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Firstpost
April 12, 2018
Way back in March 2013 the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh took a surprise decision to transfer Kunda DSP Zia-ul Haq murder case where the wife of the deceased Praveen Azad had named influential independent MLA and minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya as an accused,Ãâà...
Financial Express
April 12, 2018
Badaun, Uttar Pradesh: A statue of Dalit icon Bhimrao Ambedkar in Gaddi Chowk area here, in the heart of the town, was found to be locked in an iron cage. In the backdrop of incidents of vandalism of Ambedkar's statues, it was found locked inside the cage in Sadar Kotwali police station area. Police said itÃâà...
Belarus News (BelTA)
April 12, 2018
NEW DELHI, 12 April (BelTA - Xinhua) - At least 15 people were killed due to gusty wind followed by hailstorm and rainfall in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said Thursday. The winds blowing with the velocity of over 130 km per hour swept Braj region in western part of the state onÃâà...
Daily News & Analysis
April 12, 2018
A special court in Lucknow awarded ten years prison sentence to two Indian Mujaheedin (IM) terrorists, who were arrested by UP Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) from Gorakhpur in March 2014. Abdul Waheed Rind and Mohammed Faheem were given training by Tehreek-e-Taliban in Afghanistan. The IM hadÃâà...
DailyO
April 12, 2018
A year ago, the BJP stunned the nation with a sweeping victory in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, winning 312 of the 403 Vidhan Sabha seats. It was followed by another big surprise when the BJP high command appointed the five-time MP from Gorakhpur, Yogi Adityanath, as chief minister. He wasÃâà...
Daily News & Analysis
April 12, 2018
Rajasthan is in the process to add the capacity of solar power in coming months and plans to sell the excess solar power that the plants will generate to distribution companies in Uttar Pradesh. Sources inform that 1500 MW power generation is expected in coming months from Bhadla solar park. Such is theÃâà...
Times of India
April 12, 2018
AGRA: Mathura police on Thursday arrested 23 Bangladeshi citizens who were illegally residing in the district without any valid passport and other relevant documents. The Bangladeshi migrants include 13 woman. The arrests were made during raids at several places in the city. Station house officerÃâà...
The Hindu
April 12, 2018
The doctor also clarified that on April 3, when the patient was first admitted after the assault, ultrasound and X-ray was conducted, but his reports were normal. “It is possible that the perforation was a minor one and not detected then but grew later,” Dr. Chaudhary said. If the patient's reports were normal onÃâà...
Financial Express
April 11, 2018
A teenage girl reported missing over five years ago from Dwarka in Delhi was traced to a town in Uttar Pradesh and brought back, police said on Wednesday. But the minor is now a 21-year-old, married to the man who abducted her and the mother of his two children. Accused Faujdar, now aged 29, hasÃâà...
The New Indian Express
March 21, 2018
MEERUT: Uttar Pradesh Police's Special Task Force on Wednesday arrested four college students for running a cheating racket. The racket was allegedly being run by final year MBBS students of Chaudhary Charan Singh University (formerly Meerut University) since 2014. Just four days ago, a cheatingÃâà...
The New Indian Express
March 21, 2018
BANDA: A 17-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped by a youth in a village here, police said today. The victim had gone to attend to nature's call yesterday when one Kuldeep allegedly raped her, Baberu Circle Officer Om Prakash said. When the girl raised an alarm, locals rushed there and caught hold ofÃâà...
Daily Pioneer
March 21, 2018
The Uttar Pradesh Assembly will take up the controversial Uttar Pradesh Control of Organised Crime Act (UPCOCA) Bill, 2017, on March 27 to pass it for a second time within four monthsafter it was rejected by the Legislative Council. Speaker Hriday Narain Dikshit announced on Tuesday that the UPCOCAÃâà...
Livemint
March 21, 2018
Lucknow: With two days left for voting for the biennial Rajya Sabha polls from Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may heave a sigh of relief after successfully mollifying one of its allies in the state whose four votes could be crucial for the ruling party. While the BJP has the numbers to send itsÃâà...
NDTV
March 21, 2018
In Uttar Pradesh, India's biggest potato-growing state, potato farmers are far from happy. Even after the new crop arrived in January, the state's 1,825 cold storages are still flush with last year's produce and it's a desperate situation for small and marginal farmers who are facing losses, caught between highÃâà...
The Indian Express
March 21, 2018
Always said they were killed, says lone survivor Harjit Masih Ãâ÷ 'Insensitive', Swaraj must apologise, says Congress Ãâ÷ For 4 years, swinging between hope, despair Ãâ÷ Six statements in 2 years: They are alive and safe. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. PrevNext. Stop. Home Ãâ÷ India; Woman killed in Uttar Pradesh over illicitÃâà...
