Lucknow: In a breakthrough against interstate and foreign-linked cyber syndicates, Fatehpur Police on Sunday arrested three operatives of a highly organised digital extortion network that posed as senior ATS officers to terrorise victims with fabricated money-laundering charges.The arrests were made by a joint team of the Cyber Crime Police Station and the Intelligence Wing from…
Lucknow: In a shocking case of mob assault and humiliation, a young man from Gobarai Khas village was brutally beaten, abused on camera by four youths and forced to lick a pair of slippers on November 29. Hours later, the same group allegedly attacked the victim’s home with stones, attempted to break the gate, and…
Lucknow: The department of basic education has made classroom teaching through ICT labs and smart classes mandatory in the school timetable.The move is aimed at providing students with modern, technology-enhanced learning environments, improving access to educational resources, and helping bridge the digital divide. In a missive to all basic education officers, additional chief secretary, basic…
Lucknow: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath directed senior police officials to personally monitor grievance redressal in their respective districts.He issued the directive during ‘Janata Darshan’ held at his Lucknow residence on Monday. The CM personally interacted with 42 persons and took their complaints, assuring them of swift action on their issues. Several cases related to land…
Lucknow: The much-talked about coordination meetings between RSS-UP govt revolved around five pledges made by Sangh in its centenary year of foundation this year. The meetings also discussed feedbacks collected and suggestions given during the month-long coordination meetings of various departments by RSS offshoots.RSS was represented by its national coordinator of RSS-BJP Arun Kumar, kshetriya…
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) uncovered the role of a dismissed police constable who allegedly operated a sprawling illegal supply chain of codeine-based cough syrup while simultaneously running two wholesale drug units, one from Jharkhand and another from Varanasi.The revelations emerged during the interrogation of Amit Kumar Singh, alias Amit Tata, a key…
LUCKNOW: Sales during the 10-day Khadi Mahotsav held here fetched Rs 3.20 crore this year, which was approximately 42 per cent more than last year, the UP government said in a statement on Monday. The Khadi Mahotsav-2025 was held at the Central Sanskrit University in Lucknow. The event, themed “From Threads to Heritage”, generated a…
Lucknow: In an interaction with 23 IPS trainees of the 2023 and 2024 batches on Monday, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath advised them to focus on “communication, sensitivity, and positivity” to become effective and pro-citizen officers.He laid out the specific challenges that one will face in a state like Uttar Pradesh, encouraging the officers to utilise…
Police have detained a man in Deoria after a disturbing video surfaced online DEORIA: Police have detained a man after a video surfaced online showing a youth being assaulted with a belt and slippers, and forced to lick spit in Uttar Pradesh’s Gobarai village , officials said on Monday.The video from Gobarai village has been…
NIA conducts searches at the Lucknow residence of arrested woman doc Shaheen Shahid LUCKNOW: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday widened its probe into a “white-collar” terror financing and radicalisation network linked to the November 10 car blast near Delhi’s Red Fort, conducting coordinated searches across Jammu & Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh — including…
