Lucknow: Taking a cue from Kushinagar, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has allowed foreign countries, having large Hindu populations, to build their guest houses in Ayodhya to promote international religious tourism.About a dozen foreign countries have already applied to the state government showing their willingness to construct their guest houses in Lord Rama’s birthplace Ayodhya. These countries are Sri Lanka, Canada, Nepal, Suriname, Fiji, Kenya, Indonesia, Malaysia, Trinidad and Tobago, Mauritius, Thailand, and Korea.The Municipal Commissioner Vishal Singh claimed that a 12-acre land has already been earmarked in new Ayodhya for the purpose of building guest houses for…
‘Request you to take care of my family’: UP Police constable shoots himself, leaves suicide note for Yogi Adityanath
Lucknow: A Uttar Pradesh Police Constable Nirmal Chaube (55) committed suicide by shooting himself dead with his service pistol near highly-secured Secretariat building on Thursday. In a suicide note, addressed to the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the deceased stated: “He doesn’t want to live due to his long sickness. I request you to take care of my family and children.” According to Lucknow Police, the Constable was posted at the Secretariat building Gate No 7 on Thursday. Eye witnesses claimed that they heard a shot and saw a Constable lying in a pool of blood and writhing in pain. Source…
UP: Yogi Adityanath govt transfers 58 IAS officers on eve of Panchayat polls
Lucknow: In less than 24 hours, the Yogi Adityanath government carried out a major administrative reshuffle shifting as many as 58 IAS officers on the eve of three-tier Panchayat polls in Uttar Pradesh. Poll dates are likely to be announced shortly. On Wednesday afternoon, the state government transferred 40 IAS officials while 18 others were shifted on late Tuesday night. Over one and half dozen Commissioners, District magistrates, CDOs were changed by the government in the run-up to rural polls. Anita Meshram will be the new Staff Officer to Chief Secretary R.K. Tiwari while Ranveer Prasad has been posted as…
‘Efforts to rehabilitate all riot-hit Muslims back’: Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind to hand over 66 houses to displaced families in Muzaffarnagar
Lucknow: In a bid to resettle scores of Muslim families displaced after 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (JUH) will provide houses to 66 such families on March 9. In one of the worst communal clashes in the history of Uttar Pradesh, about 50,000 Muslims were displaced during and after riots in August-September 2013. The riots had left 62 dead, including 42 Muslims, and over 100 injured. Hundreds of houses were burnt during the riots. Though the then Akhilesh Yadav government had tried to rehabilitate them but many Muslims, families, who had left their villages, never returned back. The JUH…
Uttar Pradesh: Samajwadi Party workers stage protest against LPG price hike
Lucknow: Defying prohibitory orders, Samajwadi Party on Tuesday held a massive march carrying gas cylinders, bottles of petrol, and diesel in the state capital Lucknow to protest against recent hike in petroleum products. On the directions of the Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, hundreds of party city unit members took to the streets on Tuesday. Carrying LPG cylinders, bottles of petrol/diesel, and placards, they marched towards the Governor House to submit a memorandum on hike in prices of petroleum products. The Lucknow Police barricaded roads to stop them before the District Magistrate Office. Raising anti-government slogans, SP workers not only…
Uttar Pradesh: Family members kill daughter’s lover on seeing them together
Lucknow: In yet another honour killing case in Uttar Pradesh, four family members of a woman bludgeoned to death her middle-aged lover on seeing him in a compromising position with her in their house early Monday morning.The woman was having a love affair with a middle-aged man, identified as Badan Singh (45). Both were residents of Narkhurd village under Rasoolabad Police Station in Kanpur Dehat. On Sunday late night, the woman called her lover at her house and closeted with him in a room.On suspicion, family members forced open the door of her room and caught them in a compromising…
Uttar Pradesh: Priyanka offers prayers at Saint Ravidas temple in Varanasi
Lucknow: After bowing to Dargah, Temples and taking a holy dip at Sangam, the Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra participated in a function organized to celebrate 644th Jayanti of Guru Ravidas Maharaj in Varanasi on Saturday in a bid to woo back the party’s traditional Brahmin-Muslim-Dalit vote bank in Uttar Pradesh. The Congress leader was accorded a warm welcome when she landed at 10.30 am at Varanasi Airport the UPCC Chief Ajay Kumar Lallu, former party MP Rajesh Mishra, ex MLA Ajay Rai etc. Hundreds of Congress workers lined up both sides of the roads to greet their leader.…
Uttar Pradesh: Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan blames USA for diesel and petrol price hike, here’s why
Lucknow: Dharmendra Pradhan, the Union Petroleum, Oil and Natural Gas Minister, blamed ice storms in the USA for the hike in diesel and petrol prices in India.Pradhan, who was in Vrindavan Mathura to attend a function, said that spurt in prices of crude oil in the international market and economic challenges were other reasons that forced the oil companies to increase prices of diesel and petrol in the country.“The ice storm in the USA badly affected production of oil and demand and supply. The Economic challenges and hike in price of crude oil in the international market added to a…
Uttar Pradesh: 15-year-old girl gang-raped in Mankapur area of Gonda district
Lucknow: A minor was allegedly gang-raped by four people in Mankapur area of Gonda district in Uttar Pradesh. The accused attacked her with a knife when she tried to resist sexual assault. The 15-year-old girl, studying in Class X, was coming back home from school on her bicycle on Tuesday afternoon when four people dragged her into the sugarcane field near a farmhouse in Belgharia area. They attacked the girl with a knife when she tried to resist their move to sexually assault her. They raped her by turns and left her there with a threat to kill her and…
Uttar Pradesh: Man stabs to death brother-in-law for marrying his sister
Lucknow: In yet another case of honor killing in Uttar Pradesh, a man stabbed to death his own brother in law for marrying his sister after a love-affair in Meerut district on Monday.Shravan Updhyaya (25), a resident of Gesupur Janubi, married his classmate Radhika two years ago against the wishes of her brother Koshindra. Though the girl’s family members were not against their love marriage, Radhika's brother had threatened Shravan to kill him.On the advice of the girl's parents, the couple left the village and started living in Pilkhuwa in Hapur district. Occasionally, Shravan used to visit his village in…
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