UP to launch drive to identify senior citizens eligible for pension, other welfare schemes | Lucknow News

Lucknow: The social welfare department is set to launch an exercise to identify senior citizens who qualify for its various welfare programmes.Such citizens will automatically receive old age benefits like pensions, without having to apply for them. The decision was announced by social welfare minister Asim Arun on Wednesday, at an event to celebrate International…

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6 dead as ‘mentally unstable’ farmerkills 2 boys, sets self, family on fire | Lucknow News

Bahraich/Lucknow: In a chilling incident, six charred bodies, including those of two children, were recovered from a house in Nindurpurwa village in Bahraich on Wednesday morning.Police said farmer Vijay Maurya (40) killed two village boys with a sharp-edged weapon before setting his wife and two young daughters ablaze along with himself inside a room locked…

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