Nursing cadets take out ‘alankrit’ parade during commissioning
Lucknow: Following in the footsteps of Florence Nightingale, the third batch of 39 young women cadets passed out from College of Nursing, Command Hospital, Central Command and were commissioned in Indian Army as nursing officer with rank of lieutenant.
The commissioning ceremony of probationer nurses took place on Wednesday at Army Medical Corps (AMC) followed by oath and ‘alankrit’ parade in the presence of reviewing officer Maj Gen Dr Ramesh Kaushik, the commandant of CH (CC) Lucknow, Brig Sunita Sharma, principal matron CH (CC) and other officers.
Maj Gen Kaushik also presented awards to meritorious officers: Lt Suman Rawat (23), a gold medallist, for securing first rank in final year of examination conducted by KGMU, Lt Pooja Bharti and Lt Ayushi Mishra (24) for securing the second and third ranks and Lt Chanpreet Kaur (22) for best clinical nursing cadet. Lt Swati Dogra and Lt Nidhi Rawat were awarded fo
Gorakhpur: A youth kidnapped a 14 years old Hindu girl living in the neigbourhood, forcefully married her and gave her the ‘nikahnama’ before leaving .
Varanasi: The Ballia police arrested an alleged Samajwadi Party (SP) worker Brijesh Yadav and sent him to jail on Tuesday for allegedly performing ‘pind daan’ (last rites) of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday and posting its video on social media.
On the complaint of a priest, Sudhakar Mishra, the police had lodged an FIR against Yadav under sections 420 (cheating), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 505 (statements conducing to public mischief) of IPC and 66 IT Act.
Police said Yadav, a resident of Dalchapra village in Revati police station area of Ballia district, had performed the rituals on the bank of Ganga after befooling five priests, including the complainant, Mishra.
Varanasi: The postal department will arrange to provide Mahashivratri prasad of Kashi Vishwanath Temple at the doorstep of the devotees. Now, one could can get the prasad at home through Speed Post after paying Rs. 251.
Postmaster general of Varanasi region Krishna Kumar Yadav said on Wednesday that under an agreement between the department of posts and Shri Kashi Vishwanath Temple Trust, prasad of the temple in new format will be made available to the people through Speed Post Service.
“Under this scheme, an e-money order of Rs. 251 has to be sent to the senior superintendent of post offices, Varanasi (East) Division from the nearest post office. The prasad would be sent to the addressee immediately as soon as the e-money order is received. The prasad will be in the temper proof envelope with proper packaging, and it will not be tampered with in any way,” he added.