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…]
Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Wednesday met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath here and discussed the dragging Ayodhya dispute. Adityanath and Ravi Shankar held a 30-minute meeting at the Chief Minister’s residence. Officials told IANS that Ravi Shankar briefed the Chief Minister about his initiative[Read More…]
Direct flights between Agra and Jaipur are proposed to start on December 15 this year, an Uttar Pradesh government official said on Wednesday. The information was given to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during a review meeting of the new Civil Aviation promotion Policy-2017, which was rolled out in September this[Read More…]
BSP supremo Mayawati on Monday accused the BJP governments at the Centre and in Uttar Pradesh of “criminal negligence” and blamed them for the NTPC tragedy in Rae Bareli in which 37 persons died. In a statement issued by the Bahujan Samaj Party, the former Chief Minister said that due[Read More…]
Hours after he returned from his three-day trip to Mauritius, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday visited the hospitals here where the injured in the boiler blast at the NTPC unit in Rae Bareli have been admitted, even as the toll rose to 35 with two more injured[Read More…]
The death toll in the NTPC boiler blast here in Uttar Pradesh rose to 30 on Thursday, with more injured workers succumbing to their burn injuries. Power producer NTPC shut down the 500 MW unit following the accident. The National Human Rights Commission has issued a notice to the Uttar[Read More…]
The death toll in the NTPC boiler blast in Uttar Pradesh rose to 26 on Thursday, with more injured workers succumbing to their burn injuries, officials said. Doctors warned that the toll was likely to rise further as more than a dozen contractual labourers were battling for life with more[Read More…]
At least 20 people were killed and more than 80 injured in a boiler explosion at a unit of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) in Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli district, officials said. Many of the injured are in critical condition with scalded body parts caused by hot ash and[Read More…]
Over one-fourth of 201 districts where India fails in education, health and nutrition fronts are located in Uttar Pradesh alone, followed by Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Tuesday. “If you look at 201 districts in India where we fail…, 53 are in Uttar Pradesh,[Read More…]
The Uttar Pradesh government has ordered a probe into the works undertaken in 16 districts of the state under the Prime Minister’s rural housing scheme and MNREGA, an official said on Tuesday. The investigation would be conducted by Rural Development Commissioner Parthasarthi Sen Sharma based on complaints received by the[Read More…]
Hundreds of sugarcane farmers in Uttar Pradesh burnt their crop outside the Vidhan Sabha here on Saturday and raised slogans against the Yogi Adityanath government, terming the Rs 10 hike in MSP as “paltry”. The state government two days back had increased the minimum support price (MSP) for sugarcane by[Read More…]
