Athletes were honoured, Rs 15 crore distributed under the Chief Minister’s Sports Promotion Scheme, laptops given to 1,200 students, and 222 top students, plus 34 schools were felicitated at the event.

Ice cream seller Bablu, 25, beheaded by Shankar Yadav, 50, in Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki over selling dispute.

In a disturbing case from Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr, a 12-year-old girl was beaten to death by her father over mere suspicion of stealing a box of toffees. The incident is from Ratanpur village of Narora, where man brutally thrashed her eldest daughter until she became unconscious and later fled the scene locking her family inside the house.