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Akhlaq lynching: Court convicts BJP's Sangeet Som for violating govt order

Controversial BJP leader Sangeet Som has been found guilty of allegedly defying a government order following Mohammad Akhlaq's lynching in 2015 by a district court in Uttar Pradesh

SP members to commemorate Mulayam's legacy; seek Bharat Ratna for leader

After the demise of Samajwadi patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, party workers are seeking steps to commemorate his memory

UP hospital sealed for carrying out surgeries without authorised surgeons

A private hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor district has been found to be carrying out surgeries without qualified and authorised surgeons

Uttar Pradesh: Global defence firms to attend investment meet in Lucknow

In probable first-time-ever prospect, the world's leading military hardware makers will compete in a commercial landscape in the aftermath of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

New India is proud of its culture, tradition and heritage: UP CM Adityanath

UP CM Yogi Adityanath said that the 'New India' takes pride in its sages, culture, traditions, heritage and is strengthening national unity

Jewar airport land acquisition: CM Yogi assures compensation to farmers

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday assured a group of farmers that a mutually agreed compensation will be paid for the land to be acquired for the Jewar international airport's second phase, an official spokesperson said. The state government wants farmers of the state to be happy and those displaced should be rehabilitated wherever they want, he said, while addressing the farmers, who came from Jewar to meet him at his official residence. In the first phase of the airport, the state government had got 3,300 acre of land. The chief minister said that the project will be completed in time.

Govt amends Multi State Cooperative Societies Act to bring in transparency

Credit cooperatives constitute the bulk of the MSCS (610), followed by agriculture-oriented MSCS (244)

Pro Kabaddi League 9: UP Yoddhas go down narrowly to U Mumba 23-30

UP Yoddhas went down by a narrow margin of 7 points to U Mumba in their second match of the 9th Season of the Pro Kabaddi League. The 2022 season of the Pro Kabaddi league

Yogi to visit Ayodhya, 3rd time in 20 days, to unveil Ramanujacharya statue

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath will visit Ayodhya on Wednesday to unveil the statue of Hindu philosopher and social reformer Ramanujacharya at Radha Soami Temple Golaghat at 12 noon

Muzaffarnagar riots: BJP MLA sentenced to 2 years in prison, gets bail

MP/MLA court in Muzaffarnagar awarded two years' imprisonment to 12 people, including BJP MLA Vikram Saini, after they were convicted in a case of causing hindrance to government work during 2013 riot

Gyanvapi case: Court's verdict on carbon dating of 'Shivling' on Oct 14

The Varanasi court will deliver its verdict on the Hindu side's plea seeking carbon dating of the structure found inside the Gyanvapi mosque which they claimed to be a 'Shivling', on October 14

Mulayam Singh cremated in Saifai, people pay respects in large numbers

Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav was cremated at his native Saifai village in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday afternoon. The Samajwadi Party founder and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister had died aged 82 at a private hospital in Haryana's Gurugram on Monday. His body was brought to Saifai on Monday evening. A large number of people and dignitaries turned up for his funeral in Saifai on Tuesday.

Top headlines: World stocks at 2-year lows; Mulayam cremated in Saifai

There was a modest respite for Britain's battered bond market after the Bank of England said it would start purchasing inflation-linked debt

JSW Cement to invest over Rs 3,200 crore in new plants in MP and UP

The combined cement capacity of these units will be 5 million tonnes per annum

Uttar Pradesh ATS arrests 8 suspects with links to terror outfits

Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has arrested eight suspected terrorists having links with Al Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent and its affiliate Jamaat-Ul-Mujahideen from different places, officials said on Monday. Eight suspects have been arrested from different places in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, UP Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar said in a statement. The arrested suspects have been identified as Lukman, Mohammad Alim of Gagalhedi, Kari Mukhtar of Manoharpur, Kamil of Deoband, all hailing from Saharanpur district, Shahzad of Jhinjhana in Shamli district, and Mudassir of Haridwar (Uttarakhand), the statement said, adding that Ali Noor, a Bangladeshi national, and Nawazish Ansari of Jharkhand have also been arrested. According to the statement, electronic evidence of terror funding and jihadi literature have been recovered from the suspects which confirm their affiliation with the terrorist organizations. Their contacts have been found

Mulayam's body arrives at native village, people throng to pay tributes

Chants of "Netaji amar rahein" reverberated across Saifai as people from across length and breadth of Uttar Pradesh thronged socialist leader Mulayam Singh Yadav's native village for his last darshan Monday. Yadav passed away Monday morning at a private hospital in Gurugram and his mortal remains reached here in the evening. The body of the Samajwadi Party patriarch has been kept at his kothi and the cremation will take place on Tuesday afternoon. While grief-struck commoners and party supporters stood in queues, it wasn't easier for "VIPs" as well with multiple current and former UP legislative assembly members trying hard to gain entry into the kothi. "Sir, there are instructions to us that no VIP treatment is meted out to anyone," a private security official told an MLC and a former MLC, denying them a backdoor entry. Besides a large number of people who waited for the mortal remains at the venue, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, former MP Dharmendra Yadav and other fa

UP govt to promote private industrial parks under the 'make-in-UP' theme

The proposed policy aims to establish UP as an internationally competitive investment destination, generating employment and stoking sustainable economic growth.

Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939-2022): The Samajwadi who held sway over UP

His moves in UP politics sometimes earned him the sobriquet of an opportunist

CCI okays equity and CCD allotment of five highway SPVs by Indinfravit

The five SPVs are engaged in operating and maintaining highways in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Maharashtra

Uttar Pradesh stuns Maharashtra, enters National Games men's hockey final

Gritty Uttar Pradesh got the better of Maharashtra in the tie-breaker to sneak into the men's hockey final of the 36th National Games at the Dhyan Chand Stadium here on Monday