The Latest Breaking News from UP

LUCKNOW: A Rajasthan-based doctor along with a blood bank technician are under the STF scanner along with eight other blood banks in UP where blood smuggled from Rajasthan was sold. The STF, which recently busted a gang selling smuggled blood, made the revelation based on the interrogation of the arrested…

KOLKATA: Cops rescued a 16-year-old girl of Tangra - who was taken to Faizabad in UP and about to be sold to a brothel in Delhi by her trafficker, Rohan Singh (19) - with the help of the leads obtained from a social media platform on Wednesday.

On June 27, Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair was arrested for allegedly hurting Hindu religious sentiments. The supposed reason: a satirical post from four years ago that a now-deleted Twitter account called Hanuman Bhakt apparently found offensive and flagged to the Delhi police on June 19.

VARANASI: Upset over the defeat of Samajwadi Party candidates in Azamgarh and Rampur Lok Sabha bypolls, SP alliance partner Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) chief Om Prakash Rajbhar on Tuesday questioned the absence of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav from campaigning on ground. Rajbhar himself campaigned extensively for the SP candidate,…

LUCKNOW: Happiness knew no bounds for the skilled artisans from UP when they saw their products being gifted by PM Narendra Modi to the world leaders at the G7 summit.

LUCKNOW: In a decisive push to investment by private players in UP, the state cabinet headed by chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday approved the scheme of providing financial incentive for establishment of data centres in the state. The measure was introduced in the UP Data Centre Policy-2021 which envisaged…

LUCKNOW: In a bid to provide insurance coverage to farmers against the potential crop damages, the state government has decided to carry out a special drive for the purpose during the first week of July.

LUCKNOW: UP produces 20% of India’s foodgrains. It is number one in wheat, number two in paddy and ranks fourth in pulses production. It also accounts for 36% of sugarcane, 34% potato and 30% vegetables grown in the country. But when it comes to number of agriculture startups, the state…

LUCKNOW: After remaining inactive for six days, the monsoon has revived and is expected to storm into many parts of the east and central UP, including Lucknow, by Tuesday, ending over a month long hot and humid weather conditions.