The Uttar Pradesh government has stopped the salaries of 298 staff and teachers at 43 madrasas in the state that have not submitted the required details, an official said on Friday. Minority Welfare and Muslim Waqf Minister Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary told the legislative council that of the total 560 madrasas[Read More…]
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Sugar production in UP to cross 100 lakh tonnes: Industry
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…]
UP Congress leader claims he wasn’t allowed to contest against Rahul
A Congress leader from western Uttar Pradesh on Thursday alleged that he wanted to contest the presidential election in the party against Vice President Rahul Gandhi but was prevented from doing so. Talking to reporters, Ayub Ali said that he had gone to meet the Congress‘ Central Election Authority chairman[Read More…]
Woman ‘marries’ UP CM to highlight plight of Anganwadi workers
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…]
Survey finds BJP, Congress in dead heat in Gujarat, BJP calls it ‘off the mark’
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday dismissed as “wide off the mark” a new opinion polls findings that showed the Congress gaining heavily and fast catching up with the ruling party in Gujarat as well as closing the gap between the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh, Delhi top crime list in 2016: NCRB
Uttar Pradesh was the state where the maximum number of crimes took place in 2016, while Delhi reported the highest crime rate, latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report said on Thursday. Uttar Pradesh accounted for 9.5 per cent of total Indian Penal Code (IPC) crimes reported in the country[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh: Polling for final phase of civic body polls begin
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…]
Not for candidates, vote for party in civic polls: Yogi Adityanath
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…]
Uttar Pradesh: Imprisoned donkeys ‘released’ from jail on BJP leader’s ‘recommendation’
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…]
National opposition should work together to challenge Modi: Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday threw enough hints that she is not averse to taking the lead in bringing together opposition parties on a single platform against the BJP in the next Lok Sabha election in 2019. The Trinamool Congress chief also stressed on “collective leadership” and[Read More…]
Railway minister orders probe into Patna-Vasco Da Gama express derailment
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday condoled the death of three passengers, who died after 13 coaches of the Patna-Vasco Da Gama express derailed in Uttar Pradesh’s Manikpur. He ordered a probe. “Immediate rescue and relief operations started and an inquiry ordered into the derailment of Vasco Da Gama-Patna Express[Read More…]
Samsung to set up 20 ‘Smart Healthcare’ centres in Uttar Pradesh
Samsung India on Wednesday signed a MoU with the Uttar Pradesh government to add 20 new “Smart Healthcare” centres across the state to provide affordable and quality healthcare to needy patients. As part of the agreement, Samsung will provide advanced and innovative healthcare equipment such as ultrasound and digital radiology[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh: First phase of UP civic bodies’ poll begins
Polling began on Wednesday to elect chairmen of local bodies in 24 districts of Uttar Pradesh, and the mayor of Agra along with 100 corporators, officials said. In the three-phase election, 24 districts of Uttar Pradesh are going to polls on Wednesday, while 25 districts would go to the polls[Read More…]
Body of RSS worker Sunil Garg found in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut
The body of a Rashtriya Swayamsewak Singh (RSS) worker was found in a sack in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut city, police said on Monday. The victim identified as Sunil Garg, was also a prominent iron trader. He was last seen earlier on Sunday campaigning for a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate[Read More…]
Ravi Shankar meets Adityanath, discusses Ayodhya
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…]
Congress slams UP CM for calling secularism ‘biggest lie’
Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Tuesday slammed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for his remark that “secularism is the biggest lie since Independence” and comparing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government with Ram Rajya. The party retorted, saying what the Chief Minister said was perhaps the biggest lie. Adityanath, on[Read More…]
Students make human chain in UP against plastic use
Over 10,000 students from various educational institutions formed a human chain in Uttar Pradesh‘s Vrindavan on Friday to express solidarity with the ban on polythene use and to make people aware of its negative effects on the environment. The human chain was 10.5 km long and was made at Parikrama[Read More…]
Mayawati accuses BJP of criminal negligence in NTPC blast
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…]
UP CM Adityanath visits NTPC blast injured; death toll now 35
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…]
Rae Bareli: Death toll reaches 30; Rahul Gandhi meets injured as NTPC plant shut down
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…]
20 dead, 80 injured in NTPC boiler blast in Rae Bareli
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…]
No proper education, health, nutrition in over one-fourth of 201 districts in UP
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…]
UP orders probe into irregularities in PM housing scheme
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…]
Dozen injured in late night brawl at the Kannauj Medical College in Uttar Pradesh
More than a dozen students were injured in a late-night brawl at the Kannauj Medical College in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Tuesday. The fight broke out between two groups of students — seniors and juniors — over ragging. The two sides first engaged in altercations during dinner at the[Read More…]
Angry farmers burn sugarcane crop outside UP Assembly
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…]