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2 held after video of patient's body being dumped in river in UP goes viral

Two people have been arrested after a video went viral on social media showing a COVID-19 patient's body being dumped from a bridge into the Rapti river in Uttar Pradesh's Balrampur district

In UP's Etawah, liquor on sale only for people vaccinated against Covid-19

Liquor stores in Saifai of Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district have started to sell liquor only to people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 and produce certificates

ANM booked in Aligarh for throwing Covid vaccine filled syringes in dustbin

An ANM of a primary health centre in Aligarh was booked for allegedly disposing of 29 syringes filled with Covid vaccine without administrating them to the beneficiaries

Uttar Pradesh records only 1,908 new coronavirus cases on May 30

Uttar Pradesh has recorded only 1,908 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby, registering a decline of 95 per cent from its peak

Class 10 UP board exams scrapped, 90-min test for class 12 in July proposed

The UP Secondary Education Council cancelled board examinations for class 10 proposed to take a 90-minute test of each subject for class 12 in the second week of July, if possible

UP scraps class 10 exams; abridged version proposed for class 12 in July

The detailed examinations scheduled for class 12 board examinations will be announced soon, UP's Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma said

Time to gradually relax lockdown restrictions, says UP Health Minister

The Corona-19 lockdown was earlier extended in the state to May 31.

Death & journalism

The last 3 months have been the gravest period of national tragedy & there's definitely an undercount of Covid deaths. But doing that at a mass scale is tougher

8 people dead, 5 hospitalised after consuming spurious liquor in Aligarh

Eight people died on Friday and five more are hospitalised after allegedly consuming spurious liquor supplied by a contracted vendor, police said here

Uttar Pradesh Covid update: Meerut reports 147 black fungus cases so far

As many as 147 cases of black fungus or Mucormycosis have been reported in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut so far.

Yogi Adityanath says UP in Covid 'safe zone', preparing for third wave

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the state has now moved into a Covid 'safe zone'

BJP's focus is UP polls instead of tackling Covid-19, claims Shiv Sena

The Shiv Sena claimed the BJP was working on how to improve its image and win the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections due next year after it "did not do so well" in the panchayat polls there

A tangerine and orange comparison

UP has a transparent data generation process for reporting positive cases, writes Alok Kumar, Principal Secretary for Medical Education in the UP government

Priyanka seeks feedback from people to ask questions from Union govt

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi will start a campaign from Wednesday, "Zimmedar Kaun" (Who is responsible) on the Covid pandemic. She has sought feedback and suggestions from the people.

Vaccination of 18-44 age group to begin across UP districts from June 1

The vaccination of people in the 18-44 age group against Covid-19 will be expanded to all district headquarters in Uttar Pradesh from June 1, a state government spokesperson said on Sunday

How Punjab's latest Muslim majority district will encourage Hindutva forces

The Amarinder government declared Malerkotla, where more than half the population is Muslim, the newest district of Punjab on Eid as a symbolic gesture to the community

UP's bid to keep expressway work in the fast lane amid Covid-19 crisis

Four expressway projects with an estimated outlay of Rs 80,000 crore are in different stages of development in the state

Focus on the pandemic, not the economy

The big lesson of the second wave is that India must stop trying to prioritise economic recovery over emergence from the pandemic - any such effort is destined to fail

India's 8 poorest states may spend 30% health budget on Covid vaccination

India's most socioeconomically backward states may have to spend as much as 30% of their health budgets to procure Covid-19 vaccines for their populations, an IndiaSpend analysis.

UP needs strong leadership to build back economy post-Covid: Akhilesh

Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday asked the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh government to shed politics and make operational the health centres opened during his regime