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लखनऊ और इसके आसपास के लोगों के अलावा लोग बड़े मंगल के बारे में शायद ही जानते हों। यह लखनऊ का एक लोकल त्योहार है जो जेठ महीने के हर मंगलवार को मनाया जाता है। पहले बड़े मंगल को लखनऊ जिले में सार्वजनिक छुट्टी भी रहती है। बड़े मंगल की परंपरा तकरीबन 400 साल पुरानी

लोक सभा चुनाव के शुरू होने से लेकर खतम होने तक क्या आपने सुना कि ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों में पाँच साल में नल के पानी की उपलब्धता वाले घर 17 प्रतिशत से बढ़कर 77 प्रतिशत हो गए? या 2017 से 2023 के बीच 2.6 करोड़ घरों को पहली बार बिजली मिली? या 2016 से अब तक

For Rajinder, the wait for sunset is getting longer. As darkness falls, he gets a call on his mobile to collect his quota of McDowell No. 1. He goes to a dark lane where the quarter of the booze is slipped into his pocket. And well, his evening becomes colourful. Welcome the election to urban

This evening the AIIMS Director, Dr Randeep Guleria, answered almost every question that one may have about the deadly coronavirus in about 45-minute programme on the news channel Aaj Tak. He busted many myths about the virus, shed light on vaccination, went into causes of black fungus, tried to make prediction how the future would

Every afternoon the Union Health Ministry briefs media with coronavirus update in the country. Inter alia we officially learn how many new people got infected with the virus, how many lost lives because of it and how many people got vaccinated. Switch on TV and you will get the impression that vaccination is going on

हर शाम के वक्त केन्द्रीय स्वास्थ्य मंत्रालय देश में कोरोनावायरस के ताजा हालात पर मीडिया की ब्रीफिंग करता है। तमाम बातों के साथ-साथ हम जानते हैं कि कितने लोग वायरस से प्रभावित हुए, कितनों ने इसके कारण जान गंवाई और कितने लोगों का टीकाकरण हुआ। टीवी खोलें और आपको लगेगा कि टीकाकरण बहुत धीमे चल

For almost one month now open newspaper in the morning and read gory details of disease and deaths. Switch on TV, the same thing – patients gasping for breath, wailing kin, bodies strewn like hay, burning pyres, tired healthcare professionals, implementors… Pick the phone and there may be a casualty or sickness message. Early morning

Among my many childhood friends, one was Vijay Dalmia. We studied together till class X. After passing class X, I moved to Lucknow for higher education, while he stayed back in our hometown and completed class XII from the lone Intermediate college there till that time. After completing my masters and before I got my

As the country enters third phase of lockdown to tackle coronavirus disease, this morning I received a WhatsApp message containing a newspaper clip that proclaimed Neem: Corona ko harane ka sabse bada astra (Neem: The mightiest weapon to defeat corona). That took me about two months back, when a labourer from Sultanpur district proclaimed at