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Lucknow
Joined March 2014
Samajwadi Party's Lal Bihari Yadav retains MLC teachers Varanasi constituency by defeating BJP's Pramod Mishra
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Agra: A BSF jawan allegedly summoned 30-40 men who assaulted an Aligarh additional district judge, his father and gunner after a road dispute on Oct 24. The judge's car was damaged. FIR lodged against the jawan and 40 unidentified persons.
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Jalaun: 17 MBBS students of Government Medical College, Orai, suspended for 3 months and fined Rs 25,000 each over alleged ragging of juniors. Seven were initially suspended before a probe implicated 10 more students.
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A fire broke out at a jewellery shop in Lucknow’s Krishnanagar area. Further details are awaited.
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Kunda MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya’s estranged wife Bhanvi Singh gets Pratapgarh police notice to surrender one of 3 licensed firearms. She claims none is in her possession.
Pratapgarh: Kunda MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya organised Shastra Puja at Benti Palace, where hundreds of weapons were worshipped. “An elephant has different tusks for display and eating,” he remarked.
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An MPV allegedly dragged a motorcycle from Kamta via Matiyari to Chinhat Kotwali Road, passing a police outpost. Locals stopped the car, smashed its window and thrashed the driver. The 10-minute chaos triggered a long traffic jam. Police later dispersed the crowd.
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Sanjay Rajbhar, son of SP national general secretary and Akbarpur MLA Ram Achal Rajbhar, and five unidentified persons have been booked for allegedly assaulting a man, issuing death threats and taking land dispute documents in Ambedkarnagar.
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Etah: ₹1 lakh reward-carrying robbery accused Virendra was killed in a police encounter in Etah on Tuesday. Wanted in a jeweller robbery case, he faced 53 criminal cases. A constable was injured in the exchange of fire. One accomplice escaped, police said.
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BREAKING: Demolition begins in Lucknow triple murder case. Bulldozer reaches Saadatganj as Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) initiates action to demolish the allegedly unauthorised portion of the house owned by the accused.
Lucknow Triple Murder: A bulldozer has reached Saadatganj to demolish the allegedly unauthorised portion of a house owned by an accused in the triple murder case. The Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) is initiating the demolition action.
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Kanpur: Seven people, including a three-month-old girl, were injured after a house balcony collapsed in Jajmau's Tiwaripur Bagiya on Tuesday night. Three were trapped under debris. One injured person was referred to Hallett Hospital.
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Lucknow Triple Murder: A bulldozer has reached Saadatganj to demolish the allegedly unauthorised portion of a house owned by an accused in the triple murder case. The Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) is initiating the demolition action.
Six arrested in Saadatganj triple murder.
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UP MLC Polls: BJP's Dinesh Goyal retains the Meerut-Saharanpur Graduates' seat, defeating his SP rival by 12,855 votes. Claiming victory by nearly 13,000 votes, Goyal said the BJP fought the election on the development agenda.
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Mathura: A petrol tanker travelling from IOCL refinery to Muzaffarnagar overturned near Manoharpur village on the Mathura-Bareilly highway. As petrol spilled onto the road, villagers rushed to collect it in buckets and plastic cans, risking their lives.
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A 600-kg Lord Hanuman statue crafted from over 50,000 stones inscribed with ‘Ram-Ram’ is on display at Phoenix Republic Mall, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow. The sculpture is set to enter the Asia Book of Records and India Book of Records.
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Correction: It's Fun republic Mall, not Phoenix Republic Mall.
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“We must also beware of prepaid political parties, those whose OTP comes from somewhere else,” Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said, taking a swipe at political parties allegedly operating under external influence.
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UP MLC Polls 2026: BJP's Umesh Dwivedi leads SP's Sushil Kumar (Baba) by 3,652 votes in the Lucknow Teachers' constituency after 14 rounds of counting. Dwivedi has secured 7,189 votes against Sushil Kumar's 3,537. Of the 13,972 votes counted, 936 were declared invalid.
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Allahabad HC rules that ₹50 lakh Covid-19 ex gratia assistance cannot be denied solely for lack of an RT-PCR report if govt hospital records confirm a positive antigen test and authorities acknowledge Covid infection as the cause of death.
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Six arrested in Saadatganj triple murder.
Lucknow's Saadatganj triple murder case: LDA seals residences of the accused after the owners failed to produce sanctioned building plans during an inspection. The authority took action after seeking the approved maps of the properties.
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UP Education Service Selection Commission dismisses social media rumours over recruitment of 17,735 TGT assistant teachers in aided secondary schools. Chairman Prashant Kumar says reservation rules were followed transparently.
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The Allahabad high court on Tuesday admitted the appeals of two death-row convicts in the sensational Saurabh Rajput murder case, known as the blue drum murder case, and fixed Nov 30 for the final hearing.
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