Lucknow

Lucknow: Musical Santas and Christmas manger/Nativity scene models are catching people’s eye this season. The shimmer of stars and strings and jingle of bells are helping the festival visible in the city. Markets are decked with lights, balloons and shimmer of decorative items displayed in and outside shops are adding to the festive spirit. People…

Lucknow: The mighty Himalayas, often seen as timeless and unchanging, are quietly undergoing transformations due to climate change that affect millions of people dependent on their rivers, forests, and farmland. Melting glaciers, unpredictable rainfall, water shortages, and gradual displacement are reshaping both the landscape and human lives downstream. These pressing issues were highlighted during the…

Lucknow: In a boost to engineers and infrastructure planners, researchers have developed a simple web-based tool, tensile strength estimator, which can calculate strength of rocks in seconds, compared to the 3-5 days normally required for laboratory test. Published in Elsevier international journal, the study offers a practical solution to real-world construction challenges. The research was…

Lucknow: Five candidates from Lucknow made it to top 100 in the Common Law Aptitude Test (CLAT) Undergraduate course, whose results were declared by Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, on Tuesday. RMLNLU was the convening university for CLAT 2026. The highest score achieved in CLAT UG was 112.75.Among the five Lucknow candidates…

Lucknow: No sirens wailed, no handcuffs clicked, no officer knocked at the door. Yet for days, a 75-year-old woman in Lucknow lived the life of an undertrial—confined to her home, gripped by fear, monitored relentlessly through a mobile phone screen.In a typical textbook digital arrest case, cyber fraudsters impersonating senior CBI officers dialled an elderly…

Lucknow: Owners six pet dog were fined during a special checking drive by Lucknow Municipal Corporation against unlicensed dog keeping in Gomtinagar on Tuesday. The drive was carried out early morning around 6:30 am and was led by animal welfare department with support from enforcement team, dog-catching squad and municipal staff. Several localities of Gomtinagar…

Lucknow: The Lucknow Police Commissionerate on Tuesday organised a one-day special awareness and capacity-building programme on transgender rights at the Reserve Police Lines. The focus was on rights-based and sensitive policing under the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, and its Rules, 2020.The programme, facilitated by deputy commissioner of police (headquarters) Anil Kumar Yadav…

Lucknow: On the eve of the fourth T20I against India in Lucknow on Tuesday, right arm pacer Anrich Nortje said that the team is doing unbelievably well and said he was confident of a good show.He has made a return to T20 cricket with the hope that he will make the cut in the South…