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  • Kanpur violence: Mayawati asks UP government to take action by ‘rising above religion, caste’ 

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati Saturday attacked the state government over the violence and stone-pelting in Kanpur, asking the BJP dispensation to take action against the culprits “by rising above religion, caste and party politics”.

    Her statement came after violence broke out in Kanpur on Friday, a day when President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath attended a function at the president’s ancestral village in Kanpur Dehat.

    READ MORE: Yogi directs strict action as clashes erupt in Kanpur

    Bombs were hurled and gunshots fired during the violence as members of a group attempted to shut shops over alleged insulting remarks made by BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma during a television debate recently, a senior police official said.

    In a tweet Saturday, Mayawati said, “Riots and violence that erupted in Kanpur during the visit of the president and the prime minister to Uttar Pradesh is very sad, unfortunate and worrying and also a sign of the failure of the police intelligence.

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    “The government has to understand that in the absence of law and order, how investment and development are possible in the state?” she said.

    She said the government should take strict legal action against the culprits “by rising above religion, caste and party politics and conduct an independent and impartial high-level inquiry”.

    She also appealed to people to avoid provocative speeches and maintain law and order, and peace.

    According to senior police officials, the situation in Kanpur is under control on Saturday morning, but heavy police force has been deployed in the violence-hit areas.

    Police have initiated investigation and arrested at least 18 people.

  • PM Modi to inaugurate Kanpur Metro on December 28

    By IANS

    NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the completed section of Kanpur Metro rail project on December 28.

    He will also inaugurate the Bina-Panki multiproduct pipeline project and attend the 54th convocation ceremony of IIT Kanpur.

    The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), in a statement, said: “Improving urban mobility has been one of the key focus areas of the Prime Minister. The inauguration of the completed section of the Kanpur Metro rail project is yet another step in this direction. This completed nine-kilometre long section is from IIT Kanpur to Moti Jheel.”

    “Modi will inspect the Kanpur Metro rail project and undertake a metro ride from IIT Metro station to Geeta Nagar. The entire length of the Metro rail project in Kanpur is 32 kilometre and is being built at a cost of more than Rs 11,000 crore.”

    The Prime Minister will inaugurate the Bina-Panki multiproduct pipeline project. The 356-km-long project has a capacity of nearly 3.45 million metric tonne per annum.

    Extending from Bina refinery in Madhya Pradesh to Panki in Kanpur, the project has been built at a cost of more than Rs 1,500 crore. It will help the region access petroleum products from the Bina refinery.

    Modi will be the chief guest of the 54th convocation of IIT Kanpur. During the convocation, all students will be issued digital degrees through an in-house blockchain-driven technology developed at the institute under the National Blockchain project.

    “The Prime Minister will launch the blockchain-based digital degrees. These digital degrees can be verified globally and are unforgeable,” the PMO added.

  • Scent of money leads I-T to Rs 150 corer cash in Kanpur

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: Wads of currency worth Rs 150 crore were confiscated so far during Income Tax raids at the premises of Kanpur businessman Piyush Jain on Friday. 

    The I-T raids, which commenced on Thursday, are still underway at various premises including the house, office, factory, cold store, and petrol pump of Jain in Kanpur, Kannauj, Mumbai, and Gujarat.

    The raids were initially conducted by GST officials on the charge of tax evasion but later drew in I-T sleuths also as more details about the unaccounted wealth amassed by the trader started surfacing.

    Jain, a perfume trader and the manufacturer of pan masala, is believed to be close to Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav. Jain had manufactured a perfume launched by Akhilesh a couple of months back.  

    Visuals of Jain’s wealth and the raids underway showed note-counting machines scattered on the floor, surrounded by wads of cash bundled in plastic and tape.

    Piyush Jain, basically belongs to Chhipatti in Kannauj where he has a residence, a perfume factory, cold store and a petrol pump.

    UP BJP spokesperson Rakesh Tripathi accused the SP of allegedly getting “help from corrupt people and goons”.

    But, SP leader Anurag Bhadouria tweeted that Jain was affiliated to the BJP and that the SP had nothing to do with this friend of the BJP, nor his perfume.

  • CM Adityanath visits Zika-hit Kanpur, reviews situation

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW:  With Zika infection tally breaching the 100-mark, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday visited the worst-hit Kanpur and spoke to family members of the patients besides reviewing the containment efforts.

