Lucknow: Home to 40% of India’s smartphone manufacturing and 55% of mobile components, UP is now looking to develop dedicated Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) parks in cities beyond the National Capital Region.For this, it has selected Pilibhit, Barabanki and Gorakhpur that would speak for underserved Rohilkhand, Madhyanchal and Purvanchal regions. Proposed to come…
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh STF on Tuesday arrested two members of an inter-state drug syndicate and seized 523 grams of high-grade MDMA worth nearly Rs 80 lakh, officials said on Wednesday.According to an STF official, the arrests were made near Suryakunwar Marg under the limits of Gosainganj police station in Lucknow around 8.55 am after…
Lucknow: An elderly woman, living alone in Jankipuram, was found murdered inside her home early Wednesday, with police suspecting that she was killed while resisting a burglary. The assailant fled after committing the crime, and CCTV footage captured a shawl-clad youth emerging from the house around 2.33 am, becoming the prime suspect in the case.The…
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh director general of police Rajeev Krishna on Wednesday told a new batch of IPS probationers that policing is fundamentally a human relationship, not merely a law-enforcement function.Addressing 23 IPS trainees of the 77 RR (2023-24 batch) at the police headquarters in Lucknow, he said, “Policing is the purest and most elevated form…
Lucknow: In a gruesome incident, a 70-year-old woman was bludgeoned to death by her son after she refused to give him money to buy liquor, Hardoi’s Shironamnagar village.Instead of alerting anyone, the accused reportedly remained inside the house, lying next to the blood-soaked body throughout the night. It was only on Wednesday morning that he…
Lucknow: A day after comparing govt’s move to pre-install Sanchar Saathi App in every new phone being sold in the market with surveillance practices in North Korea under Kim Jong Un’s regime, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said “those who have a history of operating as ‘mukhbirs’ (informers) cannot give up snooping”.Akhilesh’s latest…
Lucknow: Acting on the directives of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the Uttar Pradesh police have launched a coordinated and decisive crackdown on Rohingya and Bangladeshi nationals allegedly living illegally across the state. The move comes amid concerns over rising cases of foreign nationals obtaining Indian identity documents through fraudulent means.According to senior officials, the CM…
Lucknow: Three people were killed and six others sustained serious injuries after a speeding trailer overturned and triggered a multi-vehicle collision in Pakwa Inar town in Kushinagar on Wednesday afternoon.The accident took place when the trailer driver swerved sharply to save an elderly man crossing the road, smashing through the divider and landing in the…
Lucknow: Aiming to ensure transparency and impart quality education, the state govt will now monitor the functioning of state and private universities through a quarterly Key Performance Indicators (KPI) based dashboard.Under the dashboard-review system, effective from the third quarter of the academic session 2025-26 (Oct to Dec ), universities will be marked across 26 parameters…
Lucknow: Members of the Sales Tax Bar Association, Lucknow, on Wednesday feted meritorious children of association members as part of Advocates’ Day, observed to mark the birth anniversary of Rajendra Prasad, India’s first President and an eminent lawyer.The event was held at the State Tax Building on Meera Bai Marg. Chief guest Rajpal Yadav highlighted…
