Lucknow: In a swift, tech-enabled response, the Agra police arrested four men for allegedly harassing an 18-year-old girl and another woman inside a moving bus, within just eight minutes of receiving a distress alert on social media.Police said the incident occurred around 12.27am on April 28, when an SOS was posted on X reporting that…
Lucknow: Indiranagar Police Station on Tuesday registered an FIR against a local property dealer and his unidentified associates for allegedly attempting to illegally seize land belonging to a Scheduled Caste man and issuing death threats laced with casteist slurs.The victim, Avsheesh Kumar alias Bauwa, 36, a resident of Rasulpur Saadat, alleged a long-standing conspiracy involving…
Lucknow: Additional chief secretary (energy) and UPPCL chairman Ashish Kumar Goel took action against officials for negligence and delay in replacing damaged transformers. A junior engineer (JE) was suspended, while one superintendent engineer (SE), two executive engineers (EE), one assistant engineer (AE) and one JE were given adverse entries. The chief engineer (CE) was also…
Judge Flags Major Gaps In Police VersionLucknow: A local court has acquitted Manoj Chauhan in a six-year-old encounter case in the Alapur area of Ambedkarnagar observing that the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.The case dates to Sept 18, 2020, when police claimed that Station House Officer Brijesh Kumar Singh and his…
Lucknow: UP’s tourism and culture sectors have seen a massive rise in government funding over the past few years with tourism budget allocations increasing 22-fold and culture spending rising nearly 20 times since 2017, according to officials at the Tourism Department’s Standing Committee meeting on Tuesday.Tourism minister Jaiveer Singh said: “the sharp increase speaks for…
Tourism Minister Jaiveer Singh and additional chief secretary Amrit Abhijat Lucknow: The suggestions related to branding Kanpur’s industrial legacy as the ‘Manchester of the East’, boosting heritage tourism, improving Bundelkhand’s connectivity with Madhya Pradesh and reviving Prayagraj’s Triveni Mahotsav were shared at a meeting to review ongoing projects of the tourism and culture departments on…
Lucknow: A Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court on Tuesday held that members of the transgender (kinnar) community do not have any legal right to demand traditional ‘badhai’ or ‘neg’ (customary monetary offerings).The court observed that such collection of money may fall within the ambit of an offence under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).The…
Lucknow: Taking note of complaints over the non-refund of security deposits collected from candidates during last year’s NEET counselling for MBBS and BDS admissions, Additional Chief Secretary, Medical Education, Amit Kumar Ghosh ordered the immediate clearance of dues, an official spokesperson said on Tuesday.The order to clear the refund valued at Rs 380 crore as…
Lucknow: A case of alleged instant triple talaq, assault and arson has surfaced in the Saadatganj area of the city, with police registering an FIR against the accused husband.According to the complaint filed by the victim, Saba, a resident of Wazirbagh Akhada, her husband Shadab arrived at her parental home around 4 pm on Tuesday…
A Bengal tiger takes refuge under a shaded shelter to escape the scorching heat during a hot summer day in Lucknow zoo on Tuesday Lucknow: Even as mercury levels dropped by 2-4 degrees Celsius across the state on Tuesday, Banda continued to sizzle under severe hot conditions.Lucknow and other parts of the state saw a…
