Uttar Pradesh

Bareilly (UP), Aug 10 (PTI) At least 56 inmates of two prisons in Bareilly of Uttar Pradesh have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said.

"Reports of 51 inmates of central jail and five inmates of district jail have been found positive for COVID-19" District Surveillance Officer, Ashok Kumar said.

Lucknow, Aug 9 (PTI) The condition of Samajwadi Party (SP) patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav is improving, Medanta Hospital director Rakesh Kapoor said on Sunday.

Yadav was admitted to the hospital on Friday, following an infection in the urinary tract. He was tested for COVID-19 and the results were negative.

"His condition is improving. He is responding to the treatment," Kapoor told PTI.

The hospital director had earlier said the 80-year-old SP leader also underwent ultrasound, blood and urine tests.

Lucknow, Aug 9 (PTI) Over 800 villages in 20 districts of UP have been hit by flooding and several rivers are flowing above the danger level, the relief commissioner's office said Sunday.

As 802 villages in Ambedkar Nagar, Ayodhya, Azamgarh, Bahraich, Ballia, Balrampur, Barabanki, Basti, Deoria, Gonda, Gorakhpur, Khiri, Kushinagar, Maharajganj, Mau, Pilibhit, Pratapgarh, Santkabir Nagar, Siddharthanagar and Sitapur districts have been affected.

Of these, 428 villages have been disconnected with other areas, the office said.

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Aug 10 (PTI) A man has been arrested for allegedly sexually harassing a 10-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, police said on Monday.

Vicky who was absconding was arrested in Kairana police station area on Sunday evening, an officer said.

The girl was sexually harassed when she was on her way to a shop on July 22, police had said.

KANPUR: Since March-end the careful thing that we can all execute is to stay at home. We feel confident that the dread of the air-borne virus would continue to wane and it is only then we would start living in no fear.

Think of those who do not follow the habit of trimming hairs on the head by automatic machine. It is not clear whether the hair saloons are opening and if these are unlocking most of us fear to tread there owing to the terror of the pandemics.

Bulandshahr, Aug 8 (PTI) A 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped by four men in a village of Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district, an official said on Saturday.

According to SP City Atul Kumar Srivastava, the girl has alleged that four men entered her house on Friday night, took her to a nearby agricultural field, and then raped her.

Lucknow, Aug 9 (PTI) An aide of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, who was accused in the 2005 killing of BJP leader Krishnanand Rai, was gunned down by the UP Special Task Force here on Sunday morning, a state government spokesperson said.

Rakesh Pandey alias Hanuman Pandey was shot dead in Sarojininagar area of the state capital.

Pandey was involved in the killing of Rai, who was an MLA from Mohammadabad Assembly constituency, on November 29, 2005.

KANPUR: Nearly twenty years ago there came a Hollywood film 'Cast Away' which shows how the desperate actor survives and returns home. Though this film is said to have depicted a real story, a true story of a man in Chakeri who was assumed to be dead returns home alive.

Not even have completed the age of 40, the man from Ompurwa locality was not in touch with the family members since August 2. He left his house after quarrelling with his wife over an issue. He had left the city as he later told.

Bahraich (UP), Aug 7 (PTI) A man was arrested here on Friday for making objectionable comments on Prophet Muhammad on the social media.

One Mufti Abdullah has complained that an objectionable Facebook post by Guddu Verma of Nanpara township has hurt the religious feelings of Muslims, additional SP Kunvar Jyananjay Singh said.

Mufti alleged that comments made by Verma in the post are aimed at creating communal tension in Nanpara township, the ASP said.

KANPUR: Like cunning politicians, if the close relatives begin to act, emotionally the most wounded are the younger siblings, no doubt.

Such a thing happened in the families of two sisters. Elderly arranged an impromptu get together, though it was later known it was well thought out programme.