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  • Mother, two children die in house collapse in Kanpur

    By PTI

    KANPUR: A woman and her two children were killed after a three-storey house in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur collapsed on Thursday morning, police officials said.

    The incident occurred in the Bekanganj area in the city.

    It was not immediately clear what led to the collapse of the building.

    A woman, in her mid-30s, and her two children died when the roof of the first floor of the house collapsed, while her husband sustained injuries and is undergoing treatment, police said.

    “The husband, his wife and their two children lived on the ground floor of the house. The house collapsed in the morning after which a fire brigade team and local police officials rushed to the spot and pulled out the family members trapped in the rubble,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Kanpur East) Anoop Singh said.

    “They were rushed to the Ursula Hospital where doctors declared the wife, the son and the daughter (both minors) dead,” Singh said.

    The condition of the husband is stated to be stable, he said.

  • Muslim man thrashed in Kanpur, asked to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ as minor daughter tries to save him

    By PTI

    KANPUR: A Muslim man was assaulted in the public and allegedly asked to chant “Jai Shri Ram” even as his minor daughter tried to save him, said police here on Thursday.

    A one-minute video of the incident surfaced on social media on Wednesday.

    The 45-year-old man is seen being assaulted by some men, who ask him to chant “Jai Shri Ram”.

    The victim’s daughter is seen trying to save her father, crying and asking the attackers not to beat him.

    Later, some policemen took the man to their Jeep.

    The footage also shows the man being hit while in police custody.

    Deputy Police Commissioner (South) Raveena Tyagi said the matter came to the fore at the Kacchi Basti locality near the Ram Gopal crossing in the Barra area of Kanpur on Wednesday.

    “On the complaint of the victim, we have lodged an FIR and legal action is underway,” she said.

    Police, however, did not mention the name of the organisation involved in the act.

    The victim, an e-rickshaw driver, said around 3 pm, some people started abusing and assaulting him.

    They threatened to kill his family.

    He said he was saved by police.

    The man is a relative of a Muslim family, which is involved in a dispute with their Hindu neighbours in the Kanpur locality.

    Police statement says in July, the two families filed cases against each other at the local police station.

  • Can’t deny possibility of terror modules, sleeper cells in Kanpur: UP DGP Mukul Goel

    His statement came in the wake of the ATS recently arresting some people in Lucknow over suspected terrorist activities.

  • Stuck in traffic during President visit, UP woman dies of post-Covid complications

    Express News Service
    LUCKNOW: Stuck in traffic following diversions to facilitate the ongoing visit of President Ram Nath Kovind, the 50-year-old local chairperson of the women wing of the Indian Industries Association (IIA) died due to post-Covid complications in UP’s Kanpur on Friday. 

    While apologizing over Twitter for the tragic incident, the Kanpur Police Commissioner has ordered an investigation into the incident and four cops, including a sub-inspector and three constables, have been suspended. The probe ordered by the Kanpur Police Commissioner Asim Arun will be done by ADCP (Kanpur South). 

    According to sources, Vandana Mishra, a resident of Kidwai Nagar, was infected with Covid in April, but nearly two months after testing negative for the viral infection, she was still experiencing post-Covid complications, owing to which she had to be taken to hospital on multiple occasions since then. 

    “On Friday afternoon she went for some clinical examinations and tests at the hospital and returned at around 4.30 pm. But a couple of hours after returning home, she started complaining of nausea and other health problems, after which her kin took her in their car to a premier hospital. On the way to the hospital, the vehicle got stuck in traffic near the GovindPuri flyover. With her condition becoming critical, her kin, who included a doctor, tried to revive her. On reaching the hospital, the doctors declared her dead and added that had she been brought in time to the hospital, she could well have been saved,” an IIA-Kanpur office-bearer said.   

    A senior Kanpur Police Commissionerate officer said the traffic was diverted or stopped at various places as the Special Presidential Train was to pass through the concerned area of Kanpur City. 

    The President is on a three-day visit to Kanpur since Friday.

    Meanwhile, the Kanpur Police Commissioner Asim Arun in a tweet apologised for the incident, “Personally as well as on behalf of the Kanpur City Police, I apologize for the tragic incident. It has been a major lesson for the future, we take a vow that the route arrangements in future in such situations will be such that commoners are stopped for a minimum possible time to prevent reoccurrence of such tragic incidents.” 

