Union Minister Sanjeev Baliyan slammed Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) Chief Mayawati after she alleged that the expelled party leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui is ‘being a blackmailer’. Baliyan even said, the former should take a step back from politics. While referring to the BSP as ‘Mayawati’s shop’ Baliyan said, “These allegations are[Read More…]
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav lashed out at Defence Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday saying that, it was a shame for Indian soldiers to be “killed in our own territory.” His statement comes following soldiers being killed and mutilated by Pakistan’s Border Action Team (BAT) in Krishna Ghati. The[Read More…]
Over two dozen people sustained burn injuries after a bus came in contact with a high-tension wire in Shahjahanpur late on Thursday, said police. After seeing the vehicles of the Road Transport Officer (RTO) near the Guru Police outpost, the driver took an alternate path. Since the bus was moving[Read More…]
A day after being sacked from Bahujan Samaj Party, senior leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui has broke his silence about Mayawati on Thursday. Siddiqui has said that the former Uttra Pradesh CM had called and asked him as to ‘why the Muslim community did not vote for BSP’. He alleged that Mayawati[Read More…]
Alongside the continuous debate on triple talaq, the Allahabad High Court on Tuesday acknowledged that women’ s basic human rights cannot be violated under the shield of a personal law. As per the HC judgement, triple talaq was termed as a violation of equality. It added that the Muslim men[Read More…]
Gorakhpur IPS officer Charu Nigam retaliates after the verbal conflict with BJP MLA Radha Mohan Agrawal on Sunday, where she burst out into tears. After the video of her being shouted at by Bharatiya Janata Party’s MLA Radha Mohan Das Agrawal went viral; IPS Charu Nigam on Monday said that[Read More…]
This summer, one can relish the taste of a new variety of mango- a ‘Yogi mango’ named after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The mango variety has been developed by Padamshri Haji Kalimullah. Three years ago, Kalimullah, 74, named mangoes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and actresses and now,[Read More…]
Swachh Survekshan, 2017, a huge survey, rating the cleanliness efforts put in by the municipalities in 500 Indian cities has released a list on Thursday. According to the list, Indore and Bhopal were among the top two spots of India’s cleanest cities. Also, the ‘Swachh Survekshan-2017’ ranked Gonda in Uttar Pradesh as[Read More…]
Tariq Mansoor has been chosen as Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) vice-chancellor by President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday. The 60-year-old Mansoor, principal of AMU’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, will succeed Lt Gen (retd) Zameeruddin Shah, who will retire on May 17. Mansoor has been associated with the university for 35 years[Read More…]
A village in Uttar Pradesh has forbidden women from using cell phones in public in an attempt to refrain them from contacting men. The village elders of Madora on Tuesday made the rule that women found using mobile phones outside their homes would be fined Rs. 21,000. Considering the economic status of the[Read More…]
As communal disharmony continues to manifest itself into violence in India, it is claiming the lives of many innocent people. In an unfortunate incident, a 59-year-old man was beaten to death by Hindu Yuva Vahini (HYV) at Sohi village in Bulandshahr’s Pahasu area on Tuesday. He was mutilated after he allegedly[Read More…]
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…]
