Varanasi: In accordance with directives issued by the National Health Mission and the Family Welfare Department, Uttar Pradesh, a district-wide Vitamin-A Supplementation Campaign will commence on Wednesday. Under the campaign, the Health Department has set a target of administering Vitamin-A doses to 3,92,921 children in the age group of 9 months to 5 years. Iron…
Gorakhpur: A dispute over the organisation of their mother’s post-death ‘brahm bhoj’ turned fatal in Gorakhpur’s Pipraich area on Tuesday when a man allegedly shot his younger brother dead.The victim, Shubham Sharma, sustained a gunshot wound to the chest and was rushed to Nehru Hospital at BRD Medical College, where doctors declared him dead. The…
Varanasi: A 20-year-old woman, Anchal Sonkar, and her father Prithvi Nath Sonkar (64) of Ramnagar were killed while their neighbour Dinesh Sonkar (24) suffered grave injuries when a speeding vehicle hit their motorcycle near Belwa under Phulpur police station on Tuesday morning.The accident occurred, when Anchal was going to appear for the UP police constable…
Varanasi: In a major push for urban infrastructure development, the Varanasi Municipal Corporation (VMC) has approved the exchange of over 227.5 bigha (57.6 hectares) of land with the Defence Estate and the Railways to facilitate public amenities, traffic management projects and parking facilities across the city. The proposal has already received clearance from both the…
Varanasi: Ahead of the 12th International Yoga Day on June 21, the Uttar Pradesh govt has launched an extensive outreach campaign in rural Varanasi, with three-day yoga training camps to be held across all eight development blocks from June 12 to 14. The camps will focus on training participants in the Common Yoga Protocol and…
Varanasi: Two ivory tusks and an elephant’s jaw were recovered and three poachers were arrested by joint team of Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) Gorakhpur, STF and divisional forest office staff in Mirzapur district on Tuesday.Divisional forest officer (Mirzapur) Rakesh Kumar said that acting on specific inputs about wildlife trafficking the joint team of WCCB,…
Gorakhpur: A candidate appearing in the Uttar Pradesh Police Constable Recruitment Examination was arrested after he was allegedly found using a mobile phone inside the exam centre in Gorakhpur on Monday.The accused has been identified as Ram Prakash Kumar, a resident of Belwariya village under Asthawan police station in Bihar’s Nalanda district.According to police, Ram…
Varanasi: To seek popularity on social media, a youth posted a video on his account claiming that the UP Police constable recruitment paper was leaked at a centre in Azamgarh district and aspirants were on the rampage.Cyber police detected the post and the youth was arrested and sent to jail, said Azamgarh SP Anil Kumar…
Varanasi: Of 187 buildings demarcated as part of the ambitious Dalmandi road widening project, 125 have been demolished as on Tuesday. Preparation is complete to demolish 12 more buildings Thursday onwards, said K K Singh, PWD executive engineer, adding that the number of buildings demolished is likely to cross the 140 mark by weekend. Negotiations…
Varanasi: A 45-year-old trader was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne assailants near his home in Awaleshpur under Rohaniya police station limits late Monday. The victim, identified as Jitendra Kumar Patel, managed to ride home after being shot and narrated the incident to his family before succumbing to his injuries at the Trauma Centre of BHU…
