Lucknow: The state govt on Tuesday announced that it would soon set up the ‘Uttar Pradesh Ghumantu Vikas Board’, which will work towards the development of denotified, nomadic and semi-nomadic communities.The decision was taken at a meeting of the UP state backward classes commission, chaired by commission chairman Rajesh Verma.Representatives of Ghumantu tribes had met…
60 passengers were injured after a speeding luxury bus overturned on the Purvanchal Expressway on Tuesday, triggering panic and a massive rescue operation in the Dhanpatganj area in Sultanpur district of UP. 60 passengers were injured after a speeding luxury bus overturned on the Purvanchal Expressway on Tuesday, triggering panic and a massive rescue operation…
Deputy secretary, department of school education & literacy, GoI, Ira Singhal addressing teachers at a programme in SCERT on Tuesday Lucknow: The upgraded version of the ‘Prashast’ app—Prashast 2.0 will help screen 21 types of disabilities easily, and simplify the certification process for children with special needs (CWSN) while helping integrate them into mainstream education,…
Lucknow: In a swift, tech-enabled response, the Agra police arrested four men for allegedly harassing an 18-year-old girl and another woman inside a moving bus, within just eight minutes of receiving a distress alert on social media.Police said the incident occurred around 12.27am on April 28, when an SOS was posted on X reporting that…
Lucknow: Indiranagar Police Station on Tuesday registered an FIR against a local property dealer and his unidentified associates for allegedly attempting to illegally seize land belonging to a Scheduled Caste man and issuing death threats laced with casteist slurs.The victim, Avsheesh Kumar alias Bauwa, 36, a resident of Rasulpur Saadat, alleged a long-standing conspiracy involving…
Lucknow: Additional chief secretary (energy) and UPPCL chairman Ashish Kumar Goel took action against officials for negligence and delay in replacing damaged transformers. A junior engineer (JE) was suspended, while one superintendent engineer (SE), two executive engineers (EE), one assistant engineer (AE) and one JE were given adverse entries. The chief engineer (CE) was also…
Judge Flags Major Gaps In Police VersionLucknow: A local court has acquitted Manoj Chauhan in a six-year-old encounter case in the Alapur area of Ambedkarnagar observing that the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.The case dates to Sept 18, 2020, when police claimed that Station House Officer Brijesh Kumar Singh and his…
Lucknow: UP’s tourism and culture sectors have seen a massive rise in government funding over the past few years with tourism budget allocations increasing 22-fold and culture spending rising nearly 20 times since 2017, according to officials at the Tourism Department’s Standing Committee meeting on Tuesday.Tourism minister Jaiveer Singh said: “the sharp increase speaks for…
Tourism Minister Jaiveer Singh and additional chief secretary Amrit Abhijat Lucknow: The suggestions related to branding Kanpur’s industrial legacy as the ‘Manchester of the East’, boosting heritage tourism, improving Bundelkhand’s connectivity with Madhya Pradesh and reviving Prayagraj’s Triveni Mahotsav were shared at a meeting to review ongoing projects of the tourism and culture departments on…
Lucknow: A Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court on Tuesday held that members of the transgender (kinnar) community do not have any legal right to demand traditional ‘badhai’ or ‘neg’ (customary monetary offerings).The court observed that such collection of money may fall within the ambit of an offence under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).The…
