Blasts mastermind brought to A'bad Aug 17, 2008
Bashr, who was held from Lucknow's Moulviganj area on Saturday by a team of the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) and the Gujarat police, will be produced in court in Ahmedabad to seek policy custody, a police official said. The top leader of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) was sent to three-day transit remand by Lucknow Chief Judicial Magistrate Sapna Singh on Saturday. (Sify.com, India)
Indian police arrest nine in connection with serial bombings Aug 17, 2008
Police arrested the alleged leader of the bomb plot, Mufti Abu Bashir, in the northern Indian city of Lucknow. Police declined to describe what evidence they had against Mr. Bashir and the other men. (Globe and Mail)
A'bad blasts: SIMI man held in UP Aug 16, 2008
Lucknow: A Students' Islamic Movement of India activist allegedly linked to the Ahmedabad serial bombings was arrested from Lucknow's Moulviganj area by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Saturday. ATS sources claim the SIMI activist, Mufti Abdul Bashr Islahi, could provide vital clues to the July 26 serial blasts in Gujarat's commercial capital Ahmedabad in which 55 people were killed and over 150 injured. (Sify.com, India)
Indian police arrest suspected bombing mastermind Aug 16, 2008
Bashir, 30, was arrested in the northern city of Lucknow. "We were on his lookout for the past several days ever since we were tipped off about his presence in Uttar Pradesh," Brij Lal, a senior state police official, told Reuters in Lucknow ... (Additional reporting by Sharat Pradhan in Lucknow). (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Hyderabad: No to all-woman nikah Aug 15, 2008
HYDERABAD: The nikah of a couple solemnized by a woman with four women standing as witnesses in Lucknow on Tuesday has triggered condemnation by some Islamic scholars and conditional acceptance by a few others. Noted scholar Mufti Khaleel Ahmed of Jamea Nizamia termed it as a fitna (mischief) aimed at distorting the image of Islam. (India Times, India)
India to examine protest deaths Aug 15, 2008
By Ram Dutt Tripathi BBC News, Lucknow. Farmers in India say their needs are being increasingly neglected. (BBC News -- South Asia)
Woman performs nikah, bridges Shia-Sunni divide too Aug 13, 2008
Lucknow, August 12: Picture this: A Muslim girl sitting across the table with her bridegroom ... But what really sets this wedding of Lucknows Naish Hasan and New Delhis Imran Ali apart is the fact that the nikah was performed by a woman. (Indian Express)
Surat is India's youngest city: Study Aug 12, 2008
SURAT: Here is one more proof that youth of the nation are drivers of its economic growth. Surat, the city with fastest GDP growth and richest households nationally, is also the city with the maximum youth in the country. (India Times, India)
Pay more for fuel in metros? Aug 11, 2008
It may be pointed out that there is little justification in excluding large and growing cities such as Chandigarh, Jaipur, Lucknow, Bhopal and other major cities from the ambit of Metro Extra, which is primarily meant to make users of diesel-fired cars and SUVs pay a price that is more reflective of cost. . (India Times)
Let a hundred cities bloom Aug 11, 2008
Besides the obvious candidates such as Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkatta and Bangalore the surprise entries among the top 20 future boom towns are Nagpur, Surat, Bhopal, Jaipur, Kanpur, Coimbatore and Lucknow. Then there are niche cities like Faridabad, Ludhiana, Amritsar, Chandigarh and Jallandhar where both incomes and consumption are expected to substantially outpace the national. (India Times)
Shallow pockets, large hearts Aug 10, 2008
The only stimulus that makes his eyeballs roll is the touch of Doodhnath Yadav, a non-gazetted employee in the Lucknow Electricity Supply Administration, and Udaibhan Dwivedi, a head constable with the UP police. Yadav and Dwivedi, who met eight years ago, have nursed 80-odd mentally ill patients back to sanity, and reunited 55 of them with their families. (India Times, India)
Maya's 'Lucknow call' may corner UNPA allies Aug 10, 2008
LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: Coming amid BSP's attempt to net upper castes, Mayawati's announcement of a political heir from 'chamar' community, a subcaste of the Scheduled Castes marks a confidence that a reminder of its intrinsically Dalit character would not hurt its outreach to Brahmins, Vaishyas and others ... The 'Lucknow call' is likely to force the hand of CPM, which has a nuanced position on projecting a leader for the top chair. (India Times, India -- Community News)
Mayawati springs a secret heir Aug 10, 2008
LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Saturday announced that she had chosen her political heir, identifying him as a person belonging to chamar subcaste of the Scheduled Castes and as someone 18 to 20 years younger to her. Mayawati told a massive workers' gathering in Lucknow that she would not name the heir lest her rivals start creating roadblocks for him but the claim that she had sealed his name in envelopes handed over to two confidants to be opened at an opportune... (Times of India)
Fake currency: Cash rich Dumariaganj was an obvious choice Aug 9, 2008
LUCKNOW: On the face of it, Dumariaganj may appear to be just another countryside locality. So why did the gang involved in the fake Indian currency notes (FICN) racket choose this township to pump in counterfeit currency through the State Bank of India (SBI's) branch. (Times of India)
UP: Cops probe suspects with ISI links Aug 8, 2008
RAMPUR (UTTAR PRADESH): Police here have begun a fresh probe into the activities of five men arrested almost six years ago on charges of being linked to the Pakistani intelligence. This follows the serial bomb blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad that left at least 52 people dead and threats from militants to again attack sensitive targets in Rampur, said Superintendent of Police Veer Bahadur Singh. (India Times, India)
Fake notes in bank: CBI steps in Aug 8, 2008
LUCKNOW: A startling revelation on Thursday that the fake rupee notes seized from Dumariaganj chest of State Bank of India had the numbers of genuine notes lying in the chest has made investigating agencies sit up and take notice. Not only sleuths from CBI, but also officers from Enforcement Directorate held a series of meetings with the police top brass to discuss the seizure of fake currency worth over Rs 1 crore. (India Times, India -- Community News)
Facts about SIMI Aug 7, 2008
(With inputs from Mumbai, Lucknow, Jaipur, Kolkata, Nagpur, Guwahati, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kochi). To read business stories in. (India Times)
Eight drown when boat capsizes in northern India Aug 7, 2008
The boat capsized Wednesday night in the Saryu River in the Bahraich district, 250 kilometres north-east of the state capital, Lucknow. Two women and six children drowned in the river,' Bahraich police chief Rajesh Modak said by telephone. (Monsters and Critics.com)
Glorifying Makhan Chor's nagari Aug 7, 2008
Glorifying Makhan Chor's nagari-Lucknow-Cities-The Times of India ... LUCKNOW: In an attempt to give a facelift to Mathura, Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday laid the foundation stone of development projects worth Rs 250 crore to be implemented in a phased manner in Vrindavan/Brij region of Mathura district. (Times of India)
More fake currency tumbles out of bank Aug 7, 2008
LUCKNOW: With more fake currency with a face value of Rs. 46. (Hindu)
Rs 46.24L in fake currency found in SBI chest Aug 6, 2008
24L in fake currency found in SBI chest-Lucknow-Cities-The Times of India ... LUCKNOW: In what may end up as the countrys biggest counterfeit Indian currency notes seizure, a team from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) assorted fake notes worth Rs 46. (Times of India)
Dreaded UP dacoit Thokia shot dead Aug 5, 2008
Dreaded dacoit Thokia gunned down-Lucknow-Cities-The Times of India ... LUCKNOW/BHOPAL: In a pre-dawn swoop on Monday, the Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh police gunned down dreaded dacoit Ambika Patel alias Thokia in the jungles of Chitrakoot district in a three-hour-long operation. (India Times, India)
Air quality: Latest BBC reading Aug 5, 2008
Page last updated at 15:41 GMT, Sunday, 3 August 2008 16:41 UK. Beijing pollution: Facts and figures. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Desperate Divorces Aug 3, 2008
But his guts fail to surprise hard-nosed divorce lawyers, who claim he has some high-profile precedentslike the relative of a high-profile UP politician and a hockey player from Lucknow who took a burqa- clad woman to court and obtained a divorce. In recent years, such instances have been curtailed, with lawyers insisting on wedding photographs, marriage certificates, invitation cards and other documents of identity. (India Times, India)
Varun Gandhi accused of assault Aug 3, 2008
LUCKNOW: Pilibhit constituency may prove to be a jinxed inheritance for Varun Gandhi. Much before the Pilibhit MP Maneka Gandhi could formally pass the baton to the son and shift base to Aonla for the forthcoming Lok Sabha poll as planned, Varun finds himself on the wrong side of law. (India Times, India)
CSMMU to crack the whip on staff Aug 1, 2008
