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UP Government May Replace Mulayam Singh's Mercedes SUV With Toyota Prado

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Sunday September 22, 2019

Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav will now have to get his Mercedes SUV, allotted to him by the state government, replaced as the cost of repair is too high, officials said on Saturday.

"Sleeping For 26 Years": Top Court To UP Government In Forest Lands Case

India News | Reported by A Vaidyanathan, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Thursday September 19, 2019

The Uttar Pradesh government has been pulled up by the Supreme Court for allowing claims on reserved forest lands contrary to a top court order in July 1994 that said no person or industry could encroach on reserved forest land

Unnao Rape Survivor Facing "Highest Level Of Threat", CBI Tells Court

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Thursday September 19, 2019

The teen who was raped allegedly by expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar faces the "highest level of threat", the CBI said on Wednesday to a special court, which then ordered the UP government to report on how she and her family can be relocated within the state or to one of its neighbours. The girl has been in hospital since a car crash in July, which ...

Mayawati Slams UP Government's Caste Move, Calls It "Selfish, Political"

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday September 17, 2019

After the Allahabad High Court stayed the notification to include 17 Other Backward Castes in the SC list, BSP president Mayawati today said such government decisions are "guided by total selfish political motives" but effects the entire society.

UP Ministers To Start Paying Tax, Four-Decade-Old Practice Ends

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday September 13, 2019

The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday decided that ministers will start paying their own income tax, ending a four-decade-old practice of the state exchequer shelling out the amount annually for them.

Special Judge's Tenure Extended In Babri Demolition Case: UP To Top Court

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday September 13, 2019

The Uttar Pradesh government today informed the Supreme Court that it has complied with the top court's direction and extended the tenure of the special judge who is conducting the trial in the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case.

UP Government’s ‘Sahaj’ Hindi Books To Break Language Barrier

Education | Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday September 12, 2019

The books will be in four dialects -- Braj, Bhojpuri, Bundelkhandi and Awadhi. The new textbooks in local dialects are being given the name 'Sahaj' and only the Hindi sections in the books have been translated.

"Traffic Terrorism": Akhilesh Yadav After Man Dies During Vehicle Check

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday September 11, 2019

Slamming the Uttar Pradesh government over the death of a techie allegedly after an altercation with traffic police over suspected violation, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday demanded that it end the "harassment" of people by rejecting the "repressive rules" like other states.

UP Government Sacks Teacher Who Got Job With Fake Degree 20 Years Ago

Cities | Press Trust of India | Monday September 9, 2019

Services of a government teacher, who had joined using fake education certificates 20-years ago, has been terminated, a senior official said today.

Chinmayanand, Accused Of Harassment, Says "Have Faith In Judiciary"

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday September 4, 2019

Former union minister and BJP leader Chinmayanand said today that he has full faith in the judiciary, a day after the UP government constituted a Special Investigation Team or SIT to investigate charges levelled against him by a Shahjahanpur woman.

Journalists Protest Case Against Reporter For 'Roti-Salt In School' Video

India News | Written By Alok Pandey, Edited By Swati Bhasin | Tuesday September 3, 2019

More than 100 journalists protested today at the Mirzapur Collectorate office, a day after a case was filed by the state government against a reporter who filmed students at a UP government school eating rotis with salt as their mid-day meal.

BSP Slams UP Government For Providing Chapati-Salt In Mid-Day Meal

India News | ANI | Monday September 2, 2019

BSP national spokesperson Sudhindra Bhadoria hit out at the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government for providing chapati with salt in mid-day meal to children at a primary school in eastern Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur district

Newborn Dies In UP Government Hospital, Nurse Suspended

Cities | Press Trust of India | Sunday September 1, 2019

A staff nurse at a government hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad has been suspended for alleged laxity following the death of a newborn, a senior health official said.

UP Woman Left Home For Protection, Should Be Kept In Delhi: Supreme Court

India News | Reported by A Vaidyanathan, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Friday August 30, 2019

An Uttar Pradesh law student, said to have been found in Rajasthan nearly a week after she went missing, will be kept under protection in Delhi and her parents should be brought in to meet her, the Supreme Court said today.

UP Government's "Attendance By Selfie" App Runs Into Trouble

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Friday August 30, 2019

The Uttar Pradesh government's much-publicised 'Prerna' app, that allows teachers to mark their attendance by clicking a selfie in government schools, has run into trouble.