scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Friday, December 19, 2025
TopicAgra

Topic: Agra

Alcohol, blades & a confession video, how father-son duo ‘planned & packaged’ murder of mother, sisters

Post-mortem report says 49-year-old mother & youngest daughter died due to strangulation, other 3 died of shock & excessive bleeding. The father is absconding.

‘Volatile house, violent men’. Agra villagers feared for mother & daughters, ‘killed’ by father & son

Agra: “Buri nazar wale tera mu kala (Shame on evil eyes)”, read the signage that Mohammed Arshad (24) brought back home from the market sometime last...

‘Wanted to protect them’—Agra man who allegedly killed mother, sisters in ‘confession’ clip before arrest

The accused claimed that neighbours & relatives wanted to harm his family & police paid no heed to his complaint. Neighbours, however, allege that he used to beat up his mother & sisters.

MEA apprised of Agra DM’s letter on 19-yr-old being ‘held captive by employer’ in Sierra Leone

Family approached Agra police, district administration claiming 19-yr-old Abhishek Sharma emigrated to Sierra Leone in July to work at building material shop in Freetown.

Agra man chargesheeted in a loan default case 2 years after death, 4 sub-inspectors suspended

Pratap Singh died in 2016, but 2018 chargesheet in case of unpaid loan had his signatures. Case of cheating & forgery has been filed against the 4 cops & manager of finance company.

Agra man axed father to settle scores with neighbour who assaulted him and wife, say police

Victim's wife identified four people as attackers. Later, probe revealed some of these men had thrashed her son and daughter-in-law two months earlier.

Armed with land papers, Agra farmer tills park with sunset view of Taj, proposed as ‘cultural hub’

Farmer Munna Lal says his father & uncle were registered cultivators of the land, but it was taken away in urban ceiling action in 1976. However, court ruled in family's favour in 1998.

Agra cops probe suicides of IAF officer, Army captain wife within hours of each other

Captain Renu Tanwar’s family took her body to ancestral home in Rajasthan, while Flight Lieutenant Deen Dayal Deep, originally from Bihar, was cremated in Agra.

Flight lieutenant from Bihar ‘dies by suicide’ at Agra Air Force station. IAF launches probe

Fellow airmen say the officer had ‘laughed & joked’ at dinner the previous night. Police say the 32-yr-old was discovered hanging from ceiling fan in his quarters, no note was found.

Ghaziabad dancer ‘drugged, raped’ over 3 days in Agra. Accused couple ‘tried to force her into sex work’

Police say the woman was invited to perform at a show in Agra. Upon arrival, she was taken to accused Vinay Gupta's flat, where his wife allegedly served her drink laced with sedatives.

On Camera

Modi govt’s repeal of MGNREGA is all about extracting money from states, not reform

The claim that VB-GRAMG provides an employment guarantee is incorrect. The only guarantee is to 'empower' the Centre to allow partial implementation in notified areas alone.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.