Lucknow: A dramatic incident unfolded near a prominent boys college near Golf Club on Saturday afternoon, when a young actor from Hapur attempted to set herself ablaze by pouring an inflammable liquid on her body. Thankfully, alert police personnel stationed at the barricades sprang into action and prevented the tragedy. According to the police, the…
A Delhi court Saturday permitted Baramulla MP Engineer Rashid to visit Parliament in custody on Sept 9 to cast his vote in the vice-president’s election, scheduled on Sept 9.Rashid, who has been lodged in Tihar since 2019 after NIA arrested him under UAPA in a terror-funding case, was previously granted parole between July 24 and…
Thumri, like Kathak, found its poetic soul in Lucknow. Derived from the verb ‘thumakana’ (to move gracefully to rhythm), Thumri became the expressive heart of Nawabi culture.Popularised in the 19th century under Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, the last ruler of Awadh, the Lucknow (Purab) gharana of Thumri emphasised ‘bol-banav’ — slow, improvised elaborations of lyrics…
NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate has started gathering information related to a petition pending before Allahabad high court on the alleged UK citizenship of Congress functionary Rahul Gandhi.The agency has summoned petitioner Vignesh Shishir, a BJP member, who had approached the court demanding cancellation of Gandhi’s Indian citizenship on the alleged ground that the Lok Sabha…
Lucknow: A young man ended his life in Sarojininagar, on Saturday. The deceased was Virendra Kumar (24), resident of Gauri Vihar, employed at an electronics shop on Kanpur Road.Virendra returned home drunk from his friend’s birthday party on Friday night, for which, his mother, Sunita, scolded him. He went to his room and shut himself…
NEW DELHI: In a sharp reminder to SC Collegium and Centre about gender diversity in constitutional courts, former CJI N V Ramana on Saturday said making a noise about gender without giving proper representation to women in constitutional courts would amount to nothing but tokenism.Speaking at a symposium at SRM School of Law, Justice Ramana…
Lucknow: A second-year LLB student of a private university in Lucknow was held captive inside an SUV and slapped around 60 times by classmates on campus on August 26. The video shows the 20-year-old victim who was recovering from knee surgery, being repeatedly slapped, abused, and beaten by two batchmates, including a girl, inside a…
SHIMLA: Three persons were killed and two severely injured when an ambulance transporting a patient from Jassur in Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra district to Dayanand Medical College and Hospital in Punjab’s Ludhiana plunged into a deep gorge in Manghuwal near Gagret in Una district in the early hours of Saturday.The accident occurred halfway into the 200km…
Lucknow: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurated the renovated Jupiter Auditorium at Indira Gandhi Pratishthan in Vibhuti Khand, Lucknow, and laid the foundation stone for the renovation of the Mercury and Mars halls on Saturday. The renovation work is being carried out by the Lucknow Development Authority as part of the city’s development initiatives. IGP was…
NEW DELHI: The government has fixed the retail price of 42 common drug formulations, including broad-spectrum antibiotic Meropenem & Sulbactam injection by Zydus Healthcare and Mycophenolate Mofetil tablets by Ipca Laboratories, used to prevent organ rejection in transplant cases.The retail price of Meropenem & Sulbactam injection is Rs 1,938.59 per vial, and Mycophenolate Mofetil is…
