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Lucknow: The UP Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has intensified its crackdown on financial crime, arresting five accused in two cases — one involving misappropriation of minority pre-matric scholarship funds in Meerut and the other related to Rs17.51 crore construction scam in Bahraich. The EOW arrested Abdul Rahman, principal of Madrassa Khadijatul Kubra Lil Banat in…

Lucknow: Senior IPS officer Ajay Kumar Sahni, who led 52 encounters, was on Wednesday named for the President’s Medal for Gallantry this year. This is the third President’s Medal of his career.A 2009-batch Uttar Pradesh cadre officer, Sahni is known as an ‘encounter specialist’ in the police force. He was picked for the award for…

Lucknow: UP BJP state general secretary (organisation) Dharampal Singh on Wednesday said every worker of the party is the backbone of the organisation and their work at the booth level is the strength of the BJP.He said this during an interaction with regional office bearers of the Scheduled Caste Morcha in Aligarh and GB Nagar…

Lucknow: Police arrested two men accused of gang-raping a 21-year-old mentally challenged deaf-mute woman after an exchange of fire with them in Balrampur district while they were trying to flee to Nepal early Wednesday.Harshit Kumar Pandey (23) sustained a bullet injury in his right leg during the encounter, while another accused, Ankur Verma (24), fractured…