    As many as 106 people have been diagnosed with the viral infection in the state so far with first case coming to light at Chakeri Air Force Station in Kanpur on October 23. The CM assured the people of Kanpur of taking all the measures to stop the spread of the virus. He said that of the 106 positive cases detected so far, 17 patients have already recovered. Five municipal wards of the city are in the grip of the virus, said Yogi.

    He urged Kanpur residents not to panic as the district administration, health department and municipal authorities have been strategically working to increase surveillance, sanitisation and investigation in the affected areas.

    “Our team is identifying symptomatic people and providing them with medicine kits,” he said, adding that the remaining patients would recover soon. A senior health official in Kanpur said around 100 teams are deployed in the city for source-reduction, 100 teams for home-sampling and additional 15 rapid response teams (RRT) to check the virus’ spread. “The source-detection teams visited 3,777 houses on Tuesday taking the cumulative tally to 40,238,” he said. The official further said relatives of the patients were under the surveillance.

  • In biggest single-day jump, 30 more test positive for Zika in Kanpur as tally rises to 66

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: In the biggest single-day jump in cases, 30 more persons tested positive for the vector-borne Zika virus in Kanpur on Thursday. This has taken the tally of cases to 66 after the first case was reported in the city on October 23.

    According to Kanpur chief medical officer Dr Nepal Singh, with Thursday’s confirmation by the National Institute for Virology, Pune, where samples were sent for testing three days ago, of the 66 cases, 45 are males and 21 females.

    Zika is a mosquito-borne virus that spreads through the bite of an infected species of mosquito named Aedes aegypti. According to the World Health Organization, the Aedes mosquitoes usually bite during the day, peaking during early morning and late afternoon or evening.

    The first case of the infection was reported in an IAF member at the Kanpur IAF station on October 23. Subsequently, three more cases were also discovered from the same area.

    Though the state health authorities had rushed teams to Kanpur and an area around 3 km radius, where the infection was found, was marked, new cases are being found in the periphery of the IAF station. The main affected areas comprise Lal Kurti, Mangla Vihar, Tiwaripur, Ompurwa, Jagaipurwa and Shyam Nagar localities, which are in the cantonment area but border the main Kanpur city.

    The 30 cases confirmed on Thursday have been reported from new localities such as Bhavanipur and Koyla Nagar, which are beyond the three-km radius area that the health department marked as areas of special interest.

    Kanpur district magistrate Vishakh G Iyer visited both the localities with health department officials. He later said seven teams were on the surveillance and they mainly focused on 350 houses on Thursday. As per the health authorities, around 100 teams were already in the field in Kanpur to ensure surveillance of pregnant women in the affected localities.

    Kanpur has the second-highest number of Zika cases so far, next only to Kerala where a total of 90 patients have been detected.

    On Monday, when only 11 cases were reported, the Uttar Pradesh health department said it has sounded an alert across districts and intensified surveillance under its infectious disease control campaign to identify cases of infection,including the Zika virus, in the early stages.

    The following day, CM Yogi had convened an emergency meeting of officials during which he issued directives to apply the Covid “trace, test, treat” formula to check the spread of dengue and Zika infections.

  • Centre sends multidisciplinary team to Kanpur after Zika virus case reported

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Union Health Ministry has sent a high-level multidisciplinary team to Uttar Pradesh where a case of Zika virus disease has been reported.

    A 57-year-old man from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh tested positive for Zika virus on October 22.

    In a statement, the ministry said the multidisciplinary team comprising an entomologist, public health specialists and gynaecologist drawn from the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, National Centre for Disease Control and RML Hospital, New Delhi has been deployed to assist the state health authorities for control and containment measures of Zika virus disease.

    The team shall work closely with the state health department, take stock of the situation on the ground and assess whether the Union Health Ministry’s Action Plan for Zika Management is being implemented.

    The team will also recommend necessary public health interventions for management of Zika in the state, the statement said.

  • UP reports first Zika virus case, Centre rushes experts’ team to Kanpur 

    By Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: The Union health ministry on Monday dispatched a multi-disciplinary team to Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh where a case of Zika virus has been detected in a 57-year-old male. The state is third, after Kerala and Maharashtra, to report Zika virus cases in India this year. 

    The central team of an entomologist, public health specialists and gynaecologist drawn from the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, National Center for Disease Control and Dr. RML Hospital, New Delhi has been deployed to assist the state health authorities. 

    The government said that the team will work closely with the state, take stock of the situation on the ground and assess whether the centre’s action plan for Zika management is being implemented. 

    The team has also been asked to recommend necessary public health interventions for the management of Zika. In August this year, soon after tens of Zika cases were recorded in Kerala, Maharashtra too had reported a few cases of the disease. 

