Representative image generated using AI BAHRAICH: A woman has accused her father-in-law of repeatedly raping her at gunpoint while her husband allegedly threatened her into silence and later pronounced triple talaq over the phone, prompting police in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district to register a case against five members of her in-laws’ family, officials said on…
LUCKNOW: The final electoral roll published by the Uttar Pradesh State Election Commission for the upcoming three tier panchayat elections has revealed a gender gap of more than 85 lakh voters, with male electors significantly outnumbering female voters across the state.The roll records 12,58,51,570 voters, including 6,71,92,437 men and 5,86,59,133 women, leaving a gap of…
A still from the play that was staged on the occasion (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal) Lucknow witnessed a grand cultural tribute to Nobel Laureate and literary icon Rabindranath Tagore as the Bangali Welfare Society (Bangali Adda) organized Rabindra Sandhya 2026 at the Visvesaraya auditorium. The event was held to commemorate the 165th birth anniversary of the…
SULTANPUR: A 27-year-old man accused of molesting two sisters was arrested following a police encounter in Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur district late on Wednesday night, officials said.The accused, identified as Mohammad Asif (27), was apprehended near the Ahmat airstrip area after police received information about his whereabouts. A joint team of local police and the district’s…
LUCKNOW: Three Indian sailors who were reported missing after a US strike on the Palau-flagged oil tanker MT Settebello off the coast of Oman have now been confirmed dead. Among them was Shivanand Chaurasia, a resident of Surauli village in Deoria district, who was serving aboard the vessel near the strategically important Strait of Hormuz.Union…
Lucknow: More than 30 lakh people have been screened for tuberculosis (TB) in Uttar Pradesh during the first 10 weeks of the Centre’s 100-day TB-Mukt Bharat Abhiyan, KGMU officials said on Wednesday.Of these, as many as 1.43 lakh patients, including more than 41,000 who showed no symptoms of the disease, were detected.The intensive screening campaign…
Lucknow: Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC), a skin-to-skin method of caring for premature and low-birth-weight babies, is most effective when supported by the entire family, experts said at King George’s Medical University (KGMU) on Wednesday.They highlighted that continuous skin-to-skin contact helps maintain body temperature, stabilise breathing and heart rate, support breastfeeding and improve bonding between the…
LUCKNOW: Five people were killed and four others injured in a devastating chain-reaction crash after a speeding SUV ran over victims of an earlier road accident and locals who had gathered to rescue them on the Gonda-Lucknow highway early Thursday.The accident took place around near Santosh Dhaba under Karnailganj Kotwali limits. According to police, the…
Lucknow: Ayodhya continues to acquire a new identity through transformative development projects. In this direction, a grand gate complex and boundary wall have been constructed near Firozpur village on the Ayodhya-Lucknow route at a cost of ₹20.20 crore.The project has now emerged as a welcoming gateway for devotees and tourists visiting Ayodhya. Two magnificent entrance…
Lucknow: A Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Wednesday directed the Lucknow police commissioner to submit a detailed progress report on 34 minor girls who remain untraced, while noting that 227 girls have been recovered over the past six months in the city.The direction came during the hearing of a habeas corpus petition…
