Lucknow: The govt has launched a special initiative to provide youth in rural parts of the state access to modern education and better preparation materials for competitive examinations. In the first phase, digital libraries are being established in 11,350 gram panchayats. This will allow students in villages to prepare for competitive examinations without depending on…
Lucknow: Manoj K Singh, regional president of Indian American Chamber of Commerce, NIC, has hailed the nomination of Mukesh Singh as the chairman of the IACC, NIC’s sub-committee on UP State Coordination for the year 2025-2026 during the Regional Council Meeting held on Dec 11.The Indo–American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) is the apex bilateral Chamber…
Lucknow: Two children, a five-year-old boy and a two-year-old girl, were injured in wolf attacks in in Bahraich district on Wednesday.A two-year-old girl was injured after a wolf attacked her in Gullahin Purwa hamlet of Godahiya No. 2 gram panchayat on Wednesday evening. The incident occurred around 7.30 pm when Aanchal, daughter of Pawan Kumar,…
Lucknow: Chief secretary SP Goyal took a strict view of complaints of urea shortage in some parts of the state, even though he was informed that there was adequate urea available in the state’s buffer stock.Chairing a meeting of district magistrates and divisional commissioners on Wednesday, the CS said that a minimum of 25 tonnes…
Some business stories announce themselves loudly. Others unfold slowly by visas, code, and long years of compounding effort. Jyoti Bansal’s career belongs to the second category.Born and raised in a small town in Rajasthan, Bansal did not arrive in the United States with venture backing or family networks. He arrived on an H1-B visa, with…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader and former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Wednesday refused to apologise for his remarks on Operation Sindoor, saying the Constitution gives him the right to ask questions. Ex-Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan’s ‘Op Sindoor’ Remark Sparks Row, BJP Hits Back “Why will I apologise? It is out of the question. The…
Lucknow: Accusing BJP’s double-engine govts of misusing central agencies, the Uttar Pradesh Congress staged a demonstration on Wednesday.The protest came a day after a court setback to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the Young Indian case involving Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.Led by UP Congress president Ajay Rai, party workers marched from the Congress headquarters…
Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on Wednesday transferred a criminal complaint case related to alleged British citizenship controversy of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi from Rae Bareli to Lucknow.A bench of Justice BR Singh passed the order on the petition of S Vignesh Shishir, a BJP worker from Karnataka. Shishir had filed a…
After the US State Department started social media vetting on December 15, there is now no immediate approval or rejection of visa appeals and candidates are issued a 221(g) slip. Candidates are also being asked whether they made their social media accounts public and then the visa approval status is updated online. Users on Reddit…
SHAMLI: A man in Uttar Pradesh has been arrested after allegedly killing his wife and two young daughters and burying their bodies inside his house, police said on Wednesday.The incident took place on 10 December in Ghari Daulat village, under the Kandhla police station area, but came to light only on Tuesday evening. Heartbreak, divorce…
