Mohammad Nasir

Four individuals have been taken into custody in Dhanbad after their audacious attempt to extort Rs 1 crore from a businessman was uncovered. These suspects claimed ties to notorious gangster Prince Khan, using intimidation tactics to achieve their ends. In a twist, they also had their sights set on a nearby private hospital.

A Bangladeshi dacoit gang, known for their 'strike and vanish' tactics across India, was apprehended in Delhi after a shootout. Six members were arrested, with police crediting the operation to human intelligence. The gang is linked to 14 major cases of robbery, dacoity, and murder, often targeting senior citizens with extreme brutality.

Two serial killers of the three arrested by the police for having allegedly executed seven murders, on Monday, confessed to their involvement in another murder of a 23-year-old woman, Kiran Devi of Sunder Nagar.

Additional sessions judge Vinod Yadav directed that the amount of fine to be recovered from the station house officer (SHO) of Bhajanpura police station and his supervising officers, saying tthey miserably failed in their statutory duties.

A sessions court here has set aside a magisterial court's order of January 20, 2012, that rejected the ICICI Bank's plea for interim custody of over Rs 26 lakh, which the police recovered during the investigation of a fraudulent transfer of Rs 1.85 crore from an account in the bank in 2010.

Mohammad Nasir, a passenger on an IndiGo flight from Dammam to Lucknow, was caught smoking in the aircraft lavatory and subsequently fined. The cabin crew noticed the smell of smoke and alerted authorities after the flight landed. Nasir, a frequent traveler and resident of Lucknow, was handed over to the police and booked for causing a public nuisance.

Traders of Dharchula, who have border trade with China, through Lipulekh pass, and Nepal, can use their aadhaar and PAN cards until their Goods and Services Tax (GST) registration formalities are completed

A team of experts from Kanpur zoo, on Friday, caught a leopard which had sneaked into human habitat in Chunar area of Mirzapur district. The leopard had attacked three people leaving them injured.

Anti-corruption bureau sleuths caught a police constable red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 1,500.

In a special operation against illegal firearms and weapons, the Jhalawar city police in coordination with the district special team (DST) arrested five arms smugglers from NH-52 (A) on Monday. Police recovered 10 pistols, two country-made revolvers, 35 live cartridges and seized two luxury cars from them.

A team of UP Pollution Control Board officials from Lucknow arrived at Kanpur zoo on Sunday and collected water samples from the zoo lake to study them in the lab.

The accused Rajendran Nair, branch manager of Allahabad Bank in Bhamraja village, had demanded bribe of Rs 1,500 from a farmer Mohammad Nasir to expedite the payment. Nair was caught red-handed when he took the cash.

The state capital’s syncretic culture of harmony and religious co-existence comes alive with Hindu families mourning the martyrdom of Imam Hussain at Karbala in the week of Muharram which coincides with Navratra fast and festivity this year.

For the first time since zoo's inception, the vets here have hand-fed the week (7 days) old chicks of Barn Owl and Jungle Owl. These chicks had been handed over to Kanpur zoo some two months ago by villagers who had spotted them fallen outside the nest.

Three men were arrested on Thursday by the crime branch (Unit XI) on charges of vehicle theft.

A 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a peon of a madrassa in its hostel in Ghosi area of Mau district.

In the absence of documented values (such as platelets count, haemoglobin) of blood of Indian leopards, the diagnosis of diseases in these big cats used to remain a tough task for the veterinarians. But the Kanpur zoo vets have found out the haematological values of blood of the leopard by conducting two tests. .

A team of veterinarians performed bone surgery on a hog deer on Saturday.The animal had suffered fracture in its foreleg.The operation lasted for three hours.