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'Govt schemes not for votebank, but a medium to achieve self-reliance'

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath urged educational institutions to create maximum awareness among the youth regarding the govt schemes, and said that schemes are not just for vote-bank

UP CM Yogi Adityanath pays tribute to Sant Ravidas on birth anniversary

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday paid obeisance to mystic poet Sant Ravidas on his 646th birth anniversary at a temple in Seer Govardhanpur here. The mystic poet and reformer enjoys a nationwide following, especially among a section of the Dalits. Adityanath said the poet gave great importance to hard work and devotion. "Sant Ravidasji gave a very broad message of 'Karma' to the society by coining the popular saying in Hindi 'Mann Changa To Kathauti Mein Ganga'," he said. The chief minister also met Sadhguru Niranjan Das and read out to him the message sent by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "Today is a very auspicious day. Six hundred and forty six years ago, a divine light, who had achieved success through his penance and spiritual practice in the company of Sadguru Ramanand Ji Maharaj, a renowned saint of the then devotional path, manifested on this holy land of Kashi," he said. "Today, it is clearly visible to all of us how the path for the welfare of huma

Uttar Pradesh set free 1,236 old, infirm prisoners in past one year

According to the government spokesman, at least 196 prisoners, sentenced to jail up to 10 years, were released before time under the 'Amrit Mahotsava' scheme

Lucknow airport prepares for massive rush due to GIS-23, G20 meet

The airport from February 10 to 15 will witness a large number of chartered flights bringing in scores of VVIPs arriving here during this period for the Global Investors' Summit and G20 event

RP Sanjiv Goenka Group to invest Rs 10,000 crore in Uttar Pradesh

RP Sanjiv Goenka Group said it will invest Rs 10,000 crore in Uttar Pradesh. The announcement was made by group head Sanjiv Goenka during a meeting with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. "Dr Sanjiv Goenka in a meeting today with the Honourable Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Shri Yogi Adityanath has announced an investment of Rs 10,000 crore in the state..," the group said. Out of this, Rs 7,500 crore will be invested in renewables, while power distribution and retail sectors will receive Rs 1,000 crore each. Besides, the sports academies in the state will see an investment of Rs 500 crore, the group said. "With this Rs 10000 crore investment, the total commitment of RP Sanjiv Goenka Group to the state of Uttar Pradesh is now pegged at Rs 20,000 crore," it added. The Kolkata-based group operates in sectors like power, IT-enabled services, media and entertainment, and retail. The group, with revenues of over Rs 26,000 crore, also owns the IPL franchise Lucknow Super Giants.

Technology can help achieve goal of ease of living, says UP CM Adityanath

Technology can help in achieving not only the goal of ease of doing business but also ease of living, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Saturday. He was speaking at the inauguration of a VFS Global Visa Application Centre here. With the launch of this centre, the facility to complete the visa application process for 10 countries -- Austria, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Estonia, Hungary, Portugal, Germany, Italy and Saudi Arabia -- will be available in Lucknow. "The inauguration of the VFS centre in Lucknow a week before the Global Investors Summit is an opportunity not only for the residents of Lucknow but also for the people of Uttar Pradesh," Adityanath said. With the launch of this centre, applying for visas to 10 countries will become much easier for the residents of the state, he said. "By using technology in today's time, we can achieve the goal of not only ease of doing business but also ease of living. If a little effort is made in t

Article 21 of Constitution triumphed: Chidambaram on Kappan's release

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram Thursday expressed happiness that "eventually Article 21 of the Constitution has triumphed" as Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan walked out of jail after over two years. Article 21 of the Constitution deals with the right to protection of life and personal liberty. Kappan was released from Lucknow district jail Thursday morning, a day after the sureties required for his bail were submitted in court. He and three others were arrested in October 2020 while on their way to Hathras where a Dalit woman died allegedly after being raped. They were accused of trying to instigate violence over the death of the Hathras woman. Reacting to Kappan's release, Chidambaram said, "I am glad that eventually Article 21 of the Constitution has triumphed and Siddique Kappan, the journalist from Kerala, is free." "Trial Court judges must push back on the demand for judicial custody which is really pre-trial incarceration," the former home minister said. Police had

Journalist Siddique Kappan walks out of UP jail on bail after over 2 years

Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan walked out of jail on Thursday, a day after the sureties required for his bail was submitted in court. Kappan has been released from jail, a senior official said here. Kappan and three others were arrested in October 2020 while on their way to Hathras where a Dalit woman died allegedly after being raped.

Do away with caste, regional discrimination for nation's progress: UP CM

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said no power in the world could stop India's progress if we do away with caste and regional discrimination. The UP CM was speaking at the 'Banjara Kumbh 2023' event in Jamner in Jalgaon district, some 415 kilometres from here. A large number of leaders from the Banjara community as well as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh functionaries were in attendance. "We have to do away with caste and regional discrimination and not use any divisive tactic, then no power in the world can stop our progress," Adityanath said. Touching upon the topic of religious conversions, the UP CM said his state had a stringent law against such activities with offenders liable to be jailed for as long as 10 years. The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act came into force in the country's most populous state in November 2020. "There are some people with deceitful mindsets who carry out religious conversions, but we have to work

Voting underway for five legislative council seats in Uttar Pradesh

Voting for five legislative council seats -- three graduate and two teachers' constituencies -- is underway. Polling for the biennial election in 39 districts of the state is scheduled to end at 4 pm and counting of votes will be taken up on February 2, the election office said. The districts where polling is taking place are Prayagraj, Kaushambi, Fatehpur, Banda, Chitrakoot, Hamirpur, Mahoba, Jalaun, Jhansi, Lalitpur, Kanpur Nagar, Kanpur Dehat, Unnao, Bareilly, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur, Badaun, Rampur, Moradabad, Amroha, Bijnor, Sambhal, Bahraich, Shravasti, Gonda, Balrampur, Basti, Siddharth Nagar, Sant Kabir Nagar, Gorakhpur, Maharajganj, Deoria, Kushinagar, Azamgarh, Mau, Sultanpur, Ayodhya, Amethi and Ambedkar Nagar. In total, 6.32 lakh people are eligible to vote in the three graduate constituencies -- Gorakhpur- Faizabad, Kanpur and Bareilly-Moradabad -- and of them 3.93 lakh are men and 2.39 lakh women. As many as 5,392 people will cast their votes in two teachers' ...

