Lucknow: Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand continued their winning run, defeating Abbigail Zenith and Likhita Srivastava 21-17, 21-12 in the pre-quarterfinals of the Syed Modi India International Badminton Championship 2025 at the UP Badminton Academy on Friday.Speaking to TOI, Treesa Jolly said, “We are the defending champions, but we are not taking any pressure. We…
Lucknow: Lucknow Smart City Limited’s general manager Ajay Kumar Singh passed away after suffering a heart attack during a meeting in his office on Thursday. He was 65. He is survived by his wife and son.Singh was in a meeting with a delegation of trainee IAS officers at the Smart City office in Lalbagh and…
Lucknow: In the tourism workshop on ‘Viksit Uttar Pradesh @ 2047′ on Thursday, one of the key discussions was centred on the Shaheed Chandra Shekhar Azad bird sanctuary in Unnao, which has emerged as a major nature destination with more than 12 lakh visitors in the current year. Originally known for its diverse birdlife, the…
Lucknow: In a discovery that could rewrite Asia’s botanical history, scientists from the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP), Lucknow, have unearthed a 37,000-year-old bamboo fossil in Manipur’s Imphal Valley. The find, preserved in the silt-rich deposits of the Chirang River, carries the ghostly scars of thorns—markings that almost never survive the fossilization process. Bamboo…
Lucknow: A 55-year-old woman died while an 8-year-old boy suffered critically injuries in two separate cases of leopard attack in Fakharpur and Sujauli ranges of Bahraich on Wednesday evening.The incidents led to panic in the area prompting forest teams to issue alerts and increase patrolling. The first attack took place around dusk in Umri Dehlo…
Lucknow: In her quest for a baby boy to complete her family, a 30-year-old widowed woman, mother of three young daughters, abducted a one-day-old baby boy from the Special Newborn Care Unit (SNCU) of the Autonomous State Medical College in Ravindranagar, Kushinagar, on Wednesday.The newborn, barely a day old, was rescued within 24 hours after…
Lucknow: Comics continue to play powerful role in shaping children’s understanding of history, culture and social values, a point strongly underscored at the Koshala Literature Festival during a session titled ‘Tales We Carry’.The discussion featured Amar Chitra Katha executive editor Reena I Puri and author-editor Ashwitha Jayakumar in conversation with Arsh Ali Chandel. The speakers…
Lucknow: Audience were enthralled by the musical segment ‘Tum Pukar Lo: A tribute Hemant Kumar‘ by singer Sagnik Sen on the first day of Koshala Literature Festival. Visitors in warm clothes, sipping tea and coffee, enjoyed the musci, humming along with the singer and every performance was welcomed with applause. Music patron Abhijit Sarkar said,…
Lucknow: With assembly elections in UP scheduled to be held in the first quarter of 2027, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), in a first, has started holding coordination meetings with various UP ministers to take a first-hand account of various issues regarding the governance and also making suggestions to fine-tune it.Principal secretaries and other officials…
Lucknow: The 19th National Jamboree of Bharat Scouts and Guides has turned into a gateway to the universe as thousands of young participants experience the thrill of space observation. From the blazing surface of the Sun to the far-off beauty of Saturn’s rings at the special astronomical zone set up by the Indira Gandhi Planetarium,…
