Tag: Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow: In its sixth reshuffle of police officials since the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government came to power in the Uttar Pradesh in March, 67 IPS officials were transferred on Wednesday. Additional Director General of Police S.N. Rawat has been sent as ADG, Allahabad zone while Ramit Sharma, hitherto Inspector General of Police, Technical has been […]

Lucknow: Expelled Bahujan Samaj Party leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday and requested that the Z security cover provided to him be continued. In the 15-minute-long meeting, Siddiqui, who was thrown out of the BSP by Mayawati last week and subsequently released a series of audio tapes of his […]

New Delhi: A Hizbul Mujahideen militant trying to enter India from Nepal was arrested from a border crossing point in Uttar Pradesh earlier this week, the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) said on Sunday. Nasser Ahmed, 34, a resident of Dolgam village in Jammu and Kashmir, was trying to sneak in India as Kashmiri carpet and […]

Lucknow: In a bid to take load off students, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has decided that Saturdays will be a “no bag day” in all government run primary and secondary schools, an official said. Students would engage in “joyful activities” and there would be efforts to enhance a positive relationship between the […]

Lucknow: The central government has repatriated five IAS officials who Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath wanted back to their parent cadre. The orders repatriating these officials came from the Ministry of Personnel and Training (DoPT) late on Monday, an official said. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has […]

New Delhi: The woman held for ‘honey-trapping’ a BJP MP to extort money has been engaged in her sordid activities of entrapment and blackmail for more than two decades now with her first case surfacing in 1993 when she extracted Rs 70,000 from a Uttar Pradesh Police constable, a police officer said on Friday. “She […]

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has told officials to daily monitor some 6,600 petrol pumps following allegations that they were selling less fuel at a higher price, an official said on Thursday. Chief Secretary Rahul Bhatnagar has directed all District Magistrates to update him about the checks. District officials have also been told to conduct […]

Lucknow: In a fresh missive to his ministers, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has told them to declare by March 31 every year their assets and property. An official said on Tuesday that the Chief Minister had also warned the ministers against any laxity in this regard. The ministers in the Bharatiya Janata Party […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said it will monitor the filling of vacancies in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu police departments. A bench of Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul said the Chief Secretaries of these six states would assist the […]

Krishna Janam Ashtami was celebrated with great fervour and fanfare as devotees thronged temples in the birthplace of Lord Krishna, Mathura, and adjoining areas of Goverdhan and Vrindavan today.

Jhansi: Over 40 passengers were injured after eight coaches of the Mahakaushal Express derailed on Thursday morning in Uttar Pradesh, officials said. The incident occurred around 2 a.m. when the express train that runs between Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh and Hazrat Nizamuddin in New Delhi derailed between Laadpur and Supa near Kulpahar station, a railway official […]

New Delhi: A whopping 322 of the 403 new lawmakers elected to the Uttar Pradesh assembly are ‘crorepatis’ (multi-millionaires) while as many as 143 have criminal cases, including of murder, pending against them. According to a report by the National Election Watch, the list of multi-millionaires elected members is headed by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Ajay […]

Lucknow: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday scored a landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh in a major boost to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, halfway through his first term, and decimated rivals, the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance and the BSP. Riding on the Modi wave, the BJP swept to an unprecedented two-thirds majority winning a whopping […]

New Delhi: A earthquake, measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale, shook residents of Delhi and north India on Monday night, creating panic and causing office workers to evacuate buildings, the IMD said. There were no reports of any casualties or any damage yet. According to the preliminary IMD report, the quake, classified as moderate, occurred […]

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has arrested two alleged Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists from Deoband in Saharanpur district, Director General of Police O P Singh said on Friday. The two men arrested are Shahnawaz Ahmad Teli from Kulgam and Aquib Ahmad Malik from Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir. Both were involved in recruiting members […]