Uttar Pardesh
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Once staunch critic, CM Yogi allocates Rs 10 cr for upkeep of statues built by Mayawati
India | May 22, 2017, 05:35 PM ISTYogi, once a hardcore critic of Mayawati for her love for the construction of monuments and statues in the name of Dalit icon BR Ambedakar using taxpayer’s money, has approved a budget of Rs 10 crore for the maintenance of monuments
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Caught insulting an IPS officer, BJP MLA now alleges police complicity in allowing illegal liquor
India | Feb 21, 2023, 06:36 PM ISTA day after he kicked up a storm over his misbehavior with a lady IPS officer in Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s Lok Sabha constituency of Gorakhpur, Mohan Das Agrawal, the BJP MLA in question, has now accused the police of violating rules and allow
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With Yogi in driver's seat, Modi's Varanasi back in focus
India | Apr 19, 2017, 03:49 PM ISTIt is now Advantage Varanasi as the new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has put Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency back on the front burner
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Communal clash erupts in Kanpur over Navratra procession route, situation under control
India | Apr 06, 2017, 07:12 PM ISTA communal clash erupted in Kanpur’s rural town of Akbarpur today after members of two communities had an argument over the Navratra procession changing its traditional route to pass through a minority-dominated area
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Actress Kriti Sanon to learn local UP language for upcoming movies
Bollywood | Sep 25, 2016, 12:30 PM ISTActress Kriti Sanon is excited to start shooting for upcoming films ‘Bareilly Ki Barfi’ and 'Lucknow Central' for which she will be learning the local language as both the movies are based in Uttar Pradesh.
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ISIS sympathiser sent to 10 days NIA custody
India | Feb 06, 2016, 04:15 PM ISTNew Delhi: Suspected ISIS sympathiser Abdus Sami Qasmi, arrested for allegedly motivating youths to join the dreaded terror outfit, was today remanded in 10 days NIA custody by a Delhi court.Qasmi was produced before District
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UP:Cases against 7 police inspectors for flouting court orders
India | Jan 31, 2016, 06:58 AM ISTMainpuri: Cases were today registered against seven police officers of as many police stations here under the Police Act for not complying with court orders and neglecting their dutiesIn an order issued in this regard,
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Top 5 states by communal incidents
India | Oct 07, 2015, 06:55 PM ISTUttar Pradesh accounted for a fifth of all religious conflicts–or “communal incidents”, as they are officially called–in India between 2010 and 2014, according to data tabled in the Lok Sabha.As many as 703 religious conflicts
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Five sleeping labourers crushed to death by truck on pavement
India | Aug 17, 2015, 05:39 PM ISTChandigarh: Five labourers from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh were killed and three others injured when a truck ran over them while they were sleeping on a pavement here.The incident occurred past midnight in Chandigarh's Transport
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Nepal Maoists burn down Indian school bus along Indo-Nepal border
India | Jul 25, 2015, 05:53 PM ISTBahraich (Uttar Pradesh): An Indian school bus carrying Nepalese children was allegedly set ablaze by a section of protesting Maoists along the Indo-Nepal border, police said. However, no casualties were reported, they said.The school bus belonging
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Sulabh to help UP brothers who cleared IIT entrance test
India | Jun 20, 2015, 04:51 PM ISTLucknow : Sanitation NGO Sulabh International on Saturday announced financial assistance and support to two brothers of Pratapgarh to pursue higher studies in the IITs.A spokesman of the NGO told IANS that taking note of
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Some trying to create confusion in name of religion: Akhilesh Yadav
National | Mar 15, 2015, 08:32 AM ISTLucknow: In an apparent attack on BJP, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav Saturday said that some people create confusion in the name of religion and there was a need to combat that.“Some persons create
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First women's cricket T-20 tournament in UP
Cricket | Oct 13, 2014, 01:36 PM ISTMathura: The first all-India women's Twenty-20 cricket tournament will begin Tuesday at Amarnath Vidya Ashram ground in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura city."This is the first time that a national level tournament is being held in Mathura,"