Bahraich/Lucknow: A Bahraich court on Saturday sentenced a 62-year-old man to life imprisonment in a nearly 27-year-old murder over a family feud in Sikandarpur village under Hardi police station limits. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1.02 lakh on the convict.Additional district and sessions judge/special judge (Gangsters Act) Sunil Prasad held Angad Shukla … Read more
Lucknow: Following CM Yogi Adityanath’s announcement of free bus travel for women on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan, the transport department has begun extensive preparations to ensure safe and smooth travel for passengers.Minister of state (independent charge) for transport Dayashankar Singh has directed better maintenance of buses operated by UPSRTC, substance-free operations by drivers and … Read more
Lucknow: Launching a sharp attack on Samajwadi Party and its president Akhilesh Yadav, chief minister Yogi Adiyanath on Sunday said that the people of the state will completely wipe out the party in the 2027 assembly elections.“SP never considered poor, underprivileged and marginalised communities as it always placed family interests above public welfare,” the CM … Read more
Lucknow: A 43-year-old stamp vendor was burnt alive after his car caught fire while he was travelling to his native village to meet his mother in Barabanki district on Sunday morning.Police said Raj Narayan Verma, a resident of Bariyarpur who also owned a house in Vijaynagar locality of Barabanki city, worked as a stamp vendor … Read more
Lucknow: In a significant step, city-based Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University has set up the ‘Centre for Child Rights’ on its campus.The multidisciplinary Centre inaugurated on Saturday will focus on research, capacity building and evidence-informed advocacy on matters concerning the rights of the child.The new Centre was inaugurated by former Supreme Court Judge … Read more
Lucknow: Indo-Russian Rifles Private Ltd (IRRPL) in Korwa in Amethi district has manufactured and successfully test-fired its first AK-203 assault rifle made entirely from Indian components and input materials, marking a major step in the indigenisation of the weapon being manufactured for the army.IRRPL CEO and managing director Maj Gen Sudhir Kumar Sharma said every … Read more
Lucknow: Deoria police on Sunday arrested the accused in the murder of former block chief with the investigation indicating that the killing was carried out as an act of revenge over the victim’s alleged relationship with the accused’s wife.The accused was arrested by Bhitaha police and produced before a court, which remanded him to judicial … Read more
Lucknow: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath will inaugurate and lay foundation stones of development and infrastructure projects worth Rs 879 crore in Rae Bareli on Monday.These projects will come up Rae Bareli city, Bachhrawan and Harchandpur. While Yogi would launch 185 projects worth Rs 624 crore, he would lay down the foundation stones of 162 projects … Read more
Six men were arrested with swords in two separate police actions in Madurai in the past two days. Lucknow: Directorate of Narcotics Control (DNC), Lucknow, operating under Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN), seized 356 grams of heroin valued at about Rs 1.5 crore in the international market and arrested one person during an anti-drug operation, … Read more
Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow bench on Friday took serious exception to an alleged attempt to influence civil judge Shabina Khan hearing a long-pending land dispute in Gonda, observing that the pressure prima facie exerted by divisional commissioner, Gonda, Durga Shakti Nagpal on the judge struck at the independence of the judiciary and obstructed … Read more