Prayagraj news

Lucknow: CM Yogi Adityanath has asked public works department (PWD) to focus on improving road connectivity in Prayagraj division ahead of the Mahakumbh-2025. In a recent meeting with senior officials of PWD and minister Working on the directives, the department has initiated works on strengthening and upgrading 35 road stretches that are going to facilitate movement in the division. Among them, the most crucial project will be connecting Prayagraj airport to Kaushambhi via four-lane state highway. Moreover, out of the remaining 34 road projects in the Prayagraj division, 12 routes within the district are going to be strengthened while link routes to Fatehpur, Pratapgarh and Kaushambi will be upgraded.

Bodies of three out of four people who drowned in the Ganga while taking a bath at the Phaphamau ghat here have been recovered, police said on Wednesday. Assistant Commissioner of Police (Shivkuti) Rajesh Kumar Yadav said Umesh Kumar Yadav (40), a jawan in the Rapid Action Force, his son Vivek Raj (11), daughter Deepshika (7) and neighbour Abhinav (9) had gone to the ghat on Tuesday. They drowned after venturing into deeper water, the official said, adding bodies of Umesh Kumar Yadav, Vivek Raj and Abhinav have been recovered. Deepshikha is still missing and efforts are on to trace her, police said. (This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed -

TNN / Jun 09, 2023, 05:18 (IST) Now that construction work for houses being built by the prayagraj Development Authority (PDA) on land freed from mafia turned politician Atiq Ahmed has been completed, PDA would be conducting the lottery for allotment of 76 houses built and to be allotted under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (PMAY). TNN / Jun 11, 2023, 12:49 (IST) To check the unabated practice of burying the dead in the sandy banks of Ganga at Phaphamau, the authorities of prayagraj Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Saturday deputed a 10-members monitoring team who would advise families against burying bodies on the banks of Ganga. PMC is also working on a proposal to perform last rites of buried bodies lest they are exposed and flow away in the Ganga during monsoons. TNN / May 14, 2023, 15:31 (IST) At a time when the tourism department is yet to start the proposed revamp work of the Bharadwaj Ashram and the statues of Bharadwaj Munni installed at the Balson crossing of prayagraj, volunteers of Sri Satya Sai Samiti continue to keep their commitment of cleaning the premises and the grand statute, on every second Sunday of the month. TNN / Jun 09, 2023, 07:44 (IST) Taking a swipe at opposition parties' efforts to forge an alliance for the forthcoming parliamentary elections, Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya on Thursday said these rival political camps had made a similar attempt during the 2019 LS polls to stop BJP but had failed and 2024 will be no different.

A man allegedly killed his partner and hid her body under the tank of his under-construction house in Prayagraj. The body of 35-year-old Raj Kesar was recovered from the house of her partner named Arvind in the Mahewa locality under the Yamunapar Karchhana police station area on Friday. Station House Officer (SHO) Vishwajeet Singh told news agency PTI that Arvind killed Kesar about 14 days ago and hid her body in a tank at his house. The search began after her family reported her missing. According to PTI, after the police checked the call details of her phone, Arvind was taken into custody and interrogated, during which he revealed where the body could be located, SHO Singh said. The body has been sent for post-mortem examination. According to ABP News sources, the victim was killed on May 24. The accused had murdered his girlfriend with the help of his two friends. BREAKING NEWS | प्रयागराज में लिव-इन-रिलेशन में रह रही युवती के मर्डर से सनसनी -हत्या के बाद लाश सेप्टिक टैंक में छिपाई This comes amid an ongoing investigation into the Mumbai Mira road murder, a Mumbai man killed his live-in partner Saraswati, and chopped her body into pieces before boiling them in a pressure cooker. The murder was discovered by the police after neighbours of the Geeta Akash Deep Building Flat J-704 complained of an unbearable stench. According to ANI, the accused told the police during his questioning that Saraswati Vaidya died by suicide on June 3. "He was scared that he would be accused o...

Seventy-six flats constructed on land previously owned by the deceased gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed were recently allotted to underprivileged individuals through a lottery system, according to an official from the Prayagraj Development Authority (PDA). During the program, Arvind Chauhan, the Vice-Chairman of the PDA, stated, "We acquired the land in the city where Atiq Ahmed resided and operated his office." Chauhan highlighted that the flats were allocated based on the government's guidelines for reservations, considering Other Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, individuals with physical disabilities, and senior citizens. Each flat boasts modern amenities and comprises a bedroom, living room, kitchen, toilet, bathroom, balcony, as well as electricity, sewerage, and parking facilities, Chauhan added. A representative from PDA mentioned that two four-storey towers were erected in the Lukarganj area, with each flat costing Rs 6 lakh. The beneficiary is required to pay Rs 3.5 lakh, while the central government will provide a subsidy of Rs 1.5 lakh, and the state government will contribute Rs 1 lakh. Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were fatally shot at close range by three individuals posing as journalists during a media interaction on the night of 15 April this year. The incident occurred while they were being escorted by police personnel to a medical college in Prayagraj for a check-up.