Lucknow, Aug. 22 -- The city of Nawabs is preparing to give a grand welcome to city boy Group Captain Subhanshu Shukla, the first Indian astronaut to return from the International Space Station, here on August 25.
Lucknow Municipal Corporation will organize a historic celebration on the day while a victory parade has been planned from Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport to Gomti Nagar Extension.
On this occasion, welcome gates will be built at various prominent places in the city. Also, councilors, municipal corporation officers and employees will be present under the leadership of Mayor Sushma Kharkwal to welcome him.
The road outside his residence in Tribeni Nagar is being freshly laid, a symbolic gesture to honour the national hero's arriv...