A village panchayat in Uttar Pradesh's Hapur district ordered a girl to hit a boy with her slippers in public for circulating the video of their chat. The accused had recorded his conversation with a girl and then allegedly circulated it on social media.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday slammed the opposition saying that those who eat with silver spoons are unaware of the problems of poor, farmers, and the Dalits.
The court also ordered ASI officials involved in the survey, besides the plaintiffs, defendants, and their advocates, district government counsel (civil) and other officials on Thursday not to share any information about the survey with the print, electronic and social media.
Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA Lalji Verma said the members should be given the opportunity to ask more than two supplementary questions and the Rs 5,000 fine proposed under Rule 74 of the draft rulebook should be reduced to Rs 500.
The Allahabad High Court has observed that if a married woman "with prior experience in sexual relations" does not express objection, it cannot be deemed that her intimate involvement with a man was non-consensual.
Judge Ritish Sachdeva of the special sessions court (POCSO) has awarded 55 years of rigorous imprisonment to a 25-year-old man after finding him guilty of sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl in 2019.
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Lucknow witnessed a midnight drama at the Gautam Palli police station after the police detained Ankush Sharma, the Personal Secretary of Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Shivpal Yadav, a police official said.
Some 40 crore pilgrims are set to attend the 2025 Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj , compared to the 25 crore footfall in 2019. The 2013 Maha Kumbh was spread over an area of 1,600 hectares which increased to 3,200 hectares in 2019.
An 11-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by her friend's father when she went to their house to collect Rs 10 as donation to buy a mat for a local religious coaching centre in the district.
On Monday, 74 Rohingya, including 55 men, 14 women and five minors, were taken into custody during a comprehensive drive carried out by the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) to identify illegal immigrants staying in the state.
The petition was filed a day after the Supreme Court on Monday directed that Varanasi Court's order should not be enforced till 5 p.m. July 26 so as to allow some "breathing time" to the Masjid committee to approach the High Court.
The arrested persons have been taken to Jaint police station, where they are being interrogated. During interrogation, these people could not show any valid document. They revealed that they were used to buy garbage from hotels and sell it.
A girl student of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) has alleged that she was sexually harassed and thrashed by a group of male students inside cyber library in the campus.
Talking about the alliance name coined by 26 opposition parties -- 'I.N.D.I.A', Trivedi said that just because of the similarity with the country's name, their character would not alter.
The incident took place in Mithwara village. After committing the crime on Friday afternoon, the accused was seen walking out of the village, carrying his sister's severed head in his hands.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a student of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Faizan Ansari, 19, for extending supporting to ISIS, an official said.
Her mother told the court that she was threatened by the accused not to report the matter to the police. The child's medical reports also played a crucial role in the conviction of the accused.
Paucity of funds has made the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF) Trust, which is handling the construction of a mosque in Ayodhya's Dhannipur, to defer the construction of a hospital there for now.
The Ayodhya Development Authority (ADA) will set up 25 Ram Stambh (pillars) across 17-km long arterial road between Sahadatganj and Lata Mangeshkar Chowk at Nayaghat, ahead of the completion of Ram temple next year.
The jail authorities have, again, started the exercise to arrest the missing prisoners and letters have been sent to the concerned police officials to search for the missing prisoners.
Doctors at a private hospital gave a new lease of life to a farmer by replacing his damaged aortic valve (one of the four heart valves) with a one constructed from his pericardium, a fibrous sac that encloses the heart and great vessels – using Ozaki technique.
Director General (DG), Home Guards, Bijaya Kumar Maurya confirmed that the allegations against Manish Dubey were found true during the preliminary inquiry conducted by deputy inspector general (DIG), Home Guards, Santosh Singh who had submitted its report to him.
The incident came to light after the condition of the man worsened and the police took him to Bhitargaon community health centre from where the doctors referred him to Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital.
Ten people, including a pastor, have been arrested for allegedly indulging in illegal religious conversion in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district, police said on Monday.
Expressing grief over the loss of lives, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has given instructions to immediately distribute a relief amount of Rs 4 lakh each to the families of the deceased and provide proper treatment to those injured in various natural calamities.
