Indian Idol fame singer Banashree Biswas performs on the occasion of Poila Boishak in Bengali club Lucknow: Members of Bengali community in the city welcomed Poila Boishak, Bengali New Year, with colour, music and tradition on Wednesday.Bengali Club was the centre of festivities, drawing visitors from early morning. Dressed in traditional attire, women in red-and-white…
Police personnel conduct a route march in the aftermath of workers’ protest in Noida on Wednesday Lucknow: Those employed at private libraries, coaching centres, pharmacies and nursing homes, clubs, brick kilns, domestic workers supplying agencies and petrol pump attendants are among 74 categories of workers who will be covered by UP govt’s recommendations to effect…
CM Yogi Adityanath at Tata Plant in Lucknow on Wednesday Lucknow: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath said here on Tuesday that external elements should not be allowed to interfere in day-to-day factory operations as it could disrupt industrial harmony and progress.Referring indirectly to the workers’ protests in Noida, the CM, while addressing workers and officers at…
Lucknow: Tata Group chairman N Chandrasekaran on Wednesday said the Group’s presence in Uttar Pradesh will more than double in the coming years and added that the state is poised to emerge as a major manufacturing and export hub.Chandrasekaran said UP is among the most promising industrial regions in the country, offering a conducive environment…
BSP Supremo Mayawati during the meeting of district and state-level office bearers at the party office, in Lucknow on Tuesday. (ANI Photo) Lucknow: BSP president Mayawati on Wednesday advocated a separate quota for women from SC, ST and OBC within the proposed 33% reservation for women in Lok Sabha and state assemblies and said that…
Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said BJP govt at the Centre was showing haste in pushing through the women reservation bill as it wants to avoid ‘quota within quota’ that it would be forced to give if the bill was passed post the current census and caste…
Lucknow: A day after clashes between two groups of the Dalit community erupted in Lakhimpur over the installation of a statue of BR Ambedkar on his birth anniversary, the BJP went into overdrive to assess the situation at the grassroots.The violence broke out after one group of the Dalit community objected to the installation of…
Lucknow: The UP Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board on Wednesday organised a mass marriage ceremony under the Kanya Vivah Sahayata Yojana, facilitating the weddings of 187 couples from six districts of Lucknow division.The event, held at Awadh Shilpgram in Lucknow, included couples from Lucknow, Unnao, Sitapur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Raebareli and Hardoi. The beneficiaries…
Lucknow: Lucknow-based senior neuro physiotherapist, Dr Akanksha Upadhyay, presented her research-based case study on Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) at the national conference on Allied Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (NCAHRS) at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi.The case study, titled ‘Functional recovery in GBS through structured physical therapy,” detailed the successful rehabilitation of an 11-year-old…
Lucknow: The fire that broke out in Vikas Nagar on Wednesday evening escalated into a devastating inferno due to the presence of nearly 50 illegally hoarded LPG cylinders, officials said.The cylinders stored inside shanties triggered a series of powerful explosions, setting off a chain reaction that engulfed the entire cluster within minutes.Aman Gupta, a local…