    The Zika virus, transmitted through the aedes aegypti mosquito is characterised by fever, skin rashes, conjunctivitis, muscle and joint pain and its initial symptoms may be similar to Covid. 

    Though largely not very serious, it is mainly harmful to pregnant women, as the mother can pass the infection to her foetus during pregnancy or around the time of birth leading to microcephaly, a condition in which a baby’s head is significantly smaller than normal. 

    In the country, the first outbreak of the Zika virus was reported in Gujarat in January 2017 and the second in Tamil Nadu’s Krishnagiri district in July that year. Both these outbreaks were successfully contained through intensive surveillance and vector management. 

    Later, a large outbreak of the disease was reported in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh the next year and pregnant women were strongly advised against visiting the affected areas.

  • Kanpur: Samajwadi Party youth wing office-bearer shot dead, accused arrested

    By PTI

    KANPUR: A young Samajwadi Party office bearer was shot dead allegedly by a fellow party affiliate in Barra area here, a senior police officer said on Saturday.

    The incident took place on on Friday evening and the deceased person has been identified as Harsh Yadav (20), a law student and resident of Damodar Nagar in Barra.

    Yadav was recently made the district vice-president of Samajwadi Yuvjan Sabha of Kanpur Dehat, said an official.

    Police, however, claimed to have arrested prime accused Shivendra Singh (23), who has an affiliation with the SP, on Saturday morning in an encounter.

    Kanpur Police Commissioner Asim Arun said the accused confessed to his crime during interrogation.

    Singh and Yadav had gone together outside for drinks and they fought over some issues related to liquor.

    An angry Singh took out an illegal pistol in his possession and fired at Harsh, who sustained bullet injuries on his head, forehead and stomach, resulting in his death, police said.

  • Six cops charged with murder of Kanpur businessman in Gorakhpur

    By PTI

    GORAKHPUR: A case of murder has been registered against six policemen in connection with the death of the Kanpur-based businessman here, officials said on Wednesday.

    Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath talked to the victim’s wife, Meenakshi Gupta, on Tuesday night and extended his condolences while the state government announced Rs 10 lakh as financial assistance for the family.

    Thirty-six-year-old Manish Gupta had died under suspicious circumstances inside a hotel in Ramgarhtal area here on Monday.

    A case under section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered against the six policemen and a hunt has been launched to nab them, Senior Superintendent of Police, Gorakhpur, Vipin Tada said.

    The policemen booked for murder include J N Singh, sub inspector Vijay Yadav and Phalmandi Police post in-charge Akshay Mishra, Gorakhpur DM Vijay Kiran Anand said.

    The authorities had suspended the policemen, including the Ramgarhtal SHO on Tuesday, and handed over the probe to the superintendent of police (city).

    Meenakshi Gupta alleged that her husband died due to police beating.

    However, police claimed that the businessman fell on the ground in an inebriated state and died due to the head injury that he sustained.

    The wife of the deceased had refused to accept her husband’s body after the post-mortem examination insisting on first registering a case against the policemen.

    However, the family members took the body and left for Kanpur at around 1 am on Tuesday night, Anand said.

    According to police, during checking on Monday night, the Ramgarhtal Police found that three people were staying on an ID of one Chandan Saini of Mahadeva Bazar in the Sikriganj area of Gorakhpur.

    On getting suspicious, they went to the room where Manish Gupta was with his two friends, Pradeep Chauhan and Hari Chauhan of Gurgaon.

    Police said while they were questioning the trio, Manish Gupta fell on the ground as he was in a drunken state and suffered a head injury.

    He was taken to the BRD Medical College where he died during treatment, police claimed.

     

  • Woman raped, pushed to death from 10th floor in Kanpur; one held

    By PTI

    KANPUR: A 19-year-old woman was allegedly raped and pushed to death from the 10th floor of a building by her employer, police said here on Thursday.

    Accused Prateek Vaish (40), a dairy operator, initially tried to mislead police but later confessed to his crime, an official said.

    The accused took the victim, who worked as his secretary, to his flat in Kalyanpur on Tuesday on the pretext of some official work.

    He tried to persuade her to have a physical relationship by offering money but when she refused, he raped her, Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) BBGTS Murthy said.

    After she was raped, the woman threatened to report the matter to police, following which the accused pushed her from the balcony of his 10h floor flat, resulting in her death, he said.

    The DCP said Prateek was arrested on Wednesday and produced before the chief metropolitan magistrate.

    He was sent to judicial custody by the court, he said.