Varanasi: A three-hour-old infant was found abandoned in a field in Govindpur Gangapur area under Rohania police station limits in Varanasi on Tuesday.Local residents spotted the newborn boy and informed the police. According to reports, the child was allegedly abandoned due to fear of social stigma.Rohania SHO Raju Singh reached the spot with a police…
Gorakhpur: Four masked men allegedly stormed a house in Tighra village under the Pipiganj police station area late Monday night and looted gold and silver jewellery worth around Rs 5 lakh after holding a nine-month-old infant at knifepoint.According to police, the accused entered the house through an open rear gate around 1 am. At the…
The Mandakini river in Chitrakoot is flowing significantly above its danger mark VARANASI: Heavy rain and swelling rivers disrupted life across parts of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, with authorities shutting schools in Lakhimpur, boats entering waterlogged lanes in Varanasi and residents being evacuated in flood-hit Chitrakoot.In Varanasi, the rising Ganga triggered a flood-like situation, forcing…
Varanasi: Two minor boys were killed in a fire that broke out at a house in Devdi village under the Jamania police station area of Ghazipur district on Monday morning after an LPG stove was carelessly ignited and the flames spread to a motorcycle parked inside the house, causing its petrol tank to explode. The…
Gorakhpur: A 15-year-old girl climbed atop a water tank in Mahadev Jharkhandi Colony on Sunday afternoon after allegedly being upset over a scolding from her mother, triggering a nearly three-hour rescue operation by police.The teenager, a resident of Awas Vikas Shivpur, climbed the tank around 1.30 pm and sat on its edge with her legs…
Stunned by the security lapse, the Kashi Vishwanath Temple administration and police have started an investigation. Varanasi: A youth breached the high-security arrangements at Kashi Vishwanath Temple by entering the sanctum sanctorum wearing Meta smart glasses, recording a video of the rituals and uploading it on social media with the caption, “Finally, Meta glasses paying…
Several bodies were recovered without clothes, making identification more challenging. Gorakhpur: Eleven unidentified bodies, believed to have drifted into Kushinagar from Nepal through Narayani River following the recent flood disaster, have been preserved at AIIMS Gorakhpur, officials said.All the bodies have been kept in the anatomy department while authorities await directions from the state govt…
Little girl seeks road repair Varanasi: A seven-year-old Class I student walked into the district magistrate’s Janata Darbar in Mau on Monday morning with a complaint of her own — the poor condition of the road to her school was making her daily journey difficult, leaving children injured and their uniforms soiled.Samra Naz, a student…
The stranded shepherds and sheep Varanasi: Twelve shepherds and more than 2,000 sheep, stranded after a sudden rise in the Ganga’s water level turned an area near Duhia Saraiya village in Ghazipur into an island, were safely rescued after a nearly six-hour-long operation by the PAC flood company, police and local boatmen late on Sunday.The…
People arriving with corpses for funeral rites had to move through submerged streets for several metres to reach the steps leading to the upper platform of Manikarnika Ghat. Varanasi: The flood threat started looming large in localities developed along the banks of the river Varuna as, after reaching close to the warning level of 70.26…
