Uttar Pradesh

Kanpur: Kanpur District Transport Agency flagged off the plying of as many as 25 electric buses in the city areas on Sunday. These buses will operate on 10 different routes in the city.

These electric buses will be highly useful in not only reducing the pollution levels in the whole of state but they will also provide relaxation from intense noise pollution.

What remains good for the daily passengers is that the fares have been marked even lower than tempo services.

Kanpur: As the country celebrates its 75th year of freedom struggle, the students are also made to join the extravaganza. 

In addition to the series of various events one of its kind, a postcard writing activity on the Azadi Ke Amrit Mahotsav was also organised at a posh school in Jajmau here on Thursday.

The students were asked to write on two different topics. They were also told to prepare the topic at home and write it in school.

One topic was Unsung heroes of freedom struggle and another was My vision for India in 2047.

Kanpur: The first phase of Kanpur Metro will be opened for the public on December 28 this year.

The first-ever service will operate on a 9-km-long corridor, stretching from IIT Kanpur to Motijheel in the city.

As many as 8 overhead stations including IIT, Kalyanpur, SPM Hospital, University, Gurudev, Geeta Nagar, Rawatpur, Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital and Motijheel will be covered. 

The Prime Minister is expected to participate in the IIT-K convocation programme and inaugurate the metro, during his Kanpur in the last week of December.

Lucknow Dec 9 (PTI) BJP MLA from Ayodhya's Gosaiganj seat, Indra Pratap alias Khabbu Tiwari, has been disqualified from the membership of the UP Assembly following his conviction in a 28-year-old case, Vidhan Sabha secretariat said here on Thursday.

Tiwari was sentenced to five years in jail by a Special Court for using a fake mark sheet to get admission in college.

Pratapgarh (UP), Dec 10 (PTI) A newly married couple allegedly killed themselves by consuming poison in this district, police said on Friday.

The incident took place in Sarai Shankar Chiguda village in Kohdaur area, they said.

Nilesh Verma (22) and Roshni (19), who had married six months ago in a temple, allegedly consumed a poisonous substance on Thursday, Circle Officer (CO)Abhay Pandey said.

They were rushed to Prayagraj in a serious condition where they died on Thursday night, he said.

Kanpur: Inspector Vinod Kumar Mishra was suspended after a video of him mercilessly thrashing a man holding his child went viral.

In the video, it can be seen that the person being thrashed was repeatedly requesting the police that the child would be hit and might even die.

Yet the policeman was not ready to accept his words. It was reported that the UP Police received severe flak after the video went viral on social media.

Mishra was suspended by the ADG of Kanpur zone.

Citi, IIT Kanpur, and T-Hub, a technology incubator declared openly the launch of the Social Innovation Lab.

It will identify and nurture startups with unique solutions. 

That holds an optimistic impact on society across agriculture, healthcare, and financial technologies.

Selected applicants will be provided support from Citi, IIT-K and T-Hub by way of mentoring, business model development, go-to-market strategy, funding, and scaling opportunities.

Pratapgarh (UP), Dec 8 (PTI) A court here has awarded life imprisonment to a man for raping a woman in the Kandhai area of this Uttar Pradesh district.

Special Judge (Schedule Caste/Schedule Tribe) Monika Thakur also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on convict Rajkumar Verma.

Verma had raped the woman in August 2016 when she was alone in her house and had also threatened her for dire consequences if she revealed the matter to someone else.

An FIR was registered in the matter after a complaint by the victim's family.

Kanpur: What was expected by a young man turned out to be his headache after receiving the challan from traffic police here.

 A youngster in Kanpur was issued a challan by the traffic police just after a video showing him grooving to a Bollywood song number on a motorcycle without wearing a helmet.  

The youth's motive behind the dramatic act was to get more 'likes' and 'followers' on social media.

The youth in question has been identified as Khalid Ahmed, a resident of Maswanpur locality of Kanpur's Kalyanpur area.

Kanpur: Those, who had not got the extended opportunity to get vaccinated even the first important dose, reached the not so crowded vaccination camp held at Jajmau here on Thursday. 

Even the health workers did not realise the noisy scene at the spot. They were engaged in filling the details online and injecting the dose to the person after filling up the form. It was later handed over to the person who was benefitted from the first dose.

They were undoubtedly kind to the persons arriving at their desk. If anyone was feeling a kind of anxiety they asked them to relax.