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Ghaziabad cop kills self after making video accusing woman friend, 2 others of extortion

Updated on Jul 18, 2024 05:52 AM IST

The constable in the video said the trio extorted about ₹6 lakh from him in the past two years and his woman friend issued threats to implicate him in a false rape case if he did not pay them more money

The FIR was registered under Section 108 (abetting suicide) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at Muradnagar police station. The two women have been arrested and charges for extortion and provisions of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act added to the FIR. (Representational image only)

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Kanwar Yatra: Curbs on light vehicles on 12 routes in Ghaziabad from July 28 to Aug 5

The latest diversion plan for light vehicles state that autos will not be allowed on the 18km stretch of GT Road from Seemapuri Border (Ghaziabad-Delhi border) to Lal Kuan (Ghaziabad-Gautam Budh Nagar border) from midnight of July 27, and no autos will be allowed on the Delhi-Meerut Road and also on the stretch from Mohan Nagar to Vasundhara flyover

The GT Road stretch in Ghaziabad will be out of bounds to light vehicles from July 28, said traffic police. (Sakib Ali /HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 18, 2024 05:42 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Ghaziabad

Six developers fined ₹35 lakh for illegal water extraction in Noida

They said the dewatering exercise was being carried out at the construction sites in sectors 153, 154 and 129 in Noida

Officials of the groundwater department said illegal extraction of groundwater poses a significant threat to the water table, which is already depleting at an alarming rate in the district. Notably, Noida’s groundwater level dropped by 9.9 metres in the post-monsoon months and 8.5 metres in the pre-monsoon months between 2017-2023. (HT Archive)

Updated on Jul 18, 2024 05:40 AM IST

ByMaria Khan, Noida

₹16.71 crore siphoned off: Cyber police seeks details of Nainital Bank’s Noida branch server

Police are also investigating the case from different angles, and have not ruled out the role of someone working in the bank in the server hack, as no one except bank officials had access to the server

Two teams of cybercrime branch police and one team from the computer emergency response team (CERT) are probing the case currently. (REUTERS/representational image)

Updated on Jul 18, 2024 05:32 AM IST

ByArun Singh, Noida

School bus with 50 kids topples into fields, 9-year-old sustains head injuries, others minor bruises

Nine-year-old boy sustains head injuries as private school bus carrying 50 children falls off road in Greater Noida; driver flees scene. Videos circulated on social media.

The driver lost control of the vehicle and it ran off the single-lane road in Greater Noida’s Rabupura locality and fell into the agricultural fields on Wednesday afternoon. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 18, 2024 05:28 AM IST

ByArun Singh, Greater Noida

Noida: Membership drive for new golf course in Sector 151A to restart in August

So far, the authority has given memberships to 925 applicants, who have paid the fee in part. And there are 209 members, who have paid the fee in full. The authority has collected around ₹50 crore in membership fee so far

The project encompasses a 90-acre golf course, a 20-acre adventure sports facility, and a 10-acre heliport. (HT Archive/representational image)

Updated on Jul 18, 2024 05:22 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Noida

Yeida to raise ₹7,635 crore funds this fiscal by selling land parcels

YEIDA requires funds to urbanise the area along Yamuna Expressway, near the greenfield Noida international airport to cater to the demands of investors

The Yamuna authority aims to earn <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>2,531 crore revenue from housing department’s plot schemes, <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>65 crore from ready to move flats, <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>736 crore from institutional plots, <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>1,642 crore from group housing plots, <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>830 crore from industrial plots, and <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>501 crore from mixed land use plots, among others. (HT Archive)

Updated on Jul 18, 2024 05:06 AM IST

ByVinod Rajput, Greater Noida

Girls top Noida college's Google, Microsoft internships, with ₹1 lakh stipend

At the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, women students swept most of the lucrative internships, including positions at Google and Microsoft.

