NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Wednesday criticised CBI’s “friendly and cool” approach in probing serious irregularities in financial transactions of Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (IHFL), now Sammaan Capital Ltd, and questioned corporate affairs ministry’s decisions to close corporate governance illegalities flagged by market regulator Sebi and ED.Clarifying it has neither expressed opinion on merits of the…
Lucknow: World Toilet Day was observed by the Lucknow Municipal Corporation with a series of programmes across several zones, focusing on toilet use, public hygiene, and the contribution of sanitation workers. New public toilets were inaugurated, and workers were felicitated to stress the link between basic facilities and public health.In Zone 6 near Chowk Stadium,…
NEW DELHI :A group of 272 prominent citizens including retired judges, bureaucrats and armed forces veterans Wednesday wrote an open letter, lashing out at Congress neta Rahul Gandhi for unleashing his “impotent rage born out of repeated electoral failure” to tarnish EC’s dignity.They said Rahul has repeatedly attacked EC over accusations of “vote theft” using…
Lucknow: A construction firm was slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 and blacklisted for a year after complaints of poor road construction work in Chinhat Ward II led to a surprise inspection by divisional commissioner Vijay Vishwas Pant and municipal commissioner Gaurav Kumar on Wednesday.Pant reached the Vikalp area following reports that recently started road…
Lucknow: The Hindustan Handicrafts Festival 2025, which brought together artisans and traditional craft forms from 28 states, began at Smriti Upvan in Aashiana on Wednesday. The week-long festival was inaugurated by Sarojininagar MLA Rajeshwar Singh and BJP MP Dinesh Sharma. Singh said handicrafts represent the “soul of India,” with nearly 3 crore people dependent on…
Lucknow: Approval was granted to a proposal to increase the total capacity of each of the 18 Atal Schools to 1,000 students. As part of this proposal, floated in a meeting of the Atal Residential School State-Level Monitoring Committee on Wednesday, 160 students will be admitted to Class 6 and 60 students to Class 9…
NEW DELHI: Though a push from women supporters on account of incentives, including a Rs 10,000 transfer in their bank accounts, was a big factor in NDA’s landslide win in Bihar, the alliance wasn’t the only beneficiary of high participation in the polls by women. AIMIM walked away with three of the five seats with…
Lucknow: A three-day specialised training workshop on road accident investigation, conducted by the Uttar Pradesh Traffic Directorate in collaboration with the Institute of Road Traffic Education (IRTE), Faridabad, concluded at the Police Headquarters in Gomtinagar Extension on Wednesday.The workshop focused on sharpening scientific investigation skills among officers from 20 Zero Fatality Districts (ZFDs) identified as…
JAMMU: J&K police and its counter-intelligence unit conducted simultaneous raids on Jammu’s high security Kot Bhalwal Central Jail and Poonch Jail Wednesday as part of the ongoing crackdown on the terror ecosystem linked to the Faridabad-based terror module responsible for the Nov 10 suicide blast near Delhi’s Red Fort.“These two jails house hardcore Pakistani and…
The US trade deficit narrowed by about 24 per cent in August as sweeping tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump reduced imports, according to a delayed Commerce Department report released Wednesday. According to Associated Press, citing the report, the trade gap fell to $59.6 billion in August from $78.2 billion in July. Imports declined 5…
