Night Shelters In Up

UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath distributed blankets and food to needy people and inspected the night shelters in Gorakhpur today. He gave strict instructions to officials to make sure there is no negligence in maintenance of the night shelters.

Uttar Pradesh government today made the location of all night shelters in the state available on Google Maps, an official said.

Kempajamma, who weaves flowers into garlands for a living, is still trying to clean up her home in Bengaluru's Krishna Layout that was flooded with water from the nearby Hulimavu Lake on Sunday afternoon. Like hundreds of others, Kempajamma is spending the night in a shelter set up by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) - the administrati...

Nearly a dozen police personnel at the Pallia Kotwali were in for a fright on Thursday night when a nearly 4-foot-long young crocodile was found occupying a corridor of the building.

Delhi woke up to a cover of thick fog this morning which affected at least 24 trains. The weather in the capital region has become increasingly cold due to showers last week.

Chand Mohammad, another man who sought refuge at the homeless shelter, claimed that the man who died was an alcoholic and used to sell blood to the hospitals.

Some 800 cows were kept shut inside a government school and primary health centre in Aligarh by farmers on Tuesday, as the animals have been destroying their crops and farms.

Officers in eastern Uttar Pradesh's Deoria district did not act against a shelter home in the Deoria town, despite clear instructions from the government as early as June last year and a criminal case filed just 10 days ago against the woman who ran the shelter home, the Yogi Adityanath-led government has agreed. 21 girls and three boys were recove...

The police on Tuesday found an inmate from the Deoria shelter home, from where 24 girls were rescued and 18 appeared missing on Sunday night, at an old age home run by the same NGO in Gorakhpur.

Twenty four girls have been rescued from a women's shelter in Uttar Pradesh's Deoria district amid allegations of sexual and physical abuse. Eighteen girls are still missing and the couple who ran the shelter have been arrested. The matter came to light when a10-year-old girl escaped fromthe shelter and told the cops that "red, white, black cars pi...

The girls at the state-run shelter in Bihar's Muzaffarpur were sedated, raped, beaten up and threatened... the cycle repeated night after night, the survivors have revealed. They alleged that they were given "keede maarne ki dawa" (tablets) and fell unconscious after their consumption. They would wake up in pain with no clothes on them, the girls r...

Three days ago, the Supreme Court asked the Uttar Pradesh government if a homeless person doesn't have the Aadhaar or the national identity card, will he not exist for them? The court asked this after a lawyer representing the UP government in a case related to night shelters for the homeless remarked that "some sort of identification like an Aadha...

More than 10,000 people took shelter in over 100 relief camps set up in Chennai and other parts of coastal Tamil Nadu after the northeast monsoon intensified, the state government said. Chennai received heavy rainfall this morning after last night's downpour. Schools in the city and other coastal towns will remain closed for the fifth day. The weat...

By Rina Chandran Mumbai: Buses and portable cabins are doubling up as shelters for the homeless amidst a cold snap that has killed at least a dozen people, highlighting a critical lack of affordable housing, campaigners said on Tuesday. There are nearly 1 million urban homeless in India, according to official data, although non-profits estimate the...

As part of winter action plan, the Delhi government on Tuesday said it will set up mohalla clinics near four night shelters in order to provide health facility to its occupants.

UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath distributed blankets and food to needy people and inspected the night shelters in Gorakhpur today. He gave strict instructions to officials to make sure there is no negligence in maintenance of the night shelters.

Uttar Pradesh government today made the location of all night shelters in the state available on Google Maps, an official said.

Kempajamma, who weaves flowers into garlands for a living, is still trying to clean up her home in Bengaluru's Krishna Layout that was flooded with water from the nearby Hulimavu Lake on Sunday afternoon. Like hundreds of others, Kempajamma is spending the night in a shelter set up by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) - the administrati...

Nearly a dozen police personnel at the Pallia Kotwali were in for a fright on Thursday night when a nearly 4-foot-long young crocodile was found occupying a corridor of the building.

Delhi woke up to a cover of thick fog this morning which affected at least 24 trains. The weather in the capital region has become increasingly cold due to showers last week.

Chand Mohammad, another man who sought refuge at the homeless shelter, claimed that the man who died was an alcoholic and used to sell blood to the hospitals.

Some 800 cows were kept shut inside a government school and primary health centre in Aligarh by farmers on Tuesday, as the animals have been destroying their crops and farms.

Officers in eastern Uttar Pradesh's Deoria district did not act against a shelter home in the Deoria town, despite clear instructions from the government as early as June last year and a criminal case filed just 10 days ago against the woman who ran the shelter home, the Yogi Adityanath-led government has agreed. 21 girls and three boys were recove...

The police on Tuesday found an inmate from the Deoria shelter home, from where 24 girls were rescued and 18 appeared missing on Sunday night, at an old age home run by the same NGO in Gorakhpur.

Twenty four girls have been rescued from a women's shelter in Uttar Pradesh's Deoria district amid allegations of sexual and physical abuse. Eighteen girls are still missing and the couple who ran the shelter have been arrested. The matter came to light when a10-year-old girl escaped fromthe shelter and told the cops that "red, white, black cars pi...

The girls at the state-run shelter in Bihar's Muzaffarpur were sedated, raped, beaten up and threatened... the cycle repeated night after night, the survivors have revealed. They alleged that they were given "keede maarne ki dawa" (tablets) and fell unconscious after their consumption. They would wake up in pain with no clothes on them, the girls r...

Three days ago, the Supreme Court asked the Uttar Pradesh government if a homeless person doesn't have the Aadhaar or the national identity card, will he not exist for them? The court asked this after a lawyer representing the UP government in a case related to night shelters for the homeless remarked that "some sort of identification like an Aadha...

More than 10,000 people took shelter in over 100 relief camps set up in Chennai and other parts of coastal Tamil Nadu after the northeast monsoon intensified, the state government said. Chennai received heavy rainfall this morning after last night's downpour. Schools in the city and other coastal towns will remain closed for the fifth day. The weat...

By Rina Chandran Mumbai: Buses and portable cabins are doubling up as shelters for the homeless amidst a cold snap that has killed at least a dozen people, highlighting a critical lack of affordable housing, campaigners said on Tuesday. There are nearly 1 million urban homeless in India, according to official data, although non-profits estimate the...

As part of winter action plan, the Delhi government on Tuesday said it will set up mohalla clinics near four night shelters in order to provide health facility to its occupants.