Lucknow: Over a week after it was cleared by Parliament, the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G-RAM-G) scheme was drummed up in the rural pockets of UP by the Yogi govt on Friday.The state rural development department, headed by deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya, organised special gram sabhas across all…
Lucknow: UP STF on Friday busted a racket if illegal creation of Ayushman Bharat health cards for ineligible persons and arrested seven accused, including the alleged mastermind, from Lucknow.Additional SP, STF, Vishal Vikram Singh said the accused fraudulently generated Ayushman cards for thousands of ineligible individuals by bypassing OTP-based verification and illegally adding their names…
Lucknow: Defence minister and Lucknow MP Rajnath Singh on Thursday said the vision of BJP ideologues – Syama Prasad Mookherjee, Deendayal Upadhyaya and Atal Bihari Vajpayee – is being realised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has significantly enhanced India’s prestige at the international level.Addressing the inaugural event of the Rashtra Prerna Sthal, Singh said,…
Lucknow: Stories of courage, cultural pride, and architectural grandeur of Bundelkhand will resonate through the streets of Lucknow on Jan 26, as the Uttar Pradesh govt prepares a grand Shobha Yatra themed on the region for the Republic Day celebrations.The Uttar Pradesh tourism department is working on an elaborate cultural presentation that will showcase Bundelkhand’s…
Lucknow: In a review of the arrangements for the Magh Mela to be held in Prayagraj in Jan, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said that there should be no VIP protocol or special visits during major bathing days of the 44-day-long festival. The decision was taken, said sources, after an assessment of crowd management…
Lucknow: Aiming to provide students with modern, technology-enhanced learning environments, improve access to educational resources and help bridge the digital divide, basic education department has asked schools to carry out classroom teaching through ICT labs and smart classes.Schools have to provide daily utilisation report of classroom teaching through smart classes and ICT labs and videos…
Lucknow: To enhance educators’ professional development and quality of teaching-learning process, the state govt has asked teachers in state-run primary and secondary schools to start using The Teacher App.The app, developed by Bharti Airtel Foundation with support from NITI Aayog, is aimed at encouraging teachers to adopt more effective, innovative and participatory approaches to classroom…
Lucknow: In a first, Uttar Pradesh will organise a senior police officers’ conference in place of the annual Police Week on Saturday and Sunday (Dec 27 and Dec 28). The conference has been named as Manthan. The move is aimed at ensuring a sharper, policy-driven and outcome-oriented approach to law enforcement reforms. Lucknow Headlines Today…
Lucknow: In a scathing attack on Congress, PM Narendra Modi on Thursday said that past governments promoted a “one family” culture while neglecting the contributions of several national icons, adding that that BJP government has freed the country from the “tendency” to associate every good work done after independence to just one (Nehru-Gandhi) family.Speaking here…
Balrampur: A 25-year-old woman belonging to the Tharu tribal community was killed in a leopard attack while collecting firewood in a forested area of Balrampur district on Thursday, triggering panic among villagers and renewed demands for stronger forest surveillance and safety measures.The incident occurred around 8am inside the forest, nearly 1.5km from the forest edge…
