Meenakshi Singh at the event Launches ‘Eco Champs’ Drive Meenakshi Singh at the event Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Police Family Welfare Association, Vaama Sarathi, on Saturday felicitated 438 meritorious children of serving police personnel and launched an environmental awareness initiative, ‘Vaama Eco Champs’, at a ceremony at Amar Shaheed Chandrashekhar Azad Auditorium in Police Headquarters.The…
Lucknow: Expediting the implementation of Chief Minister’s cashless medical scheme for teachers, the education department has developed a dedicated portal for the registration of eligible personnel and their dependents.The department has also designed the cover and back page of the card to be issued to over 15 lakh teachers and non-teaching staff deployed in state-run…
Lucknow: With UP Assembly elections drawing closer, BJP has intensified its organisational and governance outreach across the state. While chief minister Yogi Adityanath is crisscrossing the state to inaugurate and lay foundation stones for development projects — reinforcing party’s governance-centric poll narrative — state BJP chief Pankaj Chaudhary is set to embark on district-wise ‘pravas’…
Young adolescents scroll through social media on smartphones, highlighting rising appearance anxiety and body image concerns linked to online comparison and mental health pressures. Lucknow: Mental health professionals in the city have noted an increase in the number of cases of children and adolescents struggling with appearance anxiety due to social media-driven comparison.In a recent…
Lucknow: Drinking water crisis is looming over trans-Gomti areas as the water level at Kathauta jheel, which supplies water to over 10 lakh residents of Indiranagar, Gomtinagar and Chinhat, has dropped from around 15 feet to 8 feet 10 inches.Total demand of the areas affected is 80 million litres daily (MLD). However, the Jalkal is…
Stray dogs roam on the streets in city Lucknow: Former mayor Suresh Chandra Awasthi was injured after being attacked by a pack of stray dogs in Aliganj on Friday night.The dogs allegedly bit him multiple times on his legs and back. According to him, the incident took place near Sector Q Chauraha, where Awasthi resides….
Lucknow: King George’s Medical University (KGMU) on Saturday issued a show-cause notice to a professor of the ophthalmology department for allegedly contacting the complainant and attempting to settle a case in which the latter had accused another professor of the same department of prescribing medicines and lenses for cataract surgery from a private shop instead…
Lucknow: The state govt has prohibited the sale, purchase and registration of land within the notified limits of the Lucknow Development Authority’s (LDA) proposed IT City and Wellness City projects on Sultanpur Road. The notification came into effect on Saturday.Under the order, any transfer or registration of land within the project boundaries will be considered…
Lucknow: Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU) will hold its convocation ceremony on July 7, during which final-year students will be awarded degrees and medals.AKTU vice-chancellor, Prof JP Pandey, said, “The university has invited Chief of Defence Staff Gen NS Raja Subramani and Indian Space Research Organisation chairman, V Narayanan, to attend the convocation…
Lucknow: Arindam Chaturvedi, a 23-year-old student from Lucknow University’s (LU) Department of Ancient Indian History and Archaeology (AIHA), has become the first candidate from the university to secure admission to a PhD programme after completing a four-year undergraduate programme without pursuing postgraduation, under the new National Education Policy (NEP) rules.Arindam not only topped the LU…
