Lucknow: A woman has accused her 17-year-old son of subjecting her to repeated physical assault, torture, intimidation and threats to life over the past two years.Janakipuram police lodged an FIR under Sections 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt), 352 (intentional insult), 351(2) (criminal intimidation), 305(a) (theft), and 333 (house-trespass after making preparation for assault) of the Bharatiya…
Rahul Singh with his innovative tractor Lucknow: An award-winning 22-year-old innovator was found dead at a prominent hotel in Lucknow’s Vibhuti Khand on Tuesday.Rahul Singh checked into the hotel on Monday afternoon. When he did not come out of the room on Tuesday morning and failed to respond to repeated calls and knocks at the…
Lucknow: Scattered rain in several parts of the city on Tuesday afternoon brought relief from humid conditions, but also led to waterlogging in some areas. India Meteorological Department has forecast hot and humid weather on Wednesday, with no widespread rainfall likely over next few days.Weather changed around 3 pm as dark clouds gathered over the…
Lucknow: Lucknow Development Authority (LDA), which has been made the nodal agency for the development of Uttar Pradesh State Capital Region (UPSCR), is gearing up to prepare a Geographic Information System (GIS)-based Master Plan-2051 for the six districts included in it.The digital plan will integrate land use, water bodies, forests, green belts and proposed development…
LDA on Tuesday sealed an illegal store built in the side setback of a prominent hotel in Gomti Nagar. It was found during a joint inspection by LDA and fire department teams. Zonal officer Devansh Trivedi said “As the management could not produce the required documents, the LDA court ordered the sealing of the illegal…
Lucknow: A 70-year-old woman was allegedly raped by an unidentified man on Monday evening after she stepped out to defecate in the Itaunja area on the outskirts of the city, police said Tuesday.According to the preliminary investigation, the accused is believed to be a truck driver who was passing by when he allegedly dragged the…
Lucknow: Lucknow police on Tuesday arrested four alleged members of a burglary gang and recovered stolen gold and silver jewellery worth over ₹20 lakh from their possession in connection with a recent theft at the residence of a sub-inspector in the PGI area.The accused — Arjun Rawat (22), Sudaif Ali alias Samar (23), Vinay Kumar…
Lucknow: Nearly two weeks after busting a ‘Mini-Jamtara’ centre operating from Gomtinagar’s Summit building, the Lucknow crime branch has expanded its investigation beyond India, tracing US toll-free helpline numbers allegedly used to target American citizens and uncovering fresh financial and corporate links linked to the racket.According to ADCP (crime) Kiran Yadav, the fraud was part…
Lucknow: A suspected SIM swap (SIM hijacking) fraud has come to light in Lucknow, where cyber criminals allegedly siphoned off nearly Rs 4.5 lakh from two bank accounts after mobile SIM suddenly stopped working.The fraud remained undetected for over two weeks as the victim received neither transaction alerts nor OTP messages. Mohanlalganj police have registered…
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore to strengthen capacity building, training and research for urban local bodies (ULBs) across the state.The agreement was signed between the Urban Training and Research Institute (UTRI), Lucknow, and IIM Indore in the presence of…
