Lucknow: Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand continued their winning run, defeating Abbigail Zenith and Likhita Srivastava 21-17, 21-12 in the pre-quarterfinals of the Syed Modi India International Badminton Championship 2025 at the UP Badminton Academy on Friday.Speaking to TOI, Treesa Jolly said, “We are the defending champions, but we are not taking any pressure. We…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday said it doesn’t have a magic wand to improve air quality in Delhi-NCR, virtually admitting that judicial activism for decades, after initial rewards, has yielded minimal results in loosening the grip of noxious air over the region. Senior advocate Aparajita Singh, amicus curiae in air pollution cases, told a…
Lucknow: Lucknow Smart City Limited’s general manager Ajay Kumar Singh passed away after suffering a heart attack during a meeting in his office on Thursday. He was 65. He is survived by his wife and son.Singh was in a meeting with a delegation of trainee IAS officers at the Smart City office in Lalbagh and…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi said on Thursday that his govt is moving towards opening up the nuclear sector in the country for private sector investments on the lines of the space sector.“The scope of reforms is continuously expanding. Just as space innovation was opened to the private sector, India is now moving towards opening…
Lucknow: In the tourism workshop on ‘Viksit Uttar Pradesh @ 2047′ on Thursday, one of the key discussions was centred on the Shaheed Chandra Shekhar Azad bird sanctuary in Unnao, which has emerged as a major nature destination with more than 12 lakh visitors in the current year. Originally known for its diverse birdlife, the…
PM Modi inaugurates Skyroot Aerospace’s Infinity campus in Hyderabad via video-conferencing HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Thursday virtually inaugurated Hyderabad-based spacetech startup Skyroot Aerospace’s Infinity campus and unveiled India’s first commercial orbital rocket, Vikram-I, which will launch satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO).Emphasising that India is on track to emerge as a global leader…
Lucknow: In a discovery that could rewrite Asia’s botanical history, scientists from the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP), Lucknow, have unearthed a 37,000-year-old bamboo fossil in Manipur’s Imphal Valley. The find, preserved in the silt-rich deposits of the Chirang River, carries the ghostly scars of thorns—markings that almost never survive the fossilization process. Bamboo…
Lucknow: A 55-year-old woman died while an 8-year-old boy suffered critically injuries in two separate cases of leopard attack in Fakharpur and Sujauli ranges of Bahraich on Wednesday evening.The incidents led to panic in the area prompting forest teams to issue alerts and increase patrolling. The first attack took place around dusk in Umri Dehlo…
Lucknow: In her quest for a baby boy to complete her family, a 30-year-old widowed woman, mother of three young daughters, abducted a one-day-old baby boy from the Special Newborn Care Unit (SNCU) of the Autonomous State Medical College in Ravindranagar, Kushinagar, on Wednesday.The newborn, barely a day old, was rescued within 24 hours after…
Lucknow: Comics continue to play powerful role in shaping children’s understanding of history, culture and social values, a point strongly underscored at the Koshala Literature Festival during a session titled ‘Tales We Carry’.The discussion featured Amar Chitra Katha executive editor Reena I Puri and author-editor Ashwitha Jayakumar in conversation with Arsh Ali Chandel. The speakers…
