Lucknow: Young writers must ‘become the character’ to write honestly for the screen. This was the key message from screenwriter Vaibhav Vishal during the session ‘Scripted Realities: Mirror of a Streaming Nation’ at the Koshala Literature Festival. Speaking with Soumya Singh, Vishal shared how deep research and close observation shaped his character-driven storytelling.Vishal, known for…
Lucknow: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) organised protests and tributes across Uttar Pradesh for booth level officers who died during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of the voters’ list in various states.Party MP and UP in-charge Sanjay Singh, who participated in a condolence meet in Prayagraj said that SIR was being carried out to manipulate…
Lucknow: A 46-year-old booth level officer (BLO), serving as an assistant teacher, allegedly died by suicide at his home in Baheri Brahmanan village in Moradabad district on Sunday.The BLO, Sarvesh Singh, was found hanging inside his house. Father of four minor daughters, Singh left a handwritten suicide note citing severe stress, inability to meet targets,…
Prof A K Jaiswal and Prof Arun Kumar Srivastava stressed on the growing importance of ICP monitoring in head injury patients at a workshop held at Apex Trauma Centre, SGPGI, on Sunday.. Guest speaker Dr Rathjit Mitra from Kolkata discussed different monitoring methods and their benefits in managing critical cases. Doctors from KGMU and SGPGI,…
Lucknow: In a major demonstration of zero-waste event management, the 19th National Jamboree handed over 500 packets of natural compost—produced entirely from 10,500 kg of food waste generated during the week-long event—to the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) on Sunday. The compost will now be used in parks and green belts across the city.The Jamboree, held…
Lucknow: A 40-year-old woman was run over by a Uttar Pradesh state-run bus outside Charbagh railway station on Sunday morning. Police identified the victim as Sangeeta Rawat, a Class IV employee with the Kanpur Municipal Corporation. She came to Lucknow with her three children to attend a relative’s housewarming ceremony.According to police, the family was…
LUCKNOW: The Government Railway Police (GRP) in Etawah has booked train ticket examiner (TTE) Santosh Kumar for culpable homicide not amounting to murder after Arti Yadav, 30, wife of an Indian Navy chief petty officer, was found dead along the tracks between Samhon and Bharthana stations on November 26. According to the FIR, Arti had…
CHENNAI: Rains triggered by Cyclone Ditwah continued in several parts of Tamil Nadu as it is expected to move parallel to the coastline of northern parts of the state and neighbouring Puducherry in the next 24 hours, the weather office said on Sunday.With heavy rainfall pounding Cauvery delta districts in the state, Ramanathapuram and Nagapattinam…
Kolkata Police arrested Bhola Prasad, father of Shubham Jaiswal, in a major codeine trafficking probe LUCKNOW: Kolkata Police on Sunday arrested Bhola Prasad, father of absconding pharmaceutical dealer Shubham Jaiswal, in a major development in Uttar Pradesh’s multi-state codeine trafficking probe. Bhola was detained at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport after Sonbhadra Police shared…
Agra, the poster city of everlasting romance, seems to have quietly reinvented itself as UP’s new ‘break-up capital’. In Sept, the city logged 762 fresh petitions, nearly 90% of them seeking divorce, leaving Lucknow trailing at 590.For a place that sells the Taj Mahal as the global mascot of eternal love, the irony is impossible…
