Lucknow: The opening day of the Athrise Badminton & Chess Championship 2025, which commenced at the BBD Badminton Academy on Friday, saw the participation of 1,500 players from over 150 schools. In the qualifying U-19 girls’ doubles category, Aanandita Shree and Pragya Yadav from CMS Gomtinagar clinched the gold medal.Judo: The judokas of Indian Para…
Lucknow: A road accident in Sarojininagar claimed the life of a 13-year-old schoolgirl on Friday, highlighting growing concerns over traffic safety for children. The accident occurred on Thursday morning when Priyanshi Singh, a class 6 student, was cycling to school in Amausi village near the Amausi railway station.According to reports, a van struck Priyanshi from…
A major cross-border cybercrime crackdown by the CBI, aided by the FBI, has busted a Noida-based syndicate. LUCKNOW: In one of its most significant cross-border cybercrime crackdowns in recent years, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), acting on crucial intelligence shared by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has dismantled a sophisticated virtual-asset-driven…
LUCKNOW: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday launched a major crackdown across three states—Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Gujarat—hours after registering an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) against 67 accused in the state’s largest codeine-based cough syrup diversion and trafficking racket.Acting on the ECIR filed by its Lucknow zonal office, ED teams, accompanied by central paramilitary…
Lucknow: A Bahraich court on Thursday awarded death sentence to Sarfaraz, the main accused in Oct 2024 Bahraich violence in which one youth was killed. The court of additional sessions judge (First) Pawan Kumar Sharma awarded life imprisonment to nine other accused while three were acquitted for lack of evidence.The court had convicted the 10…
Lucknow: Police in Gorakhpur on Tuesday arrested a high-profile impostor who allegedly masqueraded as an IAS officer for nearly three years. The accused, Gaurav Kumar Singh, alias Lalit Kishor (27), was apprehended following a probe that exposed a sprawling fraud racket spanning several states, fake identities, luxury cars and promises of lucrative government jobs and…
Lucknow: King George’s Medical University (KGMU) on Thursday announced a second-phase expansion of its bone marrow transplant (BMT) services aimed at increasing capacity, reducing waiting time and improving access to life-saving treatment.KGMU vice-chancellor Prof Soniya Nityanand shared the details during the inauguration ceremony of the new BMT unit.She said under a new agreement, BMT services…
Lucknow: Preparations are in full swing for the grand inauguration of the Rashtra Prerna Sthal developed under the Basant Kunj scheme, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate on Dec 25With an estimated crowd of over two lakh people expected to attend, the administration has begun extensive arrangements for security, traffic management and…
Lucknow: A year after a departmental probe found him indulging in irregular practices in the purchase of medicines, the officiating district homeopathy medical officer (DHMO) of Ayodhya, Dr Ajay Kumar, has been removed from his post and attached to the DHMO office in Sonbhadra. The order was issued by principal secretary, AYUSH Department, Ranjan Kumar,…
Lucknow: As India prepares to host Global AI Summit in Feb, UP govt has been delegated key responsibility to host high-level regional deliberation on role of artificial intelligence in public health and medical education.The two-day event in Jan has been assigned to UP’s IT and electronics department by Union ministry of electronics and information technology….
