Lucknow: Sitapur police lodged an FIR against 14 people in connection with a land grab fraud that took place in 2016.The accused, including the then SDM of Mahmudabad, a panchayat secretary, a supply inspector and a bank manager in Sitapur, allegedly conspired to seize the property of an unmarried man by forging documents. The case…
Lucknow: The UP BJP on Tuesday released the list of prantiya parishad members, in a development that trained the spotlight on the much awaited appointment of the new state president.The members of the parishad, primarily chosen from 84 organisational districts will now take part in the election for the new state president. These districts are…
“Rot in hell, you bast***”, the father of Toyah Cordingley said as the murderer of his daughter was finally convicted after seven years. Rajwainder Singh, an Indian man, a former nurse working in Australia, stabbed Cordingley at least 26 times and then cut her throat while the 24-year-old woman was out for her morning walk…
Lucknow: In an instance of man-elephant conflict increasing in the periphery of Dudhwa tiger reserve, a farmer was killed late on Monday night in his sugarcane field by a herd of stray elephants.He was found dead in his field by villagers on Tuesday morning, after which the forest department was informed. The body, as per…
Lucknow: Rolling out the red carpet for entrepreneurs looking to invest in research and development activities, the state govt would offer subsidies of up to 50% to global capacity centres on the land price upfront. Working further on the global capacity centre (GCC) policy formulated this year to nurture talent and technical expertise in the…
Lucknow: Acting on the Uttar Pradesh govt’s zero-tolerance policy against corruption, the state’s Anti-Corruption Organisation (ACO) carried out two trap operations on Tuesday in Prayagraj and Mirzapur and arrested two govt employees while accepting bribes.In the first operation, ACO’s Prayagraj unit acted on a complaint lodged by Pranendra Pandey, a resident of Korasand village, who…
Lucknow: Director general of police Rajeev Krishna on Tuesday directed senior police officials in all districts to raise the “cost of committing cybercrime” through rapid IMEI blocking, deactivation of fraudulent SIM cards, and deeper use of technical tools.Speaking at a high-level review meeting at the Uttar Pradesh police headquarters, the DGP took stock of the…
NEW DELHI: In a rare decision aimed at facilitating the education of a minor girl, Supreme Court on Monday approved issuance of an SC certificate based on the ‘Adi Dravida’ caste of her mother, who is married to a non-SC person, even though it is yet to adjudicate a bunch of petitions challenging the norm…
Lucknow: An inter-state gangster wanted in seven active cases and named in 28 serious offences across five states was killed in a police encounter in Shamli district on Monday morning. The accused, Samaydin alias Sama, was a history-sheeter from Kairana–Kandhla region and operated in Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana, Rajasthan, and Haryana.ADG, Meerut Zone, Bhanu Bhaskar,…
Lucknow: A play ‘The Pillars of Society’ staged at Bhartendu Natya Academy on Tuesday, exposing the hidden hypocrisies of the ruling class.The play, originally written by a Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, was translated and directed by Asif Ali. The plot revolves around a respectable entrepreneur Consul Karsten Bernick who is seen as an honest man…
