Yash Bharti Award

Yogi Adityanath, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, has ordered an investigation into the state's top award - the Yash Bharti - set up by Mulayam Singh Yadav over two decades ago and given to Amitabh Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah and Nawazuddin Siddiqui among others.

Leading personalities, including cricketers Suresh Raina, Mohd Kaif and actor-turned-politician Raj Babbar, are said to have applied for pension under a scheme of Uttar Pradesh government, drawing criticism today from Opposition parties which said public money should not be spent in an arbitrary manner.

Mr Bachchan, his wife Jaya and son Abhishek, have reportedly become the beneficiaries of the state government's latest pension scheme, which grants a lifelong pension of Rs 50,000 per month, to people who have been awarded the state's Yash Bharti Samman

Yogi Adityanath, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, has ordered an investigation into the state's top award - the Yash Bharti - set up by Mulayam Singh Yadav over two decades ago and given to Amitabh Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah and Nawazuddin Siddiqui among others.

Leading personalities, including cricketers Suresh Raina, Mohd Kaif and actor-turned-politician Raj Babbar, are said to have applied for pension under a scheme of Uttar Pradesh government, drawing criticism today from Opposition parties which said public money should not be spent in an arbitrary manner.

Mr Bachchan, his wife Jaya and son Abhishek, have reportedly become the beneficiaries of the state government's latest pension scheme, which grants a lifelong pension of Rs 50,000 per month, to people who have been awarded the state's Yash Bharti Samman