Uttar Pradesh

Kanpur: Young scientist Rupesh Goyal of IIT Kanpur received the award from Member of Space Commission, GOI and ex-ISRO Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar on Tuesday.

He presented the prestigious award at the  inaugural event of the DigiSmart India 2021 conference hosted by the Geospatial World. 

R Goyal won the award in recognition of his unique contribution towards the development of the Indian Geoid Model and computation software.

Varanasi, Dec 7 (PTI) A mosque on the road leading to the Kashi Vishwanath temple here has been painted "saffron" by the authorities ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's expected visit on December 13, according to a masjid committee panel member.

There was no immediate comment from the authorities over the claim but an official had earlier said all buildings on the road are being given an uniform colour, which is "light pink".

Muzaffarnagar, Dec 8 (PTI) Absconding school manager, accused of attempting to rape two girls after taking them to another school on the pretext of a practical exam, was arrested late Tuesday night from Purkazi area of the district, police said.

Arjun Singh was nabbed while another accused manager Yogesh Chouhan was already arrested and sent to judicial custody till December 21.

Meanwhile, the police on Tuesday evening also produced the two girls before a women magistrate and recorded their statements under section 364 of the CRPC.

Ghaziabad, Dec 6 (PTI) Former UP Shia Waqf Board chairman Waseem Rizvi on Monday converted to Hinduism at a ceremony in a temple here.

The ceremony took place at the Dasna Devi temple.

Now, he will be known as Jitendra Narayan Singh Tyagi, temple priest Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati said declaring his new name.

Lucknow, Dec 6 (PTI) The BSP on Monday expelled its Chillupar MLA Vinay Shankar Tiwari, his elder brother and former MP Kushal Tiwari from the party with immediate effect.

The party also expelled their relative and former chairman of the UP Legislative Council, Ganesh Shankar Pandey, a release issued by party's Gorakhpur mandal incharge Sudhir Kumar Bharti said.

These leaders have been expelled for creating indiscipline in the party and improper behaviour with senior leaders, Bharti said in the release.

Allahabad, Dec 7 (PTI) Two more people have been arrested in connection with the murder of four members of a Dalit family in Gohri village of Prayagraj, police said on Tuesday.

A 50-year-old man, his 45-year-old wife, and their two kids, a daughter, aged 17, and a son, 13, were murdered with sharp weapons while they were asleep in the village under the Phaphamau police station area of Prayagraj on the night of November 24.

Lucknow (UP), Dec 7 (PTI) Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday asserted that the people wearing red caps, a trademark headgear of his party members, are red alerts also for the BJP as they will oust it from the power in the next UP assembly polls.

Yadav made the retort soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a dig at the Samajwadi Party, said in Gorakhpur that those wearing red caps are after red beacon and are a red alert to Uttar Pradesh.

Kanpur: Every Bollywood actor holds a huge fan following and if it is none other than Govinda all try to have a look at him.

Passing through Ghatampur here he had to greet his fans as usual on Sunday.

There was a jam on the Kanpur-Sagar Highway beginning from the main intersection till Kushmanda Devi.

The black coloured car of Bollywood actor Govinda got stuck into the heavy jam near Kushmanda Devi.

Seeing the intensity of the jam, his driver dropped the car on the unpaved road below the highway.

Kanpur: Currently, HAL has entered into an agreement with Alliance Air on September 26 for dry leasing of its two Do-228 aircrafts for deployment in the north-eastern region.

The Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt, in a written reply in Rajya Sabha, on Monday, informed that the total funds sanctioned and released by HAL for this project is Rs 72.33 crore for the prototype manufacturing and type certification from DGCA.

Additionally, Rs 266.85 crore have been sanctioned by HAL for the manufacturing of six more aircrafts.

Ghaziabad 05 December (PTI) A man was apprehended for giving threatening and abusive calls to farmer leader Rakesh Tikait, police here said on Sunday.

According to police, the National Spokesman of Bhartiya Kisan union (BKU) had received two calls Saturday night from the man who abused and threatened him.

An FIR was lodged at Kaushambi police station of Ghaziabad by head constable Nitin Sharma, who is deputed in Tikait's security.