Lucknow: A Lucknow-based businessman was duped of Rs 1.77 crore in an online trading scam that began with a WhatsApp message and ended with his investment account being blocked.The case was registered at the cyber crime police station on Tuesday.The victim, Vivek Verma, originally from Safedabad in Barabanki and currently residing in Indiranagar Sector-16, alleged…
NEW DELHI: As the mystery surrounding the ‘ghost litigant’ in Supreme Court refuses to die down with all the lawyers involved in the case shrugging off their involvement, the court on Tuesday ordered an inquiry into the controversy by the Bar Council of India and said that it would consider a police investigation after getting…
The National Statistical Office, regional office, Lucknow organized a training programme on Tuesday to mark the discontinuation of the 2017-18 series survey and the launch of the 2022-23 series survey for the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), Producer Price Index (PPI) and Index of Industrial Production. Manoj Kumar, deputy director general, central zone office, Lucknow, spoke…
NEW DELHI: Enraged by what it termed “one of the worst and most erroneous orders we have come across”, Supreme Court has pulled up Allahabad HC’s Justice Prashant Kumar for allowing criminal proceedings in a civil dispute case. Questioning Kumar’s competence in deciding criminal cases, SC, in an unprecedented order, directed he shouldn’t be given…
Lucknow: The Lucknow traffic police, in collaboration with the municipal corporation, will launch a no-parking enforcement drive across eight major city zones starting Aug 6.The initiative will see the deployment of 16 cranes to tow away vehicles found parked in designated no-parking areas.The decision comes in response to rising complaints of illegal and haphazard parking…
From a modest home in Madurai to the billionaires’ club: Sundar Pichai has come a long way. The soft-spoken CEO of Google and Alphabet Inc. started life with limited technology and resources. Little did his folks know, his bright mind and his parents’ belief in education would propel him to the front row seat in…
NEW DELHI: The opposition INDIA bloc on Tuesday termed as “unwarranted” Supreme Court‘s remarks on Rahul Gandhi, asserting that they encroach on the democratic rights of political parties, which have a responsibility to speak on issues of national interest. Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said the Supreme Court cannot decide who is a “true Indian”,…
Kanpur: An assistant GST commissioner from Mathura died while his wife and driver sustained injuries when the SUV they were travelling in crashed through the railing and fell on the roadside on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Kannauj on Monday night, police said.SI from Sakrawa police station Mata Prasad said the accident took place when the…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday termed the embarrassment caused to Rahul Gandhi by the Supreme Court‘s rebuke a slap in the face of those who engage in puerile talk about the country’s borders and the armed forces, reports Akhilesh Singh. “People make childish and unsubstantiated comments about Indian territory and security, and the…
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday said using police force to stop PDA pathshalas being organised by his party cadre will not work and asked the UP CM to visit these pathshalas for a first-hand stock of the ground realities.Akhilesh’s reaction came in response to FIRs lodged against SP cadres for holding PDA…
