Lucknow: A 46-year-old woman and her 27-year-old male companion were found hanging in a hotel room in Bahraich, nearly 10 days after they checked in as a married couple, police said.The bodies were discovered late on Thursday night in Room 201 of Avadh Kailash Hotel, located opposite the district hospital in Kotwali Nagar area. According…
Lucknow: A 35-year-old woman and her 22-year-old brother-in-law were found hanging inside a room in Hardoi’s Bilgram area on Friday morning. The incident came to light when the woman’s eight-year-old son peeped through a window and discovered the bodies.Police said the deaths occurred in Habibnagar village under Bilgram Kotwali. The child woke up around 8…
In UP, Ajay Rai was abruptly replaced by Mishra while Saharanpur MP Imran Masood was named working president. LUCKNOW/CHANDIGARH: Congress overhauled its PCC brass in two poll-bound states Friday, installing Rampur Khas MLA Aradhana “Mona” Mishra as the UP unit chief and hockey Olympian Pargat Singh as state president in Punjab, with each pick engineered…
Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow bench has granted interim relief to four state tax department officials who had probed a sexual harassment complaint, staying the charge sheet issued against them.Justice Rajiv Singh passed the order while hearing separate writ petitions filed by the four officials, who had challenged the charge sheet issued on Feb…
Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has held that Sunni Central Waqf Board cannot, in exercise of its general powers, direct a district magistrate to enter, delete or alter a person’s name in the revenue records relating to a Waqf property.A division bench of Justices Alok Mathur and Amitabh Kumar Rai made…
Ritika Singh Sisodiya/TNN Lucknow: A Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court has upheld the rejection of Larsen & Toubro Ltd’s technical bid for the Jewar Airport-Ganga Expressway link project, holding that the company was ineligible to bid as it was under a govt debarment on the bid due date.A division bench of justices Shekhar B…
Lucknow: For Hockey India chief selector RP Singh, the sight of the Indian women’s hockey team celebrating on the blue turf was more than a sporting triumph. It was a deeply personal moment, one that brought together the pride, patience of a long selection process and memories of his own journey in Indian hockey.Singh, a…
Lucknow: More than 40 unique United Kingdom-origin Scotch whisky, gin and other brands will be available at lower price points in key cities of Uttar Pradesh within a fortnight.Carrying out an exhaustive review of the foreign brands and labels that have been registered with UP excise department, senior officials said that at least 40 premium…
Lucknow: Mandi Parishad director Jitendra Pratap Singh on Friday said that newly appointed mandi secretaries would be given special training to make the mandi more effective and farmer-friendly.During the training, the new appointees will be taught about mandi operations, departmental working procedures, how to resolve farmers’ problems quickly, revenue and other processes.Singh has directed mandi…
Vice President honours AFMC’s Op Drishti for humanitarian care Lucknow: Recognising humanitarian eye care services for underprivileged and tribal communities, including people living along the LoC, Vice-President CP Radhakrishnan honoured Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) Operation Drishti with Sant Ishwar Samman on Friday.The honour was received by Brigadier Sanjay Kumar Mishra, under whose leadership the…
