The teenager allegedly wanted Rs 1 lakh from his businessman father to clear debts. LUCKNOW: A Class 11 student’s desperate attempt to hide his online gaming debts turned into a bizarre fake kidnapping drama, complete with an AI-generated image of what appeared to be a badly injured eye, a ransom demand, and a frantic police…
The deceased, identified as Dr Paramatma Singh, was posted as a veterinary doctor in Nautanwa, Maharajganj. LUCKNOW: A 45-year-old veterinary doctor died by suicide after allegedly jumping from the eighth floor of an apartment building in Gorakhpur’s Gorakhnath area on Thursday morning. Police recovered a one-page suicide note from his pocket in which he blamed…
Kirti Killedar and Chandra Shekhar Varma (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal) Lucknow’s love for mehfils revived as the city recently came together for a musical evening titled Dil Abhi Bhara Nahi, dedicated to music, poetry and meaningful conversations. The evening brought together literature enthusiasts, poets, musicians and art connoisseurs, including Dr Kirti Narain, Dr Mala Mehra, Neelam…
Lucknow: Journalists and media professionals can now learn the practical application in AI while writing their stories with the launch of a certificate course at Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University (CSJMU), Kanpur.The six-month course in AI is designed to train journalism students and people from media in reporting, content creation, data journalism and multimedia production.The…
Lucknow: More than a month after its rollout, the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G-RAM-G), aimed at boosting rural employment and livelihoods, appears to have generated limited traction among its intended beneficiaries.Rural development department data show that against more than 1.77 crore job card-holding households, only 7,68,550 have availed themselves…
Lucknow: A proposal by chief minister Yogi Adityanath to formulate a youth-specific policy in Uttar Pradesh, made in the aftermath of the youth protests against the BJP-led central govt over the NEET paper leak, is being pushed towards realisation at breakneck speed. Wasting no time in its youth outreach agenda, govt took less than a…
Lucknow: The application for a parallel electricity distribution licence for a Noida data centre park submitted by Adani Energy Solutions Step-Eleven Limited (AESSEL) has entered the public consultation stage, with UP Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) inviting comments and objections as the commission examines the proposed licence area and the status of requisite approvals.In its Aug…
Lucknow: Three medal winners at the 2022 Asian Games will be appointed to the post of district youth welfare officers in the state.The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by chief secretary SP Goyal on Wednesday in accordance with a govt policy to award medal winners with govt positions. The three athletes, who won…
Lucknow: A district and sessions court in Gonda on Tuesday sentenced a man and his second wife to life imprisonment for the murder of his daughter, Shweta.District and Sessions Judge Durga Narayan Singh held Rajesh Shukla and Kiran Shukla guilty of murder and also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 each on the convicts.According to…
Lucknow: Four passengers were injured after a private bus travelling from Ayodhya to Rae Bareli lost control, hit a road divider and plunged into a deep roadside ditch in Amethi’s Jagdishpur area late Tuesday night.The accident occurred near Mangauli village on the Rae Bareli-Ayodhya road under Jagdishpur police station limits. The bus was reportedly travelling…
