The administration here has decided to use drones to keep tabs on people violating the coronavirus protocol, an official said on Wednesday.

The air quality in Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad slipped into the "poor" zone on Wednesday, while it was recorded in the "moderate" category in Faridabad and Gurgaon in the National Capital Region (NCR), a government agency said.

After a spell of rain in NCR, air quality improved drastically in Noida, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad and Gurgaon to reach "poor" levels, while it reached "moderate" category in Faridabad on Monday, according to a government agency.

To make it easier for foreigners in India, the 德扑圈apphome Ministry has brought the jurisdiction of Gautam Buddh Nagar or Noida and Ghaziabad districts of Uttar Pradesh under the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) in Delhi.

A fire broke out in a slum area in Bhupura Krishna Vihar area of Sahibabad on Tuesday. The police and the fire brigade are on the spot to douse it.

A delivery executive associated with an e-commerce firm has been arrested along with three more people for allegedly stealing packages containing new mobile phones supposed to be delivered by a co-worker and selling them at cheap rates, police said on Monday.

The Ghaziabad police registered a case of kidnapping after a software engineer went missing three days ago, an official said today.

A total of 121 polluting factories have been razed in Ghaziabad's Loni town since October 15, with a dozen units being demolished on Tuesday, District Magistrate Ajay Shankar Pandey said.

A two-and-half-year-old girl was allegedly raped and later killed by her father's acquaintance, the police said. The girl's body was found in a deserted area in Ghaziabad's Kavi Nagar on Tuesday morning, they said.

Five youths were arrested for allegedly kidnapping their 20-year-old friend and trying to extort ransom from his parents, Ghaziabad police said on Thursday.

Ghaziabad police arrested three burglars after a gunfight early Thursday and seized equipment used by them to cut open ATMs, officials said.

The Ghaziabad police on Tuesday rescued 19 Nepalese children from human traffickers and arrested a woman and three men involved in the crime, the police said.

Twenty-four directors of Ghaziabad's now defunct Mahamedha Cooperative Bank have been booked for allegedly misappropriating around Rs 100 crore, according to an FIR lodged in Ghaziabad.

A 74-year-old woman was shot dead by her younger son over a family dispute on her insistence to partition her agricultural land equally among her two sons and two married daughters, the police said on Saturday.

A 32-year-old man was arrested from Ghaziabad for allegedly cheating over 2,500 people on the pretext of getting them mobile phones on EMI (monthly installments) through fake websites, the police said today.