Shocking video shows Covid patient's body being thrown by relatives in river in UP
Balrampur/IBNS: A video of a body being thrown in a river in Uttar Pradesh has surfaced reminding the administration that the grim situation is still not over as the practice of dumping bodies of coronavirus patients in rivers or leaving them in shallow graves near river banks is still continuing even as the infections as well as deaths across the country have dropped to considerable levels.
'Significant adverse effects' unlikely : Centre says after vaccine doses mixed in UP and Maharashtra
New Delhi/IBNS: After over a dozen villagers in an Uttar Pradesh village were given a different coronavirus vaccine from their first dose, the Centre has said "significant adverse effects" are unlikely but also called it an oversight as no instruction to administer a cocktail of vaccines was given.
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court on Friday said High Courts should avoid issuing orders that are impossible to implement in view of the sweeping impact of Covid-19, while staying a May 17 Allahabad High Court order on the management of the pandemic in Uttar Pradesh (UP), media reports said.
Yogi Adityanath prepares action plan against third wave, black fungus in UP
Lucknow/UNI: Emphasising the need for adequate medical and health care facilities to tackle the situation arising due to black fungus and a possible third wave, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked the officials to prepare post-COVID wards and PICU wards along with training to paediatricians, technicians and paramedical staff of all district hospitals.
Prisoner shoots down two, including Mukhtar Ansari's close aide, in UP jail
Lucknow/IBNS: An Uttar Pradesh’s Chitrakoot jail inmate shot dead two gangsters, one of them a close aide of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari, and held five other prisoners hostage before he was killed by a police team on Friday morning, according to media reports.
UP: Doctors in Unnao's govt hosps quit for being blamed for rise in Covid cases
Lucknow/IBNS: Over a dozen doctors in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao district have resigned from their posts in rural hospitals, alleging that they are being made scapegoat for the surge in Covid-19 cases in the district, said media reports.
Uttar Pradesh: Cleric's funeral in Badaun flouts Covid norms, case filed
Badaun/IBNS: A Muslim cleric's funeral on Monday led to a massive gathering and procession in Uttar Pradesh's Badaun, flouting norms of Covid-19 at a time the country is grappling with the huge spike in infections, media reports said.
Record 994.83 MT oxygen supplied in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow/UNI: Oxygen supply in Uttar Pradesh stood at a record 994.83 metric tonnes in the past 24 hours.
UP govt orders free cremation of Covid victims
Lucknow/UNI: Uttar Pradesh government has issued a Government Order (GO) making cremation of people dying due to Covid-19 free of cost.
Two policemen, truck driver killed in UP accident
Hardoi/UNI: Two policemen and a truck driver were killed when the vehicle fell in the Garra river after jumping the railings of a bridge on Pali-Shahabad road in the district on Thursday.
UP govt extends weekend curfew till May 10 morning
Lucknow/UNI: Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday extended Corona curfew till May 10 morning, to contain the virus which is wreaking havoc in the second wave.
Uttar Pradesh: Ruling BJP gets big jolt in panchayat polls
Lucknow/UNI: Even as the BJP was yet to swallow the defeat in the West Bengal assembly polls, the panchayat poll results in Uttar Pradesh has given a big jolt to the ruling party.
Last phase of UP panchayat polls tomorrow
Lucknow/UNI: Voting for the fourth and last phase of the three-tier panchayat polls will be held on Thursday amid the exponential rise in Covid-19 cases.
UP: Five member of family buried alive after roof collapses in Mirzapur
Mirzapur/UNI: Five members of a family buried alive after the roof collapsed in Choti Gudri area under Kotwali police station area early Wednesday morning.
BJP obsessed with elections than saving lives amid pandemic: Akhilesh Yadav
Lucknow/UNI: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is more obsessed with elections than saving the lives of the common people reeling under the second wave of the devastating pandemic.