Lucknow

Lucknow: A Lucknow court on Wednesday declared former BSP MLC and businessman, Mohammed Haji Iqbal, a Fugitive Economic Offender (FEO) and ordered the confiscation of his assets worth Rs 996 crore in a money laundering case linked to irregularities in the sale of sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh.Rahul Prakash, special judge, passed the order on…

Lucknow: Changing the structure of the liquor trade has yielded positive results for the state govt. The annual revenue collected through excise duty on alcoholic beverages has gone up by almost 12 per cent from the time composite shops were introduced. Compared to the 2024-25 financial year, when liquor trade generated Rs 52,573 crore for…

Amit Mohan PrasadThe ongoing Iran war and the subsequent difficulty of transportation through the Strait of Hormuz has created a difficult situation for India. It has affected LPG supply and in the near future it is going to have an adverse impact on the supply of urea too. India imports 20-30% of its requirement of…

Lucknow: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday directed officials to immediately carry out a review of crop damage due to unseasonal rain and hail experienced in several parts of the state over the past few days so that compensation can be issued at the earliest.“Govt stands firmly with the people of the state. Crops have…

Lucknow: UPPCL data reveals that a significant number of urban consumers using smart prepaid meters across its five discoms are running power accounts in negative balance.As on April 1, a total of 4.7 lakh consumers had negative balances in their accounts. However, due to poor network connectivity and technical constraints, power supply could be remotely…

MAHARAJGANJ: A young couple allegedly died by suicide after jumping before a moving train near Bhagirath railway station in Uttar Pradesh’s Maharajganj following opposition from their families for their marriage, police said on Thursday.Nautanwa SHO Purushottam Rao said on Wednesday that eyewitnesses claimed the two were holding hands when they jumped in front of the…

Lucknow: The number of households completing 100 days of employment under the Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) fell by almost 65% in Uttar Pradesh in the 2025-26 fiscal.Rural development data (as on March 31) showed that the number of households that completed 100 days of employment dropped from around 6.15 lakh in 2024-25…

Lucknow: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said that people removed political garbage to enable change and better governance, claiming that in nine years of reconstruction, Lucknow has now become one of the top three cleanest cities in the country.Flagging off 250 electric and CNG vehicles to strengthen the door-to-door waste collection in the city,…

Lucknow: A Dalit girl residing at Lucknow University‘s BR Ambedkar Hostel was allegedly manhandled and targeted by a group of girls from the same hostel for uploading a photograph of BR Ambedkar as the display picture in the WhatsApp group of the hostel, of which she was an admin.The incident took place on March 26…