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Traffic crawls in Ganj vicinity, chokes 'arteries'

LUCKNOW, Feb. 18 -- The city administration was caught napping as fender-to-fender traffic choked Hazratganj and surrounding areas on Tuesday afternoon, leaving commuters stranded for hours. Police di... Read More


Ramzan moon sighting likely today, mosques prepare for Tarawih

LUCKNOW, Feb. 18 -- Mosques across the city have begun preparations for Tarawih (night prayers) as the crescent moon marking the beginning of Ramzan is likely to be sighted on Wednesday. The Sunni and... Read More


1 lakh street dogs sterilised in city

LUCKNOW, Feb. 18 -- The state capital has completed 1,00,000 street dog sterilisation surgeries under its Animal Birth Control (ABC) programme since its launch in 2019 by the Lucknow Municipal Corpora... Read More


Three held for duping couple of Rs.90 lakh

LUCKNOW, Feb. 18 -- The cybercrime police in Lucknow on Tuesday arrested three members of a gang who allegedly duped an Alambagh-based couple of Rs.90 lakh by posing as ATS officers and placing them u... Read More


Ayodhya temple, key sites to get upgraded bomb detection systems

LUCKNOW, Feb. 18 -- The Uttar Pradesh government has sanctioned Rs.8.90 crore to equip 17 newly formed Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) teams with advanced explosive-handling gear, as the stat... Read More


'Your daughter sent me' ruse: Woman duped of jewellery

LUCKNOW, Feb. 18 -- A 60-year-old woman from Ambedkar Nagar was allegedly duped of her jewellery by a conman inside the premises of Balrampur Hospital after he posed as a staffer and claimed her daugh... Read More


Govt to order 20,000 more GPUs for India AI Mission: min Vaishnaw

New Delhi, Feb. 18 -- Electronics and information technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday described the AI Impact Summit as the largest AI gathering ever, citing crowds at the expo and nearly ... Read More


Shoaib Qidwai murder: Probe centresaround digital footprints, CCTV trail

LUCKNOW, Feb. 18 -- Five days after the broad daylight murder of Shoaib Mahmood Qidwai alias Bobby, who was alleged to have been a close aide of the late mafia don Mukhtar Ansari, investigators are pi... Read More


Over 2.5L apply for voter registration; 427 rejected

PRAYAGRAJ, Feb. 18 -- A total of 2,58,822 citizens have applied to register as new voters under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in the district. Of these, 427 applications ... Read More


24x7 CCTV monitoring rolled out in govt cow shelters

PRAYAGRAJ, Feb. 18 -- In a major step towards strengthening monitoring, management and infrastructure at government-run cow shelters, digital surveillance systems have now been operationalised across ... Read More