Uttar Pradesh CM Adityanath launches Aarohini training programme for girls

The campaign is being started to make the daughters of the underprivileged section capable and self-reliant, according to a government press release

Foreign liquor, beer prices set to rise in Uttar Pradesh from April 1

The prices of foreign liquor and beer in Uttar Pradesh will increase by 10 per cent with the implementation of the new excise policy from April 1, an official statement said on Sunday. The new excise policy 2023-24 was cleared by Uttar Pradesh Cabinet on Saturday. According to the statement, an increment of 10 per cent has been made on licence fees of foreign liquor, beer, cannabis retail shops and model shops. The government has also increased the fee for running the canteen facility at model shops to Rs 3 lakh from the present Rs 2 lakh in the new excise policy. With the new policy, the government has also increased the licence fee and security for bonded warehouse licenses (BWFL-2A, 2B, 2C) of foreign liquor, beer and wine. The registration and renewal fees of the master warehouse have been increased too. "The increase in licence fee and that of running canteen facility along with warehouse licences will eventually lead to rise in liquor prices," said Devesh Jaiswal of the UP .

Uttar Pradesh govt launches campaign to empower underprivileged girls

Uttar Pradesh government has launched a campaign to empower girls from the underprivileged class, an official said on Sunday. According to a statement, the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan will work under the Aarohini Initiative Training Programme for the safety and security of girls in 746 Kasturba Gandhi Residential Girls Schools in the state. Director General of School Education Vijay Kiran Anand said the main objective of the Aarohini programme, which will be implemented in three phases, is gender sensitisation. In the first phase, which will start on February 1, teachers will be trained. Two teachers of every Kasturba Gandhi Residential Girls' School will receive the training, who will then educate the students of their respective schools, the statement said. Along with the teachers, the institution will also groom the girls through debates and other activities, it added.

UP claims development, but budget allocations remain unspent: Report

Allocated funds, if not used within a given financial year (when the budget is passed), are not carried over to the next financial year

UP issues guidelines for 'no cheating' in exams; bans mobiles, calculators

Uttar Pradesh's Board of Secondary Education has issued a list of guidelines, which include barring invigilators from using mobiles, calculators or any other e-devices, to ensure there is no cheating in the state board exams next month. Fifty per cent of the invigilators at the examination centres will be external and a teacher of the subject for which an exam is being held will not be put on duty, according to the statement by the Uttar Pradesh government issued on Saturday. These follow directives of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for a copying-free board exam. . The guidelines also state that no girl examinee will be frisked by a male invigilator. Besides, women invigilators will be deployed at centres where girls are sitting for exams. No teacher shall be appointed at a particular examination centre on his/her request for vested interest, the statement said. According to secretary of the Board of Secondary Education Divyakant Shukla, each examination hall will have two ...

Akhilesh Yadav shown black flags during Maa Pitambra 108 Mahayagya in UP

"I respect all religions. But if in the name of religion, a community or caste is humiliated, then it is objectionable," Yadav said

Ayodhya seer announces bounty on SP leader for Ramcharitmanas remark

Standing firmly by his reservation over some verses of Tulsidas' Ramcharitmanas, SP leader Maurya took on mahants for announcing a bounty on his head

UP CM asks ministers to visit districts under charge at regular intervals

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath held a meeting with his cabinet colleagues here on Saturday and said the ministers should visit the districts under their charge at regular intervals, according to an official statement. Agriculture Minister Surya Pratap Shahi has been put in charge of Ayodhya and Azamgarh districts. Sugarcane Development Minister Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary has been given the responsibilities of Aligarh and Etawah. Tourism and Culture Minister Jaiveer Singh has been made the in-charge of Varanasi and Bareilly. Forest and Environment Minister Arun Kumar Saxena has been allotted Bulandshahr district. They will be in charge of these districts for a year. Adityanath said after the formation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state, a positive message was sent to people through the circle tours of the group of ministers with the spirit of "Sarkar Aap Ke Dwaar". The ministers in charge of the districts should be updated about the situation in ..

Paddy, sugarcane payments top Rs 20,000 crore in Uttar Pradesh

The total farm payments are expected to more than double at the end of the respective marketing cycles

Unnao rape case: HC modifies order, shortens Sengar's interim bail period

The Delhi High Court Friday modified its order granting interim bail to expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar, serving life term for raping a minor in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao in 2017, by asking him to surrender after his daughter's tilak' ceremony and then be released again before her marriage. The court had earlier granted interim bail to Sengar for two weeks. The high court, which was informed that Sengar has been released from Tihar jail this morning, passed the modification order on an application by the victim seeking to recall the interim bail order as she and her family faces threat. A bench of Justices Mukta Gupta and Poonam A Bamba, which had on January 16 granted interim bail to Sengar from January 27 to February 10 on account of his daughter's marriage, directed that the politician shall surrender before jail authorities on February 1 as the tilak' ceremony is scheduled on January 30. It said Sengar shall be again released from jail on February 6 and surrender on Februa