Lucknow: Eying to attract an investment commitment of over Rs 5 lakh crore, the Uttar Pradesh govt has started preparing for the fifth Ground Breaking Ceremony (GBC 5.0). If all goes as per plan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the event. Though the dates for the event are yet to be announced, it is…
Lucknow: A temporary religious site built in a public park on Gokhale Marg in Sant Ravidas Nagar was removed by the municipal corporation on Thursday, following directions from the high court. The action came after residents filed a public interest litigation alleging illegal encroachment and disturbance caused by loud DJ music during the night.A municipal…
Image credit: Getty images This fall, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott delivered hundreds of millions of dollars in unrestricted gifts to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), addressing decades of chronic underfunding. According to Inside Higher Ed, these donations are enabling institutions to strengthen endowments, expand research initiatives, and provide critical scholarships, marking one of the most…
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh chief electoral officer (CEO) Navdeep Rinwa has called upon all voters to actively participate in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) campaign to ensure a clean and accurate electoral roll.The distribution of enumeration forms has begun, with booth level officers (BLOs) visiting households to collect voter details. Voters are urged to carefully fill…
NEW DELHI: Unaffected by the rebuke from Supreme Court for seeking reference of petitions challenging the validity of the Tribunal Reforms Act to a five-judge bench half-way through the final hearing in the matter, attorney general R Venkataramani made a fresh request for adjournment on Thursday, upsetting CJI B R Gavai, who wondered why the…
Lucknow: The city is facing a growing air pollution crisis — not only from particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) dust particles but also from harmful gases like ammonia, sulfur dioxide (SOâ‚‚), and nitrogen dioxide (NOâ‚‚) — which are triggering a rise in respiratory, nervous system, and eye-related ailments. Experts have warned that these toxic gases…
US President Donald Trump has once again reiterated his old claim that India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire after his intervention. Speaking at an event in Miami, Florida, on Wednesday, Trump added new details to his claims, saying that after his intervention, the next day he received a call claiming that they had made…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: West Bengal government on Thursday made it mandatory for all government and govt-aided schools to sing the state song, ‘Banglar Mati, Banglar Jal’, at morning assemblies. A notification, issued by the state secondary education board to heads of all upper primary and secondary schools, asked them to “take necessary…
Lucknow: Vigilance Establishment registered a case against Deepak Kumar Mishra, a retired administrative officer (Nazir) who served at the Jhansi Divisional Commissioner’s Office, for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.According to officials, a confidential inquiry conducted revealed that Mishra earned a total of Rs 72.80 lakh during his service period through…
PATNA/NEW DELHI: Bihar’s electorate headlined Round 1 of the “vikas versus badlav” battle Thursday with the state’s highest-ever voter turnout of 64.7% in 121 assembly constituencies of 18 districts, marking a decimal-point improvement over the previous record of 64.6% in the 1998 Lok Sabha election. The assembly poll turnout closest to the new record is…
