WINTER KNOCKS, UP CITIES RECORD DIP IN NIGHT TEMPERATURE
Early morning temperature in Lucknow and other cities in Uttar Pradesh have started dipping. It went below 20 degree Celsius at many places across the state. On Wednesday morning, minimum temperature in Lucknow was recorded at 19.1 degrees Celsius (C) which dropped from 24.8 degrees Celsius on Friday to 19.1 degrees within six days.
The minimum temperature in Lucknow is likely to hover around 18-19 degrees Celsius for the next two-three days, according to India Meteorological Department’s (IMD).
Muzaffarnagar recorded lowest temperature of 12.8 degrees Celsius, Kanpur City, Meerut and Shahajhanpur 15, Aligarh 15.6, Churk 15.7, Bareilly 15.9, Agra 16.1, Hardoi 18.4, Jhansi 18.8, Bahraich 19.4 degree Celsius.
The day temperature, however, continues to remain warm. Maximum temperature in Lucknow was 34.3 degrees Celsius, Prayagraj 35 degrees Celsius, Sultanpur, Orai, Najibabad and Lakhimpur Kheri and Hardoi 34 degrees Celsius.
“This is quite normal. We are not expecting any change in the maximum temperature immediately. Skies are clear after the monsoon has withdrawn. Day temperatures will remain high, but the nights will be cooler. The wind direction has changed from easterly during monsoon to north-westerly. As a result, the winds are blowing from the colder regions such as J&K and Himachal Pradesh,” said JP Gupta met director.
The Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF), the Trust set up by Uttar Pradesh State Sunni Central Waqf Board to construct a mosque and other public utility establishments on the allocated five acres of land in Dhannipur village of Ayodhya, will launch the blueprint of the proposed structures in the first week of November.
While officials of the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board said the event would be a grand affair, the trust has made it clear that it would be just a formal launch.
“We are planning to formally launch the blueprint of the proposed structures in the first week of November in all likelihood,” said Athar Hussain, the spokesperson for IICF.
He, however, added that the formal launch will not be a ground breaking ceremony, claiming that there was no concept of holding such a ceremony for a mosque in Islam.
“But yes, in days to come we will be holding a ground breaking ceremony as well but for other public utility establishments to come up along with the mosque,” said Hussain.
Members of the trust said the Board was expected to invite chief minister Yogi Adityanath to the ground breaking ceremony of other public utility establishments that will be built on the five-acre land.
Besides a mosque, a hospital, an Indo-Islamic centre, a community kitchen and a museum will also come up on the land.
Professor SM Akhtar, a Lucknow-based architect-cum-town planner and the founder of dean faculty of architecture, Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi, has prepared the blueprint.
The Board has already cleared that the mosque would come up on around 15,000 square feet area and its style would be a pure amalgamation of Indo-Islamic architecture.
The state government has allotted the five-acre land on the directive of the apex court. On November 9 last year, the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya and directed the Centre to allot an alternative five-acre land to the Sunni Waqf Board for building a new mosque in the holy town.
A day after their removal from the JN Medical College in Aligarh, the two doctors working as casualty medical officers (CMO), got support from the Resident Doctors Association (RDA) which sought their reinstatement, threatening that if this demand was not met they may go on strike at.
“Resident doctors in Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College of Aligarh Muslim University’s have demanded reinstatement of the two CMOs who were allegedly removed for comments in connection with the