A notorious criminal carrying a cash reward of Rs 25,000 on his arrest was held after an encounter with police in Ghaziabad on Thursday, an official said.
The Ghaziabad district administration has completed preparations for the proposed visit of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who is scheduled to welcome 'kanwarias' on July 28, sources said.
In view of heavy inflow of kanwarias (Shiv devotees) in the city, the District Magistrate (DM), here on Thursday, ordered closure of all educational institutions in the district till July 30.
A 16-year-old girl has alleged that she was raped last week by the boyfriend of her neighbour who had invited her over to her place in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad district, police said on Wednesday.
A gangster wanted in over two dozen cases of loot and murder was killed in an encounter with the Ghaziabad Police and the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force in Sahibabad area early Thursday, officials said.
A major fire broke out at a restaurant inside a shopping mall in Ghaziabad Sunday afternoon, trapping at least 80 people who were rescued by the Fire Safety Department, officials said.
Edited by Aditya Sharma | Tuesday June 25, 2019, Ghaziabad
A group of seven-eight men on Sunday vandalised the guard room of a private housing society in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad, in the national capital region, allegedly after a car was denied entry inside the complex.
