LUCKNOW,FEB 27: Samajwadi Party MLA Manoj Kumar Pandey on Tuesday resigned from the post of party chief whip a day after he skipped a meeting called by party chief Akhilesh Yadav on the Rajya Sabha elections. Voting was underway in the elections for the 10 Rajya Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday with eight […]Continue Reading
LUCKNOW, FEB 2: The Anjuman Intezamia Masjid (AIM), the Gyanvapi mosque management committee, on Friday failed to get relief as the Allahabad High Court refused to allow the committee’s plea seeking an interim stay on puja being performed in the southern cellar of the mosque premises. The High Court, however, issued a directive to the […]Continue Reading
LUCKNOW, JAN 31: In a major turn of events, the Varanasi district court has allowed worship of deities inside the southern cellar of Gyanvapi mosque by the priests of Kashi Vishwanath temple trust here on Wednesday. Varanasi District Court judge Dr AK Vishvesha issued this order while disposing the plea of Shailendra Kumar Pathak Vyas, […]Continue Reading
LUCKNOW,DEC 17: Construction of a proposed mosque in Ayodhya mandated by the Supreme Court in its Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case verdict is expected to begin in May, people associated with the project have said. The Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation Trust, which is tasked with building the mosque in Ayodhya’s Dhannipur, also intends to appoint in-charges in […]Continue Reading
LUCKNOW,DEC 14: In a major development, the Allahabad High Court on Thursday allowed an application seeking appointment of a court-monitored advocate commissioner to survey the Shahi Idgah mosque premises, adjoining the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi temple in Mathura. The High Court said that it would hear the application seeking appointment of the advocate commissioner on Continue Reading
LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI,DEC 5: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has no plans to attend the INDIA bloc meeting scheduled in Delhi on December 6, Samajwadi Party spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary said on Tuesday. When asked if the decision was taken after the declaration of assembly poll results in four states, the spokesperson said there was no information […]Continue Reading
LUCKNOW,OCTO 12: A girl lost both her legs and a hand when she was allegedly thrown in front of a moving train by stalkers over resisting their eve-teasing attempt at CB Ganj area of Bareilly on Tuesday evening. Besides losing limbs, the victim, an intermediate student, sustained grievous injuries, including multiple fractures. She was admitted […]Continue Reading
LUCKNOW,AUG 20: A day after a “courtesy meeting” with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, veteran actor Rajinikanth on Sunday met Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav at the latter’s residence here. Rajinikanth, who is basking in the success of his latest film “Jailer”, said he was happy to reconnect with Yadav, whom he called Continue Reading
LUCKNOW,JULY 14: As ISRO launched the Chandrayaan-3 mission from Sriharikota’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Friday, the mission was led by a woman from Lucknow. The woman scientist leading this important mission is rocket woman Ritu Karidhal Shrivastava and she has her roots in Lucknow. Shrivastava is an ISRO scientist. She is the mission director […]Continue Reading
LUCKNOW,MAR 14: After cases of drunk flyers urinating on co-passengers, an off-duty train ticket examiner has been accused of relieving himself on a woman on the Kolkata-Amritsar Akal Takht Express. The alleged incident occurred on the night of March 13. Munna Kumar, the accused train ticket examiner (TTE), has been arrested, a Government Railway Police […]Continue Reading