Ghaziabad: Six people including 5 children electrocuted to death in Loni
India | December 30, 2019 11:18 ISTSix members of a family were electrocuted to death after a short-circuit at a house in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad on Monday.
Six members of a family were electrocuted to death after a short-circuit at a house in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad on Monday.
FNG expressway connecting Faridabad-Noida-Ghaziabad might soon be a reality that will add to commuters' convenience. The expressway will be 56 km long with an 11 km 6-lane underpass at Noida-Greater Noida expressway.
The authorities in Uttar Pradesh have suspended internet services in multiple cities in view of the protests against the new citizenship law and Friday prayers. Kanpur, Agra, Meerut, Sambhal, Mathura, Saharanpur, Bijnor, Sitapur, Bulandshahr, Firozabad and Ghaziabad are some of the regions where the services won't work till late evening Friday.
The Ghaziabad administration has been examining CCTV footage to identify not merely trouble-makers but also peacemakers who tried to pacify violent mobs during the anti-CAA stir last week in the district and has decided to honour 57 such good samaritans, said district magistrate on Tuesday.
A criminal case has been registered against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Amanatullah Khan for allegedly inciting violence during the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protest. Uttar Pradesh Police on Monday booked the MLA after an FIR was registered at the Kotwali police station in Ghaziabad on December 18. "A case has been registered against the MLA under six different sections. A section of Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008 has also been added to it," Sudhir Kumar Singh, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Ghaziabad told IANS.
In Ghaziabad, more than 65 people were arrested and FIRs registered against 350 anti-social elements on Saturday.
As a precautionary measure, the administration has shut internet in parts of Gautam Buddh Nagar and Ghaziabad. The feeling was echoed by a petrol pump staff at Vaishali in Ghaziabad. "Online payments are easy and used frequently. More people are switching to it.
Amid ongoing protests against the new Citizenship law, internet services in Ghaziabad have been suspended till 10 pm on Friday. The Ghaziabad district administration in a statement said: "Internet services to be suspended in the district from 10 pm on Thursday till 10 pm on December 20."
All schools in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad, Noida and Greater Noida will remain closed on December 19 and December 20 due to cold wave in the region. Separate orders were issued by the administration of the two adjoining districts on Wednesday evening.
A man in an inebriated state crushed the leg of a filling station worker under his SUV here, police said on Saturday. The SUV driver perhaps wanted to shock the victim by driving close to him but lost control of the vehicle, Kavi Nagar Station House Officer Mohammad Aslam told PTI.
A salon owner was injured in gunfire after a drunk man shot him in Ghaziabad district on Sunday, police said. He is recovering at GTB Hospital in east Delhi. Arun was busy at work inside his saloon in Vikas Nagar area of Loni, when Lalit alias Kaloo came there in an inebriated state, they said. Lalit started hurling abuses at him leading to an argument between the two.
On October 25, the body of a man lying in pool of blood was recovered from a room in Tukmirpur, Delhi. The deceased was later identified as Amit. According to police, on the intervening night of October 23 and 24 Amit asked Pranjal to return the money he had lent him and the two had an argument.
A low-intensity earthquake measuring 2.7 hit Baghpat and Ghaziabad districts in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, the National Centre for Seismology said.
Three suspected robbers have been arrested after two separate encounters in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad district, police said. Acting on a tip-off, police intercepted two men who were driving a stolen car. When the two tried to flee, they fired upon the police personnel, who retaliated, Senior Superintendent of Police Sudhir Kumar Singh said.
The airport has come closer for thousands of air passengers in East Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad and distant places like Meerut. In what can be music to lakh of air travellers, Delhi-NCR's second airport for commercial flights will begin its operations from Hindon Civil Airport starting Friday (October 11).
Ghaziabad police said the sex racket was going on in Indirapuram's Niti Khand area for a long time. The raids were carried out along with the Sub-Divisional Magistrate of the area at three spa centres - Jannat, Mapple-1 and Mapple-2.
An FIR under sections of IPC was lodged against Tyagi, Shamshudin and Umar for illegally occupying the government land, said Sudhir Sharma, city zone in-charge of the Nagar Nigam.
A city resident has alleged that his 35-year-old son died of heart attack at a hospital after an altercation with the traffic police over a suspected violation.
A 30-year old software engineer was killed in a recent ‘hit and run’ case on Delhi-Meerut GT road in Ghaziabad's Modi Nagar. The incident happened on September 1 when the victim, Ved Prakash Khatri, was walking towards his home and was hit by a black Honda City car.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced financial assistance of Rs 10 lakh to the kin of the deceased.
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