Bhanu Bhaskar

Three individuals died in Meerut after consuming country liquor, experiencing severe vomiting and abdominal pain. Preliminary investigations are underway to determine if the deaths are linked to the alcohol's quality, with a post-mortem examination pending to ascertain the exact cause. Officials are probing the incident, and family members staged a protest.

SIT set up in Jan last year found enhanced compensation paid to landowners in 20 cases was exorbitant

Uttar Pradesh Police are undergoing spiritual training, including sessions with Brahma Kumari motivational speaker Sister Shivani, to prepare for Maha Kumbh 2025. The training emphasizes mental resilience, stress management, and spiritual growth alongside physical preparedness. Senior officials like DG Training Tilottama Verma and ADG Prayagraj Zone Bhanu Bhaskar attended the sessions aimed at enhancing officers' effectiveness during the religious gathering.

Commissionerate police will now investigate the Bikru incident wherein eight policemen, including a deputy SP rank official, were killed on the night of July 2 in 2020. Till now, ADG Kanpur Bhanu Bhaskar was investigating the case.

In a bid to check rising cases of cybercrime in small districts of Prayagraj zone comprising Mahoba, Hamirpur, Chitrakoot, and Banda, the senior zone cops have tweaked their approach to tackle increasing instances of cybercrime.

A new era of water sports on Friday began in the city when CM Yogi Adityanath dedicated the much-awaited Boat Club to the residents of this city.Around 300 students from SNS Junior High School, DPS Inter College, Moti Lal Kheria and Saryu Narayan Bal Vidyalaya played the role of a host.

From senior officials getting on the ground to maintain vigil, deploying additional forces in all sensitive and trouble-prone areas, to snapping internet connectivity, the Prayagraj police did everything it could to maintain law and order after the sensational killing of gangster brothers Atiq Ahmed and Khalid Azim alias Ashraf in Sangam city where they had held sway for four decades.

A disaster management exercise was conducted in Prayagraj on Tuesday in preparation for the Maha Kumbh 2025. Led by Lt Gen (retd) Yogendra Dimri, the exercise focused on inter-agency coordination and preemptive training. Over 10,000 "Disaster Mitras" are ready to assist. Officials discussed crowd and traffic management, responses to fires and drownings, and the importance of disaster response training.

The Allahabad high court (HC) has expressed displeasure with the speed of investigation in the case of the death of a 16-year-old student in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri back in 2019.

Nearly 13 passengers were injured after a private bus going from Delhi to Patna overturned in Araul area of Billhaur on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway on Friday morning. The injured were admitted to Lala Lajpat Rai hospital.

With the Makar Sankranti falling on two days this time on January 14 and 15, the Magh Mela authorities and the district administration have made a foolproof plan to ensure that the first major snan of the annual religious fair is glitch-free.

A 50-year-old constable died after the roof of an old barrack’s veranda collapsed at reserve police lines under Kotwali police circle of Banda district late on Monday night.

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath during his visit to the LLR hospital caught sight of a crying child in the lap of a woman patient admitted in the postoperative patient (POP) ward on the first floor.

The new Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted to probe the mysterious death of a Class 11 girl at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Manipuri, in 2019, will now conduct narco and lie detector test of one of the accused Ankur Agnihotri, son of Ram Naresh Agnihotri, a UP minister.

The human face of the police came to the fore once again when it stood firmly behind the girl child, who was found injured and profusely bleeding in Gursahaiganj area of Kannauj district on October 23, and is battling for life at a private hospital in Kanpur.

In compliance with the instructions of the chief minister Yogi Adityanath, the Principal Secretary, Home, Sanjay Prasad and Director General of Police (DGP) Vijay Kumar, have given necessary guidelines during a detailed review meeting held at Prayagraj regarding preparations for the safe organisation of Kanwar yatra, on Saturday. The meeting was attended by the officials of Prayagraj, Kanpur, Jhansi and Chitrakoot divisions.

A three-member SIT set up by Prayagraj police commissioner will probe the killing of Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf. The team will comprise additional DCP Satish Chandra, ACP Satyendra Prasad Tiwari and inspector Kotwali police station, Om Prakash.

Minister of State Pratibha Shukla and former MP Anil Shukla Warsi, on Thursday, met the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow and apprised him about the death of a trader -Balwant Singh in police custody in Kanpur Dehat.

Continuing drive against gangsters and criminals, properties worth Rs 130 crore of former SP MLA Deep Narayan Yadav were seized in Jhansi on Sunday.