Новости за 24.02.2016

Half of girls are subject to various forms of sexual harassment like leering, pinching and groping while travelling to and from school while 32% are followed on their way to school or college, reports Himanshi Dhawan.

A video editor formerly working with a news channel was dragged out of his room late on Monday night and allegedly shot dead in south Delhi’s Kishangarh, near Vasant Kunj, for protesting against loud music being played from a gym at the basement of the house.

As train services to almost all major cities of the nation were restored on Wednesday, the city railway station was abuzz with activity.

As four miscreants fired at a sarpanch during a wedding at a marriage palace on Ludhiana-Malerkotla road a few days ago, it has highlighted the inability of the police to enforce the order of the police commissioner banning weapons inside such places.

Patients and attendants at the out patient department of Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences were in for a surprise when class III employees got together to stage a demonstration on Wednesday.

Family and friends of a man from Sanjay Gandhi Colony blocked traffic on Jamalpur Chowk to protest against police inaction against a neighbour who had threatened him.

A group of hostellers of Lucknow University who claimed they had no allegiance with any political party took out a 'Tiranga shanti march' on Wednesday.

Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday evening suspended DIG Lucknow range DK Chowdhury for allegedly slapping an elderly vendor.

A man who cheated 260 people in the name of providing jobs fell into police dragnet on Wednesday.

With Sanjay Dutt set to be released from prison on Thursday, city residents are happy that the Bollywood superstar would be in action again.

The Lucknow bench of the high court on Wednesday asked the state government to explain how the selection committee considered applications of 644 candidates for assessment in particular fields and found only eight applicants eligible for appointment to the post of information commissioners in UP, all in a day.

The Lucknow bench of the high court on Wednesday asked the state government to explain how the selection committee considered applications of 644 candidates for assessment in particular fields and found only eight applicants eligible for appointment to the post of information commissioners in UP, all in a day.

In a noteworthy development, while lambasting the SP government for its failure on the law and order front, Leader of Opposition Swami Prasad Maurya also lavished praise on the chief minister for the Agra-Lucknow expressway.

Taxi service Ola on Wednesday entered into an agreement with the Uttar Pradesh government to create over 50,000 entrepreneurship opportunities across the state.

The never-ending waiting list for Shatabdis and Rajdhanis might get a little shorter if an average 20-coach long train has all its coaches reserved for passengers instead of converting two of the coaches, one at either end, into power car.

More than 200 aviation companies and delegates from over 25 countries will converge in the city next month for the India Aviation-2016.

Justice Sanjay Kumar of the Hyderabad high court on Wednesday posted to next week the plea filed by University of Hyderabad vice-chancellor P Appa Rao seeking a stay on his arrest.

The BMC is responsible for 85% of the tracks—the portions between stations—and the railways for 15%—the stretches at stations

The Movie Artists Association (MAA) has said it will raise Rs 1 crore for Chennai flood victims through cultural programmes this year.

On a day the Jawaharlal Nehru University issue and Rohith Vemula suicide case rocked the upper house, Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah asked the Opposition, especially Congress, to clarify whether raising slogans against the country was "freedom of speech or sedition" and if they were in support of those who shout anti-national slogans.

The district administration has issued strict warning and showcause notice to scores of health workers and shiksha mitras deputed to administer polio drops on a door-to-door basis in the city for shirking work.