Lucknow

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…

Lucknow: A missing person’s complaint filed by a cab driver turned into a murder investigation after police arrested him and his alleged lover for killing his wife and dumping her body in the Gomti river, while allegedly trying to project the death as a case of elopement.The accused, Umendra Pratap Singh (31) of Rahimabad, approached…

Lucknow: A day after the Uttar Pradesh Vigilance Establishment arrested a Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) junior engineer, along with a supervisor and a middleman, for allegedly accepting a bribe, the complainant, Jitendra Narayan, an NRI businessman, claimed the accused had initially demanded Rs 40 lakh to stop action against his commercial complex before settling for…

Lucknow: Under Operation Muskaan, the Anti-Human Trafficking (AHT) Unit of the Lucknow Police Commissionerate has traced and reunited a 14-year-old mentally challenged boy with his family nearly nine months after he went missing.The boy rescued, Ujjwal Singh, disappeared from his home in Daud Nagar, Faizullaganj under the Madeyganj police station area on Nov 6, 2025….

Lucknow: Lucknow police have arrested five persons, including the owner and manager of a jewellery shop in Chowk’s Sarrafa Market, for allegedly confining and assaulting an employee inside the shop.According to police, the case was registered on July 31 at Chowk police station after Gopal Awasthi, a resident of Rampur Mathura in Sitapur district, filed…

The patient had been living with double vision, changes in facial appearance and problems in eye movement after the trauma Lucknow: Doctors at the apex trauma centre of Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow reconstructed the eye socket of a patient who suffered severe facial injuries in an accident. The patient had been…

Lucknow: Theatre groups in the city are struggling to find suitable venues for performances, with several key auditoriums either closed for renovation or lacking basic facilities needed for professional stage productions. Of the eight major auditoriums in Lucknow, some are shut for repairs, while others, artists said, are not equipped to host theatre in its…

Lucknow: Gonda police have registered an FIR against a man accused of using fabricated official designations and misusing the identity of Union minister Kirti Vardhan Singh to secure govt protocol and other benefits.The case was lodged at Mankapur Kotwali police station against Sarvesh Pathak, a resident of Motiganj, on a complaint filed by UP Singh,…

Mehmood M AbdiChehlum of the martyrs of Karbala, that is, the 40th day of their martyrdom, falling on Aug 4 this year is an annual event in the Islamic Calendar.The word ‘Chehlum’ is rooted in the Persian word ‘Chehel’ meaning forty. Chehel qadam (forty feet light stroll) and Chahelkunji ka pyala – a bunch of…

Lucknow: India will host the meeting of heads of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of BRICS countries in Lucknow on Aug 3-4 as part of its BRICS chairship in 2026.The two-day meeting is expected to bring together senior statistical officials from Brazil, Russia, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates to…