Lucknow: UP minister Baby Rani Maurya inaugurated the Parent–Anganwadi Conference (ECCE Day) at the Ramchaura Anganwadi Centre in Sarojini Nagar Block. Anganwadi workers and parents of enrolled children participated in the event.In her address, she highlighted the crucial role Anganwadi centres play in ensuring nutrition, growth monitoring, and activity-based pre-school education for women and children….
Lucknow: Are you fond of chrysanthemum blooms and want to add new, unseen, colourful, easy-to-grow and highly floriferous chrysanthemums to your garden? A visit to CSIR National Botanical Research Institute’s Chrysanthemum and Coleus Flower Show to be held on Dec 20 and 21 will help meet that gardening goal.Four new varieties will be on display…
Lucknow: Singapore’s Jia Heng Jason and Chinese Taipei’s Sung Shuo Yun have received the top billing for the Syed Modi International Badminton Championships, set to commence at the UP Badminton Academy from Nov 25. Many top players from around the world will be seen in action as they vie for the prestigious trophy, but the…
Lucknow: The moderate winter is likely to get colder from next week in the city. The weather office said the advent of cool westerly winds is expected to drop the day and night temperatures, giving people the colder feel. It will also break the ongoing ‘warm’ spell in Nov. According to meteorological forecasts, temperatures will…
Lucknow: A 24-year-old loan recovery agent was found dead under suspicious circumstances in Indiranagar in the wee-hours of Thursday. His family alleged he was assaulted before death.The victim, identified as Shashi Prakash Upadhyay, lived with his parents and siblings in a rented house in Sector-8, Raghurajnagar, Indiranagar and worked with a finance company as a…
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), in coordination with central intelligence agencies, significantly expanded its probe into the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) module based in Faridabad, which allegedly played a key role in the Delhi blast conspiracy. The widening investigation now spans multiple sectors in UP—including medical supply chains, pharma distributors, and second-hand car networks—and has…
Lucknow: UP Power Corporation Ltd is fast-tracking rollout of 3.98 crore smart prepaid meters across UP to deliver reliable, transparent electricity services.The IS 16444-standard smart meters record consumption digitally, send readings automatically and enable online billing — ending manual errors and estimated bills forever. Officials say the technology is revolutionising power distribution by curbing theft,…
Lucknow: Caught between the Centre’s 2019-20 directive to ensure smart prepaid meter (SPM) for new connections and UPERC’s November 13 notice, that SPMs procured under revamped distribution sector scheme (RDSS) are limited to replacing existing consumer’s non-smart meters and does not cover new electricity connections, the UPPCL has charged over 2,000 new consumers for SPMs,…
Lucknow: In a crackdown on international cyber fraud networks, Ambedkarnagar police on Thursday night arrested two alleged operatives of a trafficking syndicate that pushed Indian youths into “cyber slavery” in the Laos-Thailand region. The gang is believed to be part of the Golden Triangle cyber-fraud ecosystem, notorious for detaining foreign nationals and forcing them to…
Lucknow: The first-ever national karate camp at the Netaji Subhas Regional Centre in Lucknow kick-started on Monday. The camp, which concludes on Dec 31, brings together 48 athletes from across the country, including representatives from Services, Income Tax, CRPF, and Assam Rifles. The athletes for the camp, a strategic initiative by the Karate Organising Committee…
