Lucknow: A husband and wife walk into a police station after months of arguments, allegations and growing mistrust. Their relationship is hanging by a thread, and both are contemplating separation. Instead of registering a complaint or beginning a legal battle, they are ushered into a counselling session where police officers patiently encourage dialogue. Hours later,…
Lucknow: Taking a serious view of allegations that lawyers and their client were assaulted and prevented from pursuing judicial proceedings inside the Lucknow district court premises, a Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Tuesday directed the district judge and the police commissioner to submit detailed reports by 10.15am on Wednesday.A special bench of…
Lucknow: A district court in Shravasti has sentenced a man and his two sons to life imprisonment for the murder of their neighbour in a land dispute that occurred in 2020.District and Sessions Judge Dinesh Chand convicted Baburam and his sons, Rajit Ram and Rajendra, residents of Parshurampur village under the Bhinga Kotwali area, and…
Lucknow: UP’s mango-growing districts are emerging as summer tourism hotspots, with tourist arrivals across five key mango-producing districts rising by nearly 32% during the peak harvest season, according to an analysis of tourism data for May-July 2025.Tourism department is widening its focus on experiential tourism by promoting orchard trails, farm stays, mango festivals and seasonal…
Forest Department rescued the leopard believed to be responsible for the fatal attack on an 88-year-old man in the Katarniaghat Wildlife Division of Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district. Lucknow: The forest department has rescued a female leopard believed to be responsible for the fatal attack on an 88-year-old man in the Katarniaghat Wildlife Division of Bahraich…
Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of UP police arrested two men Pawan Raghav, Mohit Kumar for generating and passing on fraudulent Input Tax Credit (ITC) worth ₹4.17 crore through a fake GST-registered firm, causing substantial revenue loss to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Department. Lucknow: The Economic Offences Wing arrested two men for generating and…
Lucknow: Rae Bareli police has arrested a man and two women for the abduction and alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl who was taken from the District Hospital, where she had been staying to care for her ailing brother.Police said the case is linked to the Harchandpur area. The victim’s grandmother, 65, told investigators that…
Lucknow: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) arrested the former manager of a school in connection with the alleged embezzlement of nearly ₹1 crore in scholarship funds meant for students belonging to SC, OBC, minority communities and the general category in Etawah district.The accused, Lal Singh, was arrested from Friends Colony in Etawah on Monday evening,…
Lucknow: Scientists at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP) have found strong evidence of some of the earliest life on Earth and how it changed earth’s environment.The evidence comes from 2.6-billion-year-old stromatolites found in Karnataka’s Dharwar craton. Stromatolites are rock-like structures made by tiny microbes (bacteria). They are among the oldest fossils on earth…
In mid 1960s, a fortune-teller by the name of ‘Hussaini Birahmin’ (Brahmin/Pandit) was a frequent visitor to the lanes of Old Lucknow.His crumpled ‘dhoti’ and faded long shirt and Gandhi cap were adequately compensated with his wheatish but bright face, broad forehead and big eyes with deep poised look.An ‘angauchha’ (coarse handmade stole) which he…
