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Social audit to cover 26,720 U.P council schools across 75 distS

LUCKNOW, Nov. 15 -- To promote transparency, accountability and effective implementation of government schemes in the state's basic education system, social audits will be conducted in 20% of council ... Read More


BLOs, other officials warned of honorarium cut over errors

LUCKNOW, Nov. 15 -- Uttar Pradesh chief electoral officer (CEO) Navdeep Rinwa on Saturday warned that booth level officers (BLOs), BLO supervisors, electoral registration officers (EROs) and assistant... Read More


Self-enumeration in UP from Nov 16-30

LUCKNOW, Nov. 15 -- The self-enumeration facility for the second phase of Census 2027 in Uttar Pradesh will begin on November 16, allowing households to submit their details online before census enume... Read More


Finance companies can't use goons to seize vehicles over loan default: HC

PRAYAGRAJ, Nov. 15 -- The Allahabad high court recently held that finance companies cannot use goons to seize vehicles over loan default. The court said that a finance company's contractual right to r... Read More


Bodies of newlywed woman, friend found hanging in Sitapur

LUCKNOW, Nov. 15 -- The bodies of a 20-year-old newly married woman and her 22-year-old alleged lover were found hanging from separate nooses under a thatched-roof structure in a village in Sitapur di... Read More


NTPC organises painting competition

Lucknow, Nov. 15 -- NTPC Northern Region Headquarters, Lucknow, organised the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) State-Level Painting Competition 2026 on Saturday. Ninety-five students, selected from o... Read More


A delicious phase: Imtiaz; love is everything: Ananya

New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- What does it feel like to be a filmmaker in India today? "It's a delicious phase," said acclaimed director Imtiaz Ali, speaking at the 24th Hindustan Times Leadership Summit on S... Read More


L'affaire Huang and the ethics of an affair

India, Nov. 15 -- It may be the oldest human story - the story of desire, not always moral. Orion's pursuit of the Pleiades comes to no good in the Legend of the Seven Sisters, a story as old as the h... Read More


The movie-watching experience, then & now

India, Nov. 15 -- Last weekend, I booked tickets at an IMAX theatre to watch the latest big budget offering from Bollywood, Ramayana (the first part). The two-part series cost the makers Rs.4,000 cror... Read More


A small set of rules on addressing interviewees

India, Nov. 15 -- Even though, as an anchor, Iask questions for a living, I'moften placed on the spot by people who question me. Recently, one caught my attention because it wasparticularly striking. ... Read More