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It will also help the city achieve the cherished goals as part of the three-year-long pacts that will be signed on Friday.”The overall objective of the MoUs is to develop Lucknow as the model city. The MoUs propose to not only propel the local economy but also help Lucknow learn the best sanitation practices,” said an official.The pact with the administration is also concentrated around bringing a dynamic shift in the dwindling fortunes of Lucknow’s Chikan Handicraft Industry and its workers, largely female workers, who spend hours in the intricate handcrafting of traditional garments.The pact will help the traditional hand…

Before the rebellion on June 24, Russian TV had portrayed a positive image of the Wagner mercenary group, which has fought alongside the Russian military during its invasion of Ukraine, the BBC reported.But from July 1-5, the country’s state-run network Rossiya showed images taken during searches at his opulent home outside St Petersburg, arguing that his riches reflected very badly on him.”Let’s have a look how this fighter for the truth lived, someone who has two criminal convictions and who kept claiming that everyone else was a thief,” the BBC quoted a commentator on ’60 Minutes’, a Rossiya talk show,…

Congress leader Manish Tewari slammed the government, and in a tweet said, “To the best of my recollection going back at least four decades in Public life I have never heard an US Ambassador making a statement of this nature about the internal affairs of India.””We faced Challenges in Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, North East over the decades and surmounted those with sagacity and wisdom. Even when Robin Raphel would be loquacious on J&K in the 1990’s the US Ambassador’s in India were circumspect,” Tewari, a former Union minister said.”I doubt if the New US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti…

Users have already posted more than 95 million threads and dropped about 190 million likes, according to internal data seen by The Verge.It all happened in less than 24 hours.Meta launched Threads on Wednesday for iOS and Android users in 100 countries, and it is currently the top free app on the App Store.Threads is a new app, built by the Instagram team, for sharing text updates and joining public conversations.Similar to Instagram, with Threads users can follow and connect with friends and creators who share their interests, including the people they follow on Instagram.The new app crossed 2 million…

Ravindranath is the expelled leader of the AIADMK and son of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam.After taking up a petition in this regard by DMK leader Milani on Thursday, the court declared the victory as “null and void”.The petitioner had alleged that Ravindranath had illegally distributed money to voters to achieve victory in the polls.It was also alleged that the accused had concealed information on his sources of income in the election affidavit.The judgement has come as a setback for father and son duo who were expelled by the AIADMK party chief Edappadi K Palaniswami in last July.–IANSmka/shb

The Saharanpur Police has lodged an FIR against unidentified jail personnel on the complaint of the families of the four accused Lavish, Vicky and Prashant and Vikas Kumar of Karnal, Haryana.Director general (DG), prisons, S.N. Sabat on Friday confirmed that two jail warders Naresh Kumar Verma and Karanveer Singh had been placed under suspension with immediate effect.He said disciplinary action had been recommended against the two warders.Besides, the superintendent of Muzaffarnagar district jail had been asked to conduct an inquiry into the incident.Another jail official said earlier the two warders were removed from their duties as soon as the jail…

The bench comprising Chief Justice Pritinker Diwaker and Justice Saumitra Dayal Singh was hearing a PIL filed by one Bachchey Lal.On the recent killings of criminals in judicial custody, the court observed, “In recent times, heinous crimes have been committed inside jail premises. Nothing would be more shocking to the court or the justice delivery system than murder of any undertrial or convict while in the custody of the court.””To allow present circumstances to exist would be to perpetrate similar occurrences in future. That would be a blot on the entire judicial set up,” the bench said.During the course of…

“Since it started on July 1, over 84,000 Yatris have performed this year’s Amarnath Yatra. “17,202 pilgrims had ‘Darshan’ inside the holy cave yesterday. “Another batch of 7,010 Yatris left Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in Jammu today in an escorted convoy for the Valley. “These include 5179 male, 1549 female, 21 children, 228 Sadhu and 33 Sadhvis,” officials said. Yatris approach the Himalayan cave shrine either from the traditional south Kashmir Pahalgam route which involves an uphill trek of 43 Kms from Pahalgam base camp or from the north Kashmir Baltal base camp which involves 13 Kilometre uphill trek. Those…

According to The Verge, the server was down for about 23 hours and 59 minutes. “Welcome back everyone!” the company posted from its ‘mastodon.xyz status’ account. “As you probably know, the instance has been down since yesterday evening (CEST) due to our domain being suspended. Recently active users should have received an email earlier today about the situation,” it added. The platform further mentioned that it is working on making everything run smoothly again, and will post a final update on the situation on Saturday. Taking to Twitter, several users reported the issue. While one user posted, “Looks like Mastodon…

This will be Siddaramaiah’s 14th Budget in the state legislature, breaking the record of late Chief Minister Ramakrishna Hegde who presented 13 Budgets in the entirety of his political career.Siddaramaiah has hinted that the estimated size of the new Budget is Rs 3,35,000 crore.The size of first budget presented by him was Rs 12,616 crore, while it was Rs 2,09,181 crore for his 13th Budget.Meanwhile, the 14th Budget is surrounded by challenges at a time when the profit-oriented market and corporate economic policy is ruling the country, erasing socialist economic policies and killing pro people concerns, according to sources in…