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Furnish list of advocates withpending cases: U.P. Bar Council

LUCKNOW, July 26 -- The Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh has directed all bar associations across the state to submit within 15 days a list of advocates against whom serious criminal cases are registered,... Read More


BSAs of 11 dists warned, asked to expedite removal

LUCKNOW, July 26 -- The basic education department on Saturday issued a stern warning to the Basic Shiksha Adhikaris (BSAs) of 11 districts where high-tension power lines continue to pass over more th... Read More


NGT orders Rs.99.72l recovery over illegal mining in Sonbhadra

LUCKNOW, July 26 -- The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered recovery of Rs.99.72 lakh as environmental compensation from a mining project proponent in Sonbhadra for allegedly carrying out mining... Read More


Women's reservation long overdue: Subhashini Ali

LUCKNOW, July 26 -- Demanding immediate policy reforms and an end to police heavy-handedness, the All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) held a seminar on women's reservation and student iss... Read More


Govt to make land allotment faster, simpler for investors

LUCKNOW, July 26 -- The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to make the land allotment process simpler, faster and transparent for investors in a push towards achieving the $1 trillion economy. A hig... Read More


2 killed, 9 injured as speeding truck hits car in Badaun

MEERUT, July 26 -- Two members of a family were killed and nine others injured after a speeding milk-laden pickup truck hit the car in which they were travelling in Badaun district's Bisauli town late... Read More


Monsoon likely to intensifyin UP from Monday: IMD

LUCKNOW, July 26 -- The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday forecast widespread heavy to very heavy rainfall across Uttar Pradesh from Monday. The weatherman said monsoon activity would ... Read More


Shots heardaround the world

India, July 26 -- "Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs," the American essayist Susan Sontag wrote, in 1977. "A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refu... Read More


Critical exposure: The turning points

India, July 26 -- There's an uncanny resemblance between the hands drawn in a cave in Indonesia 10,000 years ago (see image at right) and the gesture we use to get our phones to take photos today. We ... Read More


Hue's in the kitchen

India, July 26 -- I ate plenty of mithai growing up. But the memory of one dish has stayed with me: a bowl of pink payasam from a temple in Kerala. Its magic lay in two things: its luxurious texture, ... Read More