Deserted roads as Banda experiences 48 degrees Celsius on Wednesday Banda/Lucknow: Well before noon, life begins to retreat in Banda – markets thin out, streets fall silent, children are locked indoors, curtains are drawn and people start looking for cooler corners in their houses.For days now, temperatures in this Bundelkhand town of nearly 18 lakh…
Lucknow: UP govt has issued instructions to establish integrated flood control rooms in all 18 divisions of the state by May 31 so that they can start functioning from June 1. These control rooms will remain active round-the-clock from June 15 to Oct 15 to monitor floods and affected areas. Real-time monitoring of water levels…
Aparna Kumar, a 2002-batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IPS officer Lucknow: May 21 is a summit day for IPS officer Aparna Kumar, literally and metaphorically. Ten years ago on this day in 2106 the UP cadre officer created history by becoming the nation’s first IPS to scale Mount Everest — a feat achieved after overcoming two…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to flag off the first motor vehicle on the eway in the coming days LUCKNOW: Get ready to drive on the 63-km-long Lucknow- Kanpur expressway from June as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to flag off the first motor vehicle on it in the coming days.A large vacant…
Lucknow: Nearly 40 lakh households have opted for the self-enumeration process of Census 2027 in UP, the digital feature introduced for the first time in India’s Census exercise. Sharing details of the ongoing process, Sheetal Verma, director of Census operations and director of citizen registration in UP, said the response has been particularly strong in…
Lucknow: A youth was detained and later challaned for breach of peace after allegedly creating a ruckus at Karamat Husain Muslim Girls’ PG College in Lucknow on Wednesday during a protest over an alleged hike in second semester examination fees.SHO Mahanagar, Akhilesh Mishra said the youth, Shailendra Yadav, had reached the college campus to raise…
Lucknow: The state govt on Wed appointed Justice Ram Autar Singh, a retired judge of Allahabad high court, as the chairman of the dedicated backward classes commission for determining reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the state’s three-tier Panchayati Raj institutions in view of the forthcoming rural local bodies polls.There are four members in…
Lucknow: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said there will be no compromise on standards, quality and timeliness in development works.Reviewing the PWD’s action plan for the year 2026-27 through video conferencing with DMs, ministers and public representatives from all districts, the CM said development proposals should be prepared according to local requirements from every…
Lucknow: Angry over continuous power cuts, residents of Lucknow’s South City, Telibagh and Nilmatha areas surrounded officials of the Amausi zone at the 33/11 KV Utretia new substation on Wednesday night.The residents confronted the executive engineer and field staff over the worsening power crisis. They raised slogans against the power department and accused it of…
Uttar Pradesh BJP President Pankaj Chaudhary Lucknow: UP BJP chief Pankaj Chaudhary on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on Congress’s Rahul Gandhi, accusing him and the opposition of insulting patriotic institutions and questioning the integrity of nationalist organisations such as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.Chaudhary’s retort came hours after Rahul termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi, home…
