Rohit Kumar Singh

12-year-old girl puts father’s pistol to her head, accidentally pulls trigger

A 12-year-old girl in Lucknow put her father’s pistol to her head while playing with it and accidentally pulled the trigger. She died during treatment in a hospital.

UP Police constable exam: 13 held from Lucknow, Mathura, Agra and Firozabad for rigging, using unfair means

UP Police constable exam: The UP Special Task Force (STF) busted an exam-rigging racket and a gang of fraudsters after arrest of three people each from Mathura and Agra on Sunday during the recruitment test for around 49,000 posts of constables of civil and armed police.

Constable frames Dalit brothers to get his kin acquitted in Rae Bareli

Probe revealed that the brothers were falsely implicated by a constable posted at Reserve Police Lines in Allahabad in connivance with his woman friend who had registered gang rape case against the brothers in Rae Bareli’s Unchahar police station

Murder unravels online ‘adult chat’ racket in Lucknow

Hotel receptionist shot dead: Key accused operated adult chatting websites and sex racket, say police.

Karnataka IAS officer found dead by the roadside on his birthday in Lucknow

Anurag Tewari, a 2007 batch Karnataka cadre IAS officer, was found dead in Lucknow on Wednesday morning. A resident of Bahraich, he was staying at a guest house for the last two days.

US team to visit India after ‘techies’ dupe Americans

US team to visit India after ‘techies’ dupe about 50,000 Americans

A team of experts from America will visit India in November to probe the fraud in which nearly 50,000 US citizens were allegedly duped by Noida-based techies.

No diversions here, please

A recently released report of the National Crime Records Bureau says that in 2012, there were 381 deaths and 1,287 injuries due to road accidents in India. Include safety as one of the performance parameters for highway concessionaires. Rohit Kumar Singh and Abhishek Mukherjee write.

UP panchayat shows the way, unites lovers

A panchayat (village council) near Lucknow has transcended caste barriers and stepped in to unite two young lovers whose families’ unequal financial status was proving to be an impediment to the couple’s marriage.

Village Panchayat helps love birds

At a time when lovers are incurring the wrath of caste panchayats for getting married despite their families’opposition, a village panchayat in Sitapur, 80 km north of Lucknow, has set an example by pitching in to unite one such young couple.