LUCKNOW: After introducing biometric attendance for its staff and the system of issuing photo identity cards for attendants of patients to check entry of touts in the Trauma Centre, the Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University (CSMMU) will now tighten the noose around doctors and para-medical staff involved in referring patients to private clinics for services, facilities of which are available in the campus. While instructions have been issued to all faculty members not to indulge in any... (Times of India)
Bangalore, Surat bombs have Qaida imprint Jul 31, 2008
Timer devices were used there and the design was strikingly similar to those used to bomb courts in three UP cities Varanasi, Faizabad and Lucknow in November last year and in Jaipur on May 13 this year. Incidentally, a group calling itself Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for all three attacks by sending emails to media organisations prior to the blasts. (India Times, India)
A swelling Gomti inundates Lucknow Jul 31, 2008
A swelling Gomti leaves many areas inundated-Lucknow-Cities-The Times of India ... LUCKNOW: The waters of the Gomti are on a surge ... Gomti waters have washed away Lucknow municipal corporations efforts it made during a plantation drive last year. (India Times, India)
Weather: Partly cloudy, afternoon storms likely Jul 30, 2008
Melbourne, FL 32940 Last Updated: 07/30/08 08:45:41 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 97% Barometer: 30. (Florida Today)
Lucknow: 3 persons with AIDS killed Jul 29, 2008
Three persons with AIDS killed by kin-Lucknow-Cities-The Times of India ... LUCKNOW: A 45-year-old farmer, his wife and son were allegedly killed by their relatives after it was discovered that they had full-blown AIDS.. (India Times, India)
India ripe for more attacks Jul 29, 2008
The name first surfaced in connection with a series of six blasts in courts in Varanasi, Faisabad and Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh in November 2007. Then the group claimed responsibility for the seven blasts in Jaipur and now Ahmedabad. (Asia Times Online)
Plan for 'mega city policing' put on fast track Jul 28, 2008
After the plan is implemented in the seven mega cities, Jaipur, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Lucknow and Kanpur will also be brought within its ambit. 00004000. (India Times, India)
India: The Terrorists Within Jul 28, 2008
The same group had claimed responsibility for blasts that had killed 63 people in the northwestern city of Jaipur in May this year, as well as serial blasts in the northern cities of Varanasi, Faizabad and Lucknow in which 13 people were killed in November 2007. While the credibility of the email has yet to be established, the recent bombings have forced the Indian authorities to face some very uncomfortable facts. (Time.com)
Power shortage to hit 9% growth? Jul 26, 2008
Power shortage to hit 9% growth. -India-The Times of India. (India Times, India)
Man drives nail 8cm into skull; safe Jul 25, 2008
Man drives nail 8cm into skull, survives-Lucknow-Cities-The Times of India. lll. (India Times, India)
Fossil fears Jul 25, 2008
The Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany in the northern city of Lucknow also has an impressive collection. Worried. (BBC News)
Cabinet meet: Govt allows mobile towers on defence land Jul 25, 2008
The AFT's principal Bench at New Delhi will have three courts and so would the regional Benches at Chandigarh and Lucknow. Regional Benches at Kolkata, Guwahati, Mumbai, Kochi, Chennai and Jaipur, in turn, would have one court each. (India Times, India -- Community News)
Turning politics upside down Jul 25, 2008
In the Uttar Pradesh capital, Lucknow, last month, a three-metre statue of Mayawati was pulled down and replaced by a four-metre version. The original had been unveiled just six weeks earlier but Mayawati did not like it. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Elephants to check poaching Jul 23, 2008
LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government is now training elephants to counter poaching and other illegal activities in forests, a senior forest official said on Monday. "Taking into account the fact that elephants are one of the best modes of transport in the forest terrain, we will take their assistance to check illegal activities in forests," said B.K. Patnaik, principal chief conservator of forests. (India Times, India)
BSP MLA lands in trouble Jul 22, 2008
LUCKNOW: After Uttar Pradesh sports minister Ayodhya Prasad Pal was declared an absconder by court in Fatehpur, another BSP MLA Mohammad Aleem of Bulandshahr has now landed in trouble. Muzaffarnagar's additional chief judicial magistrate Sunita Chandra has directed the Meerut Zone IGP to ensure Aleem's presence during the next hearing (slated for July 22) of a kidnapping and rape case pending against the MLA and his brother Mohammad Yunus. (India Times, India)
