Lucknow

Pegasus snooping row: Pilot demands independent probe

Sachin Pilot urges protesters for peace, govt to engage

10:12 pm December 19, 2019

Jaipur: Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister and Congress leader Sachin Pilot urged people to not take law in their hands, after protests against the amended citizenship law turned violent in parts of the country on Thursday. He also said it was the “constitutional obligation of the power governing the country” to act with patience and sympathy […]

From Lucknow to Hyderabad, protests across campuses against police crackdown in Jamia

2:24 pm December 16, 2019

New Delhi: Unrest over the police crackdown in Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia rippled through the country on Monday with demonstrations in several campuses, including in Hyderabad, Lucknow, Mumbai and Kolkata. The morning after violence broke out in the national capital following protests over the Citizenship Amendment Act, hundreds of students took to the streets demanding […]

Delhi man stabs himself with knife after argument with family

Elderly couple found dead with throats slit in UP

7:35 pm December 13, 2019

Lucknow: An elderly couple was found dead with their throats slit in the old city area here, police said on Friday. The bodies of Hilal Ahmad, 70, and his wife Bilkis, 65, were found by the neighbours in their rented house Thursday night, they said. Ahmed, who owned a chikankari (an embroidery form) store, and […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Gang involved in impersonating aspirants of CTET busted

11:13 pm December 8, 2019

Lucknow: The Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday busted a gang involved in impersonating aspirants of the Central Teacher Eligibility Test-2019 examination and arrested 10 people in Moradabad, officials said. Two of the gang members belong to Moradabad and Amroha, while the rest are from Bihar, the STF said. It has seized […]

CBI conducts searches at multiple locations in Lucknow

6:11 pm December 6, 2019

New Delhi: The CBI is carrying out searches at multiple locations in Lucknow in connection with a medical college scam, officials said on Friday. The searches started early in the morning after the agency filed an FIR on the orders of the Supreme Court, they said. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team, which is […]