Familiarity breeds contempt, nay crime! This was what proved on Friday when the police collared four men for hacking the Mehra couple to death and recovered gold jewellery worth Rs. 80 lakh from the killers’ possession.
The city police have chalked out a 10-point safety plan for senior citizens staying alone in the state capital.
A 16-year-old girl charged a man with raping her in confinement and lodged an FIR against him with the Alambagh police on Friday.
The police have arrested the man, identified as Mohd Sabir alias Shanu.
Future of the country depends on the youth, but 70% of them have not studied beyond elementary school, said distinguished professor of ISRO, Bangalore, YS Rajan.
Two youngsters pounced upon an Sub-Inspector in Lucknow, snatched his service cap and vroomed away on their high-end bike. Now, over 24 hours have passed but the police have yet to track down the P-cap snatchers.
HT reports.
UP minister Azam Khan on Tuesday put the interests of his state before his injured pride and said chief minister Akhilesh Yadav should go ahead with his United States visit in July despite the former’s “humiliating” detention at Boston airport last month. Manish Chandra Pandey reports.
A grand plan of two Samajwadi Party (SP) leaders to send off their newly-wed wards in style failed to take wings after the chopper, especially hired for the vidai, developed a technical snag here in Chinhat on Wednesday.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday night sacked khadi and gramodyog minister Rajaram Pandey for making a sexist remark once again despite a previous warning from the CM who has now taken charge of the ministry himself.
HT reports.
Tension was palpable as BSP workers on Saturday sparred with police and administration officials who allegedly tried to thwart attempts by the partymen to paint the city blue to celebrate the birth anniversary of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar on a grand scale today.
A family of three was clubbed to death during sleep at a rented shop-cum-residence accommodation in Preeti Nagar locality in Madiaon, Lucknow.
Two persons were arrested in connection with the alleged rape of a mother and her daughter on Wednesday.
The LMC, the PWD and the LDA have chalked out a strategy to wipe out encroachments from VIP and market areas of the city.
Parveen Azad, wife of slain deputy superintendent of police (Dy SP) Ziaul-Haque, on Thursday said she felt the need for Supreme Court supervision of the CBI inquiry into her husband’s death and was taking legal opinion in this regard.
The state government has given minister of state (MoS) status to six more leaders of the Samajwadi Party.
President of Rashtriya Sawbhiman Party RK Chaudhury was on Thursday re-joined the Bahujan Samaj Party. He is likely to be the BSP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Mohanlalganj.