A street-based typography workshop was organised by BHU Varanasi: The department of Applied Arts, Faculty of Visual Arts at BHU on Wednesday organised ‘TypoPicnic’, a street-based typography workshop under its ongoing Typoyatra calligraphy and type design series.Around 50 students participated in a three-hour guided walk from Godowlia Crossing through Stitch Market to Dashashwamedh area, observing…
Kashi women threaten hubbies with ‘kitchen strike’ if they back anti-women parties Varanasi: In a protest against opposition parties, a group of women in Varanasi took out a march on Sunday condemning the defeat of the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha. Blaming the opposition for stalling the bill, the protesting women also warned…
Lucknow: In compliance with a high court order, the forest department has prepared an interim plan to control monkey menace in villages. The action plan encompasses immediate, preventive and long-term measures, said a govt release. Immediate measures include identifying areas prone to human-monkey conflict in municipal corporations, municipal councils and nagar panchayats within a period…
Pune: The Union transport ministry has granted permission to state govt to resume manual fitness tests of vehicles until Oct this year, Pune MP and MoS for civil aviation Murlidhar Mohol said on Saturday.Earlier, the ministry had mandated that vehicle fitness tests could only be conducted at Automated Testing Stations (ATS). However, with many RTOs…
NEW DELHI: Several Aam Aadmi Party workers on Saturday protested outside the residence of Rajya Sabha MP Rajinder Gupta in Ludhiana.According to the video, party workers using spray paint cans wrote several slogans in Punjabi, including captions like ‘Gaddar’, on the walls of Gupta’s residence to express their resentment after he joined the Bharatiya Janata…
Deputy secretary, department of school education & literacy, GoI, Ira Singhal addressing teachers at a programme in SCERT on Tuesday Lucknow: The upgraded version of the ‘Prashast’ app—Prashast 2.0 will help screen 21 types of disabilities easily, and simplify the certification process for children with special needs (CWSN) while helping integrate them into mainstream education,…
PM Modi being welcomed by governor Anandiben Patel and CM Yogi upon his arrival in the city Varanasi: Linking Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Varanasi to the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said opposition parties conspired to block 33% reservation for women in Parliament and assemblies, sparking anger among…
The late Om Puri is widely regarded as one of India’s most accomplished performers, but for Annu Kapoor, the association carries deeply personal and painful memories. Puri was married to Annu Kapoor’s sister Seema Kapoor. He later left her at the time when she was pregnant and married Nandita. In a recent conversation, Kapoor revisited…
The Chinese vessel seized by the United States in Strait of Hormuz was headed to Iran to help “prop-up” the regime, claimed American politician Nikki Hailey on Tuesday. China, however, denied the claim and said that the ship seized was a “foreign container” vessel.“The ship the US seized in the Strait of Hormuz this weekend…
New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta has directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to step up monsoon preparedness measures, with a focus on preventing waterlogging, strengthening drainage infrastructure and ensuring public safety across the city.The directions were issued during a high-level review meeting chaired by the chief minister, where officials assessed waterlogging-prone areas, the…
