Nearly 49 children died in a month in a government-run hospital in Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh, reported CNN-News 18. A first information report (FIR) has been filed against the chief medical officer (CMO) post the incident. The District Magistrate (DM) ordered an investigation into the incident after the children allegedly died[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force arrested Dr Kafeel Khan from Gorakhpur on Saturday, after the alleged 415 deaths of children in Baba Raghav Das Hospital in August. The development comes after the death of 68 kids due to lack of supply of liquid oxygen in the BRD hospital. Khan, the[Read More…]
Over 1500-year-old Kalyani Devi temple, in Allahabad, is famous for drawing thousands of devotees. Besides these devotees, the temple is also visited by chess players and champions as the temple is known to share a unique bond with the game. “It is perhaps the only temple where priests can talk[Read More…]
Union minister, Mahendra Nath Pandey, was appointed as the new Uttar Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president on Thursday. BJP national president, Amit Shah, appointed him as the next UP BJP chief with immediate effect. Pandey is a BJP Member of Parliament from Chandauli constituency. He succeeds Uttar Pradesh deputy[Read More…]
In a shocking video that is going viral, a little boy is slapped mercilessly and repeatedly, by his teacher in the classroom in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow, for not responding to the attendance call. The boy, a student of class 3, was struck 40 times by the furious teacher, according to[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh CM, Yogi Adityanath, on Wednesday made a highly insensitive remark, stating that people should not leave their children at the mercy of the government. “Mujhe lagta hai, kahin aisa na ho, log apne bachhe, jaise hi 2 saal ke ho, sarkar ke bharose chhodd de, sarkar unka paalan[Read More…]
Days after the deadly incident, at least seven more children died of encephalitis in the past 48 hours at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College and Hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur district. Between 7 August and 11 August, 63 children had died at the same hospital allegedly due to lack[Read More…]
Former minister in Akhilesh Yadav’s cabinet, Ravidas Mehrotra, has been caught in some serious legal trouble. An amount of Rs 30 lakhs has been recovered in old currency from his car in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow. The money was in old currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000, that are[Read More…]
The prestigious Dargah Ala Hazrat (a famous spiritual centre for Sufi Sunni Muslims) has decided to include the issue of ‘talaq’ (divorce) in the curriculum of the madarsas (Islamic Schools) affiliated to it. According to sources in the dargah, talaq will become part of the syllabus from the next academic[Read More…]
A day after a CBI court convicted Dera Sachcha Sauda chief, Gurmeet Ram Rahim in a rape case, people of Mohammadpur Gumi village in Uttar Pradesh have demanded that his ‘charcha ghar’ should be converted into a school or marriage hall for general public. The village has a population of[Read More…]
Ahead of the sentencing of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh on Monday, an alert has been sounded in all districts of western Uttar Pradesh. A police spokesman said on Monday that directives have been issued to all concerned district police chiefs to ensure that there was no[Read More…]
Following the ongoing tension in Haryana and Punjab over the conviction of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the state government on Saturday imposed Section 144 (Unlawful Assembly) of the Criminal Procedure Code in west Uttar Pradesh’s nine districts bordering the two states. This is because followers of the Dera Sacha Sauda chief,[Read More…]
Nine persons, including Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical College and Hospital’s former principal, Dr Rajeev Mishra and his wife, Dr Purnima Shukla, have been booked in connection with the deaths of over 100 children due to alleged lack of oxygen supply earlier this month. Dr Kafeel Khan (the then head of the[Read More…]
In a dreadful incident, a 15-year-old girl was chased and attacked by a stalker who chopped her hand off with a sword in a busy market. The incident happened in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur district on Wednesday. The stalker was trying to chop off her other hand also, but was overpowered[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh DGP, Sulkhan Singh, on Tuesday banned the deadly blue whale game across the state, expressing concern over the increasing number of suicides among children. He said that the Union ministry of electronics and information technology, as well as Union home ministry, had directed the state governments to impose[Read More…]
Death and devastation have opened up a whole new challenge of infectious diseases for the Uttar Pradesh government. The low-lying areas of Uttar Pradesh are terribly hit by infections, killing more than six children in the row. Cases of diarrhoea and viral fever are reported from every house located in[Read More…]
The death toll went up to 23 people in the Utkal Express derailment that happened on Saturday evening. Over 70 people are reported to have been injured in the accident. Sources say that the accident happened because of ‘maintenance failure’, while the railways is examining all possibilities behind the derailment.[Read More…]
At least six coaches of the Haridwar-bound 18477 Utkal Express derailed on Saturday at Khatauli railway station, 25 km from Muzaffarnagar in western Uttar Pradesh. Reportedly, 20 persons have died while 34 others were injured and were rushed to hospitals. Uttar Pradesh ADG law and order, Anand Kumar said preliminary[Read More…]
Congress vice-president, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday dubbed death of infants at a Gorakhpur hospital as a ‘government made tragedy’. Rahul said the government must take action against the deaths and not try to cover it up. “Modi ji talks of new India, we don’t need a new India like this,[Read More…]
Have you ever seen a hospital submerged in saffron color? If not, here is one such hospital which can be seen sank in saffron in Gorakhpur. According to media reports, a photo of Sahjanwa Community Health Center in Gorakhpur district was surfaced and is going viral now. In the hospital,[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Yogi Adityanath who is being criticized for his administration’s way of tackling BRD hospital tragedy, slammed Rahul Gandhi on Saturday saying that he will not let Gorakhpur to become a ‘picnic spot’ prior to Congress vice-president’s visit. “Delhi mein baitha koi yuvraj swachhta abhiyan ka mahatv[Read More…]
Tragdey continues to envelop Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical College as nine more children were reported dead in the last 24 hours between Thursday and Friday. The toll has gone up to 105 since the 10 August tragedy. Dr PK Singh of the medical college confirmed the deaths, while briefing the media[Read More…]
After an unidentified caller threatened to kill Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Yogi Adityanath, the case has been handed over to the UP Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS). The probe into a phone call received by Delhi Police in which the caller threatened to kill UP CM is going on. “We have handed[Read More…]
A youth has stabbed mother with a scissor in her right eye in Varanasi on Thursday as he was infuriated over extreme interference in his married life, said police. The youth was arrested and his mother was sent to BHU in serious condition. The accused, Chandan Gupta is in his[Read More…]
In a shocking incident, a pregnant woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur city was allegedly asked to leave by the hospital employees in the middle of the night. Following the incident she had to give birth to a baby in an e-rickshaw. Munawar, who was in labour, was admitted to the[Read More…]