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A love letter to Malenadu

India, Feb. 21 -- Cinematic in scope and poetic in sensibility, Bride in the Hills, Vanamala Vishwanatha's translation of iconic Kannada writer Kuvempu's epic novel, Malegalalli Madhumagalu, is a gian... Read More


"You write what you fear"

India, Feb. 21 -- 1Mongrel feels like a novel written from the body as much as from the mind. Did it begin as a story you consciously wanted to tell? The story came about because, as an actor, I wasn'... Read More


Riding the AI wave

India, Feb. 21 -- OpenAI's Sam Altman and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis have both indicated that we are poised to move beyond "narrow AI" in the next few years. Now is the time to anticipate what l... Read More


UP Police update data, now say 81 pc out of 1.08 lakh missing persons traced

LUCKNOW, Feb. 21 -- Amid judicial scrutiny, the Uttar Pradesh Police headquarters on Friday issued a detailed press release outlining the action taken and progress achieved under a special statewide c... Read More


LMC proposes budget of Rs 4,692.71 cr for 2026-27

LUCKNOW, Feb. 21 -- The Lucknow Municipal Corporation will table a budget of around Rs 4,692.71 crore for the financial year 2026-27 in the Special House scheduled to be held on Saturday, aligning its... Read More


30.3degC: An unusually warm February day

LUCKNOW, Feb. 21 -- The state capital witnessed an unusually warm February day on Friday as the day temperature crossed 30degC for the first time this season. Lucknow recorded a maximum temperature of... Read More


State 'absolutely liable' for unnatural custodial death

LUCKNOW, Feb. 21 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Friday held that the state is "absolutely liable" for the unnatural death of a prisoner in its custody, even if the death is a suic... Read More


LESA to install cams, intensify night patrols

LUCKNOW, Feb. 21 -- After a spate of transformer copper thefts, the LESA has decided to tighten security by installing surveillance cameras and increasing night patrols at vulnerable substations. At a... Read More


Chain-snatching accused injured in encounter

Lucknow, Feb. 21 -- A 22-year-old man, wanted in a chain-snatching case involving a bank manager's wife, was injured in an alleged police encounter late Friday night. Police said the criminal, Vivek K... Read More


Vendor hit by speeding car, dragged for 1km on bonnet, run over

LUCKNOW, Feb. 21 -- A 35-year-old street vendor was killed in a horrific hit-and-run incident in the Krishna Nagar area here late on Wednesday night after he was allegedly knocked down by a speeding c... Read More