Uttar Pradesh

Kanpur: A girl student of class 10 jumped from the school terrace allegedly after being reprimanded by her teacher at Kanpur Cantonment Board School on Wednesday.

The student was identified as Shivani who has been admitted to a hospital in critical condition.

The teacher Ghanshyam allegedly hurt the feelings of Shivani in front of the class and said, "Should I get a quilt-mattress for you in school".

Distressed by the ridicule, Shivani jumped from the terrace of the school.

Kanpur: “We're at a turning point,” says the American journalist, Dana Thomas. Her views go against things like grape leather, cactus leather, kombucha leather or mushroom leather. It looks a bit different from the usual leather but seems becoming increasingly mainstream.

With the drive towards more sustainable fashion, the burgeoning world of animal-free alt leathers is getting popular. The emphasis is given to these kinds of animal-free leather' amid deteriorating climate.

Kanpur: Shoes are being made from khadi and mushrooms for the first time here. These are also being exported.

Chairman of AFPL Global Private Limited, Rajeev Kumar Jalan in a program organized at VSSD College apprised of this unique concept to the UP CM here.

RK Jalan, chairman of the company and national vice-president of the Leather Export Council, said that during the Covid period, they first started making shoes from Khadi products.

By this technique shoe is made using jute sole and rubber. Stitching is done with cotton threads. It is completely eco-friendly.

Kanpur: An argument broke out between Municipal Commissioner Shivsharanappa GN and BJP leader Kapil Gupta here on Tuesday.

The security personnel security threw the BJP leader out of the Municipal Commissioner's office. Then, they dragged them out of the office door. The employees even flayed him for doing gimmicks. There was chaos in the Municipal Commissioner's office.

All the employees left work and came out. The uproar went on for about 30 minutes. After the incident, the politician left for Lucknow to meet BJP leader Satish Mahana.

Kanpur: A married man was arrested for allegedly resorting to the supari killing of his lover, a resident of the Gujaini locality here. She insisted on marriage and sharing in the property.

It was reported that Sushila ran an affair with Prem, already married. When she insisted on marriage, the latter took it otherwise and hatched a conspiracy with his associates to kill her.

Kanpur: The city's mayor seat will no longer be reserved for the woman candidate. This has been made clear with the fresh formula on reservations in the urban local bodies elections.

Now, the reservation will be about 35% of the 17 posts for women candidates.

The unreserved mayoral seats include Kanpur, Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Bareilly, Shahjahanpur, Firozabad and Ghaziabad.

Six mayoral seats have been reserved for women. Three of these are for women of the general category and three for women of the reserved category.

Kanpur: Police have constituted a team under ASP to examine the 13 complaints filed against Samajwadi Party MLA Solanki from the Sisamau area here.

He is reportedly in jail for allegedly harassing and setting a woman's house on fire in a bid to allegedly capture her house located in the city's posh area.

As many as 13 complaints, including that criminal intimidation, money dispute, and land grabbing, were filed against the MLA.

Kanpur: A vegetable vendor lost both his legs after being run over by a train here on Friday. He was assembling his belongings allegedly thrown on the tracks during an anti-encroachment drive. The incident happened in the Kalyanpur area.

An eyewitness claimed that the victim went to the tracks to pick up his belongings and his weighing scale, allegedly thrown by the men in khaki on railway tracks. He was run over by an oncoming train.

Locals claimed that the Indira Nagar police station in charge and head constable Rakesh Kumar chased the street vendors off GT Road.

Kanpur: The Chief Medical Officer of Kanpur has banned public and private hospitals from holding any eye check-up camps until further orders.

The decision comes days after eight Kanpur residents lost their sight following a cataract surgery at a private hospital here.

A notice communicating this decision has been issued to the hospitals in the district.

An advisory has also been issued asking people to remain careful in the context of medical procedures.

Kanpur: The officials of the education department initiated a probe against a teacher for badly injuring a student.

This happened by piercing his forearm with a driller at the Sisamau area here.

The teacher had done this act as punishment to the Class 5 student. He was left writhing in excruciating pain.

The brutal punishment was meted out to Vivan, a student of Class 5, studying at Higher Primary School at Premnagar in Sisamau.

The punishment was given when he was unable to recite tables of 2.