Lucknow: The bursting of firecrackers during Diwali celebrations engulfed Lucknow in toxic air. During the live monitoring of air pollution levels, the PM 2.5 and PM 10 concentrations in the city’s air reached the hazardous level of 500 micrograms per cubic meter.The city’s air quality deteriorated from ‘moderate’ to ‘severe’ during Diwali night and post-Diwali…
NEW DELHI: A five-year-old boy was allegedly kidnapped, hit with bricks and then stabbed to death in Narela on Tuesday, hours after he went missing from outside his home. The accused, who worked as a driver for the boy’s transporter father, planned the murder to take revenge, said police. He is absconding.The Narela Industrial Area…
The United States on Wednesday announced sanctions on two biggest Russian oil companies in a bid to pressurize Moscow to “immediately agree to ceasefire“. The move after US President Donald Trump expressed that his talks with Russian counterpart Putin remained futile over Ukraine war.“Now is the time to stop the killing and for an immediate…
Ayodhya: Samajwadi Party criticized the sweeping of illuminated lamps by sanitation workers soon after Deepotsav in Ayodhya and termed it as an insult to the religious sentiments of Hindus.The reaction came after videos purportedly showing sanitation workers of the Ayodhya Municipal Corporation pushing and extinguishing lamps with brooms and sweeping them after Deepotsav went viral…
Lucknow: Coming down heavily on teachers, officers and employees serving at offices other than where they were posted without govt permission, additional chief secretary, basic and secondary education, Partha Sarthi Sen Sharma asked the in charge director general of school education and basic and secondary education directors to cancel with immediate effect all such attachments…
Lucknow: Women Kabaddi teams from Lucknow University and Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Language University (KMCLU) are set to compete in the Inter-University Kabaddi Tournament in Ladakh, from Oct 25. Braving freezing temperatures of minus 1°C, both teams are geared up to showcase their skills and determination on the national stage.The 14-member LU team, led by captain…
Ad filmmaker Prahlad Kakkar recently opened up about his experience working with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Sushmita Sen. While reflecting on their contrasting personalities, he described Aishwarya as a “private, family-oriented” person, whereas Sushmita, he said, was “muffat” (outspoken and candid). On Aishwarya’s dignified silence Speaking about Aishwarya, Kakkar shared that he has known her…
After eight years of a relentless campaign against the term ‘ORS’ (oral rehydration solution) being used for many packaged beverages, often high in sugar, Hyderabad-based paediatrician Dr Sivaranjani Santosh has finally seen a breakthrough. Food Safety and Standards Authority of India issued an advisory last week banning food and beverage companies from using the term…
Lucknow: Prayers were offered at Mahavir Nirvana Mahotsav on Wednesday. Lord Mahavir Swami, 24th and final Tirthankara of Jainism, attained ‘Moksh’ (salvation) by renouncing his body 2,552 years ago, on this day. ‘Nirvana laadoo’ is offered to him as a symbol of eternity and completeness of his salvation.At Neminath Digambar Jain temple, Chowk, ‘abhishek’ of…
PATNA: RJD scion Tejashwi Yadav’s long wait to be officially declared INDIA bloc’s CM face in Bihar looked set to end after Congress’s designated troubleshooter, Ashok Gehlot, and the party’s state in-charge Krishna Allavaru met him and his father Lalu Prasad in Patna Wednesday to break a stalemate that has dragged into the business end…
