Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow, Aug 21 (PTI) With the UP Assembly in session, BSP chief Mayawati Friday urged all legislators to rise above party politics and raise issues of public interest and focus on the "dismal" state of law and order.

"It is my strong appeal to MLAs, both of the ruling party and opposition in Uttar Pradesh, to rise above party politics and effectively raise the issues of public interest in the House and make the government and administration accountable. This demand is in the wider public interest, she said in a tweet.

Lucknow/Deoria, Aug 21 (PTI) BJP MLA from Deoria Sadar seat, Janmejay Singh, has died of a cardiac arrest at a hospital in Lucknow, party spokesperson Chandra Mohan said Friday. He was 75.

Singh was admitted to Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute after he developed health complications and died during pacemaker implantation late Thursday night, Mohan said.

The MLA was initially taken to the civil hospital but referred to Lohia hospital, he added.

The hospital Medical Superintendent Vikram Singh said the MLA suffered a heart attack.

Lucknow Aug 21 (PTI) Vice Chancellor of the King George's Medical University here, Lt Gen (Retd) Dr. Vipin Puri, has tested positive for coronavirus, a university spokesman said on Friday.

The driver and another staff member of Dr. Puri had tested positive for COVID-19 after which he got himself tested and found that he had contracted the disease, university spokesperson, Dr Sudhir Singh, said.

KANPUR: To deal with the standing problem of huge plastic wastes, the Kanpur Municipal Corporation readies to install a biofuel plant at Bhao Singh plant in Bhauti area of Kanpur Nagar district.

Detailing this project, RK Singh, executive engineer, said that this plant would be based on a public-private partnership model.

Plastic wastes after separation from the dry wastes are obtained in the quantity ranging between 150 metric tonnes and 175 metric tonnes every day, as was told.

Lucknow, Aug 20 (PTI) Ahead of the UP Assembly session, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said the government needs to answer opposition queries on various issues including unemployment and law and order situation.

The three-day Monsoon Session of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly will commence on Thursday, with authorities making special seating arrangements following COVID-19 protocols and setting up testing centres near residences of MLAs for easy collection of swab samples.

Kanpur, Aug 20 (PTI) Two men wanted for their alleged roles in the killing of eight policemen, including a deputy SP, during an ambush last month surrendered before a special court in Kanpur Dehat, officials said on Thursday.

Superintendent of Police (Rural) Brajesh Srivastava told PTI that the two accused of Kanpur ambush -- Vishnu Pal Singh Yadav alias Jiledar, a village head, and Shivam Dubey -- surrendered on Wednesday.

Kanpur: If on the one hand there are existing old and weak buildings in the city's corporation limits, on another hand denizens are not free from the waterlogging crisis here.

According to the available municipal records, there are as many as 641 old and weak buildings in the city areas. A total of 312 such buildings are standing in zone one of the municipal areas at present. As many as 500 applications have been submitted for the dismantling of old and weak buildings to the Nagar Nigam in five days.

Agra (UP), Aug 20 (PTI) A medical officer was arrested from Uttar Pradesh's Jalaun district for allegedly killing a 26-year-old female doctor of the S N Medical College in Agra, officials said on Thursday.

Yogita Gautam's body was found with injury marks along an isolated road stretch in Agra's Dauki area on Wednesday morning and her identity ascertained in the evening, the officials said.

Agra/Lucknow, Aug 19 (PTI) A privately-operated bus with 34 passengers on board was hijacked by recovery agents of a finance company in Uttar Pradesh's Agra on Wednesday morning, officials said.

The incident took place in the Malpura police station area when the bus was en route to Panna in Madhya Pradesh from Gurgaon in Haryana, according to police.

Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi said the bus driver, staff and passengers are safe.

Kanpur (UP), Aug 18 (PTI) Another accused of the Kanpur ambush during which eight policemen were killed by henchmen of slain gangster Vikas Dubey has surrendered before a court.

Superintendent of Police (Rural) Brajesh Srivastava told PTI that Govind Saini surrendered before the court in Kanpur Dehat on Monday.

The UP Special Task Force (STF) and the Kanpur police were on the lookout for Govind Saini ever since his name had figured in the massacre that took place at Kanpur's Bikru village on July 2 night.