India's PM Staking Government On Confidence Vote Jul 22, 2008
Over the weekend, the leader of a small party being courted by Congress leaders for its three parliamentary votes announced his members would vote against the government _ even after the airport in the northern city of Lucknow was renamed for his father. Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. (CBS News -- World)
We Have Shared Interests Jul 21, 2008
It became evident that our communist parties are determined to conduct foreign policy as though it was a comical soap opera when a luminary representing an avowedly atheist party landed up in Lucknow in a gathering full of Shia clerics, to pledge support for the Islamic Republic of Iran a country, where his fellow communists, from the Tudeh Party, have been either incarcerated, or summarily executed. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh thereafter justified India's growing ties with Iran on the... (India Times, India)
UP: Unusual rise in jaundice cases Jul 20, 2008
Unusual rise in jaundice cases this season-Lucknow-Cities-The Times of India ... LUCKNOW: The unusual heavy rains and persistent clouds might bring in a perceptible change in the disease pattern in Uttar Pradesh this season. (India Times, India)
Indias Government accused of buying votes Jul 20, 2008
The Government secured three votes yesterday by naming an airport in Lucknow after the father of Ajit Singh, the leader of a small regional party. It is even planning to free six jailed MPs for the vote, five of whom are allies and four of whom are convicted murderers. (Times Online)
17 killed as truck rams bus in northern India Jul 20, 2008
He says it is not immediately clear what caused the truck to veer into the path of the bus near Etah, a town about 185 miles (300 kilometers) southwest of Lucknow, the state capital. Deadly road accidents are common in India and are often caused by poor driving, old and overloaded vehicles and bad roads. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Maya weans away Ajit Singh's MPs Jul 20, 2008
Lucknow: In a major set back to the UPA in its quest for the magic number, RLD chief Ajit Singh has said that his partys three MPs would vote against the government in the trust vote. The Jat leaders announcement comes after a meeting with UP Chief Minister and BSP supremo Mayawati. (Sify.com, India)
Police in India say 17 killed in bus accident Jul 20, 2008
LUCKNOW, India (AP) - Police say a packed bus collided with a truck in northern India, killing at least 17 people and wounding 35 others. A State police spokesman said 7 of those wounded in Sunday's accident were hospitalized in a critical condition. (KOLD.com, AZ)
Closer ties with the United States could cost India's prime minister his government Jul 20, 2008
In a bid to attract three votes from a tiny regional party, the government last week renamed an airport in northern Lucknow after the party chief's father, Charan Singh, a former Indian prime minister. "It will facilitate better take offs and landings," the country's finance minister, Chidambaram, joked Thursday, when asked why the government had changed the name now. (International Herald Tribune)
Traveling in Lucknow, India Jul 19, 2008
Chikan and Zarduzi Handiwork Gives Lucknow Name in Fashion ... In India, popular, traditional wear comes from the skilled, rapidly moving hands of Lucknowites ... In this sense, Lucknow is best known for its embroidery trade. (Suite101.com)
Nuclear crunch Jul 19, 2008
One party leader much in demand, Ajit Singh, was offered a rather unique carrot when the cabinet approved a proposal to rename the airport in the city of Lucknow after his late father, Charan Singh, a former prime minister. "Better late than never," was the gist of Mr Singh's response, as government officials insisted with perfectly straight faces that the timing of the decision was completely coincidental. (BBC News -- South Asia)
Ajit keeps all doors ajar Jul 18, 2008
New Delhi, July 17: The government may have decided to rename Lucknow airport after former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh, but its alliance with his son hasn t taken off yet. Ajit Singh appears intent on waiting a while longer to make sure which way the wind is blowing for him. (Calcutta Telegraph)
Indian woman rises on votes that cross caste lines Jul 18, 2008
Posters of Kumari Mayawati, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, India's largest state, are for sale in a market in Lucknow. Mayawati is from a low-caste family. (International Herald Tribune)
