Новости за 18.12.2015

A Lucknow-based couple went to Goa on honeymoon but on the flight back home, they had such a fight that the husband simply walked off the flight at a stopover.

India is expected to grow by 7-7.5% in 2015-16, slower than the previous estimate of 8.1-8.5% as weak exports, sluggish farm sector and private investment weighed on faster expansion, the government’s mid-year review showed on Friday.

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and son Rahul will seek bail when they appear before the trial court in connection with the National Herald case on Saturday, putting an end to feverish speculation in political circles over the legal strategy the leaders are likely to adopt.

Friday saw children of different age groups come together on a common platform to share their imagination in colour. The occasion was Times NiE Colour Splash, an annual painting competition organized by Times NiE in association with Excellia School at Dreamworld Amusement Park on Kanpur Road.

The al-Qaida module busted with the arrest of Asif on Wednesday, a native of Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh, is getting bigger. Asif has told interrogators that he met two youths, hailing from his village Deepa Sarai, in North Waziristan in 2013. He was in touch with at least five other persons from west UP, including two, who had received terror training in Pakistan.

A massive traffic jam lasting for over five hours engulfed the entire Hazratganj area on Friday. Vehicles stood still on Ashok Marg. The diverted traffic led to utter chaos with vehicles packed bumper-to-bumper on the connecting roads and by-lanes. The situation was such that motorists too took hours to manage their way out.

On his first ever journey out of Palestine, Ameer (18) has stories of struggle and resilience smeared on his face. Bringing his struggles in his performance and theatre, something about India had caught Ameer’s eyes.

They were posers that kept the policy makers on their toes on Friday afternoon. And this time, even speaker Mata Prasad Pandey’s fervent instructions to “sit down” couldn’t silence them

Travelling in women’s coaches in trains can get male passengers in trouble. Railways have started a drive against passengers found violating different provisions of the Railway Act, including unauthorised travel in ladies’ coach.

The Indian government should revisit its own values of freedom struggle and speak up against Israel’s stand towards Palestine and its blatant repression of Palestinians. This was the joint appeal made by Indian and Palestinian artists, theatre persons and activists in Lucknow on Friday when the first-ever Indo-Palestinian theatre collaboration was performed in the city.

Passengers from Lucknow can board special trains to Shirdi and Vaishno Devi in February.

In the eye of the storm for the surreptitious transfer of shares to Young Indian, the Associated Journals Limited (AJL) is all set to become a not-for-profit company

With the recent climate conference in Paris finding nuclear energy the best way to deal with dangerous climate change, there is some heartening news from home.

A new skills development program, ‘Suryamitra’, is being initiated at the Lucknow University’s Center of Excellence in Renewable Energy Education and Research from January 1. The three month certificate course is based on study and skill-based training in solar energy

In high afternoon drama on Friday, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and his MP wife Dimple Yadav got lodged inside the elevator of Vidhan Bhawan for 24 minutes

City residents will be able to pay house taxes from anywhere in city from coming January. The software is being prepared by NIC and will be completed by the year-end. It will include upgraded features, like submitting self-tax assessment forms and mutation applications too.

The high court has expressed displeasure over the principal secretary, transport’s failure to respond to its notice seeking details of a law, if any, to reign in two-wheelers commercially modified to deliver pizza and other e-shop articles. The court has granted him time till January 21 to submit his response, failing which he would have to appear in person.

Governor Ram Naik on Friday approved the appointment of Justice Virendra Singh as the new Lokayukta of UP, ending the prolonged political drama over the issue

Ending the suspense over winter session of state assembly, UP cabinet on Friday said that the “next session” of assembly would be called after January 26. The state government, however, did not clarify the exact date, or whether the next session would be the winter or budget session.

A 61-year-old man allegedly committed suicide by jumping into the Gomti on Friday afternoon. Rajesh Kumar Mishra, who retired from prisons department, stayed in Chowk with his wife Manju who has been undergoing cancer treatment for several years.

Close on the heels of the Delhi government’s odd-even formula to curb pollution in the national capital, Uttar Pradesh government on Friday announced a complete ban on the manufacture, sale, purchase, storage, and use of polythene carry bags across the state. The decision, which is likely to come into force by the end of January – 30 days after the publication of a notice to this effect in the state gazette – comes on the back of an order by the Allahabad High Court, directing the state to prohibit the use of polythene.

The juvenile offender in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case is set to walk out of the special home in the next few days, after the Delhi high court on Friday refused to stay his release citing lack of any legal provision to intervene.

The juvenile offender in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case is set to walk out of the special home in the next few days, after the Delhi high court on Friday refused to stay his release citing lack of any legal provision to intervene.

The screening of Shahrukh Khan-starrer ‘Dilwale’ across the state was marked by as much drama outside theatres as inside. Perhaps more. In protest against the Bollywood actor’s alleged remarks against rising intolerance in the country, right-wing activists staged a dharna outside theatres in different parts of UP and called upon movie-goers to boycott the film.

The APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU) will include several new security measures in its degree. Against the single QR code on degrees of AKTU till now, the university claims to have adopted all possible world-standard security features. The new degrees will be handed out to students in the convocation on January 22.