Lucknow: The enforcement directorate (ED) on Thursday conducted multiple raids in Lucknow at premises linked to Nikant Jain, a close associate of suspended Invest UP CEO Abhishek Prakash, in connection with a money laundering probe related to alleged commission demands for approving a solar power project. According to officials, ED teams accompanied by paramilitary forces…
Lucknow: With the intensity and spread of rainfall reducing across the state, major rivers have also started showing a receding trend in several areas. However, the Ganga was still flowing above the danger mark in Badaun, Ballia, Ghazipur, and Varanasi; the Sharda in Lakhimpur; and the Ghagara in Barabanki, Ayodhya, and Ballia on Thursday.Eleven deaths…
Lucknow/New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh chief electoral officer Navdeep Rinwa on Thursday rejected Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi‘s claims that the names of Aditya Srivastava and Vishal Singh were there in the voters’ list of other states along with assembly constituencies in Varanasi and Lucknow.Rahul Gandhi, in a press conference on…
Lucknow: The state cabinet on Thursday approved the establishment of private universities in Barabanki, Muzaffarnagar, and Mathura.The cabinet sanctioned the allocation of 25.31 acres of land in Gadia village, Nawabganj tehsil of Barabanki, for the setting up of Bodhisattva University by the Bodhisattva Charitable Trust, Lucknow. The Trust has received a letter of intent following…
Lucknow: The state cabinet on Thursday approved a proposal to allow funds from the State Finance Commission to be used by urban local bodies for flag distribution to mark the Har Ghar Tiranga programme. The programme is being celebrated to mark Independence Day, where mass hoisting of the national flag will be encouraged across the…
Lucknow: The state cabinet on Thursday approved the Uttar Pradesh MSME Industrial Estate Management Policy 2025. With this, industrial plots and sheds will now be allotted via e-auction on lease/rent. The interested parties who apply for the e-auction will have to submit 10% of the cost of the land as earnest money.An official spokesperson said…
Lucknow: Amending the outdoor hoarding policy, the state cabinet on Thursday extended the lease time period being offered to private vendors and agencies that take up outdoor space on rent.While the contract and lease between urban local bodies and private agencies was allowed to be renewed for two years, making such commercial operations lucrative the…
Lucknow: The state cabinet on Thursday approved the Uttar Pradesh Rural Population Records Bill 2025, which aims to simplify and make transparent the process of updating documents for the rural population. This bill will ease the process of transferring, amending, and updating ownership documents called gharauani, prepared under the Swamitva scheme. The new bill will…
Lucknow: Soulful echo of ‘sozkhwani’— reciting elegiac poetry to mourn Karbala martyrs—is growing faint. Once the heartbeat of Muharram rituals and a vibrant thread in the region’s cultural tapestry, the unique blend of literature, music and devotion is now on the edge of extinction.‘Sozkhwani’ combines Persian/Urdu words ‘soz’ (lament, burning, or inner pain) and ‘khwani’…
Lucknow: Two brothers wanted for the murder of Sitapur-based journalist Raghvendra Vajpayee were killed in an encounter with a joint team of the Special Task Force (STF) and the local police near Dulhapur Tiraha in Sitapur early Thursday.Vajpayee, 36, a resident of Vikasnagar in the Maholi area of Sitapur, was shot dead on March 8,…
