Two youths died and one was seriously injured in a head-on collision between bikes under Chunar police station on Sunday. Yogendra Kumar (24) of Pathara Dasaundhi under Dehat Kotwali police station was going home on his bike from Chunar area via Dagmagpur when at Bargawaan village it collided with the bike of Ram Kumar (30) of Bargawaan under Chunar police station. Jay Prakash (26) of Madhupur, Sonbhadra, was sitting the pillion rider on the bike of his brother-in-law Ram Kumar at the time of the accident. On information the police admitted the injured to a nearby hospital where the doctors declared Ram Kumar and Yogendra as brought dead while Jay Prakash was referred to the Trauma Centre, Varanasi. SHO Chunar police station Sanjeev Singh said the family members of the victims had been informed.
PM’S BIRTHDAY: The birthday of PM Narendra Modi was celebrated throughout the district on Sunday. Giving details to the media at BJP office on Sunday district president BJP Brij Bhushan Singh said that at all its Shakti Kendras workers organised the programmes and made plan for further activities. He said the party had decided to observe the birthday of the PM as ‘Seva Pakhawara’ from September 17 to October 2. It started on the birthday of Modi and will conclude on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri. To make people aware about the programmes related to public welfare a bike rally was taken out under the leadership of Ram Kumar Vishwakarma, he added.
About other activities during the fortnight the BJP president said apart from blood donation on a large scale by the youth wing of the party the workers will help eligible persons to avail themselves of the benefit of different welfare schemes. The workers will find out names of the needy and ensure to easy availability of the facilities, he added. On the occasion MLAs Ratnakar Mishra, Rama Shankar Singh Patel and Anurag Patel, chairman Zila Panchayat Raju Kanaujia, chairman Cooperative Bank Jagdeesh Singh Patel, workers Sanjay Yadav, Gyan Prakash Dubey and others were also present.
COUPLES REUNITE: Under Project Milan programme four couples reunited through the Family Counselling Centre (FCC) located at Police Lines on Sunday. The said couples were living separately due to misunderstanding over trivial issues and cases were brought to the police. The police had referred the cases to the FCC and after separate sittings the couples agreed to live together. Incharge of the centre sub- inspector Shashi Tiwari, constable Pinki Jaiswal and counsellors Nirmala Rai and Prakash Chandra along with others were present during the counselling.
INSPECTED: Executive Engineer Distribution Division-II of UP Power Corporation Rajesh Kumar while inspecting the ongoing works under Vindhya Corridor project on Sunday asked the officials to complete the work of laying of underground cable at Vindhyachal within the stipulated time frame. The laying of underground cable IN Vindhyachal town was to be done for a length of 4.2 kilometres in four streets for which Rs 12 crore has been allocated. He said for connection to residents 32 distribution boxes were to be installed and the target was to complete the work within this month in view of Navratri Mela. During the inspection he warned to workers to speed up the work and complete it on time otherwise remain prepared to face the music.
ARRESTED: The Vindhyachal police on Sunday arrested an accused of enticing a minor girl away. One person had lodged a named first information report (FIR) on Sunday alleging that the accused enticed his minor daughter away.
SHO Vindhyachal Arvind Mishra took the case seriously and the girl was recovered and the accused was nabbed by the police team and sent to jail.