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Shahjahanpur village’s tradition of gambling attracts people from across country

Edit The Times of India 17 Jul 2016
SHAHJAHANPUR. Tikola village of Shahjahanpur district is known for hosting a gambling carnival on the banks of the Begul river ... The village, 40 km from Shahjahanpur, is named after the Tikola Devi temple ... However, he was saved by the villagers and has been undergoing treatment at Shahjahanpur district hospital ... A regular gambler, who is now a famous property dealer in Shahjahanpur said, "In 2009 I won over Rs 25 lakh here ... RELATED....

Two Allahabad University students commit suicide

Edit The Times of India 15 Jul 2016
Bareilly. Two law students of Allahabad University committed suicide by jumping in front of a goods trains coming from Shahjahanpur. Packets of aluminium phosphide, or sulphas, an agricultural fumigant, reported to be commonly used in suicides were recovered from the spot, police said ... Their parents arrived on Friday but refused to lodge any police complaint ... RELATED....

This super supporter cycled 700 km to Delhi to meet minister

Edit The Times of India 14 Jul 2016
SHAHJAHANPUR. When Krishna Raj arrived in the city on Thursday, could her super supporter be far away? Meet 22-year-old Rakesh Yadav who sells tea at Shahjahanpur railway station ... In fact, the day he heard that the MP had been inducted into the Narendra Modi cabinet, Yadav sat on his bicycle and pedalled all the way to New Delhi, covering a total distance of around 700 km, to congratulate Shahjahanpur's MP Krishna Raj....

Top dist party leaders skip Krishna Raj’s welcome function

Edit The Times of India 14 Jul 2016
SHAHJAHANPUR ... This was the MPs first visit to Shahjahanpur after becoming a minister ... Krishna Raj took a flight from New Delhi to Lucknow and came to Shahjahanpur via road. Hundreds of supporters welcomed her in her constituency ... A party worker said Khanna was miffed with Krishna Raj since 2014 as he wanted his friend, Dr Jauhrilal, to contest from Shahjahanpur but the party ticket was given to her instead ... RELATED. From around the web....

Ministry of I&B; issues Notice Inviting Applications (NIA) for e-auction of 266 Private FM Radio Channels in 92 Cities in Second Batch of FM Phase III (Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Republic of India)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Jul 2016
(Source. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Republic of India). Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India today issued the Notice Inviting Applications (NIA) for e-auction of 266 FM Radio channels in 92 cities in the second batch of Private FM Phase III. The second batch consists of 227 channels in 69 new cities besides 39 channels in 23 existing cities ... S.No. Name of City. State. Region ... 1 ... S. 1 ... Shahjahanpur....

Robbers strike 4 homes, 15L assets stolen

Edit The Times of India 13 Jul 2016
Shahjahanpur. Robbers barged into four houses in Safaara village around midnight on Monday and made away with cash and valuables worth Rs 15 lakh ... Yadav said the robbers come from Bilsanda in Pilibhit district. tnn ... RELATED ... Recommended By Colombia ....

Official inaction puts village in dark for over a month

Edit The Times of India 13 Jul 2016
Kanwardeep Singh . TNN. Shahjahanpur. Despite repeated requests, officials of the electricity department have failed to replace a faulty transformer in Barah Kala village, alleged villagers, adding that the engineer in charge of the works has been demanding money to do the same. Though the time required to replace a transformer is only 72 hours, the village has been without electricity for over a month, claimed the residents ... RELATED....

Former Cong MPs, mins to contest polls?

Edit The Times of India 13 Jul 2016
Lucknow. Throwing in everything to revive its fortunes in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, the Congress party may ask its former MPs and ministers in the UPA regime to contest assembly elections in the state ... In Uttar Pradesh, most parliamentray constituencies, with the exception of Unnao and Shahjahanpur, comprise an average of five assemblies ... In the 2012 assembly polls, Congress finished second in 31 assembly seats and third in 19 ... RELATED....

Fear of tiger attack looms over Khuthar, S Kheri

Edit The Times of India 10 Jul 2016
Shahjahanpur/Kheri. A tiger lurking in the sugarcane fields in South Kheri range in Kheri district and adjoining Khuthar range in Shahjahanpur district has terrorised villagers living in the area ... The residents villagers of Heerpur, Sallaha and Narotha villages in Shahjahanpur and Rajamandi, Shuva Bhojh and Khareta in Kheri say they live in constant fear of being attacked by the tiger....

Final report on journalist’s death says he committed suicide

Edit The Times of India 10 Jul 2016
SHAHJAHANPUR. It seems that the reasons behind the death of Red Ink Bravery Award winner journalist Jagendra Singh, who died of burns in June 2015, will remain a mystery. The final report on his death states that he committed suicide ... Inspector KK Verma, who filed the final report in the Jagendra case, said, "The family members of Jagendra gave their statement and said he had committed suicide ... I still remember everything ... RELATED....

Cabinet reshuffle took place after PM Narendra Modi led two-month long assessment process

Edit The Times of India 10 Jul 2016
NEW DELHI. Last Tuesday's Cabinet reshuffle happened out of a Prime Minister-led two-month long assessment process that ranked ministers and ministries, and also a talent selection process that vetted several MPs before picking 19 for induction in the council of ministers ... The PM took the final calls ... However, another Dalit MP from UP, Krishna Raj, who represents the Shahjahanpur constituency, was inducted into the council of ministers....

Cabinet expansion: From UP to Maharashtra, state-level electoral politics & caste arithmetic were critical determinants

Edit The Times of India 10 Jul 2016
From Uttar Pradesh to Maharashtra, from Gujarat to the Northeast, state-level electoral politics and caste arithmetic were critical determinants of this week's cabinet expansion. ET Magazine gives you a lowdown. First stop. Uttar Pradesh. UTTAR PRADESH. THE DIE IS CASTE ... Also read ... While Chandauli MP Mahendra Nath Pandey is a Brahmin from Poorvanchal, Krishna Raj who represents Shahjahanpur in the Lok Sabha is seen as the Dalit face....

Hapur depot-Kithore bus service suspended

Edit The Times of India 08 Jul 2016
MEERUT ... The decision of not running any of the six buses of MCTSL on the route has come in the backdrop of a recent incident wherein a 25-year-old man who was travelling from Hasanpur to Shahjahanpur without a ticket got into a verbal spat with the conductor after he was asked to pay the fare ... Incidentally, the fare for Hasanpur to Shahjahanpur journey is just Rs 5 but the miscreant was not willing to pay even that ... RELATED....
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