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Peeyush Khandelwal

Peeyush Khandelwal writes on a range of issues in western Uttar Pradesh – from crime, to development authorities and from infrastructure to transport. Based in Ghaziabad, he has been a journalist for almost a decade.

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Ghaziabad: Ahead of monsoon onset, health department gears up to tackle dengue menace

According to the health department, 68 dengue cases were reported in 2018, 88 in 2019, 15 in 2020, 1,238 in 2021, and 901 in 2022, but the highest number of cases, at 1,261, was reported last year, which also saw four deaths

Health department officials said that during the drive in July, they will also carry out comprehensive public awareness meetings besides fogging and anti-larvae activities to control any dengue outbreak. (HT Archive)

Noida

Updated on Jun 27, 2024 06:24 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad municipal body gets ready for monsoon, installs pumps at 16 points

The municipal body has deployed pumps at four major underpass points and also at 12 other temporary points in the city where water logs during rains

In a bid to prevent any accident, additionally, the municipal body has put up a net over the Gaushala underpass, as it has good depth and youngsters often jump in for a bath in the logged water during the rains. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jun 25, 2024 06:56 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Ghaziabad: Father-son duo shot dead over water tussle; 3 arrested

The body of Pappu, the father, was fished out from sub-canal around 9am on Saturday and that of his son, Mohammad Shahnawaz, around 11.30pm by local divers

After the Pappu and Shahnawaj fell injured, the suspects allegedly dragged them from the road and threw them in the sub-canal, their family claimed. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jun 23, 2024 08:14 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Ghaziabad municipal body’s property tax collection highest ever at ₹296 cr

The tax collection during financial year 2021-22 stood at ₹175.47 crore, which increased to ₹206.67 crore in 2022-23, and reached ₹296 crore in FY 2023-24

The Ghaziabad civic body has a list of about 2,900 defaulters who have not paid the tax for the last one year or more, and the default tax is estimated to be <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>47.97 croren (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jun 23, 2024 10:46 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Ghaziabad: Girl, 13, dies by suicide after rape; suspect arrested

The suspect met the girl online and was chatting with her for the past week, and on Monday, he picked her up from near her house on their first meeting

The girl was sent for a medical examination and returned home with her family around 4.30pm but when the family woke up around 7pm, they found her hanging from a ceiling fan in her room. (HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jun 21, 2024 07:28 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Ghaziabad: GDA orders cancellation of seven plots in Indirapuram MLA scheme

In the seven instances, the allottees got their original allotments converted to obtain plots in the MLA scheme in alleged connivance or on directions of the former secretary

A skyline view of Indirapuram in Ghaziabad. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jun 20, 2024 05:56 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal

8-kilometre stretch of Delhi-Ghaziabad RRTS ready to start operations

The eight-kilometre route is a part of the 82-kilometre Namo Bharat project that is under construction to link Delhi, Ghaziabad and Meerut, at a cost of ₹30,274 crore

Officials said safety inspections were conducted in the last week of May, following which a final inspection was done by the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety. (HT Archive)

Noida

Updated on Jun 20, 2024 05:58 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Of 737 fires in Ghaziabad this year, 518 reported in April and May

Multiple fatal incidents of fire due to short-circuit in air-conditioners and other electrical appliances have been reported in the city this year

According to data shared by the fire department, there were 910, 931, 1,103 and 1,058 fires in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, respectively. In comparison, this year’s figure has already reached 737. (HT Archive)

Noida

Updated on Jun 20, 2024 06:00 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Ghaziabad gets ₹17 crore from planning commission to combat bad air

Environmentalists suggest the municipal corporation to spend funds in a transparent manner and should also involve citizens in its utilisation

A communication dated June 5 from ministry of finance said seven cities in Uttar Pradesh, including Ghaziabad, have been proposed to receive about <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>258 crore for taking up air quality improvement measure. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jun 18, 2024 05:42 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

6 killed, 16 injured as speeding truck rams another on Eastern Peripheral Expressway

