Lucknow: Facing pressure to meet its annual revenue goal, the Uttar Pradesh excise department has decided to add 489 new liquor shops to the existing network of retail vends across the state.Officials said the additional outlets will be opened in 43 districts, expanding a system that currently includes around 27,260 retail vends selling country liquor,…
TNNLucknow: Director general of police (DGP) Rajeev Krishna on Tuesday directed police and administrative officers across Uttar Pradesh to adopt a zero-tolerance approach towards any irregularity in the upcoming police constable recruitment examination, stressing that the success of the massive exercise would depend on vigilance and discipline at every level.Chairing a high-level review meeting via…
Lucknow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday’s ‘Mann ki Baat’ highlighted a 13-hour rescue operation in Gonda earlier this month in which a male Gangetic dolphin was saved using the country’s first Ganga Dolphin Rescue Ambulance and released back into the Rapti river.The dolphin was trapped in shallow water in a canal in Gonda. A…
Lucknow: BSP national president Mayawati on Tuesday said that the news about the murder of Anushka Pal, a national kabaddi player, is “extremely heartbreaking and alarming” and demanded strict action against the accused.“The news of the murder of Anushka Pal, a 17-year-old national kabaddi player from Chirodi village in Sardhana Assembly constituency of Meerut, is…
Rohan Sharma orchestrated the robbery along with his associates LUCKNOW: A robbery in which a professional photographer was lured to a fake birthday-party assignment and relieved of costly camera equipment has turned out to be an inside job allegedly masterminded by his own assistant photography aide, who police said hatched the plot to earn quick…
Chaudhary Charan Singh international airport (CCSIA), Lucknow LUCKNOW: Customs air intelligence unit (AIU) sleuths at Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport (CCSIA) in Lucknow have seized 13 kg hydroponic marijuana worth about Rs 13 crore from a passenger arriving from Muscat and arrested him under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.According to an AIU…
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) has arrested two Delhi-based B Com graduates allegedly involved in creating a network of bogus firms that facilitated fraudulent Input Tax Credit (ITC) claims and caused revenue losses worth crores of rupees to the government.The arrested accused, identified as Saurabh Agrawal (35) and Ajit Kumar (32), were carrying…
LUCKNOW: UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday announced his government proposal to rename Fazilnagar in Kushinagar district as “Pavagarh” in honor of Lord Mahavir.“We have sent a proposal for its renaming. It will no longer be known as Fazilnagar but as Pavagarh. It will be recognized in the name of Lord Mahavir,” Yogi said…
LUCKNOW: A 28-year-old married woman has accused a man of abducting her from outside her parental home in Lucknow, keeping her captive for nearly five years, and repeatedly sexually assaulting her at different locations across Uttar Pradesh. Police have registered a case at Sarojininagar police station and arrested the main accused.According to the FIR lodged…
Lucknow: The life, literary contributions and legacy of noted Urdu poet Irfan Siddiqui were remembered at a programme titled ‘An Evening in Awadh for Irfan Siddiqui’, organised by Silsila Adab Ka at the UP Press Club on Monday.Urdu literary enthusiasts, poets and scholars attended the event and paid tribute to Siddiqui, who was regarded as…