A picture showing the top 16 internships.(Reddit)

Updated on Jul 17, 2024 04:38 PM IST

Written by Sanya Jain

Power poles, cables secured to ensure safe passage of kanwariyas, Muharram processions

Danger signs and caution tapes were affixed on power poles, besides fencing around unsafe transformers, said officials

Unsafe distribution transformers are being identified and covered with fences, to cut off any direct access. said NPCL officials. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 17, 2024 07:06 AM IST

ByMaria Khan, Greater Noida

1% of project cost to be imposed as fine on builders extracting groundwater, NGT told

As many as 33 group housing societies were found to be allegedly extracting groundwater illegally in 2023 in Greater Noida West. An environmental compensation of ₹306 crore was also levied by the committee on the errant developers

The petitioner said a minimum 5% of the total project cost should be levied on errant builders. (HT Archive)

Updated on Jul 17, 2024 06:52 AM IST

ByMaria Khan, Greater Noida

Greater Noida: Yeida to hire consultant for medical devices park

The consultant will be tasked to assist the authority in drawing investments, promotional activities, obtaining approvals, and project monitoring for the existing and upcoming industrial parks

The Centre approved a grant-in-aid of <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>100 crore for the development of common infrastructure facilities (CIF) in this medical devices park, said Yamuna authority officials. (HT Archive)

Updated on Jul 17, 2024 06:38 AM IST

ByVinod Rajput, Greater Noida

Roads messy, four top Noida officials tasked with overseeing road cleaning

Unhappy with the lack of cleanliness, the CEO assigned one arterial road to each senior officer, including additional chief executive officer Sanjay Kumar Khatri and officer on special duty Mahendra Prasad, who will now be responsible for keeping the roads clean and free of encroachments, said officials

Noida authority chief executive officer Lokesh M (in blue T-shirt) during a cleanliness inspection in Sector 16 on Monday. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 17, 2024 06:36 AM IST

ByVinod Rajput, Noida

Ghaziabad: 320 UPSRTC buses to ferry Kanwariyas to Haridwar

The move is likely to create bus availability issues for commuters as the Ghaziabad region has an estimated daily ridership of about 125,000 passengers

About 200 buses from Ghaziabad and another 120 from Hapur, Bulandshahr and Khurja, will be deployed for ferrying Kanwariyas. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 17, 2024 06:30 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Noida: Murder accused, on the run for the past 16 years, arrested

On December 5, 2008, Kurmi strangulated his wife after hitting her on the head with a pressure cooker, suspecting her of an illicit relationship. The incident was reported in Nagla Charan Dass area in Noida, Phase 2

Kurmi had changed his appearance -- he wore his beard long and started wearing a turban to look like a Sardar. He moved to Amritsar in Punjab around three to four months ago and police finally traced him to the ashram where he was living. (Representational image)

Updated on Jul 17, 2024 06:20 AM IST

ByArun Singh, Noida

12 private schools in Noida, Greater Noida served notices over RTE admissions

Despite sending multiple notices to the schools over a period of four months, there are still pending admissions in all 12 schools, said district officials

In the current academic year, of the 5,061 seats allocated under RTE in private schools across four phases, only 2,500 students have been admitted so far, said officials. (Representational image only)

Updated on Jul 17, 2024 06:14 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Noida

Ghaziabad: Woman bank executive ends life alleging harassment by colleagues; FIR lodged

Family members of the woman said she was upset by repeated instances of harassment at her workplace and she had told them about these incidents about three-four days before her death on July 12

One of her woman colleagues made disparaging comments about her appearance after seeing the photo and that hurt her. They would also casually hit her on her shoulder or rudely brush past her while going by her seat, the woman’s brother said. (Image for representation purposes only)

Updated on Jul 17, 2024 06:10 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Three dead as SUV swerves to avoid stray cattle, gets hit by another car in Greater Noida

The SUV was moving in front and the car behind it. In a bid to save the bovine, the SUV driver suddenly swerved right and the Swift crashed into it, causing the Mahindra SUV to overturn; nine others were injured in the accident

The Swift car, which crashed into the Mahindra SUV that swerved right on the road to avoid a stray cattle early Monday morning in Greater Noida’s Ecotech-3. (Sunil Ghosh/HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 17, 2024 06:04 AM IST

ByArun Singh, Noida

Gautam Budh Nagar DM proposes renovation of govt old age home in Dankaur

The boarders, the social welfare department and the manager of the home, meanwhile, have raised the need to relocate the home and renovate the property

The officials of the social welfare department should visit the old age home from time to time and inspect it so that the arrangements for stay, food and first-aid at the old age home can be improved, DM said. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 16, 2024 06:18 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Greater Noida

Ghaziabad: School children injured as Gypsy hits e-rickshaw

The e-rickshaw was ferrying schoolchildren from their school in Rajendra Nagar to their homes around 2pm when the errant vehicle hit the e-rickshaw from the front

