Lucknow News Headlines in English

Aiming to ensure that cheap and quality healthcare was available to people at their doorstep across Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath asked officials to resume Jan Arogya Mela (Public Health Fair) at the earliest. These health fairs were launched by the state government in 2020, but discontinued midway due to

No one should be deprived of justice in Uttar Pradesh and to ensure this, technology should be used in solving every public problem. No one would be deprived of justice if we perform our duty with honesty and responsibility and then only we will be loyal to our service, Chief

Eying the Dalit vote bank in the coming assembly elections, Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee organised 'Dalit Swabhiman Yatra' in all 75 districts of the state on Tuesday, wherein party leaders and workers highlighted the growing number of atrocities and excesses on the weaker sections during the present Bharatiya Janata Party

With barely six months to go for the next assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the newly-elected zila parishad of Ferozabad has moved a proposal to change the name the district to Chandwar Nagar, arguing that the present name was given by Mughal Emperor Akbar to honour his military official Feroz

To woo the Dalit community ahead off the 2022 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress has decided to organise Dalit Swabhiman Diwas on Tuesday. Desperately trying to find its lost political foothold in the state, the Congress had earlier organised conferences of various castes which could play important role in

In yet another setback to Mohammad Azam Khan, the Samajwadi Party MP from Rampur, a court of Rampur district has ordered demolition of the main gate of Mohammad Ali Jauhar University. The Jauhar University has also been ordered to pay Rs 63.80 lakh as penalty. The court has declared the construction of

Former minister in the Bahujan Samaj Party government, Chaudhary Bashir, was booked for polygamy as he was getting ready to marry a sixth time in Agra. A report in this regard was lodged against Bashir by one of his wives Nagma at Mantola police station in Agra and the police were

In what appears to be another outcome of man-animal conflict in Lakhimpur Kheri, the partially eaten body of a nine-month-old baby girl was found near a pond on the outskirts of the Mauzamabad village on Sunday afternoon. This is the second such attack on a child in the district. On July

Efforts are on to make water available in the parched and rugged Bundelkhand region where the Uttar Pradesh government has set a target to set up 10,000 ponds under Khet Talab Yojana at an estimated cost of Rs 10,000 crore. People of Bundelkhand will no longer be thirsty as the Yogi

Tazia processions in Lucknow and across the state during the month of Moharram month beginning from August 10 will not be permitted as per Covid protocol. In Lucknow, besides the tazia procession on the first Ashura, or tenth day of Moharram, nine other processions are organised by the Shia community

The Union government has given its nod to the Uttar Pradesh governments proposal for developing two big industrial clusters in Agra and Prayagraj. The UP government had urged the Central government to allow the development of two Integrated Manufacturing Clusters (IMCs) in the Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor (AKIC). The Uttar Pradesh

With a stringent zero tolerance policy, the Uttar Pradesh government has managed to curb corruption, which was prevalent in all departmental purchases in the state during previous governments, through the GeM portal. By mandating all purchases by government departments and their subordinate institutions through the GeM portal, the process has reflected