A special home to house around 1,000 widows will be inaugurated at Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh on Friday by Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, official sources said. ‘Krishna Kutir’ – said to be largest such facility constructed by a government – was constructed on 1.4 hectares at a cost of 57.48[Read More…]
A 20-year-old man identified as Shahrukh Khan was beaten to death by a mob in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, early on Thursday on suspicion of stealing a buffalo. Three persons have been detained in connection with the incident. The incident happened in Bholapur Hindoliya village where more than 50 persons attacked[Read More…]
Marginalized in the Samajwadi Party of which he was a founder member, Shivpal Singh Yadav on Wednesday floated a ‘Samajwadi Secular Front’ and urged people who he said might be feeling humiliated in the SP to join him. Once a powerful leader in the Samajwadi Party, the younger brother of[Read More…]
On the eve of Raksha Bandhan, few Muslim women and BJP leader Bukkal Nawab, who is also the chairman of National Shia society, tied rakhi to cows near Lord Shiva temple at Kudiya Ghat, Lucknow. Performing Gau-puja, the BJP MLC pledged ‘cow protection’ as his primary duty. Bukkal Nawab said that[Read More…]
Unnao district administration exhumed the remains of 32-year-old Yunus Khan, the key CBI witness in the rape case involving Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar on Saturday. Yunus was a witness for CBI in the murder case of the father of a teenage girl raped in the district last[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday congratulated three doctors from the state for being named by the Medical Council of India (MCI) for the coveted Dr BC Roy National Award. Adityanath said the nomination of M.L. Bhatt, Rakesh Kapoor and Deepak Agarwal was a “matter of immense pride[Read More…]
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the mysterious death and burial without autopsy of a key witness in the Unnao rape-murder case involving BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar. It “smells of a conspiracy,” Gandhi said. “Is this your idea of ‘justice for our daughters’, Mr 56?” Gandhi tweeted. BJP MLA[Read More…]
Killing of two Hindu seers in Auraiyya of Uttar Pradesh has triggered protests and tension in the district, and two policemen have been put under suspension for dereliction of duty, an official said on Wednesday. Those suspended are Inspector In-charge of Bidhoona Police Station Akhilesh Mishra and Constable Islam. The[Read More…]
Bharatiya Janata Party-led Yogi Adityanath government had requested the District Administration to withdraw 113 cases related to riots in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts. In a reaction to this, the District Administration has clearly refused from withdrawing the cases of 2013 riots. The request for the withdrawal of 131 riot-related cases[Read More…]
Ahead of state executive meet on Sunday, Bharatiya Janata Party UP chairperson Mahendra Nath Pandey has clarified that Ram Mandir has never been a poll agenda for BJP. Keeping in view the upcoming 2019 Lok Sabha elections, all the parties have geared up for the preparations. Where oppositions are getting[Read More…]
A case was registered on Thursday against four persons on the charge of gang-raping a schoolgirl and making a video of the crime, police said. The parents of the victim lodged the FIR at Sikandra police station that she was forcibly whisked away to nearby Kankretha forest on a two-wheeler by the accused while[Read More…]
Paying regards to the Kanwariyas, Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police on Wednesday showered rose petals on them from helicopter. The video of Merut zone Officer Prashant Kumar along with his companion and Commissioner Chandra Prakash Tripathi is going viral on social media. They were accompanied by few other senior[Read More…]
After Bihar, it is Uttar Pradesh. Another incident of abuse and harassment against minors in government shelter home registered in Uttar Pradesh’s Deoria. 24 girls from the shelter home in Deoria have been rescued. The victims narrated the atrocities they were going through in the shelter home. UP chief minister[Read More…]
New Delhi: In all, 1971 children were tracked and recovered in Uttar Pradesh between June 2015 and July 2018 using the facility of Khoya-Paya — a citizen corner of Trackchild, a Union Minister told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. The Khoya-Paya portal is a citizen-based website to exchange information on[Read More…]
Four labourers working on laying 4G cables for a private telecom company were buried alive in Uttar Pradesh‘s Bareilly district late on Monday, police said on Tuesday. They had slipped into a six-feet-deep pit and a mud mound collapsed on them, an officer said. Eight labourers were trapped in the[Read More…]
A wagon of goods train, numbered 107462, which had started its trek in November 2014 from Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh reached its destination in Uttar Pradesh after three years, highlighting the careless attitude of Indian Railways. Wagon was booked in November 2014 by a company called Indian Potash Limited to send[Read More…]
Praveen Kumar, a senior police officer in eastern Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur town was recently roasted for sharing his pictures on Social Media where he kneels down, shakes hand and puts tilak to UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Yogi Adityanath, also the head priest of the influential Gorakhnath temple in the town,[Read More…]
Three students were beaten and arrested late Friday for showing black flags to BJP National President Amit Shah, during his visit to Allahabad. Protesters including two girl students and one boy raised blacks flags and slogans in front of BJP leader Amit Shah’s cavalcade. As per the reports, ‘unemployment’ was[Read More…]
Hari Om Pandey, Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Uttar Pradesh has made a discriminatory statement, blaming the Muslim community responsible for increasing cases on mob lynching in India. BJP leader Pandey said that it’s of grave concern that the Muslim population is increasing because “that’s the reason for growing incidents[Read More…]
Former Union Minister and Congress MP Jairam Ramesh has once again called out for a divided Uttar Pradesh. He has repeatedly made a strong pitch to bifurcate the largest state of India. Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state of India with 400 million people living across 2,43286 sq km.[Read More…]
Lucknow: Two traders were killed by unidentified assailants late on Wednesday at their shop in Pratapgarh town of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Thursday. The situation has been tense after the brothers were murdered in Kaudhaur market. All through the night, family members and fellow traders were up in arms[Read More…]
Lucknow: Over a dozen ‘shiksha mitra’ women activists demanding full benefits of assistant teachers and other welfare schemes on Wednesday tonsured their heads against the state government’s apathetic attitude towards them. Hundreds of state ‘shiksha mitras’ are out on the streets for over a month. They say the government is[Read More…]
In a startling revelation, five state-run primary schools had word ‘Islamia’ prefixed to their name on the sign board and the entire documentation of the school records was done in Urdu. Moreover, these five schools were seen shut on Friday instead of Sunday. Once the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi[Read More…]
BSP leader Mayawati looks to be back with a bang working hard to improve the party’s image preparing battleground for the 2019 general elections. To caution the party workers Mayawati today issued a press release mentioning that the social media sites including facebook, twitter and the website that are in[Read More…]
Meerut: A senior policemen in Uttar Pradesh panicked as his WhatsApp chat went viral on social media on Tuesday in which, a station House Officer posted in Bulandshahr claimed to pay a bribe of Rs 50,000 to the Meerut ADG for his transfer. The accused, Parshuram had recently shifted from Noida to[Read More…]