BSP Supremo Mayawati during the meeting of district and state-level office bearers at the party office, in Lucknow on Tuesday. (ANI Photo) Lucknow: BSP president Mayawati on Wednesday advocated a separate quota for women from SC, ST and OBC within the proposed 33% reservation for women in Lok Sabha and state assemblies and said that…
Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said BJP govt at the Centre was showing haste in pushing through the women reservation bill as it wants to avoid ‘quota within quota’ that it would be forced to give if the bill was passed post the current census and caste…
Lucknow: A day after clashes between two groups of the Dalit community erupted in Lakhimpur over the installation of a statue of BR Ambedkar on his birth anniversary, the BJP went into overdrive to assess the situation at the grassroots.The violence broke out after one group of the Dalit community objected to the installation of…
Lucknow: The UP Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board on Wednesday organised a mass marriage ceremony under the Kanya Vivah Sahayata Yojana, facilitating the weddings of 187 couples from six districts of Lucknow division.The event, held at Awadh Shilpgram in Lucknow, included couples from Lucknow, Unnao, Sitapur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Raebareli and Hardoi. The beneficiaries…
Lucknow: Lucknow-based senior neuro physiotherapist, Dr Akanksha Upadhyay, presented her research-based case study on Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) at the national conference on Allied Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (NCAHRS) at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi.The case study, titled ‘Functional recovery in GBS through structured physical therapy,” detailed the successful rehabilitation of an 11-year-old…
Lucknow: The fire that broke out in Vikas Nagar on Wednesday evening escalated into a devastating inferno due to the presence of nearly 50 illegally hoarded LPG cylinders, officials said.The cylinders stored inside shanties triggered a series of powerful explosions, setting off a chain reaction that engulfed the entire cluster within minutes.Aman Gupta, a local…
Lucknow: In the charred remains of shanties in Vikas Nagar, the fire did not just destroy homes — it erased lifetimes of effort, hopes and dreams.A twisted steel trunk lay half-buried in soot — it once held the wedding preparations of Saira Bano from Sitapur. Inside it were the sarees that she collected over the…
With the initial probe hinting at the involvement of a significant number of non-workers and external elements, the investigating teams are now looking at Noida unrest more as a “wellplanned conspiracy” than a labour protest. Image Credit: PTI LUCKNOW: With the initial probe hinting at the involvement of a significant number of non-workers and external…
Lucknow: Astronaut and Group Captain, Shubhanshu Shukla returned to his alma mater, City Montessori School on Wednesday to attend a special event marking the International Day of Human Space Flight at the World Unity Convention Centre at the Kanpur Road campus.Addressing a gathering of students from 22 CMS campuses, both in person and online, he…
LUCKNOW: Bodies of two minor girls were recovered during an early morning search operation on Thursday, hours after a devastating fire razed over 280 shanties in Sector 11 of Vikas Nagar on Wednesday evening.The deceased were identified as Shruti (2) and her two-month-old sister, daughters of Satish, a resident of Kashipurwa village in Barabanki district….
