This is the fifth consecutive day that coronavirus infections have increased by more than 15,000. There has been a surge of 3,38,324 infections from June 1 till date.
The ruling Bahujan Samaj Party has strongly refuted All India Congress Committee general secretary Digvijay Singh's sweeping allegations about massacre of farmers by the Uttar Pradesh police in Greater Noida's BhattaParsaul village, where a violent clash had ensued between cops and protesting local farmers earlier this month.
Taking cognisance of unlawful activities being carried out by Bajrang Dal in Ayodhya on May 10, the Faizabad police has lodged an FIR against 50 activists and office bearers of the saffron outfit for disturbing peace, law and order and communal harmony, Faizabad SSP Mohit Gupta said.
Thousands of homeowners across housing projects owned by Jaypee Infratech and the Amrapali Group are running out of options. Jaypee Infratech and Amrapali are among the 12 big corporate loan defaulters against which the RBI has ordered initiation of insolvency proceedings.
The Uttar Pradesh police on Monday searched the Chandigarh residence of Moninder Singh Pandher, who along with his servant, allegedly sexually abused children and murdered them in Noida.
In the wake of the terrorist attack on the Pathankot Air Force Base, security was on Saturday stepped up in the national capital and several states. Security has been beefed up at the airport, railway stations, bus stands and other vital installations.
Backing Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi's allegations about police atrocities on Greater Noida villagers, the National Commission for Women on Saturday recommended a Central Bureau of Investigation probe "as soon as possible" into the incidents.
Blaming Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for the violence over land acquisition in Noida and adjoining areas, Samajwadi Party on Monday alleged that the Bahujan Samaj Party government had ignored farmers' interests while taking over their land.
Andhra Pradesh government has ordered a high level probe in to the mysterious death of a State Armed Reserve force constable P Murlinath, who was sent to New Delhi at the behest of a senior Indian Police Service officer to work at the home of his daughter.
Sadhana Ramachandran and Sanjay Hegde speaking to the protesters said, "The Supreme Court has upheld your right to protest. But then other citizens also have their rights and it should also be maintained."
Agitating farmer groups on Thursday held a four-hour nationwide 'rail roko' agitation with the railways saying there was negligible impact on services though some trains were stopped by officials at stations as a precautionary measure.
Authorities on Saturday continued to dig up currency to the tune of lakhs of rupees, including in new notes, across the country.
More than a dozen police teams have been deployed in the Chambal ravines.
Uttar Pradesh legislator Sribhagwan Sharma, alias Guddu Pandit, who was arrested in Noida on Sunday after a woman had lodged rape and atrocities complaint against him, has been admitted to the Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh, following a complaint of chest pain.
Congress leader and Union minister Sachin Pilot was on Sunday arrested by Uttar Pradesh Police while he was on his way to violence-hit Bhatta-Parsaul village in Greater Noida district to meet families of farmers injured in the recent agitation on land acquisition.
As the incident came to light on Tuesday, locals caught hold of Arjun and beaten him black and blue before handing over to police in a serious condition after which he was admitted to a local hospital.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday lashed out at Rahul Gandhi for his claims of police brutality and rape in Greater Noida villages, and said the Congress leader should refrain from making such statements without ascertaining facts.
In a late night ruling, the Supreme Court on Monday stayed the execution of Nithari killings convict Surinder Koli, who was set to be hanged in Meerut jail for killing children in a house in Nithari village in Noida near Delhi in 2006.
On Thursday, Congress vowed to continue with its protests against the Uttar Pradesh government's land acquisition policy after party General Secretary Rahul Gandhi was arrested and released following his visit to the epicentre of the stir to support the agitating farmers.
Friends and schoolmates of the slain teenager Aarushi Talwar took out a candlelight march on Tuesday, accusing the police of maligning the image of the girl and also attacking the media for sensationalising the issue.
Pollution levels were inching towards 'severe plus emergency' category due to a change in wind direction and rampant stubble burning in neighbouring states
The National Security Act is likely to be invoked against killers of the Mohammad Akhlaq, who was brutally beaten to death on Monday night after locals suspected him of storing and consuming beef.
Sources said that the woman was waiting for a taxi near AIIMS when a cab driver offered her lift to Noida on Thursday. Midway, the driver stopped the car at a secluded place near Moti Bagh in South Delhi and allegedly raped her.
Hundreds of migrant workers from Delhi, Haryana and even Punjab reached Anand Vihar, Ghazipur and Ghaziabad's Lal Kuan area after taking arduous treks of many kilometers on foot to take buses to their respective native places
The double-decker bus belonged to Awadh Depot and was going to New Delhi from Lucknow.
True, Azam Khan is being targeted rather disproportionately and also because of his Muslim identity. That must be protested and resisted. But to say that he is a big messiah, and his profit-making educational enterprise is an issue concerning all Muslims of India, is absolutely unjustified, assert Mohammad Sajjad and Md Mohammad Zeeshan Ahmad.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday termed as "unfortunate, painful and surprising" the African missions statement describing the attacks on African students as "xenophobic and racial", saying the Indian response to this cannot be called inadequate by any means.
The Allahabad high court on Monday extended the stay on the execution of death sentence awarded to Nithari killings prime accused Surinder Koli till December 23.
Even after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's special envoy Shashank Shekhar Singh struck a midnight deal with protesting farmers in Aligarh, sharp divisions have developed among the agitators on the issue of enhanced compensation for their land acquired to build the Noida-Agra Yamuna expressway.
Uttar Pradesh cops opened fire in Tappal village of Aligarh district on Saturday night on farmers protesting against inadequate compensation given to them for acquisition of their land for building the much talked about 165-km long Yamuna Expressway between Noida and Agra.
Conscious that he will have to rely on the bureaucracy to deliver, Adityanath is changing the faces and rejiging the administration.
The court framed several constitutional questions including whether a person, holding public office, can give a statement which may create "distrust" in the minds of the victims about a fair probe in the case
A day after total shutdown in Assam to protest against the CAB, fresh protests erupted in the state and neighbouring Tripura and other parts of the nation.
The strident support from the hotels comes at a time when the industry is itself caught off guard with a sharp dip in both in-bound traffic from foreign markets, reduced domestic traction as well as a total shut-down of MICE business that has led the country top players by market cap to lose over half their value in just a little over a month.
The DGP told media persons that Koli confessed before interrogators that he tried to eat human flesh, but vomitted.
Chronology of events in the Jessica Lal murder case
However, many of these firms were facing an uphill task of convincing the people on the ground to return to work, as many are apprehensive of their safety.
NIA had sought 15-day custodial interrogation of the accused who were arrested from various parts of the national capital and Uttar Pradesh.
It took 110 days for the COVID-19 cases in the country to reach 1 lakh and just 56 days more to go past the 9-lakh mark.
Concluding its arguments in the Aarushi murder case, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday claimed that dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar "mislead" the investigators during the course of probe on different occasions and were involved in the destruction of evidence.
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