Lucknow: Devotees gathered for Kojagari Lakshmi puja at city temples on Monday.The Kojagari Lakshmi puja is performed on ‘Purnima’ (full moon night). It is believed that on this night the Goddess Lakshmi descends to earth and blesses her devotees.At Kali Bari temple, Ghasiyari Mandi, the goddess was worshipped with coconut sweets, til ke laddoos, khila…
Lucknow: A specialised rehabilitation centre for children with cerebral palsy will come up in the paediatric orthopaedics department of KGMU this month.The announcement was made by HoD paediatric orthopaedics Prof Vikas Verma during a programme organised on World Cerebral Palsy Day on Monday. Verma said most of the infrastructure and facilities are complete, and patients…
Lucknow: A turtle pond, children’s park and selfie point were inaugurated at the city zoo on Monday on the occasion of National Wildlife week (Oct 2-8).The new turtle pond has around 30 turtles of four species. The selfie point has dummies of wild animals like tigers, lions, monkeys, deer and birds. In the children’s park,…
Lucknow/Kanpur: Two days after a powerful explosion ripped through a coaching centre-cum-library in Farrukhabad, killing two youths and leaving five students seriously injured, police registered an FIR against an unidentified person on Monday. They claimed that structural negligence led to the coaching centre blast.According to sub inspector Vishesh Kumar, in charge of the ITI outpost,…
Ayodhya: In a tragic incident, a three-year-old boy died while his sister, 5, got seriously injured after the doors of the car they were playing in got locked automatically trapping them for hours. The incident occurred on Monday afternoon in Saidpur village within the Baba Bazar police station area. A feast was being organised at…
Lucknow: Youth in and around Gorakhpur will soon get an opportunity to find jobs in local and foreign companies. The employment department is organising a two-day Employment MahaKumbh-2025 at the Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology in Gorakhpur on Oct 14 and 15.A govt spokesperson said that participants will vie for 10,855 vacancies across various…
Lucknow: The five accused allegedly involved in a conspiracy to raise ‘Mujahideen Army’ to enforce Sharia rule through violent jihad have been sent to 8 days of police custody.According to Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), the FIR was registered on Sept 29 at the ATS police station in Lucknow. Acting on intelligence inputs, the agency…
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh govt on Monday appointed additional director general (security) Raghubir Lal as the new police commissioner of Kanpur Nagar.A 1997-batch IPS officer, Lal has extensive experience in security management, having earlier strengthened the security framework of the new Parliament building in Delhi and served with the CISF. He is also a recipient of…
Lucknow: BJP MP Brij Lal on Monday condemned the brutal attack on party MP Khagen Murmu in Nagrakata area in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri where he had gone to oversee rescue and relief works following heavy rains and landslides. “What was his fault? He went there to provide relief to the flood-affected people, whose crops have…
Lucknow: The Lucknow Municipal Corporation has sealed the Sahara Shaher in Gomtinagar, covering around 170 acres of land that had previously been leased to Sahara India Commercial Corporation Ltd.According to the press statement issued by the LMC, complaints regarding violations of the lease agreement had been received, and the LMC reviewed relevant documents and pending…