Firstpost
March 21, 2018
Babbar's resignation comes following a turbulent month for the Uttar Pradesh Congress, which performed woefully in the by-elections to Phulpur and Gorakhpur parliamentary constituencies. Congress candidates Manish Mishra and Dr Sureetha in Phulpur and Gorakhpur respectively couldn't even saveÃâà...
DailyO
March 21, 2018
Two states will determine the outcome of the 2019 Lok Sabha election: Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. Between them they account for 128 seats in the Lok Sabha. The BJP-led NDA won 114 of those 128 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha poll. Now India's two biggest states spell danger in Prime MinisterÃâà...
The New Indian Express
March 20, 2018
LUCKNOW: Lucknow University's B.Com students appearing for their final examination were asked to attempt a compulsory question pertaining to the policies of the BJP government. The first question of the Applied Economics (Indian Economic Structure) paper on March 17 asked students to explain theÃâà...
The New Indian Express
March 20, 2018
FIROZABAD: The fear of failure is so high among students taking the Uttar Pradesh Board examinations that some of them turned to desperate measures like attaching notes on their answer sheets. Currency notes of Rs 100, Rs 50 and Rs 500 were found in answer sheets during the checking of 12th boardÃâà...
Financial Express
March 20, 2018
The Robertsganj railway station in Uttar Pradesh has been renamed Sonbhadra, an official has said. The Union Home Ministry has given its approval for the renaming of the British-era railway station in the Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh. Even though the railway station falls under the district, there is noÃâà...
Hindustan Times
March 20, 2018
Uttar Pradesh has approximately one crore unemployed, according to estimates of officials at the state's employment exchange. The BJP government, when it came to power in March last year, had set a target to provide jobs to 70 lakh people in five years, that is 14 lakh jobs a year. The task seems difficultÃâà...
Hindustan Times
March 20, 2018
Nearly 4,000 liquor shops in Uttar Pradesh didn't find any takers after the first ever e-lottery for allotment of such outlets ended on Monday, officials said. The switch from the manual system of allotment to online bidding could be one reason for so many shops not finding any takers, excise officials admitted.
The Quint
March 20, 2018
The Congress which had decided to contest alone in the Uttar Pradesh bypolls, had secured the third spot in the race to both the seats, conceding defeat to the SP-BSP combine. The two seats had fallen vacant upon the resignation of Chief Minister Yogi Aditynath and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav PrasadÃâà...
Financial Express
March 20, 2018
Yogi Adityanath government of Uttar Pradesh has completed one year. Amid celebrations, the UP chief minister has made some ambitious announcements. The biggest of them is the creation of 4,00,000 government jobs in the state. Adityanath on Monday said that around 4 lakh jobs will be created in 64Ãâà...
Firstpost
March 18, 2018
If one explanation has to be given for the BJP's electoral ills in the Hindi heartland and nearby states, it is arrogance. Even more than the Narendra Modi government's failures on the employment and agricultural fronts, it is the party's and the government's haughtiness, reflected in the Vice-president MÃâà...
Business Standard
March 17, 2018
Three states have come forward to participate in the bidding process, wherein cheap power will be procured from stressed assets as part of a new power ministry scheme. Gujarat and Maharashtra have asked for 500 Mw each under the programme while Uttar Pradesh is set to procure 1,000 Mw. TheÃâà...
The New Indian Express
March 10, 2018
GHAZIABAD: Up to 27 prisoners of Dasna Jail in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad district have been found to be infected with HIV virus. In light of the matter, medical officers have ordered an HIV test for all 5,000 inmates. Last year, 49 prisoners were found HIV positive. Related Article. Uttar Pradesh: 23 inmatesÃâà...
Times of India
March 10, 2018
ALLAHABAD: A man allegedly killed his wife and two minor daughters in village Chakla Guru Baba under Karvi police station in Chitrakoot district in wee hours of Friday. He later surrendered before the police and confessed to the crime. The police have arrested Ajeet Raidas, the accused. The deceasedÃâà...
Hindustan Times
March 10, 2018
The first ever e-lottery system for online allotment of nearly 27000 liquor shops in Uttar Pradesh ran into technical glitches forcing the government to postpone the e-tender on Thursday. The online tender site was being maintained by the National Informatics Centre whose officials failed to fix the glitchesÃâà...
India Today
March 10, 2018
It's evidently much more than a thaw in relations. For the first time in her annual birthday address on January 15, Mayawati did not utter a word against the Samajwadi Party. This, even as she characteristically berated both the ruling BJP and the Congress. A month later, on February 15, the emergingÃâà...
