TOI Lucknow

Lucknow: A play titled ‘Manjhi Re’ was staged by the students of Lalit Narayan Mishra Vishvidyalaya, (Darbhanga) at UP Sangeet Natak Akademi (UPSNA) on Tuesday.

Six medal-winning sportspersons from Uttar Pradesh who have excelled at the Olympics, Paralympics, Commonwealth Games, Asian Games, and World Championship have been appointed as gazetted officers in the state.

A youth and his sister were killed, while their brother and mother were seriously injured after their dilapidated house collapsed due to an explosion triggered by an LPG cylinder leak in Varanasi’s Lahartara area on Tuesday morning.

The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) arrested two Mumbai-based drug traffickers from Lucknow, who were planning to escape to Nepal and had allegedly taken refuge in the city.

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The state cabinet approved the procurement policy for wheat for the 2026–27 marketing season, fixing the Minimum Support Price (MSP) at Rs 2,585 per quintal, in line with the rates announced by the Centre.

In another shocker from Ballia, a 24-year-old woman died during a kidney stone surgery at a private hospital in the Kotwali area on Sunday evening. The incident sparked protests by her family, which turned violent as police used force to disperse the crowd.

Prayagraj: At least four persons were killed and 12 others were injured, including a minor, when a portion of a cold storage facility collapsed in Prayagraj’s Phaphamau on Monday afternoon.

The UP cabinet has approved the Plug-and-Play Industrial Sheds Scheme 2026 under the Design-Build-Finance-Operate-Transfer (DBFOT) model through public-private partnership to speed up industrialisation, boost manufacturing, and support the state’s $1 trillion GSDP target.

The Uttar Pradesh cabinet on Monday approved the expansion of the Kisan Cooperative Sugar Mill in Baghpat, aiming to double its crushing capacity from 2,500 tonnes per day (TCD) to 5,000 TCD.

The Uttar Pradesh cabinet on Monday approved Rs 2,242.90 crore for the development of the Pashwara South coal block in Jharkhand, allocated to Neyveli Uttar Pradesh Power Limited (NUPPL) to meet the fuel requirements of the Ghatampur thermal power project in Kanpur

A 20 MW floating solar power plant will be set up at Chilua Tal in Gorakhpur as part of the city’s solar city drive, with Coal India Limited (CIL) designated to implement the project on roughly 80–150 acres of water surface in Sadar tehsil.

Rain and thunderstorms lashed several parts of Uttar Pradesh, including Lucknow, on Friday morning, bringing relief from warm weather conditions prevailing for the past two weeks. Hailstorms and strong winds also hit many parts of the state.

Three persons were killed in separate incidents of lightning strikes in Uttar Pradesh as thunderstorm lashed the state on Friday morning.

A Pocso court in Hardoi has awarded 10 years jail to a man for raping a minor girl nine years ago and slapped a fine of Rs 5,000 on him. The court rejected the plea of the accused for acquittal on the grounds that he had later married the survivor.

A 23-year-old student of the Udai Pratap Autonomous College in the city was shot on campus, allegedly by a senior, Friday afternoon. The accused escaped after the crime, sparking tension and prompting heavy police deployment.

A special NIA/ATS court in Lucknow on Thursday sentenced three members of banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for conspiring to wage war against govt of India and attempting to spread terror through organised activities across UP.

Lucknow: In a significant boost to sports healthcare, a collaboration between Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI) and Allahabad University will ensure advanced medical support for university athletes in case of injuries.

Lucknow: Mayor Sushma Kharkwal and municipal commissioner Gaurav Kumar inspected sanitation arrangements in different parts of the city on Thursday on the first day of Navratri.

Lucknow: A retired Army officer was defrauded of over Rs 15.63 lakh in a cyber fraud case involving impersonation, social media manipulation, and a fake immigration emergency linked to a foreign national.