New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to Manish Bhandari – the oxygen supplier to Gorakhpur’s B.R.D. Medical college and hospital where a large number of children died in 2017. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud granted bail as it was[Read More…]
Lucknow: A day after a girl tried to set herself on fire outside the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister’s residence, alleging police inaction in her gang rape by a BJP MLA, her father died in police custody on Monday. Following this, the Uttar Pradesh government suspended four police officers, including the Station[Read More…]
Lucknow: A statue of Dalit icon Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was vandalised in Allahabad on Saturday, police said. The statue with its head chopped off was found by residents at a park in the city’s Trivenipuram locality. “We are aware of the matter and are trying to locate the suspects,” Senior[Read More…]
Lucknow: Three people were killed after a dust storm hit Uttar Pradesh, police said on Saturday. One person was killed after a wooden shaft collapsed on him in Gonda while two labourers died in Azamgarh when the roof of an under-construction building fell on them. The deaths took place on[Read More…]
Lucknow: The BSP, which enabled the success of Samajwadi Party (SP) candidates in the Phulpur and Gorakhpur parliamentary bypolls by successfully transferring its votes to them, will in future not play such an “active role”, according to party chief Mayawati. At a meeting with her party leaders, office bearers and[Read More…]
Lucknow: In a jolt to the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), its legislator Anil Singh on Friday voted for BJP candidates in the Rajya Sabha polls currently underway in Uttar Pradesh. Talking to the media after casting his vote, Singh, who met chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday night, said he[Read More…]
New Delhi: Union Minister Manoj Sinha on Tuesday conceded that the alliance of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has added strength to the opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh, adding that the BJP will have to devise a “strategy” to defeat them. Sinha, who is Minister of[Read More…]
Guwahati: Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) sleuths have seized about 1,000 kg of contraband marijuana from a vehicle here that was to be smuggled to Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Saturday. The driver of the vehicle and his helper were arrested on Friday night when the operation was launched. “We[Read More…]
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said his ties with the Congress will continue to be good but stopped short of saying if the two parties will fight the 2019 Lok Sabha elections together. “I cannot comment on what will happen in the future. Our ties with the[Read More…]
Lucknow: Former UP minister and one of the most popular faces in the state capital, Begum Hamida Habibullah passed away here on Tuesday morning. She was 102, family sources said. Daughter of the late Nawab Nazir Yar Jung Bahadur, Chief Justice of the Hyderabad High Court, Begum Hamida was a front-ranking[Read More…]
Lucknow: Laying to rest speculation over naming her brother Anand as the party’s Rajya Sabha candidate, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Tuesday night named old loyalist Bhim Rao Ambedkar as its candidate for the upper House of Parliament. In a statement, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister said there is[Read More…]
Lucknow: A day after the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) extended its support to the Samajwadi Party (SP) candidates for the Lok Sabha bypolls to Phoolpur and Gorakhpur seats, the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) also on Monday announced its support to the SP nominees. The Ajit Singh-led RLD, while announcing this[Read More…]
Lucknow: In a significant move, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leaders on Sunday announced their support for the Samajwadi Party (SP) candidates in the March 11 bypolls to Phulpur and Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seats to defeat the BJP. The decision was taken at BSP leaders’ meetings at Gorakhpur and Allahabad and[Read More…]
Lucknow: A Samajwadi Party (SP) leader and a former legislator Rakesh Singh has been arrested after a smuggled pistol was seized from his house in Aligarh, police said on Tuesday. The former lawmaker has been booked under the Arms Act. He has been taken for interrogation to the Quwarsi police station,[Read More…]
Lucknow: A young Dalit girl was burnt alive in a Uttar Pradesh village in Unnao district late last night, police said. Eighteen-year-old Moni was cycling to a vegetable market on Thursday when some unidentified persons confronted her. They surrounded her and poured petrol over her. Before she could react, they had[Read More…]
Lucknow: In a big relief to Yogi Adityanath, the Allahabad High Court on Thursday refused to admit a plea for a CBI probe to prosecute the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister in a 2007 riot case that had left one person dead. Adityanath, along with the then Gorakhpur Mayor Anju Chowdhary and[Read More…]
Lucknow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday announced that his government will establish a Rs 20,000-crore defence industrial production corridor in Bundelkhand — a region divided between Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh — that will generate 250,000 jobs and bring development to one of the most impoverished regions of the[Read More…]
Lucknow: Reliance Jio will invest another Rs 10,000 crore in Uttar Pradesh over the next three years, Reliance Industries Limited Chairman Mukesh Ambani said here on Wednesday. “Today I am happy to inform this audience that Jio is one of the largest investors in Uttar Pradesh with investments of over Rs[Read More…]
New Delhi: Rotomac Global Private Limited cheated a consortium of banks to the tune of Rs 3,695 crore (including interest) by siphoning off loans sanctioned to the company for procurement of wheat and other goods for export. No export was undertaken, though, according to officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation[Read More…]
New Delhi/Kanpur: The CBI on Monday raided several locations in Kanpur in connection with a Rs 800 crore loan default by the Rotomac Pen company’s chief Vikram Kothari, an official said. Kothari is the chairman and MD at the Kanpur-based Rotomac Global Private Limited. Coming close on the heels of the[Read More…]
New Delhi: Now the tourists may have to pay Rs 10 more to see the Taj Mahal, as the government proposes to increase the entry fee to Rs 50 from Rs 40 and introduce an additional fee of Rs 200 to for visiting the main mausoleum, a Union Minister said on[Read More…]
New Delhi: By-elections to the Lok Sabha seats of Gorakhpur and Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh and Araira in Bihar will be held on March 11, the Election Commission announced on Friday. Polling will also be held in the Jehanabad and Bhabua Assembly constituencies of Bihar the same day. The poll[Read More…]
Lucknow: Family members of Chandan Gupta, the youth killed in the Kasganj violence on Republic Day, met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath here on Tuesday and demanded that he be given martyr status. The sister of the slain youth told media that the Chief Minister patiently heard them out but[Read More…]
Lucknow: Two persons circulating inflammatory videos and communal messages on social media were arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Kasganj district on Tuesday, police said. Identified as Ram Singh and Ajay Gupta, one of them is the admin of a WhatsApp group on which inflammatory posts were being circulated, in an apparent bid[Read More…]
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday took potshots at Congress president Rahul Gandhi for his recent visits to temples and for sporting a ‘janeyu’ (sacred Hindu thread), saying that people will never forgive those who set aside welfare of the majority community. Addressing a function of the Akhil[Read More…]
