Uttar Pradesh

Ballia (UP) Sept 15 (PTI) A 17-year-old girl was allegedly abducted, beaten up and raped by two youths in a village under Phephna police station area here in the district, police said on Tuesday.

An FIR was lodged in the case on the victim's mother complaint and two people were arrested on Tuesday, said SHO Rajiv Mishra of Phephna.

The incident took place on September 9 but came to light on Monday when Lucknow Deputy Inspector General of Police Amitabh Thakur took note of a Facebook post of a social activist, Rajat Singh, on the gangrape, said police.

Kanpur: Buying a book of Sanskrit prescribed for the junior class under CBSE Board makes the guardians think thrice as the printed price shocks them. 

The subject is very much compulsory to learn therefore the book needs to be purchased. 

The selected book shops, where this book of a particular school in Jajmau area of the city sells, do not even offer some rebate on the course book.

Strangely enough, the book has good cover, nice pages, immaculate printing but all the glows appear to be done for a higher price, as several say.

Kanpur (UP), Sep 14 (PTI) An eight-member SIT formed by the Kanpur police is looking into allegations of forced conversion on the pretext of marriage and has come across over a dozen such cases, an official said.

The SIT was formed about a fortnight ago after some members of Hindu organisations met Kanpur IG Mohit Agarwal, alleging love jihad incidents.

The issue had surfaced after a Kanpur woman, Shalini Yadav, married a Muslim man recently. The couple, however, approached a Delhi court, denying allegations of forced conversion.

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Sep 15 (PTI) A seven-year-old girl was allegedly sexual harassed by a man when she had gone to collect water from a handpump in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said on Tuesday.

The incident occurred at a village in Purkazi area on Sunday. The suspect took her to his house and sexual harassed her. He later ran away when the girl raised an alarm, an officer said.

Rajkumar Saini has been arrested and a case registered, the officer said.

Lucknow, Sep 15 (PTI) The condition of former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh who has tested positive for coronavirus is stable, a hospital official said on Tuesday.

Singh, 88, had complaints of fever, dry cough and breathlessness, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI) director R K Dhiman had said on Monday.

The former chief minister was admitted to the SGPGI at 6.30 pm after he tested positive for COVID-19, Dhiman had said.

Kanpur: It is supposedly for the first time the guardians are finding themselves totally helpless in depositing the heavy fees of the schools and colleges. They have been continuously urging the authorities concerned to cut the big fee amounts to at least half. However, their demand seemed to have still not been suitably assessed.

Lucknow, Sep 13 (PTI) The Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday said a special force will be constituted on the basis of orders of the Allahabad High Court, which had expressed its displeasure over the security at civil courts last December.

Briefing reporters here, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi said, "The state government has given orders for the constitution of a special security force. A roadmap in this regard has been sought from the UP DGP."

Pratapgarh (UP) Sep 14 (PTI) A man allegedly poisoned his wife and daughter over a family dispute in the Rampur Kotwa area here, police said on Monday.

While the daughter died during treatment at a hospital, her mother is battling for life, they said.

Monu Yadav allegedly poisoned his wife Jyoti (35) and daughter Deepti(5) following a dispute between them over family matters, police said.

They were referred to Allahabad hospital where Deepti died Sunday night, they said.

Kanpur: Are electric vehicles really the future? Yes, it appears so. Even the report of the Bloomberg New Energy Finance approves it if we carefully read the trends in this sphere. It shows a long term contemplated chart.

It will hit 10% of the global electric passenger vehicles' sales up to the year 2025 with that number rising to 28% in the year 2030 and 58% in the year 2040, the report said.

According to another study, currently, the EVs make up 3% of the global car sales.

Kanpur: Now, the running of trains should be normal, think the passengers. Though a few trains have started bringing happiness not only to the passengers but others too. The tension of travelling by other means of transportation would be ended thus.

What has been shared on Saturday by the passengers arriving by Swarn Shatabdi Express at Central railway station reflected their sense of satisfaction and relaxation? They reacted there was so far only Shram Shakti Express for Delhi but two trains like Vande Bharat and Swarn Shatabdi have relieved their tension.