The meeting came after a letter of Khatik to Union Home Minister Amit Shah offering to quit surfaced on social media.
In the 1.43 minute-long video, Meerut SP Akhilesh Narayan Singh can be seen talking to three men in a narrow lane. Singh claimed that he had made the statement to a group of people who were raising slogans in support of Pakistan.
Two dogs -- two-year-old cocker spaniel Casper and one-year-old Jaya, a 'chippiparai', which is an indigenous breed from Tamil Nadu -- have been trained to detect COVID-19 by sniffing samples of sweat and urine, senior Army officials said.
A round-up of the first day's play in the Ranji Trophy matches across the country, on Tuesday.
Facing flak on social media, the hospital came up with another advertisement on Sunday, carrying an apology.
According to the results announced on Thursday, 25 Samajwadi Party candidates were defeated by less than 5,000 votes while a similar fate awaited three nominees of the Rashtriya Lok Dal.
Eleven deaths have been reported in Saharanpur followed by 10 in Meerut, six in Agra, four in Mainpuri, three each in Muzaffarnagar and Kasganj, two each in Amroha, Bareilly, Baghpat and Bulandshahr and one each in Kanpur Dehat, Mathura, Ghaziabad, Hapur, Rae Bareli, Jalaun, Jaunpur, Pratapgarh, Banda, Firozabad, Amethi, Kanpur and Pilibhit, they said.
Under Election Commission guidelines, campaigning has to end 48 hours before the close of polls for each phase.
India and Pakistan are placed in Group 2 along with New Zealand and Afghanistan.
Prohibitory orders banning the gathering of people were imposed in Karnal on Monday, a day ahead of a farmers' planned gherao of the mini-secretariat over the August 28 lathicharge episode, officials said.
Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) supporters stayed put on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway on Friday as the crowd swelled there, notwithstanding the Ghaziabad administration's ultimatum to vacate the UP Gate protest site where security force in large numbers was re-deployed.
A round-up of Ranji matches played on Thursday.
Farmers from across the states arrived at Delhi's Jantar Mantar on Monday early morning protesting over unemployment.
Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani said that he was not "comfortable" with the present draft clarification given by the yoga guru, remarking that it seemed "more like a pat on the back" and a justification.
Accusing police of harassment, the woman who took on a group of attackers singlehandedly on a busy street, on Sunday said the cops were dilly-dallying in acting against the accused and threatened to commit suicide if she does not get justice.
A Tihar jail official said that one hangman is enough to execute the hanging.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has received sanction to prosecute retired Allahabad high court judge Justice S N Shukla in a corruption case for allegedly favouring a private medical college in his orders, officials said.
Major Ketan Sharma, the 29-year-old officer, was killed in an encounter in Achabal area of the south Kashmir district on Monday. A terrorist was also killed in the gun fight which broke out after the security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in the area.
A 27-year-old burqa-clad woman, who is an instant talaq victim, is campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls to make the Muslim women realise the "good work" being done by the saffron party in the state. Nida Khan believes that unlike other parties, the BJP does not see Muslims as a vote bank only but considers them as equals.
Several people had taken shelter under the recently constructed structure while it rained. The dead, all of them men, were mostly relatives or neighbours of Jai Ram, who was being cremated at that time, officials said.
Boundary-breaking Designer Ujjwal Dubey is shaking up the fashion industry with his gender fluid collection.
'Me and my family along with Sarfaraz have given our entire life towards this dream.'
Arshdeep has courage but needs experience
Bhuvneshwar said he wanted to work with coach Rahul Dravid
'The BJP talks about prosperity, but it doesn't want anybody to prosper.'
While Ishan Kishan has done well so far, Ruturaj Gaikwad (23, 1) has pulled the team down with questions being raised over his technique against quality pacers and his ability to force the pace early on.
Events, including press conferences and public programmes, will be held in most of the over 700 districts of the country in this regard.
The four convicts are scheduled to be hanged at 5:30 am on March 20.
Priyanka Goswami's timing of 1:28:45 broke the national record by over a minute.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is headed for a big win in the Uttar Pradesh legislative council polls, bagging Barabanki and Ayodhya and leading in several other places. But it lost Varanasi to an Independent candidate.
The 'ghar wapsi' was marked with celebratory atmosphere at Ghazipur border, where protestors, chiefly members and supporters of the Tikait family-led Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), danced to patriotic and regional tunes hailing the farming community.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday directed officials to speed up setting up of a commando training centre in Rampur and also form a skilled team of women commandos.
You are neither entertained nor enticed in Rasbhari, complains Joginder Tuteja.
Tikait has been at loggerheads with various governments on a range of farmers' issues, including loan waivers, minimum support price, power tariff and land acquisition in states such as UP, Haryana Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh.
Justice Rekha Palli issued notice to the Delhi government and sought its stand on whether it can provide the second dose of Covaxin to those who got the first jab, before expiry of the incubation period of six weeks between the two doses.
Twenty-four people, most of them attending a funeral, were killed and 17 others injured when the roof of a shelter at a cremation ground in Uttar Pradesh's Muradnagar collapsed on Sunday, police said.
I hope that this will help improve policing in UP, the SHO said.
India fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar married Nupur Nagar in Meerut.
Former India pacer Praveen Kumar has in the past been accused of assault.
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