Lucknow: In a bid to ease traffic snarls on Kanpur Road, Lucknow traffic police have shifted the heavy-vehicle diversion point from Junabganj to Daroga Khera.Under the new trial arrangement, heavy vehicles will no longer be diverted at Junabganj. Instead, they will be diverted towards Kisan Path (Outer Ring Road) from Daroga Khera.DCP (Traffic) Raveena Tyagi…
Lucknow: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday took part in the Shri Krishna Janmashtami celebrations at the Reserve Police Lines in Lucknow, where he greeted police personnel and their families and attended a cultural programme organised to mark the birth of Lord Krishna.He inaugurated the one-day programme by garlanding the idol of Lord Krishna and…
Lucknow: A speeding truck allegedly driven by an intoxicated driver crushed three people, including a 15-year-old cyclist, in a series of hit-and-run crashes spread across nearly 10 kilometres on Padrauna-Kaptanganj road in Kushinagar on Friday evening, police said.The driver allegedly continued speeding despite mowing down victims at three separate locations, triggering panic along the busy…
Lucknow: A 49-year-old kathavachak (religious storyteller) was arrested for allegedly shooting his wife dead with a licensed rifle following a domestic dispute in Hardoi’s Shahabad area, police said on Saturday.The accused, Durga Prasad, allegedly shot his wife, Durgeshwati (45), in the abdomen at their home in Mishripur late Thursday night. She succumbed to her injuries…
Lucknow: A Supreme Court (SC)-appointed amicus curiae team on Saturday surveyed sites under scrutiny for alleged land-use and planning violations in Lucknow and reviewed action taken by Lucknow Development Authority (LDA).The team visited Aliganj, where it examined properties identified by LDA for alleged violations of land-use norms, and reviewed action taken following the June 22…
Lucknow University faces significant vacancies in its Urdu postgraduate and undergraduate programs (File photo) NEW DELHI: Last week, Lucknow University invited eligible students for its Urdu course and said they could walk in for enrolment.Desperate times had called for desperate measures.Of its roughly 120-130 postgraduate seats, only 45 had been filled this year. At undergraduate…
Lucknow: Hours after visiting BJP national general secretary and UP in charge Vinod Tawde said Samajwadi Party’s PDA actually stood for ‘Paraya Dhan Apna’ (grabbing others’ wealth), SP reacted sharply, saying that such claims only show how petrified BJP was of PDA’s growing unity and power.Shortly after Tawde’s comment, SP’s verified media cell handle went…
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Board of Revenue (BOR) has launched three online portals to speed up revenue-related cases and make it easier for people to track their cases and land-record applications online.Board chairperson Archana Agrawal launched the e-filing portal, lower court record portal and a trial version of the Section 34 mutation portal.Officials said the…
Lucknow: Three members of an interstate gang, including a woman, were arrested from a hotel in Lucknow for allegedly duping two people of ₹93 lakh on the pretext of arranging USDT (Tether) cryptocurrency using forged letters purportedly issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), police…
Lucknow: Acting on a court’s direction, Deoria police have registered an FIR against a man accused of duping a youth of ₹10 lakh by promising massive returns through cryptocurrency investments and later threatening to kill him.Complainant Piyush Kumar Singh of Sirjam Dei said he met Ayush Singh of Pipramadan Gopal in Deoria city on Dec…
