Lucknow: Deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Thursday launched a sharp attack on Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, asking him to “wake up and apologise publicly” over the party’s stand on the Women’s Reservation (Amendment) Bill.Addressing the issue in the UP Legislative Council, Maurya said Akhilesh Yadav should declare support whenever a session is…
Lucknow : A Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court has taken a tough stand on the illegal weekly vegetable market being held near the Nigam Tiraha and Arjun triangle park in sector-1, Jankipuram.Expressing displeasure with the working style of Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC), the court said that action was taken against similar illegal weekly markets…
RSS national co-publicity chief Narendra Thakur Lucknow: RSS national co-publicity chief Narendra Thakur reiterated on Thursday that the organisation was engaged in the task of nation-building through the process of individual character-building.Speaking to the media in Lucknow, Thakur said that discrimination within Hindu society based on caste, language, region and similar factors needs to be…
Jansatta Dal (Loktantrik) founder and MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh and Congress MLA Aradhana Mishra arrive to attend the special session of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, in Lucknow on Thursday, Lucknow: Congress legislative party leader Aradhana Mishra Mona on Wednesday highlighted her party’s record on women’s empowerment, contrasting it with what she described as the Bharatiya…
Lucknow: State govt has decided to roll out the second phase of the aspirational towns programme, under which 100 urban local bodies are going to be upgraded in a phased manner. The scheme aimed at improving the basic necessities and amenities in small towns of the state was introduced in Sept 2023, and 100 most…
SP president Akhilesh Yadav interacts with family members of Shilpi Kushwaha, who was killed on April 13 in Hardoi Lucknow: Demanding a CBI inquiry into the killing of a girl in Hardoi on April 13, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said the policemen who overlooked life threats to the victim should be sacked.Akhilesh…
LUCKNOW: An IndiGo flight from Lucknow-Raipur narrowly avoided a collision with a monkey on Thursday after the animal strayed onto the runway moments after the aircraft began its take-off roll.IndiGo flight 6E6521, carrying around 170 passengers and crew, had received clearance from Air Traffic Control and had started rolling on runway 09 from the Kanpur…
Lucknow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday lauded the naming of the Ganga Expressway after the revered river Ganga and announced that the 594-km greenfield corridor connecting Prayagraj and Meerut will be extended to Haridwar in Uttarakhand.Addressing a gathering after inaugurating the expressway, Modi said that the govt would further be working on a link…
LUCKNOW: A labourer was killed and another injured after a portion of an under-construction commercial building collapsed in the Vibhuti Khand area of Lucknow on Thursday morning, triggering a multi-agency rescue operation.The incident occurred around 10 am near the NTPC building on IGP Road under the jurisdiction of Vibhuti Khand police station. According to police,…
Lucknow: With polling in West Bengal over, PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday hit the Uttar Pradesh political terrain running, training his guns at Samajwadi Party and calling it “anti-development” and “anti-women”.He categorically accused SP of siding with “those” (DMK) who “abused” UP in Parliament.“Samajwadi Party vikas virodhi bhi hai aur nari virodhi bhi hai… (The…
