Under threat from ‘rivals’, BJP leader gets CISF security

Edit The Times of India 26 Oct 2016
MORADABAD. BJP MP Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh will now be guarded by commandos from the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) after the Centre agreed to provide him 'X' category protection ... "I have numerous political enemies and have continuously received threats ... Singh, 60, who is from an erstwhile princely family, is a prominent Thakur face of the BJP in Moradabad division, with influence in Bijnor, Sambhal and Amroha districts....

Karkardooma court shooting mastermind held

Edit The Hindu 25 Oct 2016
. The alleged mastermind of last year’s Karkardooma court shooting, in which a policeman died and three persons were injured, has been arrested ... The other murder was of a young woman in UP’s Amroha in 2012 ... In October 2012, she accompanied Naazim and Ahmed in a car to Amroha believing her live-in partner’s promise that he was planning to marry her. However, she was strangulated on an isolated stretch mid-way ... ....

Karkardooma Court firing main accused arrested

Edit Deccan Herald 25 Oct 2016
Mastermind of the Karkardooma court shootout case of 2015 where a Delhi Police head constable was killed has been arrested, police said on Monday. The accused Mohammad Azeem, 29, is also involved in the murder of a Shahdra-based trader this year ... More than six bullets were fired in the shootout ... On October, 2012, Azeem and Naazim took her in a car to Amroha in Uttar Pradesh on the pretext of attending a marriage ceremony ... ....

Jat quota agitators to campaign against BJP in 2017

Edit The Times of India 23 Oct 2016
AMROHA. The Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti has accused the BJP of allegedly betraying the community by ignoring its demand for reservation ... Malik was flagging off the first Jat Sankalp rally here. "BJP has abandoned the Jat community ... He had assured us that we would be given reservation ... The Jat leaders said that after the Amroha rally, other rallies will be held in Meerut and other districts of UP on November 6 ... RELATED....

Police seizes truck with 22 bullocks allegedly meant for cow slaughter; five found dead

Edit The Times of India 19 Oct 2016
Bijnor ... The police are on the lookout for driver of the mini truck who is absconding,. “After a tip off, we started checking vehicles at Noorpur on Amroha road ... RELATED....

EC’s social media push receives cold response from its own officers in poll-bound UP

Edit The Times of India 18 Oct 2016
BAREILLY ... In a letter dated September 9, EC had asked all CEOs to come up with a dedicated cell to handle social media and replicate the same model at the district level ... DEOs in other districts, like Pilibhit, Rampur, Badaun, Moradabad, Bijnor and Amroha, were either not aware of any such directive by the Election Commission or had failed to come up with a dedicated media cell citing resource and manpower crunch ... RELATED....

Three women die, one child injured after dry pond caves in

Edit The Times of India 12 Oct 2016
AMROHA. Two woman and a minor girl were killed and another child injured on Tuesday after a dry pond caved in on them as they were collecting soil to repair their homes in Katsai village in Amroha ... The deceased were identified as as Sudha Devi, 30, Shashi Devi, 36 and Shivani, 11 from Katasi village ... Confirming the incident, SDM Amroha, Praveena Agrawal told TOI, "Two women and a girl died in the incident while another girl was injured....

Three women die, one child injured afterdry pond caves in

Edit The Times of India 11 Oct 2016
Amroha. Two woman and a minor girl were killed and another child injured on Tuesday after a dry pond caved in on them as they were collecting soil to repair their homes in Katsai village in Amroha ... The deceased were identified as as Sudha Devi(30), Shashi Devi(36) and Shivani(11) from Katasi village ... Confirming the incident, SDM Amroha, Praveena Agrawal told TOI, “Two women and a girl died in the incident while another girl was injured....

‘Pistol on temple, sword at throat, I lost hope’

Edit The Times of India 11 Oct 2016
NEW DELHI. Dire need for money to pay off his landlady led 28-year-old Sohail Hashmi to the verge of death after he responded to an advertisement for a male escort. He was lured to Hapur for a meeting with "foreign clients", locked up in a pump house in a field and tortured ... "Five members of the gang -- Anil Kumar Yadav of Delhi's Nihal Vihar, Bhim and Mangli of Hapur and Mohammad Fakira and Naim of Amroha were arrested ... RELATED....

In Jat belt, Nitish Kumar dubs Jayant the rising star

Edit The Times of India 05 Oct 2016
BADAUT (BAGHPAT). Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, senior JD (U) leader Sharad Yadav and Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Ajit Singh targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his ‘failure’ to fulfill promises made during 2014 Lok Sabha polls ... Apart from Baghpat, Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur, Amroha, Bulandhshar, Sambhal and Bijnore have considerable presence of Jat and Muslim (JM) voters, who formed Charan Singh’s core constituency ... RELATED....

Rahul Gandhi holds roadshow in UP despite being denied permission

Edit Deccan Chronicle 03 Oct 2016
Moradabad. Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Monday held a roadshow here despite being denied permission by the district administration which said legal action will be taken against local party members ... It passed off smoothly ... Rahul also addressed gatherings at Amroha and Hapur as part of the 'Yatra'. ....

Police nab gang of bike thieves

Edit The Times of India 02 Oct 2016
Bijnor. Police on Sunday arrested three members of an interstate gang of bike thieves and recovered 12 bikes from their possession ... The accused have been identified as Mohsin and Mausam of Chaukhat village under Bachraun district in Amroha and Furkan, resident of Agwanpur under Chhajlait police station in Moradabad district ... After getting information, a police team launched a drive on Noorpur Syohara road on Sunday ... RELATED....

Recruitment ‘overdrive’ cleans up Etah district

Edit The Times of India 01 Oct 2016
AGRA. One may call it shrewd smartness of Etah administration, which is using recruitment 'overdrive' opportunity to get every nook and cranny of the city colonies cleaned, while taking 'practical' exam of over 10,000 aspiring safai karamcharis, many of them are even postgraduates candidates ... A similar case was reported in January when around 17,000 youth have applied for 114 posts of sweepers in Uttar Pradesh's Amroha district....
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