Known locally as a “young environmental guardian”, the Class III student has been motivating people to plant and protect trees, invoking memories of community-led green movements such as the historic Chipko Movement.
Officials view this initiative as a step that strengthens both spiritual heritage and the state’s broader effort to bring lesser-known Ramayana sites into the mainstream tourism narrative.
Four people were killed and six others injured when a tourist car was hit by an unidentified speeding vehicle on Mumbai-Delhi Expressway in Kota district of Rajasthan on Sunday.
Violence broke out in Dadarpur village in the district after police registered an FIR against the Kathawachaks (religious narrators) under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) on Thursday.
The victim, Mukutmani Singh Yadav, a resident of Kanpur currently living in Etawah’s Civil Lines, was allegedly assaulted by a group of Brahmin men. His head was forcibly shaved, and he was publicly humiliated for conducting a religious discourse in the village.
Akhilesh Yadav was addressing an election rally at the SS Memorial College ground in Etawah.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a heatwave warning for 18 districts in Uttar Pradesh for the next 48 hours (Sunday and Monday), an IMD official said.
Detailing the incident, ASP Singh said, "There were two parties in which stone pelting took place.
Four persons were killed and 42 injured in a collision between a container and a double-decker bus on the Lucknow-Agra expressway near Etawah in the early hours of Sunday. All the injured have been admitted to the Saifai Medical College.
The incident took place on Monday evening. The fire was caused by a short circuit and reduced the pandal to ashes. However, no one was injured.
