UP/Local News

Lucknow: A Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court has held that doctors who pursue postgraduate medical education in govt institutions at subsidised rates cannot evade the mandatory service bond attached to their admission, ruling that administrative delay in posting does not extinguish the obligation.A bench of Justice Shekhar B Saraf and Justice Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary … Read more

Three men drowned in the Sai river near Jabraila bridge while immersing a Ganesh idol on Tuesday evening. LUCKNOW: Three men drowned in the Sai river near Jabraila bridge in Mohanlalganj area of Lucknow while immersing a Ganesh idol on Tuesday evening.The State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) recovered the bodies of two of them, identified … Read more

LUCKNOW: The Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow Bench has held that a divorced woman can demand maintenance from her former husband even if the divorce was granted to the husband on the ground of desertion, if she has not remarried and is unable to maintain herself.Justice Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra made the observation while allowing a … Read more

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Prayagraj: The Allahabad high court has observed that compelling employees to wear Santa Claus red caps at the workplace may hurt the sentiments of people belonging to different faiths and beliefs, and warned employers against issuing such directions.Justice Saurabh Srivastava made the observation while partly allowing a plea filed by Vikram Singh alias Vishwa Vikram … Read more

Bahraich: A Pocso court in Bahraich has sentenced a youth to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a 15-year-old girl and imposed a fine of Rs 54,000.The court noted that the accused was a minor at the time of the offence and directed that the sentence be executed in accordance with the provisions of … Read more

Lucknow: The Election Commission of India on Tuesday announced the schedule for the biennial elections to 10 Rajya Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh and one seat from Uttarakhand.Polling will be held on Oct 16 from 9am to 4pm, followed by counting of votes at 5pm the same day.The notification will be issued on Sept 29, … Read more

Lucknow: Lucknow: Even as Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav set his party an ambitious target of increasing its share by at least 27,000 votes in every assembly constituency in UP, a close analysis of the 2022 assembly election results threw up an interesting electoral arithmetic: BJP won 141 seats by margins of less than 27,000 … Read more

LUCKNOW: A nearly seven-hour standoff in Shambhuganj village in Azamgarh ended in a police encounter early Wednesday, with Arvind Singh (40), accused of killing his wife and two priests, being shot dead after refusing repeated appeals to surrender and holding his three children hostage inside the house.Arvind and his eight-year-old son, Shaurya alias Lakha, were … Read more

Lucknow: To address economic disparity in Purvanchal, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday met World Bank officials to discuss the rollout of a Rs 2,500-crore, five-year project.Targeting 28 districts in the region, with plans to expand investment, employment and entrepreneurship beyond agriculture, the CM discussed the proposed Uttar Pradesh Enabling District-Led Economic Growth (UP-EDGE) project … Read more