Lucknow:  Eight people died in a collision between double-decker buses on the Purvanchal Expressway in Uttar Pradesh. 20 people were injured.

Officials informed that the health condition of three people is critical and they have been shifted to the trauma center in Lucknow for specialist treatment. Immediately after the accident, the police and fire brigade reached the spot and led the rescue operation.

New Delhi: Draupadi Murmu was sworn in as the 15th President of the country. Supreme Court Chief Justice NV Ramana administered the oath.

Draupadi Murmu, who arrived at Parliament in a limousine with President Ram Nath Kovind, was sworn in at a ceremony in the Central Hall of Parliament. Dignitaries including the Prime Minister were present on the occasion.

As the country prepares to celebrate its 75th Independence Day, 64-year-old Draupadi Murmu, a leader of the tribal community, will become the nation’s leader. Addressing the nation, Draupadi Murmu said that she thanked everyone and would keep the nation’s faith.

New Delhi:  Monkeypox has been confirmed in the national capital. A 31-year-old man who is being treated at Maulana Abdul Kalam Hospital has been diagnosed with the disease. The fact that he has not traveled abroad has caused concern.

So far in India monkeypox was only in Kerala. Kollam, Kannur, and Malappuram natives who came from abroad were earlier diagnosed with the disease.

If the disease has been reported outside Kerala and a person with no history of foreign travel has become ill, the Union Health Ministry may suggest stricter surveillance and vigilance.

A global health emergency has been declared due to the spread of monkeypox. The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of the World Health Organization.

16,000 cases have been reported in 75 countries, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. Monkeypox, which broke out in Africa in the mid-1950s, has traveled internationally and reached the 21st century.

New Delhi: A woman was gang-raped at a railway station in New Delhi. According to police, a 30-year-old woman was gang-raped in the electrical maintenance staff room of the New Delhi railway station. Police arrested four railway employees in the incident.
Police said that the woman was gang-raped at the railway station on Thursday night. Satish Kumar (35), Vinod Kumar (38), Mangalchand Meena (33) and Jagadish Chand (37) have been arrested in the case. All of them are employees of the electrical department of railways.
Two of the accused locked the woman in the room and raped her. Two others were standing guard outside the room. The woman called the police at around 3.27 am on Friday morning and reported the complaint. Then the police would investigate and arrest the accused.
The complainant has been living separately from her husband for the past one year. The woman met one of the accused two years ago through her friend. He introduced himself as a railway employee and recently promised to give the woman a job in the railways.
On July 21, he invited the woman to his house. He was invited to the house to attend his son’s birthday celebration and to celebrate the purchase of a new house. He then took the woman to the New Delhi railway station, who reached the Kirtinagar metro station around 10.30 pm on Thursday. After being brought here, the woman was taken to the electrical maintenance room. After asking her to sit in the room, he left. Police say that after a few minutes, the accused came to the room with another person and after locking the room from inside, both of them took turns to rape the woman. The other two accused in the case were standing guard outside the room at this time. The police informed that all the four accused who were produced in the court were remanded in judicial custody for 14 days.

Lucknow: Six Kanwar devotees killed in Hathras truck collision Around 2.15 am today, the speeding truck rammed into the devotees. The Kanwar devotees were going to Gwalior from Haridwar.

The accident happened within Sadabad police station limits in Hathras. Five people died on the spot. One person died while being treated at the hospital. The police registered a case against the truck driver and started an investigation. An investigation is underway into the incident. We have received information about the driver and he will be nabbed soon,” ADGP Rajeev Krishna said.
During the month of ‘Shravana’, Shiv devotees perform the Kanwar Yatra on foot to places like Haridwar and Gaumukh in Uttarakhand to fetch water from the Ganga River.