Varanasi: Two women were killed after being hit by an unidentified vehicle while on a morning walk in Ismailpur Kotisha village under the Saidpur Kotwali area of Ghazipur district early Sunday.The deceased were identified as Khushboo Kashyap (35) and her sister-in-law Kirti Kashyap (40), both residents of Ismailpur Kotisha village.Ghazipur CO (Saidpur) Shubham Verma said…
Varanasi: A 40-year-old urologist was found dead in his hostel room at Heritage Institute of Medical Sciences (HIMS) on Saturday night, with police suspecting that he died after taking an overdose of anaesthesia. The exact cause of death will be ascertained from the postmortem and forensic reports.ACP Rohaniya Awadhesh Kumar Vishwakarma said that articles collected…
Varanasi: A 26-year-old woman has lodged a named FIR against her husband and parents-in-law, alleging that they tried to force her into flesh trade and made obscene videos of her to blackmail her. Police arrested her husband on Sunday.Manduadih police station in charge Digambar Upadhyaya said that, based on the woman’s complaint, an FIR was…
Gorakhpur: A truck carrying LPG cylinders from GIDA to Pipraich for delivery caught fire late Friday, triggering panic in the area. Prompt action by police and fire brigade personnel helped bring the blaze under control within an hour, preventing it from reaching the cylinders.The incident occurred around midnight in Amkol village under Chauri Chaura police…
Gorakhpur: A truck carrying Bharat Petroleum LPG cylinders from GIDA to Pipraich for delivery caught fire late Friday, triggering panic in the area. Prompt action by police and fire brigade personnel helped bring the blaze under control within an hour, preventing it from reaching the cylindersThe incident occurred around midnight in Amkol village under Chauri…
Varanasi: A Muslim youth was detained by Dashashwamedh police after he tried to enter the Annapurna temple’s Annakshetra (free community kitchen), located within the high-security zone of Kashi Vishwanath Dham on Saturday.ACP (Dashashwamedh) Atul Anjan Tripathi said police took him to the Dashashwamedh police station as he was also found carrying a kitchen knife. However,…
Gorakhpur: A 45-year-old IIT engineer was found dead in his apartment in Gorakhpur’s Sahara Estate after neighbours alerted police about a foul smell emanating from the flat. The body, believed to be three to four days old, was recovered from a flat in Malhar Apartment on Friday, police said.The deceased, Abhishek Tripathi, lived alone. Police…
Varanasi: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Kashi region will launch a month-long mass outreach campaign focusing on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 25 years in public life. The ‘Seva Sankalp Abhiyan’, scheduled from Sept 17 to Oct 17, has been planned not merely as a series of programmes but as a booth-level campaign to spread the message…
Gorakhpur: A five-year-old boy was killed after a school bus allegedly ran over him while he waited with his mother in the Pipraich area on Saturday morning, sparking angry protests during which villagers detained a teacher travelling in the bus and vandalised the vehicle.The incident took place around 8 am in Naiyapar Buzurg village, about…
Varanasi: High-voltage drama unfolded at the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth gate on Saturday when Gen-Z cyclists led by National Students’ Union of India president Varun Chaudhary were stopped by police from entering the campus, triggering arguments, slogan-shouting and a confrontation between Congress workers and ABVP supporters.Before they could enter, police deployed at the varsity gate…
