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Auction issue: Kishore writes to President for returning award

Noted Gandhian writer and Padmashree awardee Giriraj Kishore, who was distressed over the auction of memorabilia associated with Mahatama Gandhi, on Wednesday wrote to President Pratibha Patil wanting

Eloped couple found dead in Kanpur

Bodies of a man and a woman from Uttarakhand, who had eloped some weeks back, were found hanging from a ceiling fan at a rented accommodation in Govindnagar here on Tuesday. No suicide note was found.

Auction issue: Gandhian upset over no response from PM

Noted Gandhian writer and Padmashree awardee Giriraj Kishore, who had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking a stop to auction of soil and other stuff stained with Mahatma Gandhi's blood in

Kanpur boy who never missed a class in 14 years

In a country where bunking classes is common, a 17-year-old Muslim boy stands out in stark contrast. He has not missed a single class in 14 years of school life.

Meet Mohammed Omar, student of St Alo

IAF officer seeks UP CM's intervention in daughter's rape case

An IAF officer, whose 17-year-old daughter tried to end her life after being allegedly sexually exploited by a Deputy SP rank police officer, on Wednesday appealed to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhi

Man kills daughter, honour killing suspected in Kanpur

In a suspected case of honour killing, a man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly murdering his daughter in the Shivrajpur area of this district, police said.

The incident took place early this mo

Plain clothes police mistaken for kidnappers; assaulted

Police personnel in plain clothes, who were taking a notorious criminal in an unmarked jeep, were assaulted by locals after they mistook them for kidnappers, police said here on Monday.

The incident

Youth shoots at cops inside Kanpur police station

A sub-inspector and a constable of Uttar Pradesh police were shot at and critically wounded inside a police station by a drunken youth here on early Friday, police said.

Sub-inspector Devendra Singh

Class XI student gangraped by friend, two others

A 17-year-old girl studying in class XI was on Saturday gangraped in a hotel here by her friend and two others after one of them offered her cold drink laced with sedatives, police said.

The girl wa

Dacoits kill two children, loot lakhs

Dacoits killed two children of a family and looted lakhs of rupees in Shivrajpur area of the district on Saturday, police said here.

The incident took place around 5 a.m. in the morning when six dac

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