Lucknow: In 2023-24 and 2024-25, animal birth control programme succeeded in sterilising and vaccinating 2,84,641 stray dogs against rabies. Moreover, the state established 17 permanent ABC centres, with two additional centres approved for Lucknow and Ghaziabad, on a comprehensive budget of Rs 34 crore. Additionally, the department issued 5,333 pet dog licences this year, promoting…
Lucknow: Chief secretary SP Goyal on Wednesday directed divisional commissioners and district magistrates to ensure that educational institutions, govt buildings, commercial establishments, offices, dams, and bridges are illuminated with tricoloured lighting to mark the Independence Day. With the launch of the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign on Wednesday, Goyal said volunteers and the general public should…
Lucknow: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), including microlight aircraft, paragliders, hang-gliders, and drones, will be monitored closely, and unauthorised flights will be prohibited in the state as part of the enhanced security arrangements during Independence Day and Janmashtami on Aug 15 and 16.The directive, aimed at ensuring high-level vigilance, public safety, and communal harmony, was issued…
Dharampal Singh As India observes Partition Horrors Remembrance Day on Aug 14, the nation must confront an uncomfortable truth long buried beneath conventional narratives of Hindu-Muslim discord: the systematic betrayal and persecution of India’s Scheduled Castes during the traumatic division of 1947. This overlooked tragedy offers profound lessons for contemporary politics, particularly regarding the dangerous…
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Police saved the life of a 35-year-old woman who attempted suicide in Gorakhpur on Tuesday evening.An employee at a cosmetics shop in the Gorakhnath area, the woman posted a distressing video preparing to hang herself, on Instagram. The alert was first raised by Meta, the parent company of Instagram, which promptly notified…
Lucknow: Mayor Sushma Kharkwal presented the progress of the state capital and plans for sustainable urban development at the Asean 2025 conference in Kuala Lumpur drawing international attention.Representing India alongside delegations from Indore, Surat and Panaji, she outlined initiatives in cleanliness, expansion of green spaces, smart waste management and the drive to position Lucknow as…
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party emerged victorious in byelection to the post of Mahmoodabad nagar palika parishad chairperson while the BJP registered a resounding victory in Misrikh Naimish nagar palika parishad on Wednesday. SP’s official candidate Aamir Arfat clinched the chairman seat by a narrow margin. He secured 8,906 votes, edging past independent candidate Atul Kumar Verma,…
Lucknow: The UP Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has intensified its crackdown on financial crime, arresting five accused in two cases — one involving misappropriation of minority pre-matric scholarship funds in Meerut and the other related to Rs17.51 crore construction scam in Bahraich. The EOW arrested Abdul Rahman, principal of Madrassa Khadijatul Kubra Lil Banat in…
Lucknow: Senior IPS officer Ajay Kumar Sahni, who led 52 encounters, was on Wednesday named for the President’s Medal for Gallantry this year. This is the third President’s Medal of his career.A 2009-batch Uttar Pradesh cadre officer, Sahni is known as an ‘encounter specialist’ in the police force. He was picked for the award for…
Lucknow: UP BJP state general secretary (organisation) Dharampal Singh on Wednesday said every worker of the party is the backbone of the organisation and their work at the booth level is the strength of the BJP.He said this during an interaction with regional office bearers of the Scheduled Caste Morcha in Aligarh and GB Nagar…
