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Singhu border/Chandigarh, Oct 15 (PTI) A man was lynched, his hand chopped off and the body tied to a metal barricade at a farmers' protest venue at Kundli near the Delhi-Haryana border, a gruesome incident being blamed on a group of Nihangs.

In a video clip that has gone viral on social media platforms, some Nihangs are seen standing as the man lies on the ground in a pool of blood with his chopped off left hand lying next to him.

The Nihangs are heard in the clip saying the man has been punished for desecrating a holy book of the Sikhs.

Kanpur: One more accused in Kanpur realtor death was arrested by Gorakhpur police recently.

"Head Constable Kamlesh Kumar Yadav was arrested on a tip-off when he was about to surrender in court," Additional Director General (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar said.

Kamlesh Kumar Yadav is among six accused of beating Manish Gupta to death during a raid on a Gorakhpur hotel on September 28.

Kanpur: Presence of attendees has been limited at 100 as disapproved of the prior count of 50 persons. Besides, any organiser who invites over 100 guests will be prosecuted, informs the police officials.

In a meeting held at the Police Lines the police department has taken a few steps to establish and release pandemic protocols, to exclude the chances of the expected 'third wave' of coronavirus during festive celebrations.

The review meeting was attended by the Police Commissioner, ACP (Law and Order), along with other officials to finalise the preventive strategies.

Kanpur: In a bizarre incident an infant slipped into the hole of the commode of Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital here on Friday.

The doctors at the hospital apparently refused to admit a pregnant woman, Haseen Bano, 30, when she came to the emergency ward.

Her husband Moin pleaded with the doctors as his wife went into labour.

When the pain became unbearable, the woman went to the toilet, where she delivered the baby, but the infant slipped and the head got stuck in the hole of the seat.

Kanpur: Trains have been diverted from Kanpur railways as an empty goods train derailed near Prayagraj early in the morning.

All the passengers trains have been cancelled and diverted on the Tundla-Kanpur-Tundla section on Friday.

This was apparently due to derailment of 24 wagons of empty goods train near Prayagraj on Friday morning, informs the North Central Railway.

NEW DELHI (AP) — As the first wave of the pandemic began to take hold in India, Sanchi Jawa and her 59-year-old father, Harish Jawa, realized that they had the symptoms of a COVID-19 infection. They decided to isolate and get tested — but this was no easy task during the spring of 2020.

The father and daughter had to make multiple calls to several private labs in the capital of New Delhi before they could arrange for the gold standard in COVID-19 testing — a real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction test, or RT-PCR.

Srinagar, 13 Oct 2021: A Kashmiri was killed on Wednesday by Indian security forces in Pulwama district of the Indian Administered Kashmir, Indian officials said.

Inspector General of Police (Kashmir) Vijay Kumar claimed that the killed Kashmiri, Sham Sofi, was the top commander of an organisation called Jaish-e-Mohammad.

Kanpur: One more policeman wanted in connection with the killing of Kanpur-based businessman Manish Gupta was arrested from Gorakhpur on Wednesday, officials said.

Head Constable Kamlesh Kumar Yadav was arrested on a tip off when he was going to surrender in the court, Additional Director General (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar said.

On Tuesday, the police had arrested sub-inspector Rahul Dubey and constable Prashant Kumar while on Sunday inspector J N Singh and sub-inspector Akshay Mishra, who were both under suspension, were arrested by police.

New Delhi, Oct 13 (PTI) A delegation of Congress leaders, including former party president Rahul Gandhi, on Wednesday met President Ram Nath Kovind demanding the immediate dismissal of Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra over the Lakhimpur Kheri violence.

The delegation of senior Congress leaders also presented a memorandum of facts about the Lakhimpur Kheri incident to the President.

New Delhi, Oct 13 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched a Rs 100 lakh crore national master plan for multi-modal connectivity that aims to develop infrastructure to reduce logistic costs and boost the economy.

PM Gati Shakti targets to cut logistic costs, increase cargo handling capacity and reduce the turnaround time, Modi said at a function to launch the plan.