Moradabad Temple row: At ground zero, unease over political heat

A man has been arrested for allegedly killing his father and sister at Shamli town in Muzaffarnagar district, police said. The accused Vikrant, a B Tech engineer was arrested on Wednesday evening after he confessed that he committed the crime under ...

Muzaffarnagar, Jul 24 (PTI) Three Lord Shiva devotees were killed in separate incidents-in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts here, police said today. One Kawad devotee Tara Chad [40] was killed when a passenger train knocked him down at a crossing ...

A father and his young daughter were killed and his wife received critical injuries when some armed criminals attacked the family in their residence under Adarsh Nagar police station. Police sources here said the father Virendra (49) and his ...

SHAMLI India (Reuters) - Farmer Asghar Bhura scrapes a living by growing sugarcane, but this year's late monsoon has left his tiny plot parched and he will earn nothing from his harvest.

A 32-year-old shopkeeper was found murdered with his throat slit at Kanjikhera village in Shamli district, police said today. The body of the deceased identified as Yogesh, was found today morning in the field by villagers, they said, adding that ...

A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by two youths at Rasoolpur village in Shamli district, police said on Thursday. The girl was on her way to the market when the two accused Kurban and Waseem forcibly caught hold of her and raped her in nearby fields ...

Prohibitory orders have been issued in Shamli district after local people burnt effigies of Bharatiya Kisan Union leaders who allegedly made inflammatory speeches with the potential to set off communal tension at a mahapanchayat on June 13.

Authorities in Shamli district on Monday removed illegal shelters built on forest land near Roten village by those displaced during last year's violence in the area.

Displaced villagers who have been living in camps on government land in neighbouring Shamli district since the Muzaffarnagar communal riots in September last year have been asked to vacate them within three days by authorities. Sub-divisional Magistrate Suresh Kumar Mishra on Saturday said that a team of government officials visited the camps and "appealed" to the riot-displaced people to return to their native villages within three days. "They would not be allowed to stay on government land.