Lucknow: Under Mission Shakti 5.0, all departments under the state government are carrying out campaigns until December 24, focusing on safety and respect for women. To ensure a swift response and an immediate assistance in cases of crime, help desks have been activated in 1,647 police stations across the state. Women beat constables and anti-romeo…
Lucknow: Sitapur police lodged an FIR against 14 people in connection with a land grab fraud that took place in 2016.The accused, including the then SDM of Mahmudabad, a panchayat secretary, a supply inspector and a bank manager in Sitapur, allegedly conspired to seize the property of an unmarried man by forging documents. The case…
Lucknow: The UP BJP on Tuesday released the list of prantiya parishad members, in a development that trained the spotlight on the much awaited appointment of the new state president.The members of the parishad, primarily chosen from 84 organisational districts will now take part in the election for the new state president. These districts are…
Lucknow: In an instance of man-elephant conflict increasing in the periphery of Dudhwa tiger reserve, a farmer was killed late on Monday night in his sugarcane field by a herd of stray elephants.He was found dead in his field by villagers on Tuesday morning, after which the forest department was informed. The body, as per…
Lucknow: Rolling out the red carpet for entrepreneurs looking to invest in research and development activities, the state govt would offer subsidies of up to 50% to global capacity centres on the land price upfront. Working further on the global capacity centre (GCC) policy formulated this year to nurture talent and technical expertise in the…
Lucknow: Acting on the Uttar Pradesh govt’s zero-tolerance policy against corruption, the state’s Anti-Corruption Organisation (ACO) carried out two trap operations on Tuesday in Prayagraj and Mirzapur and arrested two govt employees while accepting bribes.In the first operation, ACO’s Prayagraj unit acted on a complaint lodged by Pranendra Pandey, a resident of Korasand village, who…
Lucknow: Director general of police Rajeev Krishna on Tuesday directed senior police officials in all districts to raise the “cost of committing cybercrime” through rapid IMEI blocking, deactivation of fraudulent SIM cards, and deeper use of technical tools.Speaking at a high-level review meeting at the Uttar Pradesh police headquarters, the DGP took stock of the…
Lucknow: An inter-state gangster wanted in seven active cases and named in 28 serious offences across five states was killed in a police encounter in Shamli district on Monday morning. The accused, Samaydin alias Sama, was a history-sheeter from Kairana–Kandhla region and operated in Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana, Rajasthan, and Haryana.ADG, Meerut Zone, Bhanu Bhaskar,…
Lucknow: A play ‘The Pillars of Society’ staged at Bhartendu Natya Academy on Tuesday, exposing the hidden hypocrisies of the ruling class.The play, originally written by a Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, was translated and directed by Asif Ali. The plot revolves around a respectable entrepreneur Consul Karsten Bernick who is seen as an honest man…
Lucknow: To address the chronic parking chaos in Aminabad, the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) opened a new parking facility at Ghantaghar park on Tuesday. The facility was inaugurated by UP finance and parliamentary affairs minister and Lucknow district in-charge, Suresh Khanna, with mayor Sushma Kharkwal as the special guest.The newly developed parking lot can accommodate…
