Lucknow: What was meant to be a homecoming filled with laughter and rituals turned into a day of unbearable grief in Gorakhpur, where three funeral pyres burned on Sunday side by side— a father, a mother, and their son, taken together in a single, devastating moment — besides the burial of a pet dog, no…
Ayodhya: As Ayodhya reels under scorching heat, a sharp decline has been registered in the number of devotees visiting the Ram temple in Ayodhya.To provide relief to devotees, temple authorities have made special arrangements.The maximum day temperature, according to IMD data, was recorded at 42 degrees Celsius on Saturday. The mercury is expected to remain…
Lucknow: A dry throat, cough or irritation in summer may not always be an infection. Long hours in air-conditioned rooms can cause these problems.Doctors told TOI that such patients have started to increase in the past week. Around 10-15 people with these symptoms are visiting hospitals daily. Many think it is a “summer cold”, but…
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh govt has expanded the scope of the Mukhyamantri Awas Yojana-Gramin to include all remaining Scheduled Tribes (STs), aiming to achieve universal housing coverage among tribal communities in the state.The decision follows a proposal by the Rural Development Department after earlier target groups under the scheme reached near saturation. Initially, only select…
Lucknow: The Ganga Expressway project, set to bring a major transformation in Uttar Pradesh’s infrastructure landscape, has now reached its final stage. The 594-km Ganga Expressway, being developed on a public-private-partnership model, will be thrown open on April 29, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Yogi Adityanath will flag off the first vehicle…
LUCKNOW: Yogi Adityanath on Sunday lauded the performance of women recruits during police training, saying they demonstrated “strength, readiness, dedication and discipline” — qualities essential for a professional and people-centric police forceAddressing the passing-out parade of 60,244 Civil Police constables of the 2025 batch under the direct recruitment drive, the chief minister said that discipline…
Lucknow: State energy minister Arvind Kumar Sharma on Saturday said power tripping in any area was unacceptable and must be prevented through effective planning and timely action.During a review meeting in Varanasi, he issued directions to ensure uninterrupted electricity supply amid an intense heat wave.Sharma emphasised improving both the speed and quality of power-related works….
AI-generated representational image. BALLIA: A man allegedly stabbed his wife and mother-in-law to death and left his father-in-law critically injured in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, police said. Ballia SP Omvir Singh said a domestic dispute between the accused and his wife is suspected to be the trigger…
Lucknow: UP govt has ordered registration of a criminal case against former SP MLC Kamlesh Pathak for allegedly amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.UP vigilance establishment initiated action after preliminary findings revealed that Pathak accumulated assets and incurred expenditure worth Rs 2 crore during his tenure as a public servant, exceeding his…
LUCKNOW: A 42-year-old woman was strangled in front of her eight-year-old daughter, allegedly by her live-in partner, in Thakurganj. The accused fled after the crime.According to reports, the woman lived in a makeshift hut on a vacant plot near Lala Bagh along Ring Road, along with her live-in partner and her daughter. Her body was…
