Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh has detected 1.85 lakh new tuberculosis (TB) patients and screened over 31 lakh people during the Centre’s 100-day TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan, emerging as the country’s best-performing state under the campaign, officials said on Thursday.Adding that the campaign achieved 91% coverage of identified high-risk villages and urban wards, officials also said that…
Lucknow: UP govt has set July 10 as the deadline for completing the tender process for all tourism projects approved till March 31, 2026.“All executing agencies have been directed to complete the pending tendering process by July 10, so that the construction begins without delay,” said tourism and culture minister Jaiveer Singh after a departmental…
Alok Kumar, principal secretary IT and electronics department UP Lucknow: Seeking to strengthen the state’s digital defences amid an increasingly complex cyber threat landscape, the Uttar Pradesh govt will on Friday convene a high-level consultation of senior officials, cyber security experts and departmental chief information security officers (CISOs) to draw up a coordinated strategy for…
Lucknow: Just a short distance from the famed mother tree of the Dussehri mango in Kakori, mango entrepreneur and enthusiast SC Shukla continues to expand his passion project — an ever-growing collection of rare mango varieties from across India and the world.Spread across 13 bighas, his new orchard, planted barely two years ago, has begun…
Lucknow: In what is being described as one of UP’s biggest cybercrime crackdowns in recent years, 119 employees and managers of a fake international call centre were arrested, exposing an operation that investigators say functioned more like a professionally managed company than a conventional criminal syndicate from the 11th floor of Summit building in Vibhuti…
Lucknow: The southwest monsoon covered Lucknow and the remaining parts of the entire state on Thursday, two days after arrival in UP.The monsoon advancement lacked the fanfare, with only light to moderate rainfall reported from various parts of the state, unlike previous years, when arrival used to bring heavy widespread rains. Heavy rainfall was recorded…
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) on Thursday busted an alleged interstate illegal arms trafficking network and arrested four suspected gunrunnersfrom Lucknow, including a man who, police say, transitioned from trafficking narcotics and ‘OG’ (organic cannabis) to running a lucrative firearms racket.The accused — identified as Sandesh Pratap Singh alias Raj, Vivek Prajapati, Nitin…
Lucknow: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath will inaugurate the three-day ‘Aam Mahotsav’ (mango festival) on Friday. The festival will showcase more than 800 mango varieties across seven categories and 56 subcategories at Indira Gandhi Pratishthan.Describing the festival as more than an exhibition, minister of state (independent charge) for horticulture and agricultural marketing Dinesh Pratap Singh said…
Office bearers of Lohia Vahini – a frontal organisation of Samajwadi Party– created an image of party chief Akhilesh Yadav across 6 lakh square feet of corn cultivation in Ghazipur’s Khalispur Bawarda village to mark the latter’s 53rd birthday celebration. Akhilesh connected to the team which was led by Abhishek Yadav to acknowledge their effort…
A meeting of the Political Affairs Committee was also convened by Gautam. Attended by UP Congress chief Ajay Rai, AICC secretaries, MPs, MLAs, former MPs, former ministers and other senior leaders, the meeting deliberated on organisational and political issues ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. Lucknow: The newly appointed Congress’ UP in-charge Rajendra…
