Lucknow: Fresh revelations in the probe into the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) module busted in Faridabad have exposed a sophisticated weapons procurement and explosive-manufacturing network involving arrested suspects Dr Muzammil, Dr Shaheen, Dr Adeel and Amir. Investigators said Muzammil purchased a Russian assault rifle for Rs 5 lakh through a contact linked to co-accused Dr Shaheen. The…
Lucknow: Two days after Karnataka’s Udupi police arrested two men, hailing from Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur district, for allegedly transmitting sensitive shipbuilding and maritime security data from Cochin Shipyard to Pakistan-based handlers, the Sultanpur police on Saturday visited their villages to collect more information about them.Udupi police had, on Nov 20, arrested Rohit (29) and Santri…
(L-R) Raj Smriti, Huma Qureshi, Anita Sahgal, Sunny Singh and Gaurav Dwivedi at the film fest (BCCL/ Aditya Yadav) Cinema, conversations and cinephiles came together under one roof at the two-day Lucknow Film Festival, organised by the Lucknow Film Forum in association with UP Tourism, at Sangeet Natak Akademi. The event brought together celebrity fervour…
LUCKNOW: Varanasi Police have registered an FIR against a city hotel for allegedly violating mandatory norms related to the stay of foreign nationals. The case was filed at Bhelupur Police Station on Friday, following inputs from the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO), Lucknow.According to the FIR, the hotel, identified as Hotel Dayal Tower in the…
Lucknow. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said the women’s participation in UP’s workforce has recorded a threefold increase in the last eight years and urged them to contribute more in the state’s development.“When we came to office, the rate of women workforce was around 12-15%, but this number has soared to 35-36% in the…
Lucknow: In the aftermath of relentless shelling from Pakistan during Operation Sindoor, hope returned to Kashmir through the healing hands of Indian Army doctors — many of them hailing from UP — who restored the sight of hundreds of civilians who were deprived of medical care because of tension in border areas.For those living along…
Lucknow: Buoyed by its stupendous success in Bihar, the BJP plans to hoist its own brand of ‘M-Y’ (Mahila-Yuva) poll narrative to take on the opposition’s PDA (Piccha, Dalit, Alpsankhyak) plank in the run-up to the 2027 UP assembly elections.Recasting it from the Muslim-Yadav (M-Y) combination that once formed the power axis of the Samajwadi…
Lucknow: A massive fire broke out at Rungta Industries Ltd in Gorakhpur’s GIDA Sector-15 at around 4 am on Friday when a pipeline linked to a 50,000-litre hexane tank caught fire, triggering a district-level emergency response.Despite deployment of over 25 fire tenders and National Disaster Response Force units, the blaze continued into the evening, prompting…
Lucknow: To make wildlife travel convenient during the approaching holiday season, the special AC 2×2 bus service from Kaiserbagh Bus Station, Lucknow to Dudhwa National Park has now been extended for entire Nov. The service originally began as a pilot project on Nov 4 and was scheduled only for 15 days. Launched by UPSRTC on…
Lucknow: A swift and coordinated effort by some sensitive citizens saved an injured owl in the city as official help got delayed. The incident took place in Sector-H of Jankipuram on Friday. Some local residents spotted an injured owl on the road around 8 am and alerted the forest department. But despite repeated calls and…
