• Sleuths of Government Railway Police, Allahabad on Tuesday claimed to have busted an inter-district gang involved in drugging and robbing and arrested two of its key members near platform no 1 when they were plotting to escape from the city.

  • When it comes to proper utilization of the wastelands, the land of Basehara, and Mahulikala gram panchayats of the district have yielded rich dividend as fruiting of Jatropha (biodiesel) plantation can be witnessed. In fact, Jatropa plantation has currently been undertaken on community lands of Basehara, Siryari, Mahuli, Gadiya, Murlipur, Bhaundar Khurd, Masoli and Goraiya gram panchayats under the Jeevan Jyoti project.

  • Secretary, Board of Secondary Education, Prabha Tripathi, has approached the Allahabad High Court seeking stay of her arrest in connection with the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) scam.

  • Ganga Pradarshini is a confluence of dedication, innovation and resolution. It plays a significant role in shaking people's conscience and their duties to save rivers of India. It is like a laboratory for practical knowledge about the Ganga, its origin, significance, problems and solution, conservation of nature and natural resources by presented models, said former state Minister of Human Resources and Development Sanjay Paswan in closing ceremony of Ganga Pradarshani.

  • To protest against railway authorities’ decision to stop the payment of allowances including over time, running allowance prior to Holi and slew of measures against the interest of the employees, activists of Rail Sewak Sangh observed protest and showed their agitation infront of DRM office on Tuesday.

  • Four members of a family were today arrested in case of honour killing of a couple in Khargupur area, a senior police officer said here today.

  • At 6.00 am every day, a dhoti-kurta clad man takes off on his motorbike to tend to his farms. By noon, he returns home to feed his buffaloes that won’t have their fodder except under his supervision. Fondly addressed as ‘Babba’ by his coterie of friends, he’s the average farmer and cattle-keeper from Saifai you wouldn’t notice, except for his striking resemblance to Mulayam Singh Yadav. That’s Abhay Ram Singh, 68, a farmer by profession and Mulayam’s younger brother.

  • With the chorus against the formation of National Counter-Terrorism Council turning louder, government on Tuesday said it is ready for a dialogue to remove any misgivings or concerns of states opposing it.

  • The body of an 18-year-old girl was found floating at a swimming pool on the lawns of a private bunglow adjacent to Don Bosco Institute Colony in Mohanlalganj police station area late on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Asha Kashyap, daughter of Holi Kashyap, a native of Bahraich district.

  • Memories of Mulayam raj vs. failed governance of Mayawati. The competing sentiments are in full play in the Yadav heartland, with a looming question if fears over ‘law and order’ could hobble the Samajwadi Party in its den.

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