Auraiya

A woman police officer in Uttar Pradesh disguised herself and dialed an emergency number with a fake complaint of armed robbery to test the response of the local police.

The death of a 15-year-Dalit boy, who was allegedly beaten by a teacher from his school in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district, has sparked massive protests.

The boy, Nikhit Dohre, died on Saturday night when he was being taken to a specialised hospital in the state's Etawah district. In a complaint to the police, the boy's father has said the teacher, Ashwini Singh, assaulted his son on September 7.

The 296 km long Bundelkhand expressway is India's third longest expressway crossing seven districts, which include Chitrakoot, Banda, Mahoba, Hamirpur, Jalaun, Auraiya and Etawah.

In a unique incident, a bride in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya called off her wedding because the groom could not read the newspaper without his spectacles.

Visuals of injured migrant labourers travelling in an open truck with tarpaulin-wrapped dead bodies in Uttar Pradesh has infuriated Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, who called it an "inhumane" act that robbed both the living and the dead of dignity.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has blamed the Congress leadership for the accident in Auraiya in which 26 migrants were killed and more than 30 were injured over the weekend.

Hundreds of migrant workers were stopped by police at several border districts in Uttar Pradesh this morning while trying to return to their hometowns and villages amid the lockdown.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved from the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each for the family of migrant labourers killed in a road accident in Auraiya in Uttar Pradesh, the PMO said on Saturday.

Survivors of the Uttar Pradesh road accident, which killed 24 migrants and injured several others today, are having a hard time in recounting the sudden collision between two trucks in Auraiya district, the police said.

Hitting out at the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress and Samajwadi Party termed the death of 24 migrant workers as a "murder", while the BSP asked the party in power to ensure the safety of migrants trying to return home amid the lockdown.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said that he was deeply disturbed by the death of labourers in an accident in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya and called for urgent steps to mitigate the plights of migrant workers travelling to their native states during the lockdown.

Six migrant labourers, including three women, were killed and 19 were injured when a truck they were travelling in overturned in Madhya Pradesh this morning near the Sagar-Chhatarpur border, hours after the collision of two trucks in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district killed 24 migrants.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday termed the death of 24 migrant labourers in Auraiya as "indescribable" sadness, saying such accidents are "not deaths, but murders".

The government is involved in relief work in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district, about 200 km from state capital Lucknow, where 24 migrants were killed in a road accident, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted this morning.

A woman police officer in Uttar Pradesh disguised herself and dialed an emergency number with a fake complaint of armed robbery to test the response of the local police.

The death of a 15-year-Dalit boy, who was allegedly beaten by a teacher from his school in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district, has sparked massive protests.

The boy, Nikhit Dohre, died on Saturday night when he was being taken to a specialised hospital in the state's Etawah district. In a complaint to the police, the boy's father has said the teacher, Ashwini Singh, assaulted his son on September 7.

The 296 km long Bundelkhand expressway is India's third longest expressway crossing seven districts, which include Chitrakoot, Banda, Mahoba, Hamirpur, Jalaun, Auraiya and Etawah.

In a unique incident, a bride in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya called off her wedding because the groom could not read the newspaper without his spectacles.

Visuals of injured migrant labourers travelling in an open truck with tarpaulin-wrapped dead bodies in Uttar Pradesh has infuriated Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, who called it an "inhumane" act that robbed both the living and the dead of dignity.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has blamed the Congress leadership for the accident in Auraiya in which 26 migrants were killed and more than 30 were injured over the weekend.

Hundreds of migrant workers were stopped by police at several border districts in Uttar Pradesh this morning while trying to return to their hometowns and villages amid the lockdown.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved from the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each for the family of migrant labourers killed in a road accident in Auraiya in Uttar Pradesh, the PMO said on Saturday.

Survivors of the Uttar Pradesh road accident, which killed 24 migrants and injured several others today, are having a hard time in recounting the sudden collision between two trucks in Auraiya district, the police said.

Hitting out at the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress and Samajwadi Party termed the death of 24 migrant workers as a "murder", while the BSP asked the party in power to ensure the safety of migrants trying to return home amid the lockdown.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said that he was deeply disturbed by the death of labourers in an accident in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya and called for urgent steps to mitigate the plights of migrant workers travelling to their native states during the lockdown.

Six migrant labourers, including three women, were killed and 19 were injured when a truck they were travelling in overturned in Madhya Pradesh this morning near the Sagar-Chhatarpur border, hours after the collision of two trucks in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district killed 24 migrants.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday termed the death of 24 migrant labourers in Auraiya as "indescribable" sadness, saying such accidents are "not deaths, but murders".

The government is involved in relief work in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district, about 200 km from state capital Lucknow, where 24 migrants were killed in a road accident, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted this morning.