Meerut

As the nine-day Hindu festival of Navratri began Sunday, a group in Meerut started a ritual or "mahayagya" to curb pollution. But that they plan to burn 50,000 kg of wood for it stoked concerns whether the initiative would really serve its purpose.

A statue of Dalit icon B R Ambedkar was vandalised and replaced later in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh, amid an ongoing spate of incidents targeting statues and busts of known figures across the country.

Two women sportspersons were attacked with acid when they were on their way to a stadium in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday morning. The bike-borne attackers, two men and a woman, intercepted them and threw acid before fleeing in Meerut's Lal Kurti area, police said. All three accused have been arrested, an officer added.

The first meeting of the newly elected mayor and corporators in western Uttar Pradesh's Meerut saw chaos and confusion over the national song 'Vande Mataram'. The meeting began with the song being played on tape when Muslim corporators from both the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP), walked out and soon after Bhartiya Janta Party corporators started shouting anti BSP slogans.

A police complaint has been lodged against some students from Jammu and Kashmir at a dental college in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut for allegedly shouting pro-Pakistan slogans and uploading objectionable picture of Indian cricket team on social media after the ICC Champions Trophy final.

In the middle of a debate on triple talaq, the practice of Muslim men getting an instant divorce from their wives, a woman in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut has turned the tables by flinging the three words at her abusive husband.

A private school in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut today allegedly asked its students to get a 'Yogi Adityanath-style' haircut, which led to protests outside the school by shocked parents.

Seven Muslim councillors in the civic body in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut face expulsion for refusing to sing national song "Vande Mataram".

Police have busted a gang of counterfeit notes suppliers with the arrest of its two members and seizure of Rs 10 lakh in Rs 2,000 fake notes here.

A man has been arrested in Meerut for illegal possession of protected birds, including three owls, forest department officials said today.

Former Uttar Pradesh minister and BSP leader Haji Yaqub Qureshi's son and his three friends were booked after they allegedly created ruckus and had a scuffle with policemen who intercepted them when their car hit a motorcycle, police said today.

A woman with special needs on Wednesday gave birth to a baby on the road near Kutchery Pul in Meerut.

A man, who was arrested in a loot case, on Tuesday escaped from the police custody after he was produced in the district court in Meerut prompting the authorities to suspend seven police personnel.

A Samajwadi Party leader was arrested today in connection with the murder of a man over payment of money in Meerut, police said.

Juveniles lodged at an observation home in Meerut created ruckus and threw stones at police officials after their demand for a DJ to celebrate the birthday of an inmate was turned down by authorities even as 12 of them tried to escape from the premises taking advantage of the commotion.