Ichhapur tea-seller Shib Shankar Patra is one of two diehard fans handpicked for a special meet-and-greet with Argentine superstar Lionel Messi.
A man from Bareilly eloped with his sister-in-law, leading his brother-in-law to run away with the man's sister in retaliation. Both families reached an amicable settlement, avoiding legal action.
It was a textbook blind murder with scarce clues, no witnesses and no apparent motive.
A police report has been filed against a 31-year-old man named Rashid, a father of two, who is accused of repeatedly raping the girl and blackmailing her to continue sexual relations. The accused was arrested on Saturday.
A head constable has been booked for changing bribe notes in court claiming the original ones were nibbled by rats at the police station where they were stored, officials said on Sunday.
A severe traffic congestion extending for kilometers was witnessed on the routes to the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj on Sunday with Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav asking the government to make emergency arrangements for the stranded devotees.
He said the incident occurred on August 12 at the busstahd and the police were informed about it Saturday evening.
Kumar was apprehended with the help of sketches and CCTV camera footage, senior superintendent of police Anurag Arya said.
The petition alleged that "illegal mining" was being carried out by Singh, the MP from Kaiserganj, in Majharath, Jaitpur and Nawabganj villages of Tarbganj tehsil in the district.
Agitated Bharatiya Janata Party workers on Saturday hurled shoes at the cavalcade of party MP Varun Gandhi after he allegedly refused to attend a function in Nawabganj tehsil in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh.
The district administration on Tuesday suspended the chief medical officer.
The centenarian was admitted in Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital on April 14 after been infected with the coronavirus. He was discharged on May 1.
The road accident took place late Thursday night when the victims were returning from a wedding function in the Nawabganj area of Pratapgarh, Additional Chief Secretary, Home, Awanish Awasthi said.
A 16-year-old-girl, who was rescued from her kidnappers on Wednesday, alleged that she was held captive at the residence of a minister in the Akhilesh Yadav government. The girl was rescued on Wednesday morning near the ITI crossing here and a kidnapper identified as Avnish arrested, police said.
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A Samajwadi Party legislator's son and his aides allegedly fired indiscriminately at an automobile showroom in Bareilly after a dispute with the staff, leaving one person dead and two others injured. Atul Gangawar, son of SP Member of Legislative Assembly from Nawabganj Bhagwan Sharan Gangawar, and his aides allegedly fired indiscriminately at the showroom in Civil Lines late on Wednesday night when the showroom staff refused to repair a motorcycle, police said.
At least 14 people were killed and around 25 injured when a speeding Gonda-Ayodhya passenger train rammed into a truck at an unmanned level crossing in Gonda on Sunday afternoon.
In a case of honour killing, a 14-year-old girl was strangulated to death by her family members who later hanged her body to pass it off as a case of suicide in Mirzapur Jagir village in Bareilly, police said on Monday.
Former legislator Sangram Singh was earlier with the Congress and the Loktantrik Congress Party before joining the BJP
Shakti Singh is the elder son of Brij Bhushan Saran Singh who represents Balrampur in Uttar Pradesh.
The plea, filed in the apex court by advocate Ghanshyam Upadhyay, has referred to media reports and claimed that encounter of these five co-accused by the police is "not only extremely illegal, inhuman, but also it is shocking to the conscience of the court and is nothing but Talibanisation of the country, which cannot be countenanced at all".
At least 46 people have become infected with HIV in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao tehsil in the last 10 months.
Notwithstanding the massive crackdown by UP administration, VHP leader Ashok Singhal advised the state government to review the decision to ban 84 kosi yatra saying it could not be stopped as saints from across the country would be reaching Ayodhya soon.
he one-and-a-half-month-long Kumbh Mela ended on Monday with devotees from different walks of life and parts of the country taking a holy dip on Mahashivratri.
The street leading up to his tea stall cum house is dotted with Argentina flags while a giant one flutters high making its presence felt.
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