Ballia, April 10 (IANS) Delhi BJP MP Manoj Tiwari has supported the demand to confer the Bharat Ratna on Mangal Pandey, one of the earliest icons of India’s freedom struggle. He remarked that while Pandey deserves the country’s highest civilian award, his legacy is far greater than any honour. Speaking to reporters, Tiwari said he had not been fully aware of the demand earlier but now considers it justified.“It is a very valid demand. Mangal Pandey truly deserves the Bharat Ratna. If Uttar…
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Jaunpur (Uttar Pradesh), March 31 (IANS) In a major success for the district police, the Cyber Cell team in Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur has recovered 240 lost mobile phones and returned them to their rightful owners, officials said on Tuesday.According to the police, the total value of the recovered mobile phones is estimated to be around Rs 45 lakh. The operation was carried out by the Cyber Crime Police Station along with cyber cell teams from various police stations across the district, using t…
New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party’s Delhi President Saurabh Bharadwaj on Sunday said the party’s rally at Jantar Mantar was aimed at raising the voice of thousands of dismissed contractual workers and to expose what he termed as “vendetta politics” of the BJP, asserting that the event is “a rally, not a protest”.This will be AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal’s first public rally since he was discharged by the court in the liquor policy case.Police personnel were deployed in…
Lucknow, Feb 25 (IANS) An Income Tax Department search operation is underway at the Lucknow residence of Uma Shankar Singh, the only Bahujan Samaj Party legislator in Uttar Pradesh.More than three dozen officials reached his home early in the morning, accompanied by a heavy police deployment.The presence of the tax authorities and security personnel led to heightened activity in the area, while scrutiny of documents inside the house triggered political reactions.According to sources, the Income …
Patna, Feb 25 (IANS) A shocking incident disrupted a wedding ceremony in Chausa in Bihar’s Buxar district, where a bride was critically injured after being shot at by her alleged former lover during the ‘jaimala (exchange of wedding garlands)’ ceremony.The incident occurred on Tuesday night under the jurisdiction of the Mufassil police station, triggering panic and chaos at the venue.According to preliminary information, the wedding procession had arrived in Chausa from Uttar Pradesh’s Balli…
Mumbai, Feb 4 (IANS) Actor Siddhant Chaturvedi, who is gearing up for the release of his upcoming film ‘Do Deewane Seher Mein’, has traced his journey of polishing his language for cinema. The actor attended the trailer launch of the film in the city on Wednesday, and spoke about his upbringing in Uttar Pradesh, his Bhojpuri roots, and the quiet struggles that came with language, confidence, and self-expression when he first arrived in Mumbai.The actor hails from Ballia, Uttar Pradesh. He sh…
Ghaziabad, Dec 22 (IANS) A Special CBI Court in Ghaziabad on Monday sentenced a former parcel supervisor of Agra Fort Railway Station to four years’ imprisonment in a bribery case dating back to 2016.Rajneesh Chahar, the then Chief Parcel Supervisor at Agra Fort Railway Station, North Central Railway, Agra (UP), was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment with a fine of Rs 10,000.The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered the instant case on January 1, 2016.Chahar, while functioning …
Deoria, Dec 22 (IANS) One cattle smuggler was injured, and two others were arrested in an encounter with the police in Uttar Pradesh’s Deoria district in the early hours of Monday. An encounter took place between police and cattle smugglers in the Salempur police station area. During a vehicle check near Dhanauti Rai village, police stopped a vehicle that was being used to smuggle cattle.When the criminals saw the police, they opened fire. In the exchange of gunfire, one of the suspects, Bholu Y…