Lucknow: With 17 Gallantry medals, Uttar Pradesh has emerged as the leading state in the country to win the coveted award for its police personnel, according to the latest national honours list announced ahead of Independence Day.The award is given for exceptional courage in high-risk operations against dangerous criminals. The medals were conferred for six…
Lucknow: At an event to mark the eve of Independence, designated as ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’ by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that it was Congress appeasement policies that led to India’s division, the Partition of a ‘Sanatan Bharat’. Blaming the opposition for having ignored the plight of those displaced by…
Lucknow: Heavy rain lashed the city on Wednesday night, flooding roads and damaging infrastructure in several areas. In Aliganj, a large section of the Kapoorthala road caved in, creating a deep crater about 15×20 feet wide and nearly 15 feet deep — large enough for a truck and a car to fall into.The collapse occurred…
JAMMU/SRINAGAR: Many victims of Thursday’s flash floods in J&K’s Kishtwar district were having lunch at a pilgrim camp when a cloudburst struck the area between noon and 1pm, causing rapidly filling rivulets to swamp a swathe of the valley. The camp set up for pilgrims bore the brunt of the damage, leaving a mud-filled gorge…
Jalandhar: The Punjab govt has appointed prominent Christian pastor Ankur Narula’s close aide, Jatinder Masih ‘Gaurav’, as chairman of the Punjab State Minorities Commission. He is the first appointee to the post from the followers of the Pentecostal churches, which emerged in Punjab in recent years, replacing those from the old mainline Protestant or Catholic…
NEW DELHI: Nine IAF fighter pilots, four soldiers and two BSF personnel have been awarded Vir Chakra, the nation’s third-highest wartime gallantry medal, for their role in Operation Sindoor, under which India conducted deep cross-border precision strikes against terror hubs and military installations in Pakistan.Operation Sindoor was the prominent theme of 127 gallantry medals &…
Lucknow: In a series of alarming incidents, cyber fraudsters duped three persons of Rs 4.32 lakh in all in Kakori, Aliganj and Madiaon police station areas of Lucknow on Thursday.In Kakori, healthcare professional Sandhya received on Jul 20 a message on Facebook from a man claiming to be Dr Sameer from England. He explained he…
Lucknow: The ancestral house of hockey legend and Padma Shri awardee Mohammad Shahid — once a landmark for budding players — is on the verge of demolition to make way for a road widening and beautification project in Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Built in 1920, the house in which the ‘master…
Kangana Ranaut recently revealed a deeply personal chapter from her family’s past, the loss of her elder brother just days after his birth. She said her mother’s firstborn, a baby boy, passed away around ten days after being born in a hospital. “Till now, no one knows why that child did not survive,” Kangana shared…
KOLKATA: Twenty-two-year-old Malda migrant labourer Amir Sheikh — who was pushed into Bangladesh on June 25 — came back to India on Wednesday, his reappearance as mysterious as his disappearance from the country of his birth.A BSF explanation in the Calcutta high court a couple of hours after Amir’s return through the Basirhat border only…