The incident happened when two mini trucks were parked on the side of Muradnagar stretch of EPE around 1.15am

Police said the speeding truck hit one of the parked vehicles while brushing past the second one parked at a distance. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jun 17, 2024 07:06 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal

4 killed, 18 injured as speeding truck rams into stationary vehicle in Ghaziabad

Police said that the workers were going from Ganaur in Sonipat, Haryana, to Uttar Pradesh in a mini truck when they were hit by the speeding truck in Ghaziabad around 1.15am on Sunday

The accident took place on the Eastern Peripheral Expressway (Twitter Photo)

India News

Published on Jun 16, 2024 11:26 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Loni fire tragedy: Five who died were trapped on second floor of burning house

They all got trapped on the 2nd floor as they could not move downstairs because of the raging fire, and door leading to the terrace was locked, said officers

The fire department officials said four fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the fire, which is believed to have started from an electrical short circuit. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jun 14, 2024 05:56 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Loni fire: Narrow lanes, girders to stop heavy vehicles delayed fire tenders

The fire department officials said they received the call around 8.42pm and rushed two fire tenders to the spot from Loni fire station which is about 11km from the incident site

The department officials said they also broke the rear walls of the house and somehow reached the second floor, but, by then, the five trapped on that floor had died. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jun 14, 2024 05:54 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad: 5, including 2 children, killed as house catches fire in Loni area

The police identified the deceased persons as 26-year-old Nazra and her daughter Ikra, 7, Shaiful Rehman, 35, Mohammad Faiz (seven months) and Parveen, 28.

A major fire broke out at a three-storey house in Loni’s Behta Hajipur locality in Ghaziabad on late Wednesday night.

India News

Updated on Jun 13, 2024 07:04 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Ghaziabad: Treated water supply project to become operational in September

The project is being executed at a cost of about ₹320 crore to supply treated STP water through pipelines to industrial units

The project aims to supply about 40MLD of treated water daily to industrial units in Sahibabad Site IV area. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jun 12, 2024 06:58 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad: Indirapuram handover may take shape by end-July, says GDA

Ghaziabad's Indirapuram township is spread over an area of about 1,200 acres and its handover to the corporation has been delayed for nearly a decade

The Ghaziabad municipal corporation maintains that it needs funds to upgrade the civic infrastructure in Indirapuram before it takes over the township. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jun 11, 2024 05:26 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad: 2 arrested for abusing Faizabad voters after BJP loss

In a video, the two arrested suspects were allegedly seen using expletives against voters of Ayodhya where the BJP suffered a major defeat from the SP

The suspects in the video alleged that people ignored religious and nationalist sentiments in favour of caste equations, and police said that the two repeatedly used abusive language throughout the video. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jun 08, 2024 05:04 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad: Thousands in Khoda protest for drinking water

The water level in Khoda has depleted alarmingly as people use shared submersible pumps to draw out drinking water or purchase water cans daily

The Khoda locality, located next to UP-Gate, is home to about 45,000 households who do not have provision of tapped water supply (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jun 07, 2024 05:12 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Urban voters push BJP across the line in NCR

In Gautam Budh Nagar, voters helped re-elect incumbent MP Mahesh Sharma, with the BJP candidate winning by 559,472 votes — the largest margin in Uttar Pradesh

A man casts a vote at a polling booth inside Jaypee Wish Town in Noida Sector 128 on April 25. (Sunil Ghosh/HT photo)

Delhi

Updated on Jun 06, 2024 05:58 AM IST

ByAbhishek Behl, Vinod Rajput, Peeyush Khandelwal

Ghaziabad: Runner-up Cong’s vote share increased from 7.34% to 35.17%

The voting figures indicate that BJP’s Garg won all four segments of Sahibabad, Ghaziabad, Loni, Muradnagar but he lost Dhaulana, similar to his predecessor and former MP general VK Singh (retired) in 2019

Bharatiya Janata Party’s Atul Garg, who was elected MP of Ghaziabad on Tuesday. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jun 06, 2024 05:02 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

BJP retains Ghaziabad bastion, wins GB Nagar by 500,000 votes

BJP wins Ghaziabad & Gautam Budhha Nagar seats with comfortable margins. Atul Garg & Mahesh Sharma secure victories. Ghaziabad saw 49.88% turnout.

