Tag: Lucknow

Lucknow: Nineteen persons were killed and 48 others injured due to dust storms and lightning in various parts of Uttar Pradesh, an official said on Friday. A state Relief commissioner said: “While six persons were killed in Mainpuri, three persons each died in Etah and Kasganj and one each in Moradabad, Badaun, Pilibhit, Mathura, Kannauj, […]

Lucknow: Seventeen persons have died in separate incidents of dust storms, lightning and rain in various parts of Uttar Pradesh in the past 24 hours. According to reports, four persons died in Siddharthanagar, three in Deoria, three in Basti, two in Ballia and one each in Azamgarh, Kushinagar, Maharajganj, Lakhimpur and Pilibhit. In Siddharthanagar, a […]

Lucknow: A gang rape victim from Unnao in Uttar Pradesh was allegedly set ablaze early on Thursday morning by five men, including one who was accused in the crime, police said. The incident occurred at Sindupur village under Bihar police station area. The victim has been shifted to a government hospital in Lucknow and is […]

Lucknow: The state president of Akhil Bhartiya Hindu Mahasabha was shot dead near the Chhattar Manzil on Sunday morning here. He has been identified as Ranjit Srivastava. However, the police said, he was not Srivastava but was Yadav. In October, another right-wing leader, Kamlesh Tiwari, had been shot dead in his office in Lucknow. Ranjit […]

Lucknow: A Coronavirus positive patient with the history of HIV has recovered from the infection within just six days. The 34-year old man who successfully defeated COVID-19 was admitted to King George’s Medical University, KGMU in Lucknow after getting injured in a road accident last week. The patient was brought to the Trauma Centre of […]

Lucknow: The BJP has suspended its leader Sanjeev Gupta, whose son Sachin Gupta is absconding after being named as an accused in the printing of duplicate NCERT books worth Rs 35 crore. While 12 people have so far been arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police in connection with this case, Gupta remains at large. An […]

Lucknow: Nearly 50 per cent of the candidates opted out of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) preliminary examination 2020 for selection to Indian Administrative and Allied Services in Lucknow. The exam was conducted on Sunday. According to sources, as many as 43,921 candidates were registered for the examination at various centres in the city. […]

Lucknow: In a bizarre case of land grab in Uttar Pradesh, the deity of a temple was ‘declared dead’ in the mutation documents of the land deed title of a temple in Lucknow. The temple is said to be 100 years old, its land is spread over 7,000 sq metre and run by a trust […]

Lucknow: Death row convict Shabnam, who was awarded the death sentence for killing seven members of her family in April 2008, has filed a fresh mercy petition to Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel and President of India Ram Nath Kovind. According to Anand Kumar, Director General (prison department and reform services), Shabnam had also approached […]

Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has started cracking down on social media ‘offenders’ in a big way. The Unnao police, on Sunday, lodged an FIR against eight Twitter handles and its users, including @themojostory run by senior journalist Barkha Dutt, on charges of spreading “misleading information” in connection with the recovery of […]