Seized bottles of counterfeit branded whisky meant for supply to Bihar Lucknow: In a joint operation with the excise department and the southern zone surveillance cell, Lucknow police busted an illegal liquor manufacturing and smuggling racket operating from a rented house in PGI area and arrested a man with 1,346 quarter bottles of counterfeit branded…
Lucknow: A DCM driver and his helper died after their vehicle rammed into the rear of a truck on the Outer Ring Road (Kisan Path) in Sarojininagar late Wednesday night, prompting a large-scale rescue operation involving the fire department, SDRF and police.The crash took place around 10.45 pm near the Gahru underpass when the DCM…
Lucknow: Despite being India’s most populous state, UP stood in 10th place among states and Union Territories in organ transplants in 2025, performing 637 procedures during the year.According to the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation’s (NOTTO) annual report, the state’s lag stems from its continued dependence on living donors, weak deceased-donor programmes and inadequate…
Lucknow: The Sambhal judicial inquiry commission found major contradictions in the testimonies of several key witnesses, including Jama Masjid Intazamia Committee office-bearers and politicians, and concluded that their statements were “unreliable and unbelievable”.The three-member panel observed that multiple witnesses appeared to have advanced a common narrative portraying the Nov 24 exercise as a fresh survey,…
TNN A Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court has sought report from the Special NIA/ATS court Lucknow on why the trial in an UAPA case against two terror accused has not progressed despite repeated directions for its expeditious conclusion. Lucknow: A Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court has sought report from the Special NIA/ATS court…
Photographs showing pedestal fans placed along a repair site went viral on social media, drawing flak and jibes. LUCKNOW: How does one repair an expressway that is heavily damaged barely days after being inaugurated with much fanfare? Using fans to blow-dry it, of course!That’s what PNC Infratech, the contractor for the Rs 4,200 crore Lucknow-Kanpur…
Abaan Ahmed, son of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, died in a car crash. JHANSI: A video showing the mangled remains of the car, with its windshield shattered and bonnet and door badly damaged, has surfaced after gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed’s son Abaan was killed in a road accident in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi on Thursday.The video shows several…
Abaan, 21, and his friend Sonu were killed in the crash near Poonch on the Kanpur-Jhansi road around 10.30am. Three other occupants of the Hyundai Creta were injured and taken to Jhansi Medical College for treatment. JHANSI: The circumstances leading to the fatal crash that killed Abaan Ahmed, the youngest son of slain gangster-turned-politician Atiq…
Abaan Ahmed, son of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, died in a car crash. LUCKNOW: Abaan Ahmed (21), the youngest son of slain gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, was killed in a road accident on Thursday morning after the SUV he was travelling in crashed into a road divider in Jhansi district. One of his friends also died in…
The Lucknow-Kanpur expressway, completed in June 2025, began failing seventeen days after its July 2026 inauguration LUCKNOW: For eleven months, the Lucknow-Kanpur expressway sat finished and empty. The six-lane, access-controlled corridor was ready for traffic by June 2025, its 63 km of bitumen laid, its 21 Variable Message Signs and 63 PTZ cameras installed, its…
