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Hamirpur, UP: The chilling case of Kiran Singh’s murder has sent shockwaves through Hamirpur after police revealed that a local police inspector, Ankit Kumar Yadav, confessed to killing her. Kiran’s body was found naked on November 13 near a roadside, partially torn by stray dogs and crows. The investigation uncovered a grim story behind the gruesome death. Inspector’s Confession Inspector Ankit Kumar Yadav, currently posted at the CO Mahoba office, admitted during interrogation that he had a personal relationship with Kiran Singh. He claimed that Kiran repeatedly threatened him with false rape allegations, bombarded him with hundreds of calls daily, and verbally abused both him and his mother. Yadav stated that he did not intend to kill her initially but was provoked after a heated ...

Kanpur/Dehradun: A major breakthrough is underway in the preparation of prasad offered at the revered Kedarnath Temple. Researchers at IIT Kanpur are developing a special machine that will help Self-Help Group (SHG) women in Rudraprayag prepare chaulai–jaggery laddus with far less physical strain and significantly more efficiency. These laddus, made from amaranth seeds (chaulai) and jaggery, are currently shaped manually—pressed by hand into moulds—causing severe fatigue and discomfort to the women who prepare them daily. Why the Innovation Was Needed Professor Satyaki Roy, Head of the Design Department at IIT Kanpur, explained that during a field visit to Rudraprayag two years ago with a PhD student, they closely observed the difficult manual process of making these prasad laddus...

**Noida The prime accused in the sensational Mohali double murder case—where senior journalist KJ Singh and his 90-year-old mother Gurucharan Kaur were brutally killed—has finally been arrested in Noida after evading police for nearly three years. Shockingly, during this long period, the accused, Gaurav Kumar, survived by constantly changing identities and working without verification as a cab driver, security guard and even security manager. The case has raised serious questions about police verification lapses in Noida. Arrested from Noida’s Sector-36 Gaurav Kumar, a native of Bulandshahr, was arrested by Mohali Police from Sector-36, Noida, on 6 November. He had been declared an absconder in 2022 after jumping bail during the COVID-19 period. Before his arrest, he had been work...

**Ghaziabad In a shocking incident in Ghaziabad’s Tonic City, a group of 25–30 armed men forcibly occupied a house that had been in the victim’s family for 22 years. At around 4 AM, the attackers stormed into the residence, assaulted the women living inside, and dragged them out of their own home. The entire episode has been captured on CCTV. The incident mirrors a scene from the film Khosla Ka Ghosla, where a property is overtaken overnight—except this time, it is real, and far more terrifying. Women Dragged Out, Attackers’ Families Moved In According to the complaint filed with the police, Ashfaq Ali, a resident of Holika City, stated that his three-road-facing house had been under the possession of his family’s women for over two decades. But on 16 November, just before dawn...