Uttar Pradesh
More trouble for BJP: Another UP minister quits Adityanath’s cabinet days before assembly elections
Janjivan Bureau / New Delhi : A day after four BJP MLAs, including state minister Swami Prasad Maurya, resigned from the cabinet of Adityanath, the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh received another big jolt with another state minister, Dara Singh...
Exodus from BJP may boost opposition in assembly polls
Janjivan Bureau / New Delhi : In the first major jolt to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh, senior minister and prominent leader from the backward community Swami Prasad Maurya has left the party to join the opposition...
Priyanka Gandhi, prominent farmer union leaders take part in ‘antim ardas’ of deceased farmers
Janjivan Bureau / Lakhimpur Kheri : Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra joined a large gathering of farmers from various states at Tikonia village here on Tuesday as part of last prayers in honour of the four deceased farmers and...
15 killed as bus collides with truck in UP’s Barabanki
Janjivan Bureau / Barabanki (UP) : A bus collided with a sand-laden truck near Baburi village in the district here on Thursday, leaving 15 people dead and 27 others injured, police said. The bus carrying 70 passengers was going to...
Lucknow girl who slapped cabbie over 20 times in viral video booked for robbery attempt
Janjivan Bureau / Lucknow : A Lucknow girl who slapped a cab driver over 20 times in a viral video has been booked for robbery attempt. The driver, Shahadat, alleged in his complaint that the woman slapped him in full...
18 labourers sleeping in front of parked bus killed after truck hits it in UP
Janjivan Bureau / Barabanki (UP) ; At least 18 people were killed and 25 injured after a truck rammed into a stationary double-decker bus here, police said on Wednesday. The accident took place on the Lucknow-Ayodhya highway under Kotwali...
UP records less than 1% vaccine wastage
Janjivan Bureau / Lucknow: Vaccine wastage in Uttar Pradesh has dropped to even less than 1 per cent since the extensive vaccination drive has been started in the state to ensure maximum vaccination coverage. Wastage of both Covishield and Covaxin...
104 Retired bureaucrats term UP ‘epicentre of hate politics’, seek withdrawal of anti-conversion ordinance
Janjivan Bureau / New Delhi : Uttar Pradesh has become the “epicentre of the politics of hate, division and bigotry” and the institutions of governance are “steeped in communal poison,” alleged 104 retired civil servants in a letter to Chief...
UP junior engineer in CBI net for alleged sexual abuse of 50 children
Janjivan Bureau / New Delhi : The CBI has arrested a junior engineer of Uttar Pradesh irrigation department for alleged sexual exploitation of children for last 10 years and selling videos and photographs of nefarious acts on dark net to...
CBI takes over probe into UP-origin complaint of alleged TRP manipulation
Janjivan Bureau / New Delhi : The CBI has registered an FIR into alleged manipulation of Television Rating Points (TRP) on the basis of a reference from the Uttar Pradesh Police, officials said on Tuesday. The case, which was earlier...
