According to the police, the incident occurred near the Bhadaura town at around 2.30 am.
With the chanting of "Bharat Mata ki Jai" and a sea of humanity in witness, Kerala on Friday gave a heroic farewell to Kochi native N Ramachandran, who was killed in the terror attack at Baisaran Valley, Pahalgam, in South Kashmir on Tuesday.
Six members of a wedding procession were killed on the spot when their car collided with a roadside tree at Bhujuli intersection of this Uttar Pradesh district. Two people were critically injured in the accident.
In a tragic incident, a Chhattisgarh Armed Forces (CAF) constable, Manoj Pujari, was killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast triggered by Maoist insurgents in the dense forests of Bijapur district.
The police have arrested Purendra Kaushik, a local BJP functionary, on charges of murder and attempt to murder. Kaushik had lost to Champai in last year's sarpanch election, a defeat that sources say had left him embittered.
An official quoting the preliminary findings of the postmortem -- done by veterinarians of the medical board in Ranthambore on Monday-- said "The post-mortem revealed that the tiger was killed by a mob of villagers."
Suspense prevailed over the fate of the Ranthambhore tiger T-86 well known as Chirico who is believed to have killed a shepherd in the area adjoining the national park on Saturday.
According to the police, they received a call on Saturday night, wherein the caller stated that his sister was allegedly strangled by an auto rickshaw driver, with whom she was in a live-in-relationship.
The incident was reported on the day of Diwali, they said, adding the deceased's son sustained injuries in the incident.
According to the police, the incident took place on October 29, when Ram Parkash along with Deepak were decorating the factory ahead of Diwali.
