Lucknow: Two Class 12 students walking on the railway tracks with earphones plugged in died after allegedly being hit by a train near Mampur railway crossing in Bakshi Ka Talab late Tuesday. Police suspect Akshat Maurya and Karan Patel, both 18, failed to hear the approaching train’s horn due to the earphones.The only sons of…
Lucknow: In a significant achievement under the PM Surya Ghar Scheme, UP became the state with the highest number of daily solar installations nationwide in July, surpassing Gujarat and Maharashtra.Govt data showed that UP registered 891 solar installations per day in July 2025 compared to Gujarat (830) and Maharashtra (781). In April 2025, UP was…
Elon Musk’s teen prodigy Kairan Quazi is trading rockets for trading algorithms, leaving SpaceX after two years to join quantitative trading giant Citadel Securities as a developer in New York City. “I felt ready to take on new challenges and expand my skill set into a different high-performance environment,” the 16-year-old told Business Insider in…
Lucknow: Cyber experts cautioned against increasing intrusions from China and Pakistan and urged Indian authorities to rapidly strengthen digital security infrastructure on the concluding day of the Uttar Pradesh Institute of Forensic Sciences (UPSIFS) seminar on Wednesday.The final day featured detailed deliberations on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, genome mapping, genealogical databases, forensic justice, ancestry research, forensic…
Lucknow: Chief judicial magistrate, Gonda, Amit Singh II on Wednesday directed the registration of an FIR against six officials, including a basic shiksha adhikari (BSA) and principal of a school, on a petition filed by secretary of Jan Samvad Manch Pradeep Kumar Pandey in connection with the infamous Anamika Shukla teacher recruitment scam.Nagar Kotwali police…
UCLA faces higher penalty than Harvard as Trump administration targets universities The Trump administration has demanded $1 billion from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) whilst seeking only $500 million from Harvard University, despite Harvard having significantly more frozen federal funding. The stark difference in settlement figures has raised questions about the political calculations…
US President Donald Trump (Photo credit- AP) TOI correspondent from Washington: The Trump White House has begun to use the term “sanctions” to describe the additional 25 per cent penalty on top of the 25 per cent tariffs imposed on India, aggravating the growing political and diplomatic differences with New Delhi. White House spokesperson Karoline…
Lucknow: Renovation of the State Lalit Kala Akademi building that began last year is complete and the institute campus is now ready with better facilities to welcome students, artists and visitors in its new avatar. Total budget sanctioned for the renovation by UP culture department was Rs 1.5 crore. The building was strengthened earlier following…
Lucknow: As many as 63 lakh women travelled free in UPSRTC buses during three days of Rakshabandhan this year. There were 15 lakh male co-passengers who travelled free with these women during the period. State govt allowed free travel in all categories of UPSRTC buses for three days during the festival this year, from Aug…
Lucknow: The directorate of enforcement (ED), Lucknow, filed a prosecution complaint (equivalent to chargesheet) under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) 2002, against M/s Unnati Fortune Holdings Ltd and its former director and major shareholder Anil Mithas.An anti-corruption court has taken cognizance of the complaint, finding sufficient material on record to proceed against the…