    In another tweet, Arun wrote: “The Honourable President has expressed his condolences on the untimely death of sister Vandana Mishra.  The Kanpur Police Commissioner and the District Magistrate were called by him (the President), where he inquired from them about the incident and conveyed condolences to the bereaved family. Both the senior officers attended the funeral and conveyed the President’s message to the bereaved family.” 

    The mortal remains of Vandana Mishra were consigned to flames at the electric crematorium in Kanpur on Saturday. Her kin didn’t speak to the media about the incident. 

  • Probe ordered into mismanagement, black marketing of Remdesivir in Kanpur’s GSVM Medical College

    By ANI
    KANPUR: After allegations of mismanagement and black marketing of Remdesivir injections, Kanpur’s Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial (GSVM) Medical College on Sunday constituted a team to investigate the matter.

    According to Dr RB Kamal, Principal, GSVM Medical College, the team has been asked to collect data on the allocation of injections.

    Speaking to the media, Kamal said, “Allegation of mismanagement and black marketing of Remdesivir injection has come into our notice. To investigate the matter a team has been constituted. They have been asked to collect data on the allocation of injections.” 

  • Bodies keep arriving at Kanpur crematoriums, belie official virus death count

    By PTI
    KANPUR: As coronavirus cases surge, the number of cremations taking place at the city’s crematoriums has increased several-fold — far more than the 66 deaths officially attributed to the virus in the entire district over the past six days.

    Data from Bhairoghat and Bhagwatghat crematoriums shows 462 bodies were consigned to flames from April 19 to April 24.

    People have to wait with the bodies for the last rites and the situation is no different at burial grounds.

    In the six-day period, Kanpur Nagar district officially recorded 66 COVID-19 deaths, while 406 cremations took place at Bhairoghat and 56 in Bhagwatghat alone.

    The Bhairoghat crematorium also includes an electric crematorium.

    “The number of cremations has risen several fold in the last week,” said Qamruddin, a Kanpur Municipal Corporation employee at the Bhairoghat electric crematorium.

    “Until last month, we were cremating less than 10 bodies a day, but for the last 10 days, we have been handling over 50 bodies every day,” he said.

    Data shows that 91 of the 406 funerals were performed at Bhairoghat on April 21 alone, he added.

    The spurt has forced the people to wait for hours to cremate the dead, Qamruddin said.

    “We are working for long and incinerators are running full time, but many people still have to wait with the bodies for the last rites,” he said.

    Additional District Magistrate Atul Kumar said information about all the COVID-19 patients as well as their recovery or deaths is uploaded on the government portal, so “it is impossible to hide or alter the death toll”.

    He, however, refused to comment over the large number of bodies being brought to the crematoriums, contrary to the COVID-19 death figures being shared with the media and displayed on the official portal.

    The divisional commissioner and the district magistrate were not available for their comments.

    According to Dhaniram Panther, a social worker who voluntarily performs last rituals of unclaimed bodies, the electric and firewood funerals at the crematoriums have been running without a break almost everyday during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    “Over 400 bodies were cremated in the last six days, while the official coronavirus death toll stood at 66 during the same period.

    We are working with 100 per cent capacity to cremate the bodies on time,” Panther said.

    The Bhairoghat crematorium has cremated 50 to 90 bodies a day during the last week, far in excess of the city’s official daily coronavirus death toll of approximately 10, said Panther.

    “I have been regularly performing cremations of unclaimed bodies for decades, but I haven’t seen bodies in such large numbers awaiting funeral.

    Sometimes the crematorium ran out of wood and people were asked to bring it themselves,” Panther said.

    A large number of bodies are being brought to the Muslim graveyards as well for burial and many graveyards are left with no space for further burial of bodies, Panther said.

    A health official said 1,060 people have died so far from the coronavirus in the Kanpur Nagar district according to official data, while over 100 such deaths were reported in the last 11 days.

     

  • Night curfew implemented in Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi due to increasing cases of corona

    Yogi Adityanath’s government in Uttar Pradesh has decided to impose night curfew in Lucknow, Kanpur and Varanasi from Thursday. The curfew will be implemented from 8 April and will remain in effect till 16 April. The curfew will continue from ten in the night to six in the morning. According to an order issued by Lucknow District Magistrate Abhishek Prakash, the night curfew will be applicable only in the Lucknow Municipal Corporation area and not in the rural area. Supply of fruits, vegetables, milk, LPG, petrol-diesel and medicine will continue. Government and semi-government personnel working in night shifts and private sector personnel engaged in services of essential commodities will be exempted during this period.

