Shamim Ahmad

As the holy month of Ramzan has commenced, special arrangements have been made at all mosques of the city for offering 'Taraweeh' prayers.

State law minister shamim ahmad on Tuesday said a building equipped with various facilities and dedicated to the Bar Council will be set up in each district. He further said the government was working for speedy judicial process.

To ward off the negative effects of solar eclipse, special prayers were organised at mosques of the city on Friday.

Fed up with the harassment and sexual advances of a moneylender, three sisters, all in their 20s, stabbed the man to death.shamim ahmad, who had given a loan of Rs 1 lakh to the women's father, was stabbed 20 times at his house in Shamli on Tuesday night.

GHAZIABAD: A fast track court in Ghaziabad acquitted Khekra MLA Madan Bhaiya from a case relating to the murder of a rival Independent candidate during the assembly elections last February.

Distributing the Bible and other religious books and imparting good teachings could not be called an allurement for religious conversion, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court said Wednesday, and granted bail to two persons booked under the UP Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021.

On Sunday, a city court in Kolkata denied bail to 18 Indian secular front supporters, including MLA Naushad Siddique, and asked that a minor arrested in connection with the clash with cops on Saturday be produced before the juvenile justice board on Tuesday. A baruipur court also sent the 43 arrested for fomenting violence in Bhangar to police custody for 10 days. The bankshall court premises turned into a virtual fortress on Sunday afternoon as 19 ISF supporters including MLA Siddique and the minor were produced in the court. Siddique shouted slogans as he entered the court ISF workers carrying posters and banners also shouted slogans and demanded the immediate release of Siddiquepublic prosecutor Arup Chakraborty argued that some people are trying to disturb the peace in the state. "Cops were attacked and bricks thrown at them there are a few more who are not arrested yet," Siddique's lawyer shamim ahmad said. "Most of them are teachers and took part in a peaceful protest. There was a scuffle with the police and many of the ISF workers including the Bhangar MLA were arrested. Is it a step keeping the forthcoming panchayat poll in mind?" Siddique, who sought the magistrates permission

The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on Tuesday refused to quash the criminal proceedings launched against a scribe for sharing a false post on Twitter.

Four miscreants allegedly barged into a vegetable merchant’s house, held him and his guests hostage at gunpoint and robbed jewellery and cash totaling Rs 7 lakh from them on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday

Hundreds of devotees thronged the tombs of Sufi saints Syed Shah Abdul Halim Akbari and Syed Shah Mohd Abdullah Akbari on the last day of annual Urs on Sunday.

State BJP chief Dr Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal on Tuesday said the Supreme Court and the Election Commission should take suo motu cognizance of the bid of RJD MLA from Narkatia shamim ahmad to hide from the authorities concerned the two criminal cases pending against him. He also pleaded for the annulment of Ahmad’s election.

LUCKNOW: All domestic and power connections are being checked by Lucknow Electricity Supply Administration in its ongoing ‘combing operation’.

Policeman shamim ahmad was asked by the terrorists to lead them towards the guard post, however, he raised an alarm and the alert jawans inside the post foiled the weapon snatching bid.

Fed up with the harassment and sexual advances of a moneylender, three sisters, all in their 20s, stabbed the man to death. shamim ahmad, who had given a loan of Rs one lakh to the women’s father, was stabbed 20 times at his house in Shamli on Tuesday night.

State assembly Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha on Monday asked the chairpersons of various House committees to start their legislature-related meetings from Wednesday after the relaxations made in the lockdown. Sinha also directed the assembly secretariat officials to prepare their meeting schedule, ensuring that only seven to eight committees could hold their meetings on any single day to avoid crowding at one place.

PM Modi on Sunday hailed the conviction of 49 people in the Ahmedabad serial blasts case, calling it the fulfilment of his vow “to bring the perpetrators of jihadi terrorism to justice” and contrasting BJP’s commitment to the country with Samajwadi Party's alleged image as “a patron of terrorists”.

The Uttar Pradesh Football Sangh secretary, accused of sexual harassment, took shelter under the law to attend executive committee meeting of AIFF on Wednesday.

Various alam and mehndi processions were taken out in the Old City on the ninth day of Muharram on Thursday to pay tributes to Imam Husain and his 72 faithful companions who laid down their lives for justice at the battlefield of Karbala.

A programme was organised at Khanqah Abulolaiya at Chak to commemorate the completion of the recitation of the holy Quran.

Forty-three years after Moradabad witnessed one of the bloodiest communal clashes in UP after Partition, the report of the Justice Mathura Prasad Saxena judicial commission constituted to look into the August 13, 1980 flare-up was tabled in the assembly Tuesday.

A woman constable posted at the Koilwar police station in Bhojpur district had to bear the humiliation of being slapped by a fellow police driver in full public view on Tuesday.

A bus conductor was killed and three CRPF personnel were injured in two landmine blasts triggered by suspected Maoists near Pomgir village in West Singhbhum on Tuesday morning.