Ghaziabad: The district administration has constituted a three-member inquiry committee to investigate complaints against 10 private schools accused of denying admission to children allotted seats under the Right to Education (RTE) quota. Officials said strict action, including proceedings to revoke the recognition of schools, will be initiated if the allegations are found to be true.According…
A six-year-old boy drowned in a rainwater-filled pit at a slum in the Ankur Vihar area Ghaziabad: Three more people, two of them minors, died in rain-related incidents in the city on Thursday as the city’s civic infrastructure collapsed following the season’s first bout of heavy rain, taking the toll to five. Earlier, a three-year-old…
On Thursday, neighbours staged a protest with the child’s body, demanding accountability and compensation for the family Ghaziabad: Sumit Kumar had left his farmland in Farrukhabad two years ago and come to Ghaziabad with his wife and two daughters, chasing the promise of a better life in the NCR city. They shifted to a rented…
Noida: A 29-year-old man was arrested on Friday for allegedly stalking a journalist, making obscene gestures and passing lewd remarks while following her on a motorcycle in Noida’s Film City earlier this week.During the investigation, the accused was identified through CCTV footage and other technical evidence, which helped police trace his address to a slum…
This is an AI illustration used for representation Ghaziabad: While UP has pushed for digital education under the National Education Policy (NEP) and Samagra Shiksha programme in recent years, a lack of functional electricity has continued to limit the use of smart classrooms, information and communication technology (ICT) laboratories and other digital teaching infrastructure in…
In Sector 73, near an under-construction commercial complex, part of the road caved in, bringing down a boundary wall Noida: Thursday’s rain did more than flood the streets of Noida and Greater Noida — it peeled off the asphalt layer of several roads, exposing months of substandard roadwork.The damage was worst at the Sector 52-71…
Ghaziabad: A 17-year-old boy survived after getting an electric shock while drinking water from a municipality water cooler during rain in Modinagar on Thursday evening. A police team managed to rescue the teenager and brought him to a hospital for treatment.Dushyant Sharma, a Class XI student from Jagatpuri, was riding his bicycle in Modinagar around…
Advocates were seen taking off their shoes to wade through the water Noida: Heavy rain over the last two days left large parts of the Surajpur district court campus waterlogged, causing inconvenience to litigants, judicial officers and advocates on Friday. While court proceedings continued, movement between court buildings became difficult. Visitors and litigants alike were…
Road surface peels of two weeks after inauguration in Greater Noida. Noida: Barely two weeks after a 1.6-km-long railway overbridge connecting Makoda and Tilapta villages was inaugurated, the top asphalt layer of the carriageway started to peel off after Greater Noida received the year’s first intense spell of rainfall on Thursday, exposing the poor quality…
Ghaziabad: The sessions court sentenced a Niwari resident, Sunil alias Bablu, to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh for killing his father and brother over land in Dec 2018.The case is based on an FIR registered under Section 302 of the IPC by Sudha, wife of the deceased, Subhash. The FIR…
