sections that were put on priority level. The metro will run on both the lines overhead and underground in this business city.

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Feb 6 (PTI) BJP MLA Vikram Saini and others have appeared in a court in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district on Thursday in connection with violence during the Muzaffarnagar riots.

Special court judge Ram Singh has fixed March 13 for recording statement of the witnesses from the prosecution side.

Khatauli MLA Saini and 27 others are facing an attempt-to-murder case for their alleged role in violence at Kawal village in 2013.

Shahjahanpur (UP), Feb 6 (PTI) NCC cadets from institutes run by former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand offered a salute to him and visitors at his ashram were served a special 'prasad' after his release on bail from the district prison.

Chinmayanand walked out of the prison on Wednesday, two days after being granted bail in the case in which he is accused of sexually abusing a law student.

Chinmayanand's advocate Om Singh said NCC cadets saluted him when he visited Mumukshu Ashram.

Kanpur: "How was your visit to Ahmedabad", asked one young trader to his acquaintance. Replying him he mentioned it was too good. But he started comparing Kanpur with that largest city in Gujarat in west-central India. 

Those standing around him showed much interest in his words. He noted that the city of Ahmedabad was different from Kanpur city, while narrating the qualities of that city set up during the time of Ahmadshah in the year 1411.

Pointing joyously at the massive expansion of the residential flats there, he asserted that it appealed to me tremendously.