Category: LUCKNOW

Hours before the much-awaited 'Pran Pratishtha' ceremony in Ayodhya, the BJP has flagged a video of the 1990 Ayodhya firing incident, party sources said.

Dedicated command centres with a strong network of CCTV cameras, integrated with motion sensors and facial recognition software covering the entire Ram temple and other important locations, have been installed in Ayodhya.

Zufar Farooqui, the chief trustee of the Indo Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF) Trust which is tasked with building the mosque in Ayodhya’s Dhannipur village, said the work is scheduled to begin in May for which the preparations are underway.

According to officials in the tourism department, guests will get to witness the grandeur of Indian culture through music, art and dance performances in Ayodhya in one of the biggest events of the decade.

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has announced that those above 18 years and wanting Aadhaar made for the first time will now be subjected to physical verification, with the consent of the state government, a UIDAI official said.

A Lucknow court has ordered the confiscation of property worth Rs 21.2 crore belonging to one Paresh Rastogi, who is an accused in a staggering 82 cases registered against him since 2017 at various police stations here.

The police said that the girl begs at signals of Arjunganj near PGI, while the boy lives near Sushant Golf City area and sells balloons on streets and the two are known to each other.

The Akhil Bhartiya Sant Samiti will convene a three-day Sanskritik Sansad in Varanasi from November 2 in which a large number of seers from all over the country will take part to expose the conspiracy against ‘Sanatan Dharma’.

The girl resisted and the accused, Pankaj Rawat and his friends, stabbed her 16 times before people heard her screams and rushed her to a nearby hospital and also informed her family members.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday slammed the opposition saying that those who eat with silver spoons are unaware of the problems of poor, farmers, and the Dalits.

Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA Lalji Verma said the members should be given the opportunity to ask more than two supplementary questions and the Rs 5,000 fine proposed under Rule 74 of the draft rulebook should be reduced to Rs 500.

Lucknow witnessed a midnight drama at the Gautam Palli police station after the police detained Ankush Sharma, the Personal Secretary of Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Shivpal Yadav, a police official said.

On Monday, 74 Rohingya, including 55 men, 14 women and five minors, were taken into custody during a comprehensive drive carried out by the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) to identify illegal immigrants staying in the state.

The petition was filed a day after the Supreme Court on Monday directed that Varanasi Court's order should not be enforced till 5 p.m. July 26 so as to allow some "breathing time" to the Masjid committee to approach the High Court.

The jail authorities have, again, started the exercise to arrest the missing prisoners and letters have been sent to the concerned police officials to search for the missing prisoners.  

Doctors at a private hospital gave a new lease of life to a farmer by replacing his damaged aortic valve (one of the four heart valves) with a one constructed from his pericardium, a fibrous sac that encloses the heart and great vessels – using Ozaki technique.

Director General (DG), Home Guards, Bijaya Kumar Maurya confirmed that the allegations against Manish Dubey were found true during the preliminary inquiry conducted by deputy inspector general (DIG), Home Guards, Santosh Singh who had submitted its report to him.

Expressing grief over the loss of lives, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has given instructions to immediately distribute a relief amount of Rs 4 lakh each to the families of the deceased and provide proper treatment to those injured in various natural calamities.

The All-India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has convened an online meeting of its members on Wednesday to finalise a draft which it will submit to the Law Commission over the issue of Uniform Civil Code (UCC).

The court also directed the Information and Broadcasting Ministry and the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to submit personal affidavits in response to pleas seeking the ban.

The court took to task the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) for approving controversial dialogues and scenes in the film and asked the board to spare religious texts like the Ramayan, Quran, Guru Granth Sahib and the Bhagavad Gita.

UP education minister Gulab Devi said that the inclusion of these chapters was aimed at strengthening the moral and cultural values of children who will grow up and take part in nation building.

Samajwadi Party (SP) national president Akhilesh Yadav said the Censor Board should check the "political character certificate" of those who play with people's faith by making films with an agenda using the money of their political masters.

Deepak Kumar Pandey, inspector of Gomti Nagar police station, said that the deceased was identified as Akash Kashyap, whose father Jagdish Kashyap runs a roadside eatery near Bhoothnath market of Indira Nagar colony.

The national spokesperson of the Akhil Bhartiya Hindu Mahasabha, Shishir Chaturvedi had lodged an FIR with the Hazratganj police against the makers and the star cast of film 'Adipurush'.