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,…
Lucknow: In his first visit to Sambhal district after violence broke out there over a disputed mosque, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday declared Sambhal “a sacred symbol of Hindu faith”. The CM said violence unleashed by foreign invaders was suppressed in history books and accused the invaders of desecrating and destroying Sambhal’s Sanatan history…
Lucknow: Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani on Thursday said India will be a USD 25 trillion economic “powerhouse” by 2050 with the global centre of gravity shifting towards it.Addressing students at the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, Adani assured them that their career timelines would align with India’s most transformative decades. “What I can state…
LUCKNOW: Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow (IIM-L), Banaras Hindu University (BHU), and the King George’s Medical University (KGMU) as well as five other universities, will study the Uttar Pradesh government’s move to ensure tap water connections in each rural household and its impact on the social and economic lives of the masses in Uttar Pradesh.Professor Rajendra…
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF), in a joint operation with Sitapur police, gunned down two wanted criminals —Raju Tiwari and his brother Sanjay Tiwari—in an early morning encounter in the Pisawan area of Sitapur on Thursday morning.Both were carrying a cash reward of ₹1 lakh each for information leading to their arrest.According to…
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh STF gunned down dreaded mafia criminal Ashish Ranjan alias Chhotu Singh, a resident of Dhanbad, Jharkhand, in an encounter near Shivrajpur Chauraha under Shankargarh police station limits in Prayagraj in the wee hours of Thursday.Ashish, wanted in at least four high-profile murder cases, including that of gangster Aman Singh, opened fire with…
Lucknow: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday trained guns at the Opposition, especially Samajwadi Party, saying those who once came to power through appeasement politics now find themselves politically irrelevant.“These are the people who neither stood with society nor worked for the future generations. Today, they are neither here nor there,” he said after inaugurating…
