Lucknow: As Rahul Gandhi is set to make the first trip to his parliamentary constituency as the Congress president on Monday, posters eulogising him as an incarnation of Lord Rama slaying Prime Minister Narendra Modi, portrayed as the ten-headed demon king Ravan, have appeared at various places in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi[Read More…]
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh faced an embarrassing situation on Saturday as quintals of potatoes were thrown by the farmers in front of the Vidhan Sabha building and outside Chief Minister’s residence. The VIP and high-security zone in front of the state assembly building was strewn with potatoes[Read More…]
In a meeting on Thursday, it was decided that the number of tourists visiting the Taj Mahal will be capped at 30,000 per day. The decision comes after a minor stampede that happened at one of the entry gates of the monument last Thursday. The quantity of tourist going to[Read More…]
A 30-year-old man on Saturday tried to jump in front of the car of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath here to draw his attention to illegal mining allegedly being patronised by BJP leaders. As Adityanath was headed to Lok Bhawan for an event, the man who had camouflaged himself[Read More…]
The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday once again issued instructions to all government offices to put up a picture of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. The government offices told to put up Ambedkar’s picture include the Legislative Assembly, Legislative Council, state secretariat, public sector institutions, municipal corporations/councils and educational institutions. A[Read More…]
Two teenaged girls were found hanging from a tree in Noida, adjoining national capital Delhi, on Tuesday, police said. The bodies were spotted by people in Noida’s Barola village in Uttar Pradesh. The deceased have been identified as Laxmi, 18, and her sister Nisha, 14. Police said they were probing[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh’s ruling BJP unit on Monday urged the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) to give up its “rigid and archaic stand” about triple talaq and join the voice of thousands to give Muslim women equality, security and their honor. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state President Mahendra Nath[Read More…]
The Uttar Pradesh government has stopped the salaries of 298 staff and teachers at 43 madrasas in the state that have not submitted the required details, an official said on Friday. Minority Welfare and Muslim Waqf Minister Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary told the legislative council that of the total 560 madrasas[Read More…]
The Uttar Pradesh government will withdraw 20,000 political cases slapped on various people for reasons like staging a demonstration and holding sit-ins, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced on Thursday. Speaking on the UPCOCA debate in the state assembly, he said that his government, after due deliberations, had decided to do[Read More…]
The Uttar Pradesh Control of Organised Crime Act (UPCOCA) bill was passed by the state assembly on Wednesday. The bill was presented by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who also holds the charge of the Home Department. He told the House that the proposed law would come in handy in controlling[Read More…]
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday scotched speculation about Sonia Gandhi retiring from politics, saying her mother will fight from her Lok Sabha constituency of Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Asked if she would contest from Rae Bareli in 2019, Priyanka told NDTV: “There is[Read More…]
The industry body, the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA), on Thursday said that sugar production in Uttar Pradesh was set to cross 100 lakh tonnes in 2017 and the total countrywide production was expected to be 251 lakh tonnes. Sugar production in major sugarcane growing state of Maharashtra had gone[Read More…]
The winter session of the Uttar Pradesh assembly began on Thursday, even as opposition din in the Legislative Council made its Chairman adjourn the upper house of the state legislature for the day. At the start of the council session, Samajwadi Party (SP) members raised anti-government slogans and protested against[Read More…]
In a highly controversial remark, union minister of state for human resource development, Satyapal Singh on Sunday has said that “No boy will ready to marry a girl who comes to the mandap (wedding stage) in jeans.” Notably, the minister shared the stage with chief minister Yogi Adityanath in Gorakhpur.[Read More…]
The sensational double murder of a woman and her 11-year-old daughter has been solved with her son, 16, confessing to have killed them with a pizza cutter because he was scolded and beaten up at home over a minor issue, police said on Saturday. The juvenile, who was the prime[Read More…]
Their demands stonewalled for a long time by the state government, Anganwadi workers in Uttar Pradesh have devised a new way to put pressure on the powers that be. Amid chanting of hymns and drum beating, an Aanganwadi worker from Sitapur symbolically “married” a picture of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.[Read More…]
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Monday lauded his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath for his drive against criminals and said that he will also ask the police in the hill state to emulate the crackdown. Addressing an event in Gorakhpur, the hometown of Adityanath, Rawat said it was[Read More…]
The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) on Friday won 30 of the 78 seats it contested in the Uttar Pradesh municipal elections. The Hyderabad-headquartered party’s candidate Hajjan Hansar was also elected as chairperson of Dasna Municipal Council. The party headed by Asaduddin Owaisi won 10 seats in Firozabad Municipal Corporation, two in[Read More…]
Polling for the third and final phase of civic body polls began on Wednesday amid tight security in Uttar Pradesh. It covers 233 urban bodies spread across 26 districts, including five municipal corporations of Bareilly, Saharanpur, Jhansi, Firozabad and Moradabad, an official said. Voting for 76 Nagar Palika Parishads and[Read More…]
A case was filed against former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav in a Faizabad court on Tuesday for allegedly ordering firing on the ‘Kar Sewaks’ trying to storm the disputed structure in Ayodhya on November 2, 1990. The case was filed by Gayatri Devi, widow of Ramesh Kumar[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday urged people to vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the ongoing urban body polls and not to focus on the candidates. Addressing a public rally in Balrampur, Aditynath said people should focus on the party symbol “lotus” and not see[Read More…]
Bizarre news is not something new to Uttar Pradesh. On Monday, the district jail in Orai was witness to a unique sight as eight donkeys “incarcerated” for the last four days in the prison were let off, after a “recommendation” from a local BJP leader! These donkeys had been “sent[Read More…]
A 20-year-old woman patient at a Kanpur hospital has been diagnosed as suffering from non-contagious Darier’s skin disease, making her the first reported case in Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Monday. The young woman’s affliction was diagnosed by the Pathology Department at the Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital in Kanpur. Doctors[Read More…]
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Friday said public sentiment were against the BJP governments in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, and her party can come to power if its workers made some efforts. “People in these states are under stress due to the BJP rule. It is party workers’[Read More…]
The Jammu-Patna Archana Express’ engine detached from the train in Uttar Pradesh‘s Saharanpur district thrice within a span of three hours on Friday while on its way to the Bihar capital, though there was no untoward incident, officials said. A Railway Ministry official said the engine of the train, that[Read More…]