Only 4 Rah Veer Scheme proposals were received across Lucknow division till May, prompting the commissioner to call for wider public awareness. LUCKNOW: Only four proposals under the Rah Veer Scheme were received across Lucknow division till May this year, prompting divisional commissioner Vijay Vishwas Pant to flag poor public awareness and direct hospitals to…
Rajpal Yadav has opened up about the Rs 5 crore fraud allegations against him, saying the matter has been misunderstood and unnecessarily sensationalised.Speaking about the controversy, Rajpal Yadav said that if the amount involved had been much larger, he would have understood the seriousness surrounding the allegations. ‘Rs 5 crore is not such a huge…
Lucknow: A 46-year-old man, who accompanied his son to appear for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) in Lucknow, died after being hit by a train near the examination centre in Bakshi Ka Talab (BKT).The deceased, Arun Kumar, a resident of Bidhuna in Auraiya district, came to the city to ensure his son could…
Chennai: A 22-year-old Nepalese national and two minors were arrested by Kilpauk police after they made obscene gestures at two women in Purasawalkam. The trio was apprehended by an auto-rickshaw driver and members of the public before being handed over to the police.According to police, the incident occurred on Purasawalkam High Road. A woman and…
Bathinda: For the second time in the last five days, a breach occurred in the Bhikhi distributary near Bhikhi town in Mansa district, submerging more than 100 acres of paddy fields and low-lying areas. A bridge is being built near Bhikhi over the distributary, and a sewerage pipeline is being laid under the distributary at…
Lived for over a century, axed without warning for a bridgeOn a routine cycle ride in Koregaon Park on March 14 this year, civic activist Rupesh Kesekar was stunned when he passed by the ongoing Sadhu Vaswani Bridge construction. The new four-lane bridge is replacing the old, two-lane structure to ease traffic congestion in the…
ASSAM HPV VACCINATION DRIVE Guwahati: Kamrup (Metro), which encompasses Guwahati city, has become the first district in Assam to surpass its assigned target under the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination campaign, recording 100.9% coverage.The achievement comes as the state intensifies efforts to achieve full coverage by mid-July through an accelerated vaccination drive.Assam’s HPV Vaccination Campaign, aimed…
Kolkata: A local court in Bankura on Wednesday sentenced four members of a family to life imprisonment for the murder of a retired teacher and his son in Dec 2023, special public prosecutor Bivas Chatterjee said.The convicts — Pintu Ruidas, his wife Namita, and their sons Maheswar and Bisweswar — were found guilty of carrying…
For many Class 12 students waiting for their board results and applying for the NDA & NA (II) Exam 2026, need not worry. The commission will allow candidates whose results are still pending to apply under the “result awaited” category, so they do not lose an opportunity because different boards declare results at different times.For…
Chandigarh administration has set an ambitious plan to expand the bus fleet, modernise infrastructure, and rationalise routes to improve connectivity across the Tricity and beyond Chandigarh: Public transport in the city is set for a sweeping overhaul, with the administration setting an ambitious plan to expand the bus fleet, modernise infrastructure, and rationalise routes to…
