Rizwan Zaheer, Rameez Nemat, Zeba Rizwan (L-R) LUCKNOW: An MP-MLA court in Balrampur on Friday acquitted former Samajwadi Party MP Rizwan Zaheer, his daughter Zeba Rizwan and son-in-law Rameez Nemat in the 2022 murder case of former Tulsipur Nagar Panchayat chairman and SP leader Firoz Ahmad alias Pappu, citing lack of sufficient evidence.Additional Sessions Judge…
Abaan Ahmed, son of Atiq Ahmed, died in a highway accident on Wednesday. JHANSI: Azham Ahmed, the fourth son of slain gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, arrived in Jhansi on Thursday to claim the body of his youngest brother, Abaan Ahmed, who was killed in a road accident earlier in the day.Azham appealed to authorities to allow…
Photographs showing pedestal fans placed along a repair site went viral on social media, drawing flak and jibes. LUCKNOW: How does one repair an expressway that is heavily damaged barely days after being inaugurated with much fanfare? Using fans to blow-dry it, of course!That’s what PNC Infratech, the contractor for the Rs 4,200 crore Lucknow-Kanpur…
The Lucknow-Kanpur expressway, completed in June 2025, began failing seventeen days after its July 2026 inauguration LUCKNOW: For eleven months, the Lucknow-Kanpur expressway sat finished and empty. The six-lane, access-controlled corridor was ready for traffic by June 2025, its 63 km of bitumen laid, its 21 Variable Message Signs and 63 PTZ cameras installed, its…
Abaan Ahmed, son of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, died in a car crash. JHANSI: A video showing the mangled remains of the car, with its windshield shattered and bonnet and door badly damaged, has surfaced after gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed’s son Abaan was killed in a road accident in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi on Thursday.The video shows several…
Abaan, 21, and his friend Sonu were killed in the crash near Poonch on the Kanpur-Jhansi road around 10.30am. Three other occupants of the Hyundai Creta were injured and taken to Jhansi Medical College for treatment. JHANSI: The circumstances leading to the fatal crash that killed Abaan Ahmed, the youngest son of slain gangster-turned-politician Atiq…
Abaan Ahmed, son of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, died in a car crash. LUCKNOW: Abaan Ahmed (21), the youngest son of slain gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, was killed in a road accident on Thursday morning after the SUV he was travelling in crashed into a road divider in Jhansi district. One of his friends also died in…
Shreya Dixit (BCCL/ Aditya Yadav) With women’s cricket continuing to draw larger audiences, Lucknowites turned up at a fan adda, a watch party organised at a city cafe for the India-South Africa Women’s T20 match. The event brought together students, city influencers, young professionals and cricket enthusiasts, many of whom said they wanted to be…
Abaan Ahmed, son of Atiq Ahmed, died in a highway accident on Wednesday. LUCKNOW: Abaan Ahmed (21), son of slain mafia don-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, was killed in a road accident on the Jhansi-Kanpur Highway on Wednesday while travelling to meet his elder brother, Ali Ahmed, lodged in Jhansi Jail. Another occupant, identified as Sonu, also…
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav stated PDA’s ‘PD’ signifies Pandits, expanding the party’s core voter base. LUCKNOW: In an emphatic Brahmin outreach, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said the letters ‘PD’ in the acronym PDA is a short form for Pandits.Since its defeat by the PDA, BJP keeps coming up with a new…
