Prayagraj: Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad (ABAP) chief Narendra Giri’s demand for rechristening all roads named after Mughal invaders and Britishers has triggered a fresh controversy.
Opposition parties on Thursday condemned the demand saying the government should function according to the Constitution of the country and not as per whimsical demands of priests and saints or else it will set a dangerous precedent.
On Wednesday, Giri had said, “India got Independence 74 years ago and roads named after Mughal invaders like Tughlak, Humayun and Babur and Britishers in Delhi should be renamed after Chandra Shekhar Azad, Subhas Chandra Bose, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Gulzari Lal Nanda and Veer Abdul Hameed.”
Prayagraj: A joint team of surveillance cell (Prayagraj zone) and Pratapgarh police on Thursday seized illegal liquor worth Rs 22 lakh from a semi-constructed house at Balipur village under Hathigawon police station of Pratapgarh.
Station officer (Hathigawan) D N Yadav said, “A joint team of the surveillance cell and Hathigawan police received an input that two men, including Guddu Singh alias Sanjay Pratap Singh and Rajesh Saroj of Balipur, were operating an organised liquor racket in different UP districts. They used to fix fake hologram and wrappers on liquor bottles and were also involved in manufacturing of spurious liquor with the help of chemicals.”
Prayagraj: As the the Union health ministry began vaccination of people aged 45 years and above from Thursday (April 1), all the 95 vaccination sites in Prayagraj, including 84 in rural and 11 in urban areas, received an overwhelming response
Officials of the health department said on Thursday that they had made all necessary arrangements to vaccinate the target beneficiaries in a planned manner.
Additional CMO and nodal (vaccination, urban) officer Dr Satyendra Rai told TOI that Covid vaccination of beneficiaries in the age group of 45 years and above started at 95 sites, including 84 sites in rural (124 sessions) and 11 sites in urban (33 sessions) areas.
“We received excellent response from the beneficiaries. The department has also taken necessary measures to ensure that maximum number of beneficiaries arrive at the vaccination centres in both rural and urban areas,” said Rai.
Prayagraj: Six drug peddlers who were on the way to dispatch a 690kg ganja consignment worth Rs 1 crore from Visakhapatnam to Fatanpur in Pratapgarh were arrested near BM Inter College Road by a joint team of crime branch and Kohdaur police on Thursday.
The accused were identified as Mukesh Kumar of Rajasthan, Sushil Yadav, Shailesh Yadav and Rakesh Yadav of Jaunpur, Sandeep Kumar of Rajasthan and Bhajan Das of Mathura. A truck container and an SUV were also seized from their possession.
Police said, Bhajan Das worked as drug agent and used to purchase ganja worth Rs 4000-5000 per day and later resale it Rs 14,000 to Rs 15,000 per kg in different parts of the country.
Two deaths were reported from Goriyari village in Begusarai, four from Badhauni panchayat in Nawada and five from Kochas and Kargahar in Rohtas. (Representative image)
PATNA/BEGUSARAI/PRAYAGRAJ: At least 15 people have died due to suspected hooch poisoning in ‘dry’ Bihar and Uttar Pradesh since Holi on Monday. While Nawada, Begusarai and Rohtas districts of Bihar have together seen 11 deaths, the rest four deaths have taken place in Pratapgarh district of UP.
Police in Bihar, however, did not confirm any hooch death and were probing the incidents. Except in Begusarai, where police took possession of the bodies on Wednesday for conducting postmortem, the deceased in other districts were cremated by their kin, making it difficult for the administration to ascertain the cause of death.