Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow, Oct 7 (PTI) The Uttar Pradesh government has constituted a one-member Commission to probe the Lakhimpur Kheri incident in which eight people were killed, a senior Home Department official said on Thursday.

"A notification for the constitution of the Commission has been issued. The commission has been given two months time to probe the matter," the official said.

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Oct 7 (PTI) A 22-year-old woman was found dead at her home in a village here, police said on Thursday.

The incident took place in Sherpur Nagla village, which comes under the jurisdiction of Purkazi police station.

Siddharthnagar (UP), Oct 7 (PTI) A 55-year-old man was shot dead while offering namaz at a mosque in a village here Thursday, police said.

The incident took place in Kolua village in the Chilia area.

An unidentified person fired at Kamruzzama from behind when he was reciting Quran after "azan" about 5 am, Additional Superintendent of Police (SP), Suresh Chand Rawat said.

Later, police reached the spot and sent the body for postmortem.

A detailed probe in the matter is on.

No arrests have been made in this case so far.

Barabanki (UP), Oct 7 (PTI) A bus collided with a sand-laden truck near Baburi village in the district here on Thursday, leaving 15 people dead and 27 others injured, police said.

The bus carrying 70 passengers was going to Bahraich from Delhi when the accident took place, Barabanki Superintendent of Police Yamuna Prasad said, adding that the collision took place as the bus driver tried to avoid hitting a stray cow.

Kanpur: Pinched-faced, middle-aged and short-sized street vendor, who by chance appears in a certain locality of Jajmau remains quite proficient. 

He was in every way endowed with his servicing skill of the defective gas stove.

That's why the housewives if facing defects in the gas stove call him at the house for repairing the modern-day chulha.

Though such types of street vendors are not normally available these days, so when they happen to appear in the locality their service is taken up.

Kanpur: The festival of Diwali is approaching fast. Is there a ban on firecrackers in Uttar Pradesh? Of Course, it is not reportedly.

The Yogi Adityanath government has not announced the ban on the sale and use of firecrackers all over the state.

The bursting of fire crackers are supposed to carry pollution. That was why there was put a ban on its use in as many as 13 cities of Uttar Pradesh were not enabled in the year 2020.

However, this kind of ban has not been reported on the sale and use of firecrackers across the state for this year so far.

Muzaffarnagar, Oct 5 (PTI) A POCSO court here on Tuesday sentenced a man to seven years of imprisonment for abducting and raping a minor girl.

Special Court Judge Arti Faujdar also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on the Raju after holding him guilty under Sections 363 (kidnapping), 366 (abducting, inducing a woman to compel her for marriage) and 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Kanpur: The violence at Lakhimpur Kheri has political indications, as many political pundits see it as a major poll plank in the upcoming UP Assembly polls.

The farmers named the union minister's son as the prime accused in the deaths of four farmers. They demanded that Ashish be booked on murder charges.

This appeared in the background of beliefs that the state's Brahmins were walking away from the ruling party.

Political analysts point out that the party was doling out favours to the OBCs and Dalits at the cost of the Brahmin community.

Kanpur: The online classes seem to have been given lesser priority. Though it was announced that the online classes will continue to run parallel.

The message of the online link comes for joining the class but a few subject teachers are not taking the classes with the same interest as others are concerned, as has been viewed.

On most of the occasions, the periods after the halftime end without the teaching.

The students wait for the link for those periods and if it remains available the subject teacher is not found.

Lucknow, Oct 5 (PTI) the Uttar Pradesh cabinet on Tuesday gave its approval to the distribution of free tablets and smartphone among students pursuing higher studies.

The scheme will put a burden of Rs 3,000 crore on the state exchequer, a government statement said.

The cabinet also approved Rs 37.35 lakh for the installation of a statue of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee at the Circuit House in Kanpur.

The CM has been authorised to make any amendments to resolve practical difficulties in the scheme.