The Latest Breaking News from UP

Lucknow: City’s mango grower SC Shukla was honoured at a three-day National Mango Festival in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The mangoes produced by Shukla, who has already been awarded ‘Udyan Ratna’ by the UP government, at his Mangofeast orchard, earned the top honour.

LUCKNOW: The UP government informed the Assembly on Monday that additional 18,359 deaths because of Covid pandemic have been registered in its record. This number is over and above the 23,512 deaths recorded on the Covid portal.

LUCKNOW: Children in UP are just around nine-and-a-half years of age when they initiate cigarette smoking. Children even younger than that—about seven-year-old girls and eight-year-old boys—initiate the smoking of bidi.

LUCKNOW: The third groundbreaking ceremony could be breaking the cliche that investments in Uttar Pradesh rarely go beyond the Noida region. A region-wise assessment of intended investment projects in the state indicates that while western UP remains the biggest draw, investments in Bundelkhand, eastern and central UP are also coming.

LUCKNOW: Abnormal weather and extreme heat in March and April have taken a toll on the mango crop this year. The All India Mango Growers’ Association has pegged the loss at a whopping 80% for this year’s mango crop across the state, including Lucknow’s Dussehri belt, Malihabad.

LUCKNOW: Abnormal weather and extreme heat in March and April have taken a toll on the mango crop this year. The All India Mango Growers’ Association has pegged the loss at a whopping 80% for this year’s mango crop across the state, including Lucknow’s Dussehri belt, Malihabad.

LUCKNOW: The UP government informed the assembly on Monday that additional 18,359 deaths because of Covid pandemic have been registered in its record. This number is over and above the 23,512 deaths recorded on the Covid portal.

LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said that after the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, the temple town of Kashi appears to be waking up, as are Mathura, Vrindavan, Vindhyavasini Dham and Naimish Dham.

LUCKNOW: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday rewarded two of its veterans -- Dr Radha Mohan Das Agarwal and Laxmikant Bajpai -- for their selfless work for the party by nominating them for Rajya Sabha polls. The two are among the six candidates announced by the party for the biennial…

Two consignments of medicines have been sent so far

LUCKNOW: Deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya said on Saturday that the dream of ‘Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat’ cannot be achieved till the women of the country become self-reliant. Maurya added that the UP government is making all efforts to empower women by providing them access to skill development to…