The letter was received at Shree Gujarat Sweets shop located in the Juni locality of Indore on Thursday evening. The letter arrived by regular post.

Bhubaneshwar (Odisha) [India], June 4 (ANI): A team of the Odisha Special Task Force on Saturday seized around 1,010 kilograms of ganja in the state capital, said the police.

Lucknow Apr 25 PTI The newly elected members of the UP Legislative Council will be administered oath on Tuesday officials said Principal Secretary to UP Legislative Council Rajesh Singh in a statement issued here on Monday said that Chairman Kunwar Manvendra Singh will administer the oath to the new members at Tilak Hall in UP Vidhan Bhavan Over a month after its resounding victory in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections the BJP has swept the biennial polls to the states Legislative Council by winning 33 out of 36 constituencies One of three local authority seats the ruling party failed to win was in Varanasi Prime Minister Narendra Modis Lok Sabha constituency where it stood a distant third According to the results declared on Tuesday the BJP won 24 of the 27 seats where polling was held last week In addition the BJP had won nine of the 36 seats unopposed Two independents and a candidate from the Jansatta Dal Loktantrik emerged victorious in the elections The results take the BJP past the halfway-mark in the 100-member House Now it will have 67 members in the upper house of the state legislature Before the polls the BJP had 34 members in the House Besides the BJPs 67 MLCs Samajwadi Party has 17 and the Bahujan Samaj Party has four MLCs in the House The Congress Apna Dal Sonelal and the Nishad Party have one member each in the House The teachers group has two MLCs while the Independent group Nirdal Samooh and Independents have one MLC each Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had vacated his council seat recently while former leader of opposition Ahmad Hassan of the SP died in February this year The voters in the biennial elections are village pradhans members and chairman of block development councils and zila panchayats and corporators in urban areas besides MLAs and MPs The Congress and the BSP did not field any candidate in the Legislative Council elections making it a direct fight between the BJP and the SP PTI NAV KVK KVK

Lucknow Mar 29 PTI Samajwadi Party MLC Sanjay Lathar has been made the Leader of Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council Principal Secretary Rajesh Singh said here on TuesdayThe post was lying vacant since the death of Samajwadi Party MLC Ahmed Hasan in FebruaryAccording to a notification issued on Monday Lathar has been recognised as the Leader of Opposition with effect from March 28 Singh saidLathars term as a member of the Legislative Council will end on May 26 2022At the 100-seat Legislative Council the ruling BJP has 34 members Samajwadi Party 17 BSP four Congress and Apna Dal Sonelal one each Shikshak Dal non-political party two Independent group one independent one and Nirbal Indian Shoshit Hamara Aam Dal Nishad one memberThe process of election for 36 seats from the local authority constituency is underway and polling will be held on April 9 The counting of votes will be held on April 12Candidates for some of these seats have been elected unopposed PTI SAB NSD

Bharatpur, December 28: In a shocking incident, a 30-year-old man allegedly killed his father with the help of his two friends in the Bharatpur district. The accused were arrested on December 25. The deceased has been identified as Mohkam Singh. His son, Rakesh Singh, reportedly murdered him to claim insurance money of Rs four lakh. […]

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 5 (ANI): Bollywood star Katrina Kaif, ahead of her rumoured wedding with actor Vicky Kaushal, stepped out of her house and waved at her fans.

