Tag: Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday said 49 infants have died in a Farrukhabad hospital in the past 30 days. Orders have been issued transferring the District Magistrate, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Medical Superintendent of the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital at Farrukhabad, a government spokesperson said. Between July 20 and August 21, 461 […]

Lucknow: The fatal online Blue Whale game has claimed its first victim in Uttar Pradesh’s Hamirpur district, police said on Monday. Parth Singh, 13, was found hanging in his bedroom in Maudaha village on Sunday night. The police said the class sixth student had his father’s phone on his hand in which the game, that […]

New Delhi: An unverified telephonic conversation apparently between two railway employees widely circulated on social media on Sunday hints that “negligence” may have caused the Saturday train accident in Uttar Pradesh. The nearly 15-minute audio clip could not be verified independently. A railway official said they were looking into it. One of the men in […]

Gorakhpur: Under all-round attack, the Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday suspended the head of the hospital over the deaths of 63 children in five days, even as Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his Health Minister blamed it on lack of cleanliness and diseases and not due to lack of oxygen. As Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]

Lucknow: Dozens of posters describing local MP and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi as “missing” have come up in his Amethi parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh. The posters carry the Gandhi scion’s picture, written below which is a reward for anyone who could trace their missing MP. The posters, however, are not attributed to any […]

Lucknow: The kidnappers of Uttar Pradesh businessman Sanjeev Gupta have reportedly demanded Rs 100 crore in ransom from his family even as his whereabouts remain sketchy for a second day. The ransom message sent from Gupta’s mobile phone to his wife Sarika Gupta threatens he will be harmed if the money was not paid. Gupta’s […]

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to make marriage registration mandatory for all in the state, an official said on Tuesday. A proposal has been drafted by the women’s welfare department and is likely to be brought before the state cabinet in its next session. According to sources with the knowledge of the proposal, […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath are expected to perform Yoga along with 50,000 participants in Lucknow on June 21 to mark the third edition of the International Yoga Day. Union Minster of State for AYUSH Shripad Yesso Naik said this on Friday while addressing the inaugural session […]

New Delhi: Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi was on Friday admitted to a hospital in Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh after she complained of pain in the stomach, an aide said. Gandhi complained of stomachache around 3 p.m. after which she was admitted to the emergency ward of a government hospital in Pilibhit, which […]

Ayodhya: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday arrived here and visited the Hanuman Garhi temple. This is the first time that any Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister has visited Ayodhya since 2002. Adityanath’s visit comes a day after a CBI special court in Lucknow ordered framing of criminal conspiracy charges against Bharatiya Janata Party […]

Lucknow: The Bahujan Samaj Party’s problems were further compounded the Uttar Pradesh Vigilance Department filing a chargesheet against its state unit chief Ram Achal Rajbhar, in a Rs 4 crore disproportionate assets (DA) case, an official said on Monday. The final chargesheet report is with the Yogi Adityanath government, the official added. Once the state […]

New Delhi: Despite being denied permission for a visit, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday left for Uttar Pradesh’s violence-hit Saharanpur district where caste conflict has left two dead and scores injured. Gandhi left from Delhi with senior Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Raj Babbar. He is travelling by road after his chopper […]

Lucknow: Police conducted a flag march in the Shabbirpur, Badgaon, Chandrapura and Maheshpur villages of violence-hit Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh on Friday, though no untoward incident has been reported, an official said. Principal Secretary (Home) Arvind Kumar told IANS the situation was under control but as a precautionay matter the deployment of Rapid Action […]

Noida: A scrap dealer was killed and his mother, wife, sister and sister-in-law raped by a group of armed men who waylaid their car and also looted the family, near Jewar on the Yamuna Expressway in Uttar Pradesh early on Thursday, police said. The incident occurred some 60 km from here on Jewar at around […]

Lucknow: In yet another major rejig of the state’s bureaucracy, the Uttar Pradesh government on Friday transferred 74 IAS officials, while Sashi Prakash Goel has been appointed as Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Sanjay Agarwal, a powerful bureaucrat in the previous Samajwadi Party regime, has been removed as the top boss of the Uttar […]