The errant vehicle had “escort” written on it, said police, adding that it was not currently being used as an escort vehicle. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 16, 2024 06:14 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Ghaziabad

Noida: 4 held for running ‘bar on wheels’ from vintage car at banquet hall

The operation came to light when the wedding procession in Sector 73 obstructed traffic, and it was seen that an alcohol was being served openly from a modified vintage car

Police seized the vintage car, ingeniously converted into a mobile bar. The suspects had set up the mobile bar during a wedding function at Sector 73-located Shaurya Banquet hall on Sunday (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 16, 2024 06:12 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Yeida sells two group housing plots near Jewar airport for ₹250 crore

These plots have been allotted through e-auction where the plot is sold to the one who places the highest bid against the reserve price, YEIDA officials said

The authority invited bids under the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority’s Group Housing Plots Scheme YEA-GH-07/2024 and completed the e-auction proceedings on July 12. (Sunil Ghosh/HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 16, 2024 05:58 AM IST

ByVinod Rajput, Greater Noida

Ghaziabad commuters to use NH-9, Eastern Peripheral Expressway during Kanwar Yatra

The major impact of Kanwariyas will be on the Delhi-Meerut Road, used by commuters from Delhi, Ghaziabad to Meerut to move between the three cities and towards Uttarakhand

Officers said the diversion routes will be finalised and rolled out soon and they will be policed by a contingent of civil police and 650 traffic police personnel, of all ranks. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 16, 2024 06:00 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Server of Nainital Bank’s Noida branch hacked, ₹16.71 crore siphoned off

Prima facie, it was found that the money was siphoned off after accessing the bank manager’s ID and password

Suspecting a technical error for showing up a difference of <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>3 crore, the bank official decided to wait a day. But on June 18, when a similar issue popped up and a difference of around <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>2 crore was found, the matter was escalated on June 19. (Representative image)

Updated on Jul 16, 2024 01:41 AM IST

ByArun Singh, Noida

Noida: School bus ploughs into Elevated Road railing, no casualty

The driver had dropped schoolchildren at the school in the morning and later went to the petrol pump to refill fuel, and he was returning from there

Before the driver could apply the brakes, the bus crashed into the railing. The front part of the bus got stuck on the railing, and the driver alighted safely. (Suni Ghosh/HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 16, 2024 05:32 AM IST

ByArun Singh, Noida

Govt school teachers’ union oppose digital attendance, warns of protest

Teachers are instructed to provide their real-time attendance with location on the “Digitize Register” app on tablets provided to them by the government

Representatives of Uttar Pradesh Prathamik Shikshak Sangh, who submitted a memorandum to basic education officer, Gautam Budh Nagar on Monday, argued that rules like this should apply to all government departments in the state and not teachers alone. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 16, 2024 05:28 AM IST

ByAshni Dhaor, Noida

Two police constables arrested after licensed revolver misfires in Noida mall parking

Arms are not allowed to be taken inside the mall, hence when the two constables went to the mall, they kept the gun in their car’s dashboard

The two constables were suspended on Monday for mishandling the weapon as it is their duty check the chamber while installing the magazine back in the gun. (Sunil Ghosh/HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 16, 2024 05:30 AM IST

ByAshni Dhaor, Noida

Sector 105 residents seek repair of boundary wall of greenbelt

The damaged portions, located in Block C and D, let the stray cattle enter the locality as well as strangers from Hajipur and adjacent areas to venture around

A tendering process is underway and work of repairing the damaged portions will soon be taken up, said a horticulture department of Noida authority. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 16, 2024 05:24 AM IST

ByMaria Khan

10 ponds to be revived in Greater Noida over encroachment fears

The Rotary Club of Delhi South has been given the responsibility to revive the water bodies in Greater Noida, said Greater Noida authority officials

According to the authority, one pond each from 10 villages of Bhola Rawal, Dhoom Manikpur, Khedi, Kulipura, Girdharpur, Panchayatan, Rauni, Chirasi, Bhanauta and Saini, under work circles 2 and 8, will undergo rejuvenation. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 16, 2024 05:26 AM IST

ByMaria Khan, Greater Noida

Noida:Sector 145 residents protest delay in handing over plots

The RWA on Sunday also wrote a letter to Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s office, highlighting the matter

Residents, during their three-hour protest, alleged that even after eight years of wait a lot of people are affected and despite repeated assurances from the Noida authority the issue continues to persist. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 15, 2024 05:58 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Sixth suspect held for killing man in Greater Noida

Noida Police arrest sixth suspect in murder of 20-year-old man in Dankaur. Victim killed by family of 15-year-old girl he went to meet. Prime suspect still at large.

