Author: Subham Tiwari

NEW DELHI: Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay on Monday filed public interest litigation (PIL) in the Delhi High Court, seeking its direction to Delhi and Central governments to prohibit forcible religious conversion. The petition said that the religious conversion by intimidating, threatening, and deceiving people with gifts and monetary benefits, as well as by using black magic […]

GONDA: Can Indian government officials take action against God? Well, a man sought action against Indra Dev (Rain God)  for deficient rains in the Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh. A farmer named Sumit Kumar Yadav submitted a complaint against the God of Rain at a Sampurna Samadhan Divas camp organized on July 16. To add […]

LUCKNOW: To further strengthen people-to-people ties between India and Indonesia, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has invited an Indonesian minister-led cultural delegation to participate in Deepotsava in Ayodhya this year. He extended the invitation during his meeting with Indonesian ambassador Ina H Krishnamurthi at his residence here on Tuesday.  CM Yogi said that India […]

KANPUR/DELHI: In what could bring big relief to the medical fraternity, nurses and attendants might soon not need to worry about constantly monitoring the fluid level of IV bottles attached to every hospital bed to give saline and medicines to patients. To ensure that nurses don’t have to check the fluid flow of every saline […]

  LUCKNOW/DELHI: The Samajwadi Party on Friday sought to project a united face as it called leaders from as far as southern states on the occasion of birthday of its party president and former UP CM Akhilesh Yadav. Senior party leaders including state unit presidents from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Rajasthan gathered at […]

  MUMBAI: Maharashtra’s single-largest party BJP, that had won 106 seats in the 2019 Vidhan Sabha polls, on Thursday pulled off a Houdini act after it handpicked rebel Shiv Sena MLA Eknath Shinde as the next CM of the new combine as they trucked a deal to trump the powerful Thackerays, further stretching their two-and-half-year-old […]

NEW DELHI: Academicians, industry leaders, and experts on Monday asked the government to bring unrecognized micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) within the ambit of initiatives aimed at facilitating small industrial units to switch to clean energy. They also agreed that the sector has an important role for India to achieve the net-zero carbon target. […]

KANPUR (UTTAR PRADESH): If you are an Army man or a trekker frequenting extremely cold places like Kargil, Ladakh, or Arunachal Pradesh, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur has good news for you. IIT-Kanpur, considered one of the premier institutes of the country, has developed an electrically-heated warm jacket known as the “warm hug”. […]

NEW DELHI: Draupadi Murmu, who has been chosen as the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), has many firsts to her name. Once confirmed in the July 18 election, she will become the first tribal woman to hold the top constitutional office of India. In 2015, she became the first woman to hold […]

LUCKNOW: In a major crackdown on violent protests against the newly-introduced military recruitment scheme ‘Agnipath’, the Uttar Pradesh Police have arrested 415 people and have registered FIR against 20 people in the state. At least 21 police personnel and 14 civilians have sustained injuries in these violent protests in different districts of Uttar Pradesh, as […]