    He further said, this restriction will not apply to medical, nursing and para medical institutions. People coming to and from the railway station, bus station and airport will be able to travel by showing their tickets. There will also be no restriction on the movement of goods trains. In the last 24 hours, 1,333 new cases of corona have been registered in Lucknow, while 6,023 new cases have been registered in the state.

    In a meeting held late on Wednesday night, the Chief Minister has also instructed other district magistrates of the state that if they get more than 500 cases in their area, then they too can impose night curfew in the area. A night curfew will also be imposed in Benares from April 8, which will continue from 9 in the morning to 6 in the morning. During this time, all non-medical institutions will be closed.

  • Vikas Dubey encounter: Late gangster’s aides try to sell weapons through links in Madhya Pradesh

    By Express News Service
    BHOPAL: Eight months after he was gunned down in an alleged encounter on Kanpur’s outskirts by the Uttar Pradesh Police’s Special Task Force, slain gangster Vikas Dubey and his gang are still said to have loyalists in Madhya Pradesh.

    Two men, Abhishek Sharma and Jaggu Kushwah, both natives of Mehgaon and Bhind Dehat area of Bhind district were arrested by the police on Saturday and two guns belonging to the slain gangster’s gang were seized from them.

    One of the two guns was a semi-automatic rifle of US make, while the other gun was a 12 bore double barrel gun. Both the seized guns were licensed weapons owned by Dubey’s kin and gang members. One of the guns was licensed in the name of Dubey’s brother Deepak Dubey, who had quietly surrendered before a Lucknow court in December 2020, five months after his most wanted brother’s arrest and encounter.

    According to IG (Chambal Range) Manoj Sharma, the two men had been tasked to sell the two guns to interested people, particularly the semi-automatic rifle which was likely to fetch prices running into lakhs of rupees.

    Among the arrested duo, Sharma is also accused in the theft of 14 guns from the safe custody of the Bhind district court a year and half back. 12 of those guns have been seized so far. The recent arrest comes close on the heels of the arrest of seven men by the Uttar Pradesh STF from Kanpur Dehat area.

    The arrested men included another Bhind resident Manish Yadav, who is the alleged link between Dubey’s gang and his aides in UP and the duo arrested on Saturday. The seven men arrested from Kanpur Dehat area on March 1 had allegedly rendered shelter to Dubey and were accused of selling and buying weapons used by Dubey’s gang members.

    It is recalled that Dubey and hs gang had allegedly killed eight Uttar Pradesh police personnel on the intervening night of July 2 and 3 last year. He had subsequently gone underground, particularly after his key aides were killed in police encounter, before surfacing at the Mahakaleshwar Temple in Ujjain on July 9.

    He was arrested by the Madhya Pradesh Police and handed over to the UP Police the same day. Dubey was gunned down by the UP cops in an alleged encounter the next morning, after he tried to escape following the overturning of the vehicle in which he was being taken.

    After Dubey’s dramatic arrest in Ujjain and subsequent encounter in UP last year, two men were held by the Uttar Pradesh STF from Gwalior for giving shelter to key aides of Dubey, who were allegedly involved in the killing of the UP police personnel.

  • Bird flu reported at Kanpur Zoological Park, closed for 15 days

    By ANI
    KANPUR: A case of bird flu has been detected at Kanpur Zoological Park on Saturday, said Zoo Director Dr Sunil Choudhary. The zoo has been closed for visitors for 15 days, he added. Authorities will send more samples of birds in the coming days, Choudhary added.

    Kanpur Zoological Park authorities on Friday increased the monitoring as four birds were found dead in the premises on January 6. The samples have been sent to the Animal Disease Laboratory of Bhopal under high security.

    In the wake of the mortality of poultry, crows, and migratory birds from the states of Kerala, Karnataka, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh, the Centre has suggested measures to states and Union Territories to prevent the spread of the disease.

    The Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying in a release said that the states which have so far reported cases of avian influenza include Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Gujarat, and Uttar Pradesh.

