New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh on Friday emerged as the surprise first among states who have recorded the maximum percentage of decline in Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR), it was announced on Friday. Uttarakhand, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh follow the state with a remarkable decline in their MMR, Union Health and[Read More…]
Lucknow: An Uttar Pradesh head constable shot himself dead on Saturday apparently unable to continue with 20-hours of work shift each day, police said. Raj Ratan Verma was posted at the Dial 100 emergency response service and was apparently under a lot of stress by the overtimes and prolonged duty[Read More…]
New Delhi: Slamming the Uttar Pradesh government for protecting the corrupt, the Congress on Friday referred to Governor Ram Naik’s letter to the Chief Minister regarding a bribery demand accusation against a senior officer in the CMO. The BJP government was trying to protect the corrupt and penalise the innocent[Read More…]
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday asked for details in a case where his Principal Secretary S.P. Goel has been accused of seeking a Rs 25 lakh bribe, an official spokesman said. A Lucknow-based businessman has alleged that senior IAS officer Goel sought money to approve widening[Read More…]
Lucknow: Having vacated his sprawling official bungalow day back following the Supreme Court’s orders, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday hit the streets of the state capital on his high-end sports bicycle and went straight to the Gomti Rover Front, a dream project of his tenure, which[Read More…]
Patna: A case was lodged against Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma in Bihar’s Sitamarhi district on Saturday for insulting Sita by claiming she was the first test tube baby of India. Chandan Kumar Singh, an advocate, filed the case in the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court. It will be[Read More…]
New Delhi: Budget passenger carrier SpiceJet on Tuesday said that it will launch flight operations from Delhi to Kanpur under the air regional connectivity scheme UDAN from July 3. Tickets for the RCS seats on this flight will be available at Rs 2,313 (all in), the company said in a[Read More…]
New Delhi: A new shelter home for widows, with capacity for 1,000 people, has been constructed in Uttar Pradesh’s Vrindavan by the Union Women and Child Development Ministry, an official statement said on Tuesday. The ministry signed an MoU on Tuesday with Uttar Pradesh’s Women and Child Development Department, which[Read More…]
Varanasi: In a shocking incident, five children of a woman were keeping her dead body in their house here for the past five months, so that the pension coming in her name did not stop despite her passing away, police said on Wednesday. The bizarre incident came to light in[Read More…]
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday lashed out at the Samajwadi Party (SP) and accused it of patronising criminals and communal forces when in power in the state. Addressing an election rally in Kairana, ahead of the May 28 Lok Sabha bypoll, Adityanath said the previous SP[Read More…]
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh’s ruling BJP on Monday attacked former UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav over his “loose comments” in recent interviews, warning him that criminals, patronized by him, will no longer have a free run under the Yogi Adityanath government. Bharatiya Janata Party state spokesman, Manish Shukla said that the Samajwadi[Read More…]
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government will be soon honouring five sportspersons from the state who won medals at the 21st Commonwealth Games (CWG) held in Australia, an official said on Thursday. The gold medallists will get Rs 50 lakh each, while the silver medallists will get Rs 30 lakh each[Read More…]
Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party on Friday demanded President’s rule in Uttar Pradesh and said this was necessary to restore the rule of law in the state. Addressing a press conference here, party leader Kironmoy Nanda said the time had come to bid the Yogi Adityanath government good bye. Referring to[Read More…]
Lucknow: Nine people were killed and four others injured on Tuesday when a vehicle rammed into a truck in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli district, police said. The victims, including a child, were from the same family that hailed from Meerut. The family was returning from a pilgrimage at the holy shrine[Read More…]
Lucknow: The BJP government in Uttar Pradesh on Monday installed a statue of Babasaheb B.R. Ambedkar in a Budaun village painted saffron, unlike the usual blue. The statue of the architect of the Indian Constitution in Dugraiyya village, which was vandalised some time back, was replaced with this new one. The[Read More…]
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…]
