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Cracking the whip on cases of fraud and forgery that surfaced during the admission process of Lucknow University (LU), the university registrar on Wednesday lodged 12 FIRs against candidates in different cases at Hasanganj police station. The accused include not just aspiring LU students but also a teacher who had allegedly submitted fake MSc marksheet to secure a post at LU in the year 1990.

Anti-corruption helpline 1031, AAP government’s much-touted tool to empower Delhiites to fight graft, has become a dud, thanks to the party’s turf battles with the Centre via the lieutenant governor.

In an endeavor to celebrate Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib's love for mangoes—frequently expressed in his couplets—Eram educational society is holding a cultural programme titled ‘Jashn-e-aam, Ghalib aur besni roti” on Thursday.

A visit to the General Post Office is going to be more fulfilling than before with the opening of state's first Daak Suvidha Kendra named ‘Tehzeeb’ on Wednesday. Available at the postal department’s stationery cum souvenir shop are beautiful specimens of Uttar Pradesh’s handicraft, besides the usual packaging material, envelope, pencil, pen and adhesives. Visitors could take home miniature model letter boxes, coffee mugs with postal logos, key chains, stamp albums, etc.

Jailed mafia don Khan Mubarak was on Wednesday booked for allegedly demanding Rs 50 lakh as extortion money from a businessman in Ambedkarnagar. Khan is lodged in Faizabad district jail.

More than five lakh trees were planted from 2003 to 2015 to restore forest cover lost due to construction and expansion of Delhi Metro, the city government informed the Delhi high court on Wednesday.

Freshers at Delhi University are not the only ones eager for college life.Scores of inmates at Tihar jail are looking forward to joining study programmes as well.

A day after Yoga guru Santosh Trivedi was found dead under mysterious circumstances, police on Wednesday lodged a case of murder against Santosh’s neighbor Gopi and his two aides. The case was lodged on the basis of a complaint by the deceased’s brother Durgesh.

The green tribunal on Wednesday came down heavily on National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and the Haryana government for the inordinate delay in completing both eastern and western peripheral expressway projects.

The National Green Tribunal was both baffled and angry on Wednesday when told that Delhi government officials who inspected heavy vehicles entering Delhi on Monday and Tuesday nights at three border points could only find eight polluting vehicles.

With two heads at Anti-Corruption Branch, the Delhi government found itself in a peculiar situation on Tuesday night when the subdivisional magistrate of Defence Colony couldn’t file an FIR either with police or ACB.

In a much-needed relief for students across the state, the state government has put a cap on the weight of school bags at 10% of a student’s body weight.

Fourteen-year-old R Vaishali’s recent win in the National Women Challengers Chess Championship puts this Class 9 student in the limelight among the chess fraternity in the city.

Parineeti Chopra was appointed as the brand ambassador of the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao: Call to Action campaign, which was launched by the Haryana government in Gurgaon in front of a large audience on Tuesday.

The latest trend that is gaining momentum this season in the world of fashion is the temporary metallic tattoo.