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…]
Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Akhilesh Yadav, was detained by the police in Unnao on Agra-Lucknow Expressway on Thursday. He was on his way to meet ex-MLA & Samajwadi Party leader, Pradeep Yadav, who was beaten in clashes during district panchayat president elections in Auraiya. SP party workers staged a[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said that if he cannot stop the offering of namaz on roads during Eid, he has no right to stop the celebrations of Janmashtami at police stations. “Agar mai sadak par Eid ke din namaz padhne pe rok nahi laga sakta to[Read More…]
In a tragedy that killed over 60 children, Baba Raghav Das Medical College Principal, head of the department of anaesthesia and liquid oxygen supply company have been held responsible in a report submitted to the UP CM on Wednesday. The report was submitted by Gorakhpur district magistrate Rejeev Rautela. After[Read More…]
Madarsas in Uttar Pradesh celebrated 70th Independence Day with traditional zeal on Tuesday, but disregarded controversial diktat issued by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state. The government has made it mandatory for all madarsas to observe the national day by hoisting flags and singing the national[Read More…]
With the rise in the death toll of Gorakhpur Tragedy, the Uttar Pradesh government has been targetted by an RSS functionary, who said the Uttar Pradesh government should do “penance” for the deaths. Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) Sanghchalak of the Avadh region, Prabhu Narayan, in a Facebook post has expressed[Read More…]
On India’s 70th Independence Day, Bareilly’s Barelvi madrasas openly flouted the Uttar Pradesh government’s order that the national anthem must mandatorily be sung at all such Islamic educational institutions across the state on the occasion of Independence Day. The students at the Manzar-e-Islam – the biggest Barelvi madrasa in the[Read More…]
The people of Choudhipur village in Mailani area, in Lakhimpur Kheri district, refused to celebrate Independence Day as they feel that no development has happened in their village even 70 years after Independence. The village lacks electricity, roads are in terrible shape and most houses don’t have toilets. The village,[Read More…]
While Gorakhpur is still coming to terms with the loss of over 60 infants, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered the state authorities to celebrate Krishna Janmashtami in a “grand” way. In a communique issued late on Sunday to the Director General of Police (DGP) Sulkhan Singh, Adityanath said:[Read More…]
Senior Congress leader, P Chidambaram slammed the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh over the death of children in Gorakhpur government hospital saying that, a government that cannot protect children does not deserve to rule. “Gorakhpur is a man-made tragedy. The nation waits to see if any honourable man will take[Read More…]
The Centre on Sunday approved the setting up of a regional medical centre in Gorakhpur for research into children’s diseases. The decision was announced by Union minister of health and family welfare, J P Nadda. Earlier on Sunday, the minister, along with Uttar Pradesh CM, Yogi Adityanath, visited the BRD[Read More…]
