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…]
The Uttar Pradesh government declared Vrindavan and Barsana in Mathura district as pilgrimage sites on Friday. While Vrindavan is popular as the birthplace of Lord Krishna where he and his elder brother Balram were raised, Barsana is the birthplace of Radha. As lakhs of devotees and tourists visit these two[Read More…]
In a shocking incident, air balloons with ‘I love Pakistan’ written on it were seized from Govind Nagar police station area in Uttar Pradesh, Kanpur. Notably, no arrests have been made in this case so far and police are investigating the matter. More details are awaited.
The Uttar Pradesh government late on Wednesday made a major reshuffle in the police, transferring 28 Indian Police Service officials, including several district police chiefs. Akhilesh Kumar has been named as the new Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Kanpur while Pushpanjali Devi is the new Superintendent of Police (SP)[Read More…]
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati on Tuesday accused the BJP governments at the Centre and in Uttar Pradesh of promoting RSS ideology. Addressing a public rally here, the second of her series of 11 public interactions, the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister said BJP governments in states were out[Read More…]
A delegation of US businessmen called on Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Yogi Adityanath to explore investment opportunities in the state. Adityanath told the visiting delegation of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum that India was emerging as a growing economy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership. The state’s strong economy will[Read More…]
The Samajwadi Party will contest five Assembly seats in Gujarat and will back the Congress in the other seats, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Akhilesh Yadav said on Monday. Akhilesh also told the media that the party had decided not to weaken other strong contenders in the state. Taking a[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh is committed to promoting religious tourism in the state, said chief minister, Yogi Adityanath on Monday after undertaking a five-kilometre-long ‘parikrama’ of the Kamadgiri temple at Chitrakoot. On the second day of his visit to Chitrakoot, CM Adityanath took many by surprise when he decided to walk the[Read More…]
A Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker and local journalist, Rajesh Mishra, was shot dead by unidentified bike-borne assailants at his shop on Saturday in Karanda area of Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur district. Mishra’s brother was also with him and has been badly injured in the incident. The incident comes just four[Read More…]
At least two persons died and over 18 were injured on Wednesday morning in a collision between two Roadways buses in Gunnaur area of Sambhal district in Uttar Pradesh. The victims have been taken to hospitals of Aligarh and Badaun districts. The District Magistrate (DM) and the Superintendent of Police[Read More…]
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA, Sangeet Som, has stirred controversy after saying that the Taj Mahal was built by traitors and therefore, cannot be included in the Indian history. He said this during an event at the Sisoli village in Meerut district on Sunday. “Many people were disappointed that the[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh’s Mughalsarai railway station has been renamed as Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay railway station on Saturday. Noted Jan Sangh leader, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya was found dead in a mysterious situation near Mughalsarai station in February 1968. Mughalsarai is one of the oldest railway junctions in Uttar Pradesh. Chief Minister, Adityanath[Read More…]
Around 90 students fell sick in Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur district after consuming the contaminated meal. Initially, they complained of abdominal pain and vomiting after eating following which they were admitted to the Vindhyachal health center. Around 45 students’ condition turned serious and they were referred to another hospital. “Some students[Read More…]
The Allahabad High Court on Thursday will announce its judgement in the Aarushi Talwar murder case and decide the fate of the late girl’s parents and doctor couple, Rajesh and Nupur Talwar. They are currently serving life imprisonment in Ghaziabad’s Dasna Jail after they were convicted for the gruesome murder[Read More…]
At least 200 students were taken ill after inhaling fumes of toxic gas from a nearby sugar mill in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli. They were students of Saraswati Vidya Mandir and Saraswati Junior High School. Reportedly, they inhaled the gas that was used to treat garbage at the plant. They were[Read More…]
Days after Congress vice-president, Rahul Gandhi accused the saffron party of claiming credit for schemes launched by Congress, BJP chief, Amit Shah questioned Gandhi on the lack of growth in his own parliamentary constituency, Amethi, on Tuesday. “Rahul Gandhi, whose party has ruled the country for 60 years, is asking[Read More…]