Lucknow

The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation held a one-day seminar in Lucknow on July 24 to brief exempted establishments on proposed changes under the Code on Social Security, 2020 and the Employees’ Provident Fund Scheme, 2026.The seminar, coordinated by EPFO’s Lucknow regional office at the IIA Bhawan, brought together representatives from exempted establishments across Uttar Pradesh…

Police arrested a 28-year-old man for allegedly raping a teenage girl (Representative image) LUCKNOW: Police have arrested a 28-year-old man for allegedly repeatedly raping a teenage girl by blackmailing her with an intimate video.The accused has been identified as Abhishek Singh alias Golu, 28, news agency PTI reported.He was arrested from the Mahakaal temple in…

Lucknow: An argument during a video call allegedly led a final-year BSc student and a young man to die by suicide in Basti district, police said.According to investigators, the woman was found hanging at her home under Nagar police station limits on Saturday morning. Police recovered a suicide note from her room in which she…

Lucknow: Bahraich Police on Saturday arrested Joga Singh, a member and sympathiser of Waris Punjab De, for facilitating the movement of two pro-Khalistani operatives who were arrested a day earlier for illegally entering India from Nepal. Police said Joga Singh, 55, was coordinating their onward travel to Punjab.The arrested duo—US citizen Manbir Singh Dhillon and…

Lucknow: One of the three accused in the gang rape of a 20-year-old NEET aspirant in Chitrakoot was injured in a police encounter on Saturday, while a constable sustained a gunshot wound during the exchange of fire.Police have also announced a reward of ₹50,000 each for information leading to the arrest of the two remaining…

Lucknow: Sarnath in Varanasi, where Lord Buddha delivered his first sermon after attaining enlightenment, has been accorded the Unesco World Heritage Site status.The site is the fourth inclusion from UP and 45th from India in the World Heritage Site list. The others three sites from UP are in Agra — Taj Mahal (1983), Agra Fort…

Lucknow: A Bhojpuri actress lon Saturday lodged a complaint with the Lucknow Cyber Crime Police Station, alleging that AI-generated obscene images of her and her 11-year-old daughter were circulated on social media as part of a targeted online harassment campaign.She also accused several individuals of sending abusive messages and death threats and sought strict legal…

Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak at IDA’s dental show in city on Saturday Lucknow: Brushing before bedtime is more important than brushing in the morning, UP deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak said on Saturday, urging dentists to promote better oral hygiene and adopt emerging technologies.Inaugurating the 8th dental show organised by the Indian Dental Association (IDA)…

tnn Dr Abhishek Shukla Lucknow: Noted geriatrician and palliative care specialist Dr Abhishek Shukla has been selected for the PhD in Palliative Care programme at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (US), one of the few institutions globally offering advanced doctoral research in the field.Dr Shukla will pursue research aimed at improving the quality of life…

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA) has unearthed an organised syndicate allegedly involved in fake billing, paper transactions and the circulation of counterfeit medicines in Lucknow, seizing medicines worth around ₹15.5 lakh.A special team from the FSDA headquarters, comprising 18 drug inspectors, inspected over 13 pharmaceutical firms in Aminabad and other…