Lucknow: IIT-Kanpur on Wednesday conferred the Distinguished Alumni Award 2025 upon Awanish Kumar Awasthi (BT/EE/1985), advisor to CM Yogi Adityanath. In a social media post, the institute said: “Carrying forward the legacy of IIT-Kanpur, Awasthi has served with distinction in public administration, infrastructure and policy leadership. An IAS officer of the 1987 batch, he is…
NEW DELHI: After she retired from Supreme Court, Justice Ranjana Desai has had no time to relax, having been asked to head six commissions on a range of issues – from electricity to delimitation and uniform civil code to revision of pay scales for central government employees.Justice Desai, 76, who was part of the bench…
Lucknow: Road repair work across the city remains incomplete as proposal for additional funds awaits approval from Lucknow Municipal Corporation’s executive committee, which is likely to take up the matter in its meeting on Thursday.LMC earlier sanctioned Rs 10 crore to repair roads damaged by rain, but several stretches remain in poor condition. Officials said…
NEW DELHI: A year after troop disengagement between India and China from the two remaining face-off sites at Depsang and Demchok in Ladakh, there is no actual de-escalation on the ground, with the rival armies set to remain forward deployed for the sixth successive winter, reports Rajat Pandit.The military thrust amid diplomatic detente is to…
Lucknow: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, while chairing a high-level review meeting of the Uttar Pradesh Industrial Expressway Development Authority (UPEIDA) on Wednesday, directed the officials to complete the construction of Ganga Expressway by December 2025.He also ordered weekly reviews of every project’s progress and stressed that no compromise on quality would be tolerated. The 594-km…
VIJAYAWADA/HYDERABAD: Cyclone Montha weakened into a deep depression Wednesday after leaving a trail of destruction across Andhra and Telangana – from overflowing lakes and collapsed homes to snapped power lines and stranded trains, report Madhu Rasala, Amisha Rajani & Shiva Kumar Pinna.A 90-year-old woman, of Palnadu in Andhra, was killed after a mud wall collapsed…
Lucknow: Sarojininagar MLA Rajeshwar Singh on Wednesday, in a message on X, said, “The Earth is crying, now it’s our turn. We keep our homes clean but continue to pollute the very home — Mother Earth — where we all live. If nature stops, human existence will stop.” He said small actions like replacing one…
Spiritual leader Sadhguru has spoken out in defence of actor Ranbir Kapoor, who will next be seen in Nitesh Tiwari’s epic ‘Ramayana‘. The actor will take on the role of Lord Ram, opposite Yash’s Ravana. With months to go before the film’s relase, Ranbir has often found himself in the line of fire, over his…
A video has sparked outrage in Canada and in India after showing a young man using racist slurs against an Indian-origin female employee, demanding she return to India, amid reports of repeated targeting of South Asian staff by a group of teens.In the video, a boy could be heard saying, “Go back to your f*****g…
NEW DELHI: A new UN report, released Wednesday, warned that developing countries will need at least $310-365 billion per year by 2035 for taking adaptation measures to protect lives, livelihoods, and economies from the impact of climate change, but the current financing lags far behind at around $26 billion (2023 values) – 12-14 times less…
