Lucknow: In a swift humanitarian response, Indian Air Force deployed C-17 Globemaster aircraft to airlift a para field hospital from Agra on Tuesday to Colombo as part of ongoing humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations. The aircraft, carrying critical medical equipment and 73 trained medical personnel, landed in Colombo, ready to provide emergency healthcare support…
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh cabinet on Tuesday approved the UP Adheenasth Paryatan Seva Niyamawali 2025, a new set of rules aimed at strengthening administrative capacity and enhancing tourism services across the state. The approval comes alongside cabinet clearance for a temple sanghralaya in Ayodhya and an international yoga and wellness centre in Baghpat.The niyamawali specifies…
Lucknow: Lucknow police on Tuesday arrested a 31-year-old woman accused of running a drug trafficking ring from a high-rise apartment in Vrindavan Yojana.Lalita, who allegedly controlled a ganja distribution network with teenage boys as her foot-soldiers, was arrested along with two of her young aides, aged 18 & 19. The arrests were made after a…
Lucknow: A woman and her 22-year-old son were killed after their motorcycle crashed into a water tanker parked on the Outer Ring Road near Chakouli–Behata village in the Kakori area on Tuesday evening. The tanker, deployed for watering plants on the median, allegedly moved without warning, causing the speeding bike to smash into its rear….
Lucknow: An attempt to extract ‘hafta’ from a garment shop led to the arrest of a notorious history-sheeter in Banthra on Tuesday.Police said Arpit Patel alias Tera, 30, walked into Captain Cloth House in Latifnagar, abused the staff, and demanded extortion money before being tracked down and arrested within 2 hours of the complaint, according…
Lucknow: In a major push towards digital inclusion in rural schools, Sarojininagar MLA Rajeshwar Singh on Tuesday inaugurated a new Smart Classroom at Primary School Husain Nagar in Amariya, in Pilibhit Tiger Reserve. The initiative, executed under the eighth phase of the Environment Warriors Campaign, marks the 33rd Smart Class established through Singh’s digital-education mission….
Lucknow: Three passengers were burnt alive, and 24 others sustained severe burn injuries after a private sleeper bus travelling from the Indo-Nepal border town of Sonouli to Delhi caught fire following a high-impact collision with a truck early Tuesday. The tragedy occurred around 3 am on the Phulwariya Bypass. The bus, registered in Rampur, was…
District topper commits suicide hours before class 12 pre-board exam LUCKNOW: A 17-year-old student from Kanpur, who had topped his district in the 2023 class 10 board examinations with 97.4 percent marks, allegedly died by suicide hours before his class 12 physics pre-board exam on Monday.Raunak Pathak, a student of Brij Kishori Devi Memorial Inter…
LUCKNOW: Three people were charred to death and 24 others were injured—six of them critically—after a private passenger bus caught fire following a violent collision with a speeding truck on the Phulwaria bypass in Balrampur early Tuesday. Most passengers were Nepalese nationals travelling from Sonauli to Delhi.According to police, the bus (UP 22 AT 0245)…
Lucknow: UP’s IT and ITeS companies will have to walk an extra mile for the next five years to achieve the goals envisioned in the Viksit Bharat @ 2047.The state will have to increase its share of IT exports from India from the existing 5% to 10% by 2030.While the future will reveal whether UP…
