PRAYAGRAJ: Four policemen including station house officer, a sub-inspector and two beat constables posted at Nawabganj police station of Pratapgarh district in UP have been placed under suspension on Monday.
The suspension follows the death of four persons, including a couple, who allegedly died after consuming spurious liquor in Manoharpur Rampur Dabi vilage under the limits of Sangramgarh police station of Pratapgarh district in past 48 hours (Saturday and Sunday) .
(Prayagraj range) IG KP Singh told TOI that “Initial investigations revealed that four people including a woman died after consuming excess amounts of spurious liquor in Manohapur Rampur Dabi village in the past 48 hours.
PRAYAGRAJ: The Uttar Pradesh government has identified 943 trees from a total of 28 species across the state under the category of heritage trees. Of the trees in Prayagraj district, there are 53 trees in Sangam city that are over 100 years old and have a religious or historical association. Besides, there are 13 such trees from the neighbouring district of Pratapgrah and seven from Kaushambi.
Following the directives of the state government, the divisional forest officer (DFO) across the state were asked to prepare a list of such trees that are over 100 years old and are associated with mythological events, historical occasions, important events, monuments, religious traditions etc. Such trees were to be included in the list of ‘heritage trees’.
Prayagraj: The UP board has commenced their preparations for holding the board exams for high school and intermediate-2021. The exams are set to begin on April 24. To start the process of holding the exams, the board has started the process of dispatching the necessary answer-sheets to all 75 districts.
A total of 56,03,813 students including 29,94,312 for High School and 26,09,501 for Intermediate have registered for this year’s board exams.
Instructions for the appointment of centre managers and invigilators for conducting the exams are also being sent to all districts.
UP Board secretary Divya Kant Shukla has directed all district inspector of schools (DIOSs) to send their recommendations regarding the appointment of Centre managers and additional Centre managers to Divisional Joint Directors (Education) concerned and UP Board headquarters besides the respective Regional Offices of UP Board by March 30.
Prayagraj: Two minor boys drowned at a pond in Bhagauti village under the limits of Manda police station in trans-Yamuna area on Friday morning while .
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Prayagraj: Director of Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) of Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore, Akhilesh Kumar Singh has been appointed as the new vice-chancellor of Prof Rajendra Singh (Rajju Bhaiya) University by the Governor Anandiben Patel.
The new VC has been appointed for a period of three years from the day he assumes office.
Born and brought up at Dawani village of Ballia district, Singh did his early schooling from Ballia. He pursued his undergraduate and postgraduate from a college at Ballia, which was then affiliated to Gorakhpur University. For further studies, he moved to Banaras Hindu University where he did his BEd . He later did his MEd, MPhil and PhD from Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore and joined the university which has around 375 colleges affiliated to it.