vibhav khand

LUCKNOW: LDA is heading for yet another controversy. Lack of development and basic infrastructure have irked the residents of vibhav khand 3-4.

LUCKNOW: A total of 173 cases of fictitious allotments were detected at LDA on Friday. What is surprising they all belonged to a single khand in Gomtinagar. These 173 properties belonged to vibhav khand in Gomtinagar and carry double allotments. Now it has become a tough puzzle for LDA to accommodate two claimants on the same property.

A 14-year-old boy, who was last seen leaving his home for school, went missing on Thursday.

With two more deaths, dengue has spread its wings in the state capital. The fresh casualties have mounted the toll in the state capital to three and five in the state this year.

Eighteen new cases of dengue were reported on Saturday taking the count to 1,427 since January and 1,413 since July.

With 24 new cases of dengue on Thursday, Lucknow’s score crossed the 500-mark since July, when the virus starts to flourish.

Dengue strain got virulent in the city, with 24 positive cases reported on Friday. This mounted the capital’s dengue tally to 528 since July and 575 since January.

Fourteen more people tested positive for the dengue virus on Saturday, taking the patient count in the city to 273 since January.

At least 22 fresh cases of dengue were reported on Monday taking the count to 445 since July and 492 since January. Dengue has also claimed a life in the city so far.

A woman accused her husband and mother-in-law of duping her of Rs 2.3 crore and usurping one half of a house which was purchased by her.The complainant, Hema Kapoor of Shaktinagar in Ghazipur police station area, was married to Abhishek Kapoor of vibhav khand in Gomtinagar in 2003.

Unidentified persons broke into a fitness centre at vibhav khand in Gomtinagar and decamped with electrical and electronic items, besides Rs 5,000 in cash, in the small hours of Wednesday.

A middle-age man was arrested on Saturday from Vivek Khand area in Gomtinagar for duping a financial institution.

Water accumulated in parks, lawns, water troughs for animals and choked drains are the reasons why Gomtinagar is among the list of dengue-prone areas in the city.

Three persons, including two men and a woman committed suicide, all by hanging, in different parts of the state capital in the last 24 hours.

LUCKNOW: In a major reshuffle at the LDA, the property section was completely overhauled by LDA vice-chairman Mahesh Gupta, who made changes in the three-tier system.

When chief minister Mayawati dedicated the third water works project to people of Lucknow on the occasion of the fifth death anniversary of BSP founder Kanshiram on Sunday, amidst a cheering crowd of officials and supporters, little did she realise that the facility hardly holds any significance for a huge section of people living in Gomtinagar, the locality for which the project has been conceptualised.

Dengue is gradually spreading its tentacles in the city, but preventive measures by civic authorities seem to be far from satisfactory. A TOI reality check found sanitation is pathetic in Gomtinagar, Indiranagar, Chinhat, New Haidarganj, Khadra and Balaganj localities where dengue cases have been reported in last two months.

Four cases of burglary were reported on Tuesday, including three in trans-Gomti area.

In an alleged dowry death case, a 24-year-old woman succumbed to her burn injuries after allegedly consuming acid on the intervening night of May 11 and 12.