The Uttar Pradesh cabinet has approved the GST Bill on Tuesday even before introducing it in the approaching assembly session with an aim to roll out the new tax regime from July 1. The decision was taken at the fifth cabinet meeting of the state government. The meeting was presided[Read More…]
On charges of ‘honey trapping’ BJP lawmaker KC Patel, the Delhi Police took a woman into custody for questioning, on Tuesday. The woman, who accused Patel of rape, was arrested from her residence in Indirapuram. “We have taken the woman, who honey-trapped the BJP MP, into custody for questioning,” a[Read More…]
In order to improve the standards of education quality in state-run schools and ensure regular attendance, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath wants pictures of faculty members posted on school walls. This step will be taken to check and cross-check from students if those teachers’ whose images are on the wall[Read More…]
Amid speculation to end alliance with Samajwadi Party, Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Raj Babbar said that the slogan, ‘UP ko yeh saath pasand hai’ is history. The SP-Congress alliance miserably failed in the assembly elections. Thus, speaking for the first time on electoral issues since, Babbar said that his party[Read More…]
The ISBT model of Delhi may soon to be replicated in Gorakhpur. According to sources, the Delhi transport department said the UP Transport Minister Swatantra Dev Singh is expected to visit the Maharana Pratap ISBT, an inter-state bus terminus to study the model. As per a senior official, the UP[Read More…]
Addressing a rally on Sunday in Deoria, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath said the condition of the roads in the State would improve in the coming days. ‘We have asked authorities to ensure that the roads are free of potholes by June 15’, he said. He told the gathering that[Read More…]
The Allahabad High Court has transferred around 400 judicial officers in a major reshuffle in the lower judiciary in Uttar Pradesh. According to the notifications issued on Friday by the High Court’s Registrar General Dinesh Kumar Singh, the transferred officials included 199 Additional District Judges (ADJ) and another eight of[Read More…]
The Allahabad High Court judge has suspended a judge of a Lucknow court for granting bail to rape-accused Samajwadi Party leader and former Uttar Pradesh minister Gayatri Prajapati. The SP leader is accused of raping a woman and attempting to rape her minor daughter. The 49-year-old leader was granted bail[Read More…]
The crackdown on slaughterhouses in Uttar Pradesh under Hindutva hardliner Yogi Adityanath is adversely affecting the marriage ceremonies in the country’s most populated state. According to a report, a groom called off a marriage ceremony in Muzaffarnagar after the bride’s family said they may not be able to serve any[Read More…]
As Yogi Adityanath’s popularity keeps multiplying, a private school in Meerut has asked students to get hairstyles on the line of CM Adityanath. The Rishabh Academy School, affiliated by Central Board of Secondary Education has also restricted the students from keeping beards. The school administration also restricts students from bringing[Read More…]
Yogi Adityanath led-government conducted the biggest reshuffle of IAS officials in Uttar Pradesh so far, late on Wednesday. The state government transferred 84 IAS officers, including 38 district magistrates. Notably, SSP of Saharanpur, Luv Kumar, who prevented a communal flare-up last week in which BJP MP Raghav Lakhanpal Sharma was[Read More…]
In an attempt to ameliorate youngsters, who have been influenced by armed terrorism, Adityanath government has launched a de-radicalisation programme. The initiative has been taken up by the ATS (Anti-terrorism squad) UP, who are working on the project to help the ‘misguided’ youths of our country, to stop them from[Read More…]
In a significant move, the Uttar Pradesh government has cancelled 15 public holidays marking the birth or death anniversary of eminent personalities in schools and colleges. Now, the students would be taught about them on those days. The decision was taken in a meeting chaired by chief minister Yogi Adityanath.[Read More…]
After concerns have been raised about fake news, morphed pictures and upsetting videos triggering tensions and even communal rift, it has been decided by the Varanasi authorities that a group admin on WhatsApp or Facebook will be liable for prosecution for any such development. As per a joint order issued[Read More…]
Dozens of hoardings asking Kashmiris to leave Uttar Pradesh or face the consequences have been reportedly put up across Meerut. On Wednesday, Amit Jani, head of the UP Navnirman Sena shared a picture of the hate-mongering poster on his Facebook account. Speaking to CNN-News 18, Jani lashed out against Kashmiri[Read More…]