NEW DELHI: The Surya Tilak ceremony was performed on the idol of Ram Lalla at Ayodhya temple during the Ram Navami festivities on Wednesday. The celebrations are currently ongoing.The unique event was performed at noon through an elaborate system connected with mirrors and lenses at the temple.A team of scientists, appointed by the temple trust,…
AYODHYA: Ayodhya is all decked-up for Ram Lalla‘s first Ram Navami at the newly constructed temple. The temple will host a special ceremony to honour the birth of Lord Ram. The significance of Ram Navami is heightened this year due to the recent completion of the temple. The ceremony promises to be a grand affair,…
MEERUT/LUCKNOW: Meerut unit of UP Police STF on Wednesday arrested Ravi Atri, who had orchestrated the UP police constable recruitment exam question paper leak this Feb, from Jewar near Greater Noida and brought him to Meerut. He had been absconding for over a month. Atri, a resident of a Greater Noida village, is accused of…
LUCKNOW: Impressed with the quick presence of mind shown by the 13-year-old girl who scared away a monkey in the Basti district of Uttar Pradesh, using Amazon’s virtual voice assistant, Alexa, Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra, on Saturday, lavished praise on her.TOI had reported how the girl, Nikita Pandey, commanded Alexa to bark like a…
LUCKNOW: A flexi hoarding came up outside the Samajwadi Party headquarters in Lucknow on Saturday morning with an appeal to all citizens to mourn the death of ‘former MLA’ Mukhtar Ansari and not to celebrate Eid this year. The giant hoarding was later removed by the district administration.The hoarding came up a day before Akhilesh…
LUCKNOW: A 34-year-old woman attempted suicide on Wednesday by climbing an electric pole and grabbing onto a high-tension wire in Gorakhpur. The incident arose from a dispute with her husband regarding her involvement in an extramarital relationship.According to the police, the woman, identified as Suman Devi, 34, and a mother of three, was engaged in…
LUCKNOW: Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari will be buried at his native Ghazipur district on Saturday, in the family’s Kalibag graveyard in Yusufpur Mohammadabad. The autopsy on the body of the former five-term MLA revealed that “myocardial infarction (heart attack) was the cause of Ansari’s death“, said a senior police officer. The viscera has been preserved for…
PRAYAGRAJ: Allahabad high court has directed a Varanasi court to decide, “preferably within eight weeks”, a petition seeking unrestricted right to worship the purported Shivling found inside Gyanvapi mosque premises in May 2022.This application was filed before Varanasi’s civil judge (senior division) in a petition seeking a permanent injunction against Anjuman Intezamia Masjid (AIM) restraining…
Lucknow: During the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, the Special Task Force (STF) of the UP Police confronted the listed gangster Vinod Upadhyay in Sultanpur. Acting on a tip-off regarding his movement in Sultanpur, the STF launched an operation and successfully intercepted the target. Officials said that in the ensuing exchange of fire, one…
LUCKNOW: A doctor posted at Jalaun community healthcare centre(CHC) was suspended on Sunday for negligence on duty by the state government. The doctor, Dr Uday Kumar, was allegedly performing duty under the influence of alcohol and was also referring patients to private pathology labs.The incident came to light after the death of a 26-year-old patient,…