Celebrations underway at the BJP hadquarters in Delhi on Tuesday. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jun 05, 2024 08:56 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Maria Khan

NGT seeks nature of 111km road linking Ghaziabad to Uttarakhand border

The tribunal, in May 31 hearing, said at this stage it is examining the issue of the manner of classification of the proposed road

The cognisance of the issue was taken on February 1 on how the UP government’s forest department allowed felling over 100,000 (or 112,722) trees and shrubs in the protected forests of three forest divisions to construct two lanes of the road. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jun 02, 2024 08:18 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Ghaziabad: 55 minors, including girls, rescued from meat processing unit; five arrested

An initial probe has suggested that the minors were trafficked and mostly paid ₹300 per day for cutting meat

The minors, mostly from West Bengal and Bihar, were allegedly found working at the Masuri area-located unit during the raid carried out by officials. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jun 02, 2024 07:54 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Ghaziabad: Men in BMW beat up service centre staff, flee with Audi

Nuren and his two staff members were heading to Delhi in Audi A6 to fetch some spare parts when they were manhandled and the car allegedly stolen by men who came in a BMW

Police after an initial investigation said Bilal Ahmad and Vikas Yadav had a dispute over the ownership of the Audi car. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jun 01, 2024 05:50 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Shop owner thrashed in Vaishali by men in SUVs; two arrested

The victim said the suspects beat him up severely with rods and sticks, and the people who tried to intervene were also beaten up

Police said they have identified and arrested two people and the others too will be identified as teams have been formed to trace them. (HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on May 31, 2024 06:28 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Girl killed as van falls off Delhi Meerut Expressway after being hit by speeding car

The incident happened near the Hawa Hawai restaurant in Masuri and the van fell about 15-20 feet into the nearby fields

Police said they have formed teams to trace the driver of the erring Verna car and an FIR will be registered once they receive a complaint from the victim family. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on May 31, 2024 06:24 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad: Call that did not end on victim’s phone leads police to his killer

Police said the suspect talking about the murder to his wife was recorded by the receiver at the other end and the audio clip was handed over to the police

Suspect Rohit Sharma in police custody on Wednesday. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on May 30, 2024 07:28 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad: 57 minors employed at meat processing factory rescued

The police teams and officials of other departments safely rescued the minors and sent them in buses for medical examination and other legal formalities. The children said they were paid ₹300 for the daily work

The district administration officials said that the rescued boys and girls will be taken to the child welfare committee (CWC). (PTI/Representational Image)

Noida

Updated on May 30, 2024 07:22 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad: Over33,000 trees to be felled for Kanwar road along Upper Ganga Canal, NGT told

The report submitted before the tribunal states that the felling activity would be taken up on about 222.98 hectares in the three districts of Ghaziabad, Meerut and Muzaffarnagar

Noida

Updated on May 30, 2024 07:10 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad: Senior-citizen loses ₹5 lakh to cybercriminals

The fraudsters put him in fear that the police arrested his son in a rape case lodged by a woman from Mumbai and he would be freed from all charges only if the amount is transferred to several accounts

CThe FIR was registered on Monday under IPC sections 170 (personating a public servant), 384 (extortion), 420 (cheating), 506 (criminal intimidation) and also under provisions of the Information Technology Act. (Representational Image)

Noida

Updated on May 29, 2024 07:42 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

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Peeyush Khandelwal writes on a range of issues in western Uttar Pradesh – from crime, to development authorities and from infrastructure to transport. Based in Ghaziabad, he has been a journalist for almost a decade.

