Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav Lucknow: Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday accused BJP govt in Uttar Pradesh of “destroying the future” of students and farmers, alleging that 26,386 schools have been shut in the state over the last 10 years and that enrolment in govt schools has fallen by 28 lakh…
Lucknow: Responding to the comments by Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, BJP’s senior functionary Sidharth Nath Singh on Sunday said that Yadav has come up with the “mother of all lies” by stating that the Yogi Adityanath govt has not been able to set up any university for higher education.Countering Akhilesh’s narrative, Singh said that…
Lucknow: The state capital has been placed on high alert ahead of Uttar Pradesh Assembly session beginning Monday, with the police commissionerate deploying over 1,500 personnel, ATS teams and multiple surveillance units across the city to prevent any disruption to law and order.A five-km security ring has been established around Vidhan Bhavan, where round-the-clock monitoring…
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav honoured two artists portraying Lord Ram and Lord Hanuman in the traditional Ramlila performance Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday condemned protests in Ayodhya targeting Faizabad MP Awadhesh Kumar, calling them evidence of what he described as BJP’s “supremacist mindset” against the “PDA” bloc—Pichhde (backward classes), Dalits and Alpasankhyaks…
CM Yogi Adityanath in Vidhan Sabha on Sunday Lucknow: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday inaugurated a series of development and beautification projects at Vidhan Bhavan ahead of the all-party meeting. Chief minister unveiled the renovated Vidhan Parishad mandap and the refurbished ground-floor corridor. He also inaugurated the newly built podcast studio, the latest feature…
Lucknow: A senior sub-inspector (SSI) posted at Ashiyana police station has been suspended and booked after a BEd student accused him of sexually exploiting her on the pretext of marriage while he was investigating her rape complaint.The FIR against SSI Dharmveer Shahi was registered following a departmental inquiry, and the probe has been handed over…
The family of a Dalit teenager who was raped, learnt from TOI that five accused had been sentenced to life imprisonment ALIGARH: The family of a dalit teenager who was abducted in 2007 to stop her from testifying in her own rape case learnt from TOI on Saturday that five accused had been sentenced to…
Lucknow: Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) has said that it will verify all the complaints related to illegal construction, including those received through the Integrated Grievance Redressal System (IGRS), before initiating enforcement action.The move comes amid reports that some people were repeatedly filing complaints to harass property owners.LDA vice-chairperson Prathamesh Kumar said that complaints received through…
Lucknow: The theft, committed barely 200 metres from a police outpost, has raised fresh questions over security in the state capital. The incident occurred under the Talkatora police station limits at the residence of Sudhanshu, an engineer whose brother is an IAS officer. ACP (Bazarkhala) Ranjit Kumar, who shifted into the first-floor portion of the…
Lucknow: Lucknow University (LU) has announced an artificial intelligence (AI) capacity-building programme for faculty members of the university and its affiliated colleges for the 2026-27 academic session.Under the theme, ‘AI-Enabled Higher Education: Empowering Faculty for Teaching, Research, Innovation and Academic Administration’, the university will organise week-long faculty development programmes (FDPs), five-day short-term courses, one- and…
