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UP: School principal slapped with charges under NSA in paper leak case

Charges under the stringent National Security Act (NSA) have been slapped against the principal Akshay Lal Yadav of a school in the Uttar Pradesh Board's English question paper leak case.

Yogi govt to provide one job to every farmer family in Uttar Pradesh

The Yogi Adityanath government has set a target to provide at least one employment opportunity to every farmer family in the next five years.

Don't tell reasons, solve the problem: Akhilesh to UP govt on power crisis

Yadav posted a tweet attaching an excerpt of information given by Energy Minister A K Sharma which spoke about the closure of a few power generation units due to technical reasons

Mayawati mocks Akhilesh for saying he wanted her to become prime minister

How someone who could not fulfil his own dream of becoming the chief minister will manage to realise the aspirations of others: Mayawati

Mayawati slams Akhilesh, says never dreamt of becoming country's president

Mayawati's remarks come a day after Yadav said "BSP has transferred its votes to the BJP in the UP polls. Now it will be interesting to see whether the BJP makes Mayawati President (or not) in return"

Hema Malini says Mathura 'not a very clean place', flags cleanliness issues

Actor-turned-politician Hema Malini on Tuesday flagged the issue of cleanliness in her parliamentary constituency Mathura.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP participated in the inaugural programme of a new government school building in Ishwariya village of Amreli district on Tuesday. Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and state Education Minister Jitu Vaghani were also present in the programme.Addressing the gathering, Hema Malini said that she recently completed the 'Chaurai Kos Yatra', in which she covered various places associated with Lord Krishna in Mathura in Uttar Pradesh and neighbouring states of Haryana and Rajasthan. Malini said during her Yatra, she found that Mathura was not clean enough due to the huge footfall of visitors."In many people's imagination, Mathura is not a very clean place. The reason is that crores of people visit Mathura and the mechanism for maintaining cleanliness there is not all that good. However, we have put in lots of effort and have ...

Markets alongside Ganga in UP to discourage illegal farming, fishing

To encourage the local people in conservation of biodiversity, the Bijnor administration has decided to develop an open-air market and a craft bazar along the river in the area.

Allahabad HC dismisses petition seeking UP CM Adityanath's real name

The Allahabad HC has dismissed a PIL seeking direction that Yogi Adityanath may be directed to take the oath of office of the UP CM again in his real name.

ATS gets 7-day custody of man accused of attack at Gorakhpur temple

A special court Monday granted the Anti-Terrorist Squad seven-day custody of Ahmad Murtaza Abbasi in connection with an attack on security personnel at the Gorakhpur temple earlier this month. His custody period would begin Tuesday and end on May 3. The ATS had produced Murtaza in the court of in-charge ATS judge Mohammad Gazali after bringing him from a Gorakhpur jail. It also produced a letter of the Gorakhpur jail superintendent, requesting that Murtaza be sent to a jail in Lucknow. Initially, the court granted his judicial custody till April 30. However, the ATS moved an application seeking Murtaza's custody for seven days. It was submitted that some important data was received from electronic equipment recovered from him, and his social media platform, and it was necessary to take his custody to interrogate him on these. Abbasi, an IIT graduate, tried to forcibly enter the famous Gorakhnath temple premises on April 3 and attacked security personnel with a sickle, injuring tw

UP govt orders removal of illegal loudspeakers from religious places

The Uttar Pradesh government has ordered for removal of illegal loudspeakers from religious places in the state, a senior official said on Monday.

Akhilesh warns of panic in UP if fourth Covid wave hits state

Yadav alleged that the BJP government is proving to be more failure than ever on fronts of health, education, and law and order

Understanding the state of UP

The aab-o-hava (culture) of the state, its dialects, even eating habits, are very different in different regions

Union minister Ajay Mishra's son Ashish surrenders in Lakhimpur court

The Supreme Court had cancelled the bail granted to Ashish Mishra and asked him to surrender in a week.

Panchayats to be centres of devpt, will not face dearth of funds: UP CM

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath on Sunday assured that the panchayats will get adequate funds to carry out developmental works.

UP health centres to have solar-powered fridges to keep Covid vaccines safe

A student from an engineering college in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur has built a solar energy-run refrigerator which can be used to safeguard and prevent wastage of Covid-19 vaccines

TMC 'fact-finding team' to visit Prayagraj after family's killing in city

The TMC delegation comprises Dola Sen, Mamata Bala Thakur, Saket Gokhale, Uma Soren, and Lalitesh Tripathi

No loan waivers for 40% eligible farmers in three key states: Nabard study

The study also found that waivers increased chances of willful default by farmers; 72-85% of respondents felt that they pushed honest farmers to default on farm loans

Live: Delhi reports 1,042 new cases of Covid, 2 deaths from disease

Live news updates: Delhi's fine for violation will not be applicable on people travelling together in private vehicles.

Over 100 people without Covid-19 face mask penalised in Noida in a day

The challans were issued on Thursday to these people during police checks in crowded places such as markets, metro stations and shopping malls in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Budh Nagar district, they said

Shivpal dares Akhilesh Yadav to expel him from SP legislature party

Shivpal Yadav, who is Akhilesh Yadav's uncle and heads his own Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia), won the recent Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls on an SP ticket