Earlier, three suspects were held on July 9 and the remaining two on Friday. Deceased Bhati and his friend Jitender Gujar, 20, were thrashed in Peepalka on being spotted with the girl by a group of people linked to her family. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 15, 2024 05:56 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

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The constable in the video said the trio extorted about ₹6 lakh from him in the past two years and his woman friend issued threats to implicate him in a false rape case if he did not pay them more money

They said the dewatering exercise was being carried out at the construction sites in sectors 153, 154 and 129 in Noida

Police are also investigating the case from different angles, and have not ruled out the role of someone working in the bank in the server hack, as no one except bank officials had access to the server

Nine-year-old boy sustains head injuries as private school bus carrying 50 children falls off road in Greater Noida; driver flees scene. Videos circulated on social media.

So far, the authority has given memberships to 925 applicants, who have paid the fee in part. And there are 209 members, who have paid the fee in full. The authority has collected around ₹50 crore in membership fee so far

YEIDA requires funds to urbanise the area along Yamuna Expressway, near the greenfield Noida international airport to cater to the demands of investors

At the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, women students swept most of the lucrative internships, including positions at Google and Microsoft.

Danger signs and caution tapes were affixed on power poles, besides fencing around unsafe transformers, said officials

As many as 33 group housing societies were found to be allegedly extracting groundwater illegally in 2023 in Greater Noida West. An environmental compensation of ₹306 crore was also levied by the committee on the errant developers

The consultant will be tasked to assist the authority in drawing investments, promotional activities, obtaining approvals, and project monitoring for the existing and upcoming industrial parks

The move is likely to create bus availability issues for commuters as the Ghaziabad region has an estimated daily ridership of about 125,000 passengers

On December 5, 2008, Kurmi strangulated his wife after hitting her on the head with a pressure cooker, suspecting her of an illicit relationship. The incident was reported in Nagla Charan Dass area in Noida, Phase 2

Despite sending multiple notices to the schools over a period of four months, there are still pending admissions in all 12 schools, said district officials

Family members of the woman said she was upset by repeated instances of harassment at her workplace and she had told them about these incidents about three-four days before her death on July 12

The SUV was moving in front and the car behind it. In a bid to save the bovine, the SUV driver suddenly swerved right and the Swift crashed into it, causing the Mahindra SUV to overturn; nine others were injured in the accident

The boarders, the social welfare department and the manager of the home, meanwhile, have raised the need to relocate the home and renovate the property

The e-rickshaw was ferrying schoolchildren from their school in Rajendra Nagar to their homes around 2pm when the errant vehicle hit the e-rickshaw from the front

The operation came to light when the wedding procession in Sector 73 obstructed traffic, and it was seen that an alcohol was being served openly from a modified vintage car

These plots have been allotted through e-auction where the plot is sold to the one who places the highest bid against the reserve price, YEIDA officials said

The major impact of Kanwariyas will be on the Delhi-Meerut Road, used by commuters from Delhi, Ghaziabad to Meerut to move between the three cities and towards Uttarakhand

Prima facie, it was found that the money was siphoned off after accessing the bank manager’s ID and password

The driver had dropped schoolchildren at the school in the morning and later went to the petrol pump to refill fuel, and he was returning from there

Teachers are instructed to provide their real-time attendance with location on the “Digitize Register” app on tablets provided to them by the government

Arms are not allowed to be taken inside the mall, hence when the two constables went to the mall, they kept the gun in their car’s dashboard

The damaged portions, located in Block C and D, let the stray cattle enter the locality as well as strangers from Hajipur and adjacent areas to venture around

The Rotary Club of Delhi South has been given the responsibility to revive the water bodies in Greater Noida, said Greater Noida authority officials

The RWA on Sunday also wrote a letter to Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s office, highlighting the matter

Noida Police arrest sixth suspect in murder of 20-year-old man in Dankaur. Victim killed by family of 15-year-old girl he went to meet. Prime suspect still at large.

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