Lucknow Sep 25 PTI Despite Priyanka Gandhi Vadras earnest effort to gear up the Congress for next years Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls the problem of senior leaders choosing to part ways continues to vex the partyThe latest to bid adieu is Lalitesh Pati Tripathi the great-grandson of late Congress stalwart Kamalapati Tripathi This came a few months after ex-Union minister Jitin Prasada the son of former Congress leader Jitendra Prasad crossed over to the BJPWhile some in the Congress blamed opponents of poaching it leaders especially those belonging to the Brahmin caste others termed the quitting unfortunate which these leaders will regret in near futureHowever expelled Congressman and former MLC Siraj Mehdi claimed that this trend shows dissatisfaction within the party leadership and it is not confined to Uttar PradeshCongress leaders from Ballia -- Shailendra Singh and Rajesh Singh -- have recently quit the party alleging that old and loyal party people were being neglectedThese exits come at a time when the Congress is working hard to avoid the humiliation of the 2017 Assembly polls when it could win just seven seats in the 403-member Uttar Pradesh AssemblyThe grand old party has already announced that it will fight the 2021 elections without aligning with any big political partySome in the Congress are of the view that a poaching game is going on and the party leadership must remain alertBoth Jitin Prasad and Lalitesh Tripathi are big names despite the Congress being out of power for 30 years in the state now Their parting ways with the party as the election approaches has a meaning a leader of the Congress Uttar Pradesh unit saidTripathi the vice-president of Congress Uttar Pradesh unit on Thursday said he has resigned from all posts and primary membership of the partyHe said it was an emotional decision for him to move away from the commitment of more than 100 years that his family had shownBut in the present circumstances when the families that had given their blood and sweat for the party and the workers who braved beatings for the party movement were not being respected his conscience does not allow him to continue in any position Tripathi had saidJitin Prasada while joining the BJP a few months ago had said that he parted ways with the Congress not because of any individual or for any post but due to the partys shrinking vote base and the rising disconnect between it and the people of Uttar PradeshLalitesh Tripathis exit is unfortunate He is a fourth-generation leader of his family which had been very close to the Nehru-Gandhi family and got proper respect and responsibility member of the media advisory team Dwijendra Tripathi told PTI Another leader pointed out that leaders who got everything in the party are now running away seeking better prospects in other parties as the elections are closeThey will regret this decision when they will not get as much respect as they got here he claimed in reference to Jitin PrasadaOn the other hand Mehdi claimed that senior leaders were quitting the party due to the humiliation they faced Congress former women wing chief Sushmita Devand ex-Punjab chief minister Amrinder Singh felt humiliated in the party in recent times he claimed Mehdi was among the 11 senior leaders who were expelled from the Congress in 2019 for six years for allegedly tarnishing the partys image and opposing its leaderships decisions at public forumsThe problem is that despite seeking time from the leadership for an audience party people are not able to connect with them Mehdi claimed adding that people like him who have stayed with the party for long want it to overcome all hurdles and regain strengthHe said that he will soon write Amrinder Singh and other Congress leaders inviting them to tour Uttar Pradesh and help in restoring the pride of the party PTI SAB SNS NSD

Korba Sep 20 PTI Two men were tied to poles and assaulted allegedly by four persons including two security guards of a private company who accused them of attempting theft in a coal mine area in Korba district of Chhattisgarh police said on MondayA video in which the two victims are purportedly seen tied to different poles under a tin shed and one of them being beaten by two men with sticks went viral on social media on Monday Clothes of the man who is seen being assaulted in the clip were torn and he is heard screaming and begging for mercyThe district administration has ordered a probe into the incidentBased on a complaint by one of the victims and the content of the video three of the four accused involved in the incident have been arrested they saidAccording to the complaint the victims identified as Subhash Ram Sidar 55 and Hira Bahadur 40 natives of Korba town were intercepted by the four accused near a railway crossing in Kusmunda coal mines area on September 17 afternoon when they were returning after witnessing Vishwakarma Puja rituals in a mining facility said Liladhar Rathore Station House Officer Kusmunda police stationOf the accused two were private security guards of a company which deals in construction works in the mining area and two others were their associates he saidThey accused Subhash and Hira of attempting to steal iron items in the mining facility and when the two denied the charge they allegedly tied them to separate poles and brutally thrashed the duo Rathore saidNext day Sidar lodged a complaint at the Kusmunda police station following which police swung into action he saidBased on the video of the incident the accused were identified and three of them Rajesh Singh Rajput 53 Govardhan Kumar Sahu 29 and Ashok Kumar Kashyap 46 were arrested the SHO said adding efforts are on to trace the fourth accusedThe accused were booked under relevant sections of the IPC and further investigation was underway he addedMeanwhile Korba Collector Ranu Sahu on Monday constituted a three- member committee of officials to probe the incident and asked the panel to submit its report within seven days PTI COR TKP RSY RSY

Gaya (Bihar) [India], September 4 (ANI): In order to help farmers earn a regular income, Rajesh Singh, a farmer from Gaya turned entrepreneur by establishing a unit to grow mushrooms using wheat straw and air conditioners.