Tata Motors to hive off distribution Jul 17, 2008
Simultaneously new plants are being set up at Pant Nagar, Singur, and Dharwad, while capacities are being added at Pune, Jamshedpur and Lucknow. The dealership network itself is being expanded. (India Times, India)
Jailbirds are hot in numbers game Jul 17, 2008
LUCKNOW: MPs languishing in Uttar Pradeshs jails suddenly seem to have become hot property. And rightly so, with each and every vote crucial on D-day, July 22. (Daily News & Analysis)
UP airport named after Charan Singh Jul 17, 2008
New Delhi: The government on Thursday decided to rename the Amausi airport in Uttar Pradesh that serves State capital Lucknow after former Prime Minister Charan Singh ... The Cabinet took the decision to rename the Amausi airport, located midway between Lucknow and the industrial town of Kanpur, at a meeting in New Delhi on Thursday presided over by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister P Chidambaram told reporters. (Sify.com, India)
Rahul goes back to roti Jul 16, 2008
Lucknow, July 15: Amid the turmoil over the nuclear deal, Rahul Gandhi today sought to deflect Left criticism by refocusing the Congress s attention on bread and butter issues that would benefit the entire nation, which, he said, lives in his heart. Rahul, who is widely expected to be the party s mascot in the next general elections, took a cue from grandmother Indira Gandhi by stating that the Congress was geared towards working for the common man. (Calcutta Telegraph)
Go for elections Jul 15, 2008
Your edit A Faustian bargain. (ET, July 14) has rightly sounded the Manmohan Singh government for keeping away from involvement in corporate battles and allowing sectional interests of the Samajwadi Party (SP) to hold public policy hostage. (India Times)
BSP dismisses Amar Singh's allegations as baseless Jul 14, 2008
BSP dismisses Amar Singh's allegations as baseless-Lucknow-Cities-The Times of India ... LUCKNOW: Reacting strongly over the comments made by SP general secretary Amar Singh against BSP president and chief minister Mayawati, BSP spokesperson Swami Prasad Maurya said that the allegations were totally baseless, disparaging and malicious. (Times of India)
Delhi Diary: Alarm bells Jul 14, 2008
His supporters are now coyly suggesting that former HRD Minister Dr M M Joshi should contest from Varanasi Lok Sabha seat and Kalraj Mishra from Lucknow. The supporters of these reluctant combatants, however, smell a rat. (Sify.com, India)
'Muslims not against N-deal' Jul 13, 2008
Maulana Nizamuddin was perhaps reacting to board vice president Maulana Kalbe Sadiq who said in Lucknow that the deal was anti-Muslim. Some other clerics too had joined in chorus. (India Times, India)
Talwar ordeal: UP cops run for cover Jul 13, 2008
LUCKNOW/NOIDA: With Dr Rajesh Talwar having been released from jail after the CBI gave him a clean chit, senior UP cops are desperately trying to pass the buck for the botched-up operation on to junior officials. An officer in Lucknow, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said senior officers were going by what was passed on to them by Noida police officers. (Times of India)
CIC placed under suspension Jul 13, 2008
LUCKNOW: Governor TV Rajeswar on Wednesday placed state's chief information commissioner (CIC) Justice (retd) Mohammad Asgar Khan under suspension after making a reference to the Supreme Court for an inquiry into complaints related to serious malpractices and irregularities against him. He is probably the first CIC in the country to have been placed under suspension. (Times of India)
Woman thrown out of Shatabdi, dies Jul 7, 2008
KANPUR: In a shocking incident, a 35-year-old woman died after being allegedly thrown out of 2003 Delhi-bound Shatabdi Express by the catering and ticket-checking on Sunday. The incident took place near Panki-Bhaupur railway station after an argument as the woman was travelling without ticket. (India Times, India)
* World News Quick Take Jul 7, 2008
Heavy rains lashed the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh state, flooding all the major rivers in the region, Surendra Srivastava, a police spokesman said in Lucknow, the state capital. Fourteen people died on Saturday in a variety of rain-related incidents. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
UP top cops clean up Gomti Jul 6, 2008
Top police brass launch cleaning act-Lucknow-Cities-The Times of India ... LUCKNOW: With the state police coming to the fore to free the Gomti of pollution, now those caught red handed throwing garbage in the river will be severely dealt with. (India Times, India)