Scroll.in
March 10, 2018
Uttar Pradesh: Man alleges Mathura doctors left needle in son's head after surgery, inquiry ordered ... The father of a six-year-old boy in Uttar Pradesh has alleged that surgeons at a Mathura private medical college left a needle in his son's head after a surgery, The Indian Express reported on Friday.
Daily News & Analysis
March 10, 2018
A young male tiger captured after having killed a woman from a village adjoining Pilibhit Tiger Reserve was successfully released back into the wild on Friday morning by the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department after it was fitted with a GPS-based satellite collar to track its movement. It was on March 5 that theÃâà...
gulfnews.com
March 10, 2018
Lucknow: Timely discovery of a fracture in the railway tracks in Uttar Pradesh's Pratapgarh helped to avert an accident on Friday, an official said. The discovery was made minutes before the Lucknow-Varanasi Intercity was to pass, he said. A major part of the rail track had cracked at a point betweenÃâà...
India Today
March 10, 2018
Ten female employees of chief minister Yogi Adiyanaths dream project CM helpline 1076 were hospitalised on Friday after they fell ill during protest against pending salaries of over three months. Though police claimed that they fell ill due to weakness, the girls alleged that they were served poisoned coffeeÃâà...
Business Standard
March 9, 2018
On February 3, 2018, local policemen of Jhinjina village in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district waited to nab an extortionist near a temple where he was supposed to come and collect the bounty. None of them had anticipated what they would lay their hands on. The police had received a complaint that the manÃâà...
The Hindu
March 8, 2018
After Lenin's statue was removed in Tripura and Periyar's statue was vandalised in Tamil Nadu, statues of B.R. Ambedkar were vandalised and damaged in parts of Uttar Pradesh. At least four such incidents have been reported from Aligarh and Meerut in the past two days. The latest incident was reportedÃâà...
The New Indian Express
March 2, 2018
HASANPUR: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed an FIR against branch manager and eight other employees of a regional rural bank over an alleged scam of over Rs 14 crore in Uttar Pradesh's Hasanpur. The CBI filed the FIR after receiving a complaint from the bank, which detectedÃâà...
Times of India
March 2, 2018
MEERUT: Around 9am on February 23, head constable Bhupendra Tomar, 57, and his team had begun their usual day aboard an Uttar Pradesh 100 (quick response) vehicle in Saharanpur. The team was patrolling the Badagaon area in the district when it received a call saying there was a man lying onÃâà...
Daily News & Analysis
March 2, 2018
At a time when BJP government in Uttar Pradesh is looking to clamp down on lawlessness, it seems like some in the saffron party are playing spoilsport. A senior BJP leader was caught on CCTV camrera thrashing a toll plaza staffer, in Akbarpur city of the state. Kanpur Dehat Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)Ãâà...
Financial Express
March 2, 2018
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today participated in the Falgun Mahotsav organised by the RSS and the Hindu Yuva Vahini. By: PTI | Gorakhpur | Published: March 2, 2018 6:20 PM. 0. Shares. Share. Yogi Adityanath, UP CM Yogi Adityanath, adityanath holi, gorakhpur, holi, adityanath Uttar Pradesh ChiefÃâà...
India.com
March 2, 2018
Greater Noida, March 2: For the residents of Tilwada, there is one more reason to celebrate Holi this year. After years of appeal and reject, the village, having 20-odd residents, finally got power connection. On Thursday, officials of the Noida Power Company Limited installed a 25kv transformer in the villageÃâà...
The Asian Age
March 1, 2018
Lucknow: Governments in Uttar Pradesh have developed the knack of injecting politics in almost every decision they take. The UP police is planning to raise its first all women battalions of Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) and the battalions are to be named after Avanti Bai, Uda Devi and Jhalkari BaiÃâà...
Moneycontrol.com
March 1, 2018
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today flagged off 'Shobha Yatra' here with over a dozen tableaus on religious and social themes taking part in the procession. The chief minister will also participate in 'Narsingh Shobha Yatra' in Gulaharia area on Friday morning and also lead it from theÃâà...
Scroll.in
February 28, 2018
Naini is an industrial township across the Yamuna river from Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh. Singh, who owns an inter college – a school up to Class 12 – in the town claimed to have an insider's view of the “most organised” cheating racket in Uttar Pradesh, which has a reputation as one of the worst statesÃâà...
Livemint
February 27, 2018
Last week, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath held a giant investor summit in Lucknow. Photo: PTI. Uttar Pradesh, India's largest state, is also its greatest challenge. It has about as many people as Brazil but, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself, suffers from development indicatorsÃâà...
Economic Times
February 20, 2018
LUCKNOW: Adani Group today said it will invest Rs 35,000 crore in Uttar Pradesh over the next five years in various sectors. Promising to ... "Almost 17 per cent of the total population of the country lives in Uttar Pradesh...the development story of the country cannot be written without the state," Adani said.
