Vinod Tripathi

A roadside sugarcane juice stall in Lucknow was gutted by fire late Friday night, hours after a video of a child licking ice used at the stall went viral. Police are investigating a potential link between the clip and the blaze, which also damaged a neighboring shop.

Constable Dharmendra Shukla, PAC, was slapped and heckled by the LU Students Union general secretary, Vinod Tripathi and a group of around 30 students.

The police on Friday saluted 264 of their peers who had died on duty on Police Commemoration Day. Every year, on October 21, the sacrifice of policemen in 1959 in the India-China border conflict.

Additional sessions judge Kanpur Nagar AP Mishra sentenced three accused, including a father and his son, to life imprisonment with a fine of Rs 25,000 on each for committing murder.

Additional district and sessions judge Akhileshwar Prasad Mishra sentenced accused Vinod Kumar Sahu, an advocate, to life imprisonment with a fine of Rs 70,000 for setting his wife on fire.The court in its order stated “Punishment under section 307 IPC has a provision for life imprisonment.

In a senational double murder, a former office-bearer of Lucknow University Students Union and his aide were shot dead in the post Nehru Enclave area of Gomtinagar.

An undertrial accused in a double murder case fled away from the court premises in Lucknow, after giving a slip to the police guarding him, police said today.

The employees of Lucknow University resumed work on Wednesday, but not before starting a relay hunger strike.

State Economic Offences Wing (EOW) on Thursday raided five premises in Bhopal, including that of then chief municipal officer (CMO) and sub-engineer of Kolar municipality in connection with unauthorised building permissions to builders.

A notorious shooter, Anshu Dikshit, escaped from police custody on Thursday noon. Dikshit was an accused in CMO VK Arya murder case but was later given clean chit.

Police on Saturday arrested the father of two of the three accused in Vinod Tripathi and Gaurav Singh murder case.

A seminar on management of diarrhoea in children was organised at Ursala Horsman Memorial (UHM) Hospital on Saturday.

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party Chattra Sabha candidate, Abhishek Singh 'Ashu' captured the prestigious Lucknow University Students Union president's post defeating his nearest rival Vijay Kumar Singh 'Pintu' of Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad by 741 votes.

LUCKNOW: The police on Thursday afternoon swooped on the Lucknow University hostels and picked up three students living illegally in the Golden Jubilee hostel.

Garbage collection vans have been missing from the roads of Sector 3 in Greater Noida West for the past few weeks.

The railway station in Samba district will soon have a freight terminal, the first of its kind in Jammu and Kashmir, having the capacity to move 6,000 to 9,000 metric tonnes of goods per day. A team assessed the requirement for infrastructure to operate the freight terminal for facilitating cheaper transportation of trade goods, raw material and finished goods.

The additional district judge in Kanpur ordered a first information report to be filed against an unidentified person for fabricating a forged arrest warrant to arrest Sonu Rathore, a resident of Kachchi Basti in Govind Nagar. Sonu and his father, Surendra Rathore, were arrested and presented before the court of Additional District Judge XIV around 4 pm.

With the monsoon in a tailspin and the rain deficit across the country rising to 42% on Friday, this month is in line to be among the driest months of June in India since systematic record-keeping began in 1901.

Vice-Chancellor RP Singh expelled 38 students - two of them girls - on charges of instigating violence and indulging in vandalism on the campus.

Tough days are ahead for Lucknow University vice-chancellor Prof RP Singh, as the state machinery gears up to nail him.