According to the health department, 68 dengue cases were reported in 2018, 88 in 2019, 15 in 2020, 1,238 in 2021, and 901 in 2022, but the highest number of cases, at 1,261, was reported last year, which also saw four deaths

The municipal body has deployed pumps at four major underpass points and also at 12 other temporary points in the city where water logs during rains

The body of Pappu, the father, was fished out from sub-canal around 9am on Saturday and that of his son, Mohammad Shahnawaz, around 11.30pm by local divers

The tax collection during financial year 2021-22 stood at ₹175.47 crore, which increased to ₹206.67 crore in 2022-23, and reached ₹296 crore in FY 2023-24

The suspect met the girl online and was chatting with her for the past week, and on Monday, he picked her up from near her house on their first meeting

In the seven instances, the allottees got their original allotments converted to obtain plots in the MLA scheme in alleged connivance or on directions of the former secretary

The eight-kilometre route is a part of the 82-kilometre Namo Bharat project that is under construction to link Delhi, Ghaziabad and Meerut, at a cost of ₹30,274 crore

Multiple fatal incidents of fire due to short-circuit in air-conditioners and other electrical appliances have been reported in the city this year

Environmentalists suggest the municipal corporation to spend funds in a transparent manner and should also involve citizens in its utilisation

The incident happened when two mini trucks were parked on the side of Muradnagar stretch of EPE around 1.15am

Police said that the workers were going from Ganaur in Sonipat, Haryana, to Uttar Pradesh in a mini truck when they were hit by the speeding truck in Ghaziabad around 1.15am on Sunday

They all got trapped on the 2nd floor as they could not move downstairs because of the raging fire, and door leading to the terrace was locked, said officers

The fire department officials said they received the call around 8.42pm and rushed two fire tenders to the spot from Loni fire station which is about 11km from the incident site

The police identified the deceased persons as 26-year-old Nazra and her daughter Ikra, 7, Shaiful Rehman, 35, Mohammad Faiz (seven months) and Parveen, 28.

The project is being executed at a cost of about ₹320 crore to supply treated STP water through pipelines to industrial units

Ghaziabad's Indirapuram township is spread over an area of about 1,200 acres and its handover to the corporation has been delayed for nearly a decade

In a video, the two arrested suspects were allegedly seen using expletives against voters of Ayodhya where the BJP suffered a major defeat from the SP

The water level in Khoda has depleted alarmingly as people use shared submersible pumps to draw out drinking water or purchase water cans daily

In Gautam Budh Nagar, voters helped re-elect incumbent MP Mahesh Sharma, with the BJP candidate winning by 559,472 votes — the largest margin in Uttar Pradesh

The voting figures indicate that BJP’s Garg won all four segments of Sahibabad, Ghaziabad, Loni, Muradnagar but he lost Dhaulana, similar to his predecessor and former MP general VK Singh (retired) in 2019

BJP wins Ghaziabad & Gautam Budhha Nagar seats with comfortable margins. Atul Garg & Mahesh Sharma secure victories. Ghaziabad saw 49.88% turnout.

The tribunal, in May 31 hearing, said at this stage it is examining the issue of the manner of classification of the proposed road

An initial probe has suggested that the minors were trafficked and mostly paid ₹300 per day for cutting meat

Nuren and his two staff members were heading to Delhi in Audi A6 to fetch some spare parts when they were manhandled and the car allegedly stolen by men who came in a BMW

The victim said the suspects beat him up severely with rods and sticks, and the people who tried to intervene were also beaten up

The incident happened near the Hawa Hawai restaurant in Masuri and the van fell about 15-20 feet into the nearby fields

Police said the suspect talking about the murder to his wife was recorded by the receiver at the other end and the audio clip was handed over to the police

The police teams and officials of other departments safely rescued the minors and sent them in buses for medical examination and other legal formalities. The children said they were paid ₹300 for the daily work

The report submitted before the tribunal states that the felling activity would be taken up on about 222.98 hectares in the three districts of Ghaziabad, Meerut and Muzaffarnagar

The fraudsters put him in fear that the police arrested his son in a rape case lodged by a woman from Mumbai and he would be freed from all charges only if the amount is transferred to several accounts

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