Ghaziabad: A special Pocso court on Monday sentenced a man to 20 years’ rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh for sexually assaulting his minor neighbour in Modinagar three years ago. The convict had lured the child to his bicycle for a quick trip to the market to buy a TV remote,…
Ghaziabad: Roads across 112 km of the city lie dug up, dust hangs in the air, but repairs are nowhere in sight as a global bitumen shortage, fuelled by the West Asia crisis, has stalled all work under the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation.Officials said around 20 contractors, awarded road repair work worth Rs 200 crore under…
Door-to-door census work began in Noida and Ghaziabad on May 22 Noida: District magistrate Medha Roopam on Monday reprimanded officials over the sluggish pace of Census 2027 work, expressing displeasure at the absence of additional chief executive officers from the district’s three development authorities during a review meeting. She warned that a formal communication would…
Noida: Five years after beating a rare and aggressive cancer, an 11-year-old girl from Ghaziabad is slowly returning to a normal childhood after doctors at a private hospital rebuilt her cervix and vaginal canal using a section of her small intestine in a rare and highly specialised reconstructive surgery.In 2020, the child had been diagnosed…
Noida: A man who allegedly killed a woman’s mother and injured three family members in Harola after they rejected his marriage proposal was arrested following a police encounter late Monday night, officials said.The accused, Harnam Singh, had allegedly carried out the attack late Saturday night, where the victim’s family was sleeping outside their room due…
The club, spread over 50,000 sq ft and planned as a three-storeyed members-only facility, was intended for residents of Jaypee Wish Town Noida: Members of Boomerang – The Club, C’est la vie at Jaypee Greens Wish Town in Sector 128 have alleged that land earmarked in the approved Master Plan for a private, members-only club…
The Shahberi substation, built at a cost of Rs 12 crore, was energised on Friday Noida: Amid rising power demand during the ongoing heatwave, the Noida power department has energised a newly constructed 33/11 kV substation in Shahberi to improve electricity distribution and reduce load pressure in the region.The Shahberi substation, built at a cost…
Noida: Police will on Tuesday produce Satyam Verma, a Lucknow-based translator and journalist, and Aakriti Choudhary, a Delhi University history graduate, before the state’s National Security Act Advisory Board in Lucknow.Both were arrested for allegedly inciting violence during the Noida industrial workers’ protest on April 13 and subsequently charged under Section 3 of the NSA,…
Noida: Two years into marriage, Ankit Verma’s life had curdled into resentment. Repeated taunts over his thin build, especially his skinny legs, and friction at home with his wife appear to have fed a deep sense of insecurity in the Khoda resident.That bitterness slowly hardened into a general hatred towards women — and then spilled…
Ghaziabad: Operation Savera’s outreach workers regularly find elderly citizens living alone, cut off from family, enduring prolonged isolation, yet the programme, bound by its mandate, can only step in for welfare checks or when a health emergency strikes. The limitation came into focus this week after two elderly men, who had been living away from…
