Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party has sent a letter to the Union home minister urging him to investigate expelled MLA Pooja Pal’s claim of threat to her life from the party, so that the facts behind the allegations could be known. Dismissing her claims of threat from unidentified SP functionaries as “baseless”, the letter demands that…
Lucknow: The income tax department unearthed a massive Rs 5,000 crore scam involving the diversion of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds through non-profit organisations (NPOs).Acting on directives of the principal director of Income Tax (Investigation), Kanpur, the IT Investigation Unit, Agra, carried out searches on Aug 19 at over 30 locations across Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan,…
NEW DELHI: Vipin Bhati, husband of Nikki Bhati who died after being assaulted and set ablaze at her in-laws’ home, was injured in a police encounter on Sunday.Police said Vipin attempted to escape from custody following his arrest in the dowry murder case. Officers opened fire when he tried to flee, leaving him with a…
NEW DELHI: India does not see space only as a field of research but as the future of tomorrow’s economy, security, energy and humanity, and cannot afford to stay behind in the journey, defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Sunday.“We’re steadily advancing beyond the earth’s surface into new frontiers of space. We’ve already marked our…
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajay Rai on Saturday visited Narni village in Sitapur to offer condolences to the family of Saurabh alias Ravi Dixit, who was killed in a tiger attack while cutting grass in the fields.According to the post-mortem report, the tiger first clamped down on Saurabh’s neck, breaking his spinal cord and…
NEW DELHI: Ukraine ambassador Oleksandr Polishchuk has said that India and Ukraine remain in touch about a possible visit by President Volodymyr Zelensky to India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had invited the president to visit India when he travelled to Kyiv last year and Zelensky had accepted the same.“In relation to the declaration about the…
Lucknow: Residents of Jankipuram Extension Sector-7 were promised enhanced water safety and sanitation measures after two more cases of diarrhoea were reported on Sunday. Both the patients were admitted to a local community health centre (CHC).Municipal commissioner Gaurav Kumar along with CMO Dr NB Singh and the municipal cleaning team inspected the area and assured…
NEW DELHI: An investigation by ED, assisted by the ministry of external affairs (MEA) and its foreign missions and embassies, has unearthed a massive NRI admission racket, in which private medical colleges were found offering admissions on about 18,000 reserved MBBS UG and PG seats under the quota by using forged documents of non-resident Indians.India’s…
Lucknow: Senior IPS officer K Satya Narayan, a 1998-batch officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre and currently serving as additional director general in the Traffic Directorate, has applied for voluntary retirement from service (VRS), citing personal reasons. He is set to retire in Oct 2027.A native of Visakhapatnam district in Andhra Pradesh, Narayan was counted…
GUWAHATI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma accused activist Harsh Mander, Congress, Jamaat-e-Islami-Hind, a senior advocate, and “people from Pakistan and Bangladesh” of attempting to destabilise the state.“Some people have been visiting different parts of the state since Saturday to spread unrest. Their movements are under strict watch to ensure they do not succeed the…
