Late monsoon starts farmer's "journey to hell"

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A 27-year-old woman died at a government hospital in neighbouring Shamli district allegedly due to medical negligence, police said. The victim identified as Nargis died on Sunday while she was undergoing an operation for sterilisation, they said. But, the ...

A 50-year-old farmer was shot dead by five persons at his fields at Hind village in Shamli district in Muzaffarnagar, police said. Zafaryab was shot dead on Tuesday evening when he had gone to irrigate his fields under Thanabhawan police station, they said.

A Samajwadi Party (SP) leader was booked in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district for raising slogans in favour of Pakistan, police said on Monday. Samajwadi Party leader Mehmood Alam, resident of Jhinjhana town, was arrested on the Meerut-Karnal highway when he ...