Rampur, Jan 1 (ANI): At least seven personnel belonging to Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)

were killed in militants' attack on their camp in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur District in the wee hours

on Tuesday.

A civilian person was also killed in the attack, which the CRPF uses for its recruitment purpose.

According to the CRPF and police officials, militants armed with AK-47 rifles and grenades

attacked the camp at around 2:20 a.m.

The security personnel and police patrolling the area intercepted the attackers leading to a fierce

gun battle in which seven CRPF personnel and a civilian were killed, they said.

The entire area has been cordoned off and search operation is going on. Senior official have

rushed to the site.

According to media reports, Intelligence Bureau (IB) had warned on November 28 against a

Fidayeen attack in Uttar Pradesh. (ANI)

MP: Many of the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) officials are under scanner as criminal cases has been filed against them for alleged irregularities in allotment of plots and making payments using fake documents. As many as over 20 officials have been send notice for wrongly allotting residential plots and have been booked for "embezzlement of government funds, making false entries in government records, fraud and criminal conspiracy besides certain provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act". Earlier Supreme Court has issued notice to many including former UP chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, and Amar Singh for illegal allotment of plots to politicians and the bureaucrats.

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MP: The former Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Akhand Pratap Singh who
was allegedly involved with corruption case was granted bail on Monday
by the Delhi High Court. Earlier he was remanded to 14 days judicial
custody on Oct 25th. Singh was arrested on September 25 and was
alleged to have acquired disproportionate assets. Dismissing CBI's
plea to reject his bail the court said: "Nothing is on record which
shows that he tried to tamper with evidence after the lower court`s
order." The judge also added that "If evidence is tampered with after
his release on bail, the petitioner (CBI) will be at liberty to
approach the trial court for cancellation of bail."

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MP: Bollywood's star couple Abhishek Bachchan and wife Aishwarya Rai were at Agra on Tuesday as a part of a shooting programme for a TV comercial at the world renowned monument, Taj Mahal. Actor Abhishek was accompanied by his wife and mother Jaya Bachchan along with Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh. The actor was at the city for shooting for a cell phone advertisement while the rest of the group are said to have visited the Saleem Chisti Dargah in the Fathepur Sikri.

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Ghazipur (UP), Oct 25 (ANI): Home Guard personnel took to the streets of Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur district on Thursday with begging bowls in their hands demanding regularisation of their service and better pay package. The Home Guard personnel are sent on duty for three months in a year to assist the police in performing their duties. They said that they were not able to actively discharge any work apart from policing because sometimes they were called in for urgent tasks and officers charge them with indiscipline.

"Some of the Home Guard personnel are working as labourers in order to survive. We have placed all our demands before the government and made them aware of our problems. In our department, even expressing our genuine problems and feelings is termed as misbehaviour, " said Shivsagar Pandey, a home guard. These Home Guard personnel in Khaki uniforms are deployed to ensure security of ministers and are on duty at police stations also. However, they have to buy their uniform, shoes and belt themselves. "The person recruited for this service holds a secure, respectable job. This is not just an ordinary service, but a respectful job. The motto of the Home Guards is to serve the country selflessly.

We are working on that only," said Jyoti Kumar Raizada, a Home Guard commandant. The government has recruited them mainly to look after the arrangements during elections, but has not done anything to ameliorate the pitiable condition in which these unfortunate Home Guards live. According to the records, a total of 1,20,000 home guards are in Uttar Pradesh, of which, only 20,000 guards are sent on duty and 8,000, are sent to private places for work.

In Ghazipur, the total number of home guards is 1500 of which, only 300 are on duty. Similarly in Varanasi, only 750 guards out of 3900, in Mirzapur 350 guards out of 1200, in Sonbhadra 300 out of 700 guards and in Badohi 300 out of 600 guards are given work. As a result, at least 80 per cent of the Home Guard personnel remain idle during the year. (ANI)

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New Delhi, Oct 2 (ANI): The Centre today announced to confer the Kabir Puraskar, for the year 2007, on Saharanpur resident Khalifa Gufran for playing pivotal role in stopping many incidents of communal riots in his locality. He will be awarded with a cash prize of Rupees 50,000. Resident of Gali Halwaiyan, in Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Gufran helped in saving the lives of two Dalit youths in 2006 after Muslims and Dalits scuffled over a petty matter that soon took the shape of communal violence."The timely arrival on the scene by Khalifa Gufran with the district authorities stemmed further escalation of violence and saved both the youths from the clutches of the mob," a release issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs that announces the award said. In March 2007 persons of Hindu and Muslim communities collected at Mohalla Jatavnagar and started pelting stones on each other. Here also Gufran helped the district authorities in restoring peace and normalcy. Kabir Puraskar is a National Award instituted by the Indian Government for recognizing the acts of physical or moral courage displayed by a member of one caste, community or ethnic group in saving the lives and properties of member(s) of another caste, community or ethnic group during caste, community or ethnic violence. The Award is given annually in three grades viz., Grade-I, Grade-II and Grade-III, carrying cash amount of Rs. 2,00,000; Rs.1,00,000 and Rs. 50,000 respectively. (ANI)

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