Lucknow: Even as the Mahila Sammellan in Varanasi saw Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching a caustic broadside at the opposition for stalling the 131st Constitutional Amendment Bill advancing women reservation, the BJP ensured that the event did not get directly affiliated to the party.This became evident as BJP avoided using party banners and flags at…
Lucknow: The BJP-backed candidates Chaudhary Shivendra Singh and Braj Kishore Gupta were formally elected as chairman and vice-chairman, respectively, of UP Cooperative Union on Tuesday.The two were elected unopposed from among the 14 directors of the union. The remaining 12 directors, also elected unopposed, included Ramniwas Yadav, Balendra Pratap Singh, Dhananjay Kumar Singh, Shivdutt Narayan…
Lucknow: The state govt on Tuesday announced that it would soon set up the ‘Uttar Pradesh Ghumantu Vikas Board’, which will work towards the development of denotified, nomadic and semi-nomadic communities.The decision was taken at a meeting of the UP state backward classes commission, chaired by commission chairman Rajesh Verma.Representatives of Ghumantu tribes had met…
60 passengers were injured after a speeding luxury bus overturned on the Purvanchal Expressway on Tuesday, triggering panic and a massive rescue operation in the Dhanpatganj area in Sultanpur district of UP. 60 passengers were injured after a speeding luxury bus overturned on the Purvanchal Expressway on Tuesday, triggering panic and a massive rescue operation…
Deputy secretary, department of school education & literacy, GoI, Ira Singhal addressing teachers at a programme in SCERT on Tuesday Lucknow: The upgraded version of the ‘Prashast’ app—Prashast 2.0 will help screen 21 types of disabilities easily, and simplify the certification process for children with special needs (CWSN) while helping integrate them into mainstream education,…
Lucknow: In a swift, tech-enabled response, the Agra police arrested four men for allegedly harassing an 18-year-old girl and another woman inside a moving bus, within just eight minutes of receiving a distress alert on social media.Police said the incident occurred around 12.27am on April 28, when an SOS was posted on X reporting that…
Lucknow: Indiranagar Police Station on Tuesday registered an FIR against a local property dealer and his unidentified associates for allegedly attempting to illegally seize land belonging to a Scheduled Caste man and issuing death threats laced with casteist slurs.The victim, Avsheesh Kumar alias Bauwa, 36, a resident of Rasulpur Saadat, alleged a long-standing conspiracy involving…
Lucknow: Additional chief secretary (energy) and UPPCL chairman Ashish Kumar Goel took action against officials for negligence and delay in replacing damaged transformers. A junior engineer (JE) was suspended, while one superintendent engineer (SE), two executive engineers (EE), one assistant engineer (AE) and one JE were given adverse entries. The chief engineer (CE) was also…
Judge Flags Major Gaps In Police VersionLucknow: A local court has acquitted Manoj Chauhan in a six-year-old encounter case in the Alapur area of Ambedkarnagar observing that the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.The case dates to Sept 18, 2020, when police claimed that Station House Officer Brijesh Kumar Singh and his…
Lucknow: UP’s tourism and culture sectors have seen a massive rise in government funding over the past few years with tourism budget allocations increasing 22-fold and culture spending rising nearly 20 times since 2017, according to officials at the Tourism Department’s Standing Committee meeting on Tuesday.Tourism minister Jaiveer Singh said: “the sharp increase speaks for…