  • Article :- Makka Ke baad Duniya Mein Sabase Jyaada Shraddhaalu Aate Hain Sabareemaala Mandir

    Today, two news items have received special significance in the international media:
    1 World Media at Allahabad again on Prayagraj.
    2.Most devotees in the world come after the Sabarimala Temple

    World Media on Allahabad Re: Prayagraj
    When UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath changed the name of Allahabad, he said that 500 years ago Allahabad was named Prayag. Due to the confluence of Triveni, this Prayagraj happened. This decision of the government is being seen in many ways, political parties are opposing it and there are different types of social media emerging. This news of changing the name of the city has also spread on newspapers, websites around the world.
    Nia’s several major newspapers have written this news in such a way that the Hindu-based government changed the Muslim name of the city. Many newspapers have criticized it and the BJP has targeted Yogi Adityanath.
    > NJ Sr. (British newspaper)
    On behalf of The Guardian, the Hindu pro-Hindu government of the state changed the name of the city because of its Muslim name. And it was given only by the Muslim ruler.
    > Trurusan Jinhaddhurs (Qatar)
    The Gulf Times has also presented this news aggressively. The newspaper has also distributed photos of people sharing sweets. He has also written that this decision is being considered as big before the Kumbha next year.
    > Sixth conviction (Pakistan)
    The Pakistani newspaper has been targeted directly by the Delhi-based Pakistan on the target of targeting the Bharatiya Janata Party. It has been said that the government of Hindutva party Kutchchwak changed the Muslim name to the name of the city in Sanskrit.
    > FalseWorldWhiteWorld (UK) The famous newspaper Independent has also written a very interesting note that the government of Hindu nationalists changed the Islamic name of the city and named it Sanskrit.
    Akbar had changed the name
    In fact, Allahabad was named Prayagraj in the Puranas but it was changed to Allahabad during Akbar’s reign. Historians say that Akbarnama and Miri Akbaris and other Mughal historical books are known that Akbar had laid the foundation of the fort in Prayagraj around 1574.
    Opposition parties in the state are opposing this decision. At the same time, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that those who do not understand the history and tradition of India, they are raising questions on this decision.
    Al-Jazeera has written, “The city’s new name Prayagaraj points towards the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna river, where the Kumbh Mela of Hindus is going to be held in January 2019. Earlier, in the year 2013, 100 million people had participated in the Kumbh Mela. Opposition party spokesperson, Onkar Singh, said that changing the name of this city has an impact on the contribution of the city in the fight for independence.
    Al-Jazeera has also written, “In the last year, he changed the name of Mughalsarai Railway Station to the name of BJP leader Deen Dayal Upadhyay. Along with this, the names of airports in Bareilly, Kanpur and Agra have been proposed to be changed. The percentage of Muslims in Uttar Pradesh’s 22 million people is about 19 percent. ”
    Most devotees in the world come after Sabrimala Temple after Mecca

    According to the website of Sabarimala Temple, people of all religions and castes are allowed to enter and worship in this temple, although there is a ban on the entry of women from 10 to 50 years long in the temple which is now the Supreme Court’s decision Has since been removed. The Supreme Court had said in its verdict that prohibiting the entry of women is a violation of the rights of equality of women. Sabarimala is one of the largest pilgrimages in the world, which opens for a particular time, in this, after Saudi Arabia’s maize, the most blessed are the people. Last year, 3.5 million people came to this temple in the temple. According to the Government of India data, during the 2016-17 festival, a donation of Rs 243.69 crore was received in the temple.
    The temple opens only on these special days
    For information, please tell that this temple does not open all year, but according to the Malayalam calendar, every month opens for 5 days. Apart from this, it is open from November to mid-January Mandal and Makaravilku for annual festivals. At Lord Ayyappa, Makar considers the day of Sankranti extremely special. On the day of Makar Sankranti, most devotees arrive in the temple to visit.
    The devotees who come to Sabarimala are kept on the head. This bottle contains nayadya. Which is also offered as a prasad. According to the belief of the temple, by wearing garland of Tulsi or Rudraksha, keeping a fast and taking neydev on the head, all the desires of the person who will come to see Lord Ayyappa are fulfilled.
    18 holy stairs
    The Sabarimala temple of Kerala is one of the most prominent temples of south India, 18 sacred stairs to climb up to this temple. These stairs have different meanings too. The first 5 stairs are symbols of the 5 senses of the human being, after that 8 stairs are symbols of human emotions. The next 3 stairs are considered human symbols and the last two stairs are symbols of knowledge and ignorance.
    Periods do not have connection
    According to MA Devaya, I have been going to Sabarimala temple for the last 25 years. People often ask me who has banned the entry of women in this temple, I give a small answer, “Ayyappa himself (God established in the temple). (According to the old stories), Ayapp unmarried