The UP excise department has managed to raise its collection in July compared to the previous fiscal year. Compared to Rs 3,953 crore collected as excise duty through sale of retail liqour bottles and units last year, this time the state collected a revenue of Rs 4,354 crore. State excise minister (indpendent) Nitin Agarwal said…
NEW DELHI: Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani was on Tuesday asked about his foreign assets and other transactions, both in India and overseas, during his more than eight hours of questioning at Enforcement Directorate headquarters here, in connection with a money laundering investigation against his group entities.Sources said Ambani’s questioning is likely to continue and…
Lucknow: UP’s sugarcane sector has witnessed an intriguing trend with sugar production by mills falling by almost 23% between 2017-18 and 2024-25, despite a substantial increase in cane acreage and productivity during the period.Industry sources attribute the dip to diversion of cane for Khandsari, low recovery and adverse weather conditions.Data released by the cane development…
At first glance, Manjul Bhargava’s story reads like that of many Indian-origin overachievers in the academic world. But look closer, and his journey reveals a rare blend of intellectual brilliance, deep cultural grounding, and boundary-breaking curiosity. From mastering high school mathematics by the age of 14 to winning the Fields Medal, the most prestigious prize…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has said that public sector units should not be guided only by commercial interests for making money like a private company but their conduct must be like a model citizen and came down on Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL) for behaving like “Shylock” and getting into unnecessary litigation on tariff…
Lucknow: Three months ago, 27-year-old Geeta (name changed) gave birth to a premature baby at just 28 weeks of pregnancy. The newborn, weighing 1,000 gm and suffering from severe lung issues, was placed on ventilator support in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of KGMU. Due to the stress of the situation, Geeta was unable…
Shweta Tripathi, known for Mirzapur, buys a premium apartment in Chembur. The apartment is in Supreme Boulevard. It is a project by Supreme Universal. The property registration happened on July 2, 2025. She benefited from a stamp duty concession. The Maharashtra government offered it to promote female homeownership. Chembur is a real estate hotspot. It…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday used its exclusive powers under Article 142 to dissolve a marriage by asking the man to gift his wife a flat worth Rs 4 crore in a posh Mumbai area while rejecting her demand for additional Rs 12 crore and a BMW car.A bench of CJI B R Gavai, and…
Lucknow: A day after Madhu Singh, 26, wife of a merchant navy officer, was found hanging at her apartment in Gomtinagar Extension, the police booked her husband, Anurag Singh for harassment, dowry demand and forced abortion.The victim’s father, Fateh Bahadur Singh, a resident of Indiranagar, in his complaint stated that his daughter was married to…
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh govt Tuesday agreed with the Supreme Court’s proposal for appointment of an interim committee headed by a retired high court judge for management of Banke Bihari temple in Vrindavan till Allahabad HC decides the legality of the state’s ordinance designed to take over the shrine to facilitate development of a temple…
