India

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.

New Delhi, Dec 7 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday demanded in the Lok Sabha that the next of kin of farmers who lost their lives during the agitation against farm laws be given compensation as promised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Making a Zero Hour mention, Gandhi also slammed the Modi government for its inability to maintain data on the death of farmers during the year-long agitation and tabled in the House a list of farmers from Punjab and Haryana who died during the stir.

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.

NEW DELHI, December 6. /TASS/: The deal on the delivery of Russian-made S-400 surface-to-air missile systems to India is proceeding as planned despite US attempts to disrupt Russia-India cooperation in this sphere, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.

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.

Mumbai, Dec 6 (PTI) The rupee on Monday plunged 30 paise to settle at 75.42 (provisional) against the US dollar in line with massive erosion in domestic stocks as concerns over the new Omicron variant continued to weigh on sentiment.

Besides, rising crude prices in international markets and a surging greenback overseas also pulled the rupee back, traders said.

New Delhi, Dec 5 (PTI) Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday attacked the Uttar Pradesh government over the reported lathi-charge by police on a group of protesters in Lucknow, saying the Yogi Adityanath dispensation has become synonymous with misrule.

Her attack on the BJP government came over media reports that claimed the Lucknow Police on Saturday evening used batons on a group of protesters holding a candlelight march alleging irregularities in the 2019 Uttar Pradesh teachers' entrance test.

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.

Mathura, Dec 5 (PTI) The Swarnim Vijay Mashaal , which was lit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi last year marking the beginning of the 50th anniversary celebrations of India's victory over Pakistan in the 1971 war, reached Mathura on Sunday.

It received a grand reception from hundreds of Army personnel gathered at Yodha Gate, when it was taken from the Gunners Gate.