A police van transporting nine female inmates and 14 police officers from the Lucknow District Jail to a courthouse burst into flames near the Raj Bhavan on Tuesday afternoon.According to official sources, all the passengers in the van were .
The 28-year-old man allegedly attacked his mother and sister, and later pulled out the pipe of the LPG cylinder and set it on fire in their house late on Thursday night, say neighbours
Devotees have been flocking the Magh Mela area since morning and around 6.5 lakh people, including children and the elderly, had taken bath in the river by 6 pm, an official of the annual religious event said.