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Eight-month crackdown exposes Rs.4.5cr fake medicine racket in UP

LUCKNOW, Aug. 20 -- The Uttar Pradesh Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA) has seized counterfeit and illegally stored medicines worth around Rs.4.5 crore in the past eight months while cracking... Read More


Overloaded privately owned school vans continue to ferry kids in Lucknow

LUCKNOW, Aug. 20 -- Despite repeated enforcement drives by the transport department, privately operated school vans continue to ferry children beyond the permitted capacity in Lucknow, raising concern... Read More


Cops on cybercons' trail, set sights on three countries

LUCKNOW, Aug. 20 -- A cyber fraud investigation into the alleged "digital arrest" of a Lucknow couple for 18 days has opened a trail stretching from India to Cambodia, the UAE and China, with WhatsApp... Read More


2027 UP polls: ECI trains officials for first-level checking of EVMs

LUCKNOW, Aug. 20 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) has begun preparations for the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly election, starting with a workshop in Gautam Buddha Nagar on Wednesday to train di... Read More


Vigilance searches reveal Rs.28-cr assets linked to ex-clerk

LUCKNOW, Aug. 20 -- The Uttar Pradesh Vigilance Establishment has unearthed alleged disproportionate assets worth around Rs.28 crore belonging to former clerk at the chief medical officer's (CMO) offi... Read More


Pay rape victim compensation within 40 days: HC to Sitapur, Bahraich DMs

LUCKNOW, Aug. 20 -- Taking a tough view of the delay in payment of compensation to rape victims, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has directed the district magistrates of Sitapur and Bahr... Read More


How Sikar man lured four Ayodhya cops into trap after 800-km journey

LUCKNOW, Aug. 20 -- Four Ayodhya policemen arrested in Rajasthan for allegedly accepting a Rs.2.80 lakh bribe, in addition to Rs.4 lakh earlier, were not expecting a trap when they travelled nearly 80... Read More


Tea stall set ablaze after dispute over playing video game, one held

LUCKNOW, Aug. 20 -- A dispute over playing a game on mobile phone inside a tea stall allegedly escalated into arson in Qaiserbagh when two siblings set the shop on fire after the shopkeepers objected ... Read More


Former SP MLC Kamlesh Pathak, 9 others get life term in double murder

KANPUR, Aug. 20 -- A special MP/MLA court in Auraiya on Wednesday sentenced former Samajwadi Party MLC Kamlesh Pathak and nine other accused to life imprisonment for the 2020 double murder of lawyer M... Read More


DRI busts ivory trafficking syndicate in Lucknow

LUCKNOW, Aug. 20 -- The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has busted an alleged syndicate involved in the illegal trade of ivory artefacts, intercepting four members of the network and seizing... Read More