Lucknow: Signalling an aggressive push ahead of the next Assembly elections, the UP BJP OBC Morcha has unveiled plans of an extensive social outreach campaign aimed at reaching families belonging to all 75 major backward caste groups across the state.The strategy will attain centre stage during the BJP OBC Morcha’s one-day state executive meeting scheduled…
Following a tragic fire that claimed 15 lives, the Lucknow Development Authority has posted a demolition notice on the Aliganj building LUCKNOW: Two days after a devastating fire in Aliganj killed 15 people, the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) on Wednesday pasted a demolition notice on the building and asked the owner to respond within 15…
LUCKNOW: A day after the Aliganj fire claimed 15 lives, the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) on Tuesday recommended disciplinary action against 18 officials, including a former Vihit Pradhikari, four zonal officers and 13 engineers, for alleged lapses in preventing unauthorised construction.The move came after LDA Vice-Chairman Prathamesh Kumar met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who summoned…
SIT member Lucknow Zone Additional Director General of Police (ADG), Praveen Kumar conducts an inspection at the site of fire in Lucknow on Tuesday Lucknow: The two-member Special Investigation Team constituted by CM Yogi Adityanath began probe into the Aliganj fire tragedy on Tuesday. SIT members — additional chief secretary Amrit Abhijat and ADG Lucknow…
10 years after first order, Lucknow building faces demolition. LUCKNOW: Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) asked the owner of the Aliganj commercial building where a fire killed 15 young people to explain why it should not be demolished, while records showed an earlier demolition order against illegal construction was revoked within 2 months in 2016, reports…
Lucknow: The cries of grieving families echoed outside the KGMU mortuary on Monday night as postmortems of the 15 victims killed in the Aliganj gaming studio fire continued for nearly seven hours. Distraught relatives waited through the night, mourning their loved ones.One of the victims, Nilesh’s father, collapsed after seeing his son’s body. As he…
SIT submits preliminary report on Ram temple donations (File Photo) LUCKNOW: The Special Investigation Team constituted to probe the alleged embezzlement of donations at the Ram temple has submitted its preliminary investigation report to UP govt, officials said.The three-member SIT formally handed over the report to additional chief secretary, home, Sanjay Prasad, after completing its…
Ritika Singh Sisodiya/TNNLucknow: A Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court on Monday dismissed a plea seeking inclusion of Nishad, Kevat, Mallah and Bind communities in the Scheduled Castes list or a declaration that they are synonymous with the SC community “Majhwar”.A vacation of Justice Alok Mathur and Justice Amitabh Kumar Rai held that the authority…
Wedding dreams cut short for Nilesh Kumar and Anamika Samant; bride’s cousin also dies LUCKNOW: They had vowed to spend the rest of their lives together. Nilesh Kumar, 27, and Anamika Samant, 30, had got engaged a few days ago and were due to get married soon. However, their dream went up in flames.The two…
Lucknow: Sarah Moin, who is both deaf and blind, often referred to as Lucknow’s Helen Keller, has cleared the Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG examination, the result of which was declared on Tuesday.She got good scores across multiple subjects, including English, history, mass media and mass communication, psychology and general aptitude test.She secured 85 percentile…
