Category: LUCKNOW

These four women are wives of mafia dons and have been absconding since past several weeks. They have been named as conspirators in various criminal cases but the police have failed to track them down till now.

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has decided to project its party chief Mayawati as the Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. BSP sources said that the party would not join any opposition alliance but would go it alone in the Lok Sabha elections.

The Lucknow police wants Vijay Yadav, the main accused in the murder of gangster Sanjeev Maheshwari Jeeva, to be psychologically profiled by forensic and medical experts.

Police have identified him as Abdul Rehman, who is originally from Ballia. The mosque committee has told the cops that Rehman had quit the panel a few months ago, but is yet to submit any proof of the claim.

Akhilesh quoted news reports about how the women wrestlers have accused a powerful official of sexual harassment and went to throw away their Olympic medals into Ganga and start a hunger strike after they were evicted from the protest site in New Delhi.

The mahant told the police that she met him about a decade ago and since then, she used to visit him every 3-4 months as she would find mental peace in the place and became like a family member.

Neurosurgeons at the King George's Medical University (KGMU) operated upon an 85-year-old ex-IIT Roorkee professor whose urgent brain surgery was held up due to lack of consent from the family for the past over 20 days.

With the BJP sweeping the municipal elections and the victory margin widening with every passing hour, the party had proved, once again, that it remains invincible in Uttar Pradesh and that Yogi Adityanath is its lucky mascot.

State chief of Rihai Manch, Mohd Shoaib has been picked up from Lucknow while ATS teams are interrogating Najam Qamar from Bahraich. PFI suspect Abdul Khaliq has also been detained.

Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Singh, accused of sexual harassment and intimidation by women wrestlers, has said that he would "hang himself if even a single allegation against him was proved".

Speaking to reporters here, Thakur said, "A demand was there to form a committee and it was constituted, FIR has been registered by Delhi Police, the Supreme Court also gave its verdict. The Delhi Police are conducting a fair investigation.

A message issuing a life threat to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was sent on the UP 112 WhatsApp group, police said, adding that a case has been registered at the Sushant Golf City police station and a probe is currently underway.

The three assailants, who shot dead gangster Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf, were trained to behave like real journalists before they joined a group of media persons at the hospital where the brothers were shot dead.

"Under no circumstances should any religious event be held by obstructing the road and traffic. In the past, we have been able to do this through proper communication and coordination. This year, too, we have to make a similar effort," he remarked further.

The three had posed as journalists and joined a group of media persons after which they shot dead Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf from point-blank range while they were speaking to reporters in Prayagraj on Saturday night.

The FIR says, "Just as we instructed our car driver to overtake the motorcycles the two accused were trying to flee in, and loudly asked them to stop, they accelerated and tried to take a turn at a side road to escape, though another team had already surrounded them."

As many as 173 tigers have seen their numbers grow in the three reserves in Uttar Pradesh. The three - Pilibhit, Dudhwa and Amangarh - also make the state a potential centre for thriving ecotourism. And the state will soon have its fourth tiger reserve in Ranipur in Chitrakoot district.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said that Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray's dream of a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya was now becoming a reality.

In the state capital, four new cases each surfaced from Aliganj and Sarojini Nagar, three from Alambagh, and two from Chinhat. The number of active Covid cases in Lucknow has shot up to 177.

The CBI court on Friday framed charges against gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad and his son Umar in a case related to kidnapping and assault of a businessman in Deoria jail where Atiq was then lodged.

Sharpshooter Abdul Kavi, who had been absconding for the past 18 years after being named in the 2005 Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Raju Pal murder case, has surrendered quietly in the Lucknow CBI court.

The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) in a joint operation with the Prayagraj Police have arrested Atiq Ahmed's brother-in-law, Akhlaq Ahmed from Meerut, in connection with the Umesh Pal murder case.

A meeting between Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav and BSP MP Ritesh Pandey has triggered speculation of the latter joining the SP ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.

Accordingly, he sent the amount to the bank account, which the miscreant claimed to be of the company. Later, when Prakhar did not receive the goods, he dialled the same number but it was switched off.

Former Samajwadi Party MLA Azam Khan faced disqualification from the state Assembly last month after a Moradabad court order sentenced him to two years in jail in a 15-year-old case. He held the Rampur Assembly seat.