Mohammad Furkan

A burglar, who allegedly used to burgle houses after consuming ecstasy tablets, was arrested along with his two associates from Daryaganj on Monday.

The overtures of the Bahujan Samaj Party to Brahmins ahead of the UP polls seem to have not gone down well with Muslim leaders in the party, particularly in Aligarh. The local Muslim leaders have complained to the top leaders that they felt slighted after their photographs were not included on the banners of party’s event — ‘Prabuddh Varg Vichar Gosthi’ – held in the city on Tuesday. The photograph of even the city’s mayor, Mohammad Furkan, was missing from the banners.

BSP leader and Aligarh mayor Mohammad Furkan has landed himself in yet another controversy over his statement, dubbing Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the ‘weakest’ PM in the nation’s history.

A man, who faced a decade-long trial after a countrymade pistol was allegedly found on him, has finally been acquitted.

The CBI court on Saturday sentenced Mohammad Furkan, a dealer of agricultural equipment to three years and three months of imprisonment and imposed Rs 60,000 fine after he was found guilty in a bank fraud case.

With the arrest of five persons, the north district police claimed to have busted a gang of robbers planning to loot a bus in Roop Nagar area.

Former mayor of Aligarh, Mohammad Furkan, wrote a letter to PM Modi requesting strict action against those behind burning Quran in Sweden.

The Navi Mumbai police have arrested four persons for their alleged involvement in nine cases of motorcycle thefts and seized two-wheelers worth Rs 4.75 lakh from them, an official said on Saturday.

As many as five Trinamool Congress supporters were injured in a clash with Left supporters at Hatibadha village under Raghunathganj-II block of Murshidabad on Wednesday.

Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) students took out a protest march on the campus against the recent burning of Quran in Sweden.

BJP has retained its saffron wave in Uttar Pradesh by winning 14 out of the 16 mayoral seats in the urban local bodies elections. BSP won two seats, Meerut and Aligarh, while Samajwadi Party and Congress could not open their accounts. BJP had won 11 of the 13 mayoral seats in 2012.

An RTI activist, Pandit Keshav Dev, was booked by Aligarh police on Friday for making objectionable statements and allegedly attempting to “disrupt communal harmony” after he demanded a survey of the city's Jama Masjid, claiming that it was "built on government land and there are no documents

Setting a precedent of sorts, the head cleric of Aligarh on Tuesday asked administrators of all the city mosques to make sure that people coming for Friday prayers don't spill out on roads and streets of the city

An 800-page chargesheet filed by police in the violence that had taken place on December 15 mentions that the rioters who had set fire to DTC buses at Jamia Nagar and New Friends Colony had taken shelter at Jamia Millia Islamia presuming that police would not enter the university premises while chasing them. The rioters had even set fire to vehicles parked on Okhla road.

A sullen gloom pervades Sadar Bazar, the city's wholesale hub that is usually bustling with activity.

Bachche Lal, a resident of Chikmandi in Lucknow Central constituency, has voted in every election since 1952, but on Wednesday he was unable to cast his vote as his name was missing in the voters' list.

An art director, who had gone missing from Madh on Wednesday, was found murdered in a nullah in Virar on Friday. Krishnendu Chouwdhury, 37, had gone to Madh to meet a vendor to get some of his designs executed.

UP civic poll results: BJP retained its saffron wave in Uttar Pradesh by winning 14 out of the 16 mayoral seats in the urban local bodies elections.

Barely hours after Hindu Yuva Vahini (HYV) issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Aligarh Muslim University Students’ Union (AMUSU) to remove a portrait of Pakistan founder Mohd Ali Jinnah from the students’ hall, activists of various right-wing organizations clashed with the university’s students while attempting to force their way into the campus to remove the portrait on Wednesday