TNNLucknow: Residents of 18 cities in Uttar Pradesh are set to get improved city bus services as the state govt has amended its framework to attract private operators for running electric bus fleets.Seventeen municipal corporation cities will be covered, with Jewar added as the 18th city where city bus services will be deployed.The directorate of…
Lucknow: The UP cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to transfer the state-run Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) Hospital at Pandu Nagar in Kanpur to the Centre for development into a medical college and super-speciality hospital, while taking over the ESIC-run hospital at Jajmau in exchange.The move aimed at strengthening tertiary healthcare facilities available to insured…
ShalabhLucknow: In a push for planned development, the state govt has started working on preparing master plans for tier II towns with a population between 50,000 and 1 lakh.A total of 93 towns have been identified in the state that are going to be covered under the scheme, and a geographical information system-based master plan…
Recent global events have overshadowed the urgent efforts to save our planet.Earlier, nations were working together toward sustainability, green energy, and clean technologies. These efforts included discussions on climate change and improvements in industrial processes, transportation, renewable energy, agriculture, healthcare, and biodiversity.Unfortunately, before comprehensive systems could be established to reduce global warming, powerful nations halted…
Lucknow: Despite having the largest school system in the country with 2.62 lakh schools, Uttar Pradesh has just 7,610 institutions where integrated school, from Class 1 to XII, operates, leading to transition inefficiencies and increase in risk of dropouts, shows the NITI Aayog’s report on School Education System in India: Temporal Analysis and Policy Roadmap…
Lucknow: Seeking to reduce longstanding manual errors, improve transparency and build a secure and future-ready evaluation system, the on-screen marking (OSM) system was introduced in Uttar Pradesh in 2016 and is running successfully in state universities since then.The system was introduced by Prof Vinay Pathak during his stint as AKTU VC in association with the…
LUCKNOW: A potentially dangerous situation was averted on Wednesday evening when the Fire Department safely rescued a man who had climbed an electric pole near Lok Bandhu Hospital crossing in the Alambagh area of Lucknow.According to officials, the Fire Control Room received information that an unidentified man had climbed a pole near the busy intersection…
LUCKNOW: Nearly three years after a gruesome triple murder shocked Mahoba district, a fast-track court has sentenced a man to death for killing his wife and two young daughters by crushing their heads with a grinding stone.The conviction came under the Uttar Pradesh Police’s “Operation Conviction” campaign aimed at securing speedy justice in serious criminal…
A key suspect in the murder of hotelier’s son Vineet Rai, Kamlesh Chaudhary Bind, was killed in a police encounter in Ghazipur. GHAZIPUR/LUCKNOW: A key accused in the sensational murder of a hotelier’s son was killed in a police encounter on Wednesday night in Ghazipur, while the officer leading the district’s Special Operations Group (SOG)…
Chak Sheru alias Abhishek alias Ajay LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) on Wednesday arrested a key member of an organised cyber fraud syndicate allegedly involved in generating thousands of fraudulent Ayushman Bharat health cards for ineligible persons, enabling them to avail free medical treatment and causing substantial financial losses to the government.The…
