National

PM Modi to visit Kolkata on January 23, Netaji Subhash Memorial Museum to be inaugurated

New Delhi, 19 January: The main event will be held in Kolkata on January 23 on the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. In this, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate an exhibition of the Netaji Subhash Memorial Museum. However, there will be programs in Kolkata and Cuttack along...

National

Neighbourhood First policy: India to start supplying of Covid vaccines to its neighbours from Wednesday

New Delhi, 19 January: Within a few days of the commencement of the Covid vaccination drive, India started providing vaccines to the world. The government said that the country will start as a grant-in-aid to neighbouring countries, balancing its needs and global obligations. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said in...

Uttar Pradesh

Varanasi: Muslim girl donates Rs 11000 for the construction of Ram temple

Varanasi, 19 January: Iqra Anwar Khan, daughter of an advocate Anwar Khan, a resident of Mughalsarai district Chandauli, contributed Rs 11,000 towards the construction of ‘bhavya’ Ram temple in Ayodhya during fundraising drive on Tuesday. The special part of the contribution was that Iqra reached the office of Swami Jitendranand,...

Uttar Pradesh

Another FIR registered against makers of web series ‘Tandav’ in Lucknow

Lucknow, 19 January: Another First Information Report (FIR) has been registered in Ghazipur police station in Lucknow on Tuesday against the makers and artists of the controversial web series ‘Tandav’. Savarkar Army Chief Swami Brihamesh Ji Maharaj has submitted a written complaint at Ghazipur police station on Tuesday. He said...

Uttar Pradesh

State Govt releases list of Gram Panchayat, Zila Panchayat after delimitation

Lucknow, 18 January: The work of delimitation has been completed in 75 districts for the three-tier panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh. In the last five years, the scope of the state’s panchayats has narrowed considerably. 69 wards of district panchayats have been abolished. 880 gram panchayats have been found in...

National

Sports Ministry nixes signing of MoU with Amazon Prime after controversy over ‘Tandav’ film

New Delhi, 18 January: The Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs has decided not to sign an important memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Amazon India on Tuesday amid a controversy over a web series ‘Tandava’ allegedly hurting religious sentiments of people. Indeed, the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs was...

Uttar Pradesh

Tandav row: Team of police officers leave for Mumbai to interrogate ‘Tandav’ team

Lucknow, 18 January: A First Information Report (FIR) has been lodged against five persons including ‘Tandav’ film director late in the night at Hazratganj Kotwali police station in the Lucknow. However, for further action on this case, a team of four police officers from Lucknow have left for Mumbai to...

Uttar Pradesh

UP Police seeks custody of ‘Controversial’ comedian Munawar Faruqui

Prayagraj, 17 January: The Uttar Pradesh police has demanded warrant (B) to produce controversial stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui, who is lodged in Indore jail, for making indecent remarks on the country’s Home Minister Amit Shah and Hindu Gods and Goddesses during Corona Lockdown. A case in this matter has been...

National

Over 17,000 vaccinated against Covid-19 in 6 states on second day

New Delhi, 17 January: So far, 17072 people have been vaccinated in 6 states on Sunday, the second day of corona vaccination. The Health Ministry gave this information on Sunday, the second day of the Corona vaccination campaign. Vaccination programs were held at a total of 553 vaccination centers in...

Uttar Pradesh

Remaining health workers to be vaccinated on January 22

Lucknow, 17 January: After the corona vaccination campaign was successfully launched on Saturday, its next anti-coronavirus vaccination drive will now be held on January 22. However, remaining medical staff will be vaccinated in this. Yesterday, out of total 31,700 registered people at 317 locations in the state, 22,643 doctors-health workers...

National

One crore given for the construction of Ram temple

Jhunjhunu, 17 January: Under the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir construction fundraising drive, Jhunjhunu District Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) District Vice President Rajendra Bhanbu handed over a cheque of amount of one crore rupees. District head of the temple construction fund collection campaign Atmaram Tibda said that in the program organized...

National

PM Modi flags off 8 trains connecting the country with Kevadia

Jan Shatabdi train equipped with “Vista-Dome Tourist Coach” to run between Ahmedabad-Kevadia. Kevadia country’s first station to get green certificate. New Delhi, 17 January: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday flagged off eight trains connecting Kevadia (Gujarat) to various places in the country including the national capital Delhi and Varanasi...

Uttar Pradesh

First day of Corona vaccination drive successful in Uttar Pradesh: ACS Health

Lucknow, 16 January: Corona vaccination campaign started on Saturday across the state of Uttar Pradesh has proved successful. On the first day, 31,700 health workers are being inoculated against Covid-19. The person who has been vaccinated from anywhere across the state has not received any complaint related to the health...

National

Day-1 Covid vaccination: Over 1,65,714 inoculated on first day of vaccination drive in India

New Delhi, 16 January: On Saturday, more than one lakh 65 thousand people were vaccinated against coronavirus disease till 5 pm on the first day of the nationwide vaccination campaign. According to the Union Health Ministry, the vaccination campaign has been successful on Saturday at a total of 3351 centers...

International

23 die after receiving Covid vaccine in Norway, 1 in Belgium

Oslo, 16 January: The number of deaths has increased from 13 to 23 soon after receiving of Pfizer’s Coronavirus vaccine in Norway. Of these, 13 people died due to side effects of corona vaccine. Meanwhile, after so many deaths, Norway has changed its vaccine guidelines with immediate effect. On the...

National

Cases of new UK strain of Covid-19 jumped to 114 in India

New Delhi, 15 January: In the country, the number of infected people has increased to 114 after the confirmation of new strain of coronavirus disease in five patients on Friday. This highly contagious variant of the coronavirus was first reported in Britain, which is 70 percent more infectious than the...

Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow Police Commissioner suspends 15 police personnel

Lucknow, 15 January: Lucknow Police Commissioner DK Thakur has suspended 15 police personnel including the police station in-charge posted at Wazirganj police station in a major action on Friday. This action has been taken on the complaint of the security officer of the court. During their duty, 15 police personnel,...

National

Diamond merchant from Gujarat donates Rs 11 crore for Ram Mandir construction

Surat / Ahmedabad, 15 January: Fundraising campaign has kicked off across the country for construction of ‘Bhavya’ Ram temple in Ayodhya. In this sequence, today, a diamond merchant from Surat, Govindbhai Dholkiya, donated Rs 11 crore for the construction of the Ram temple. Not only Govindbhai Dholkiya from Gujarat but...

Uttar Pradesh

Governor Anandiben Patel and CM Yogi donate Rs 2 lakh each towards construction of Ram temple

Lucknow, 15 January: Governor of Uttar Pradesh Anandiben Patel and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday donated Rs 2 lakh- each from their personal capacity towards the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya.   However, the contribution drive across the country started on Friday with a view to ensure public...

Uttar Pradesh

UP: So far, 31,700 medical staff to get Corona vaccine on January 16, PM Modi to speak with beneficiaries

Lucknow, 15 January: Corona vaccination drive is starting across the state from Saturday. Around, 31,700 health workers will be vaccinated on the first day. However, vaccination will be kicked off after the address of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Prime Minister’s address will be broadcast through webcasting in all districts....

National

Kailash, Mukul and Dileep summoned in Delhi to chalk out strategies to impress ‘Matua’ community in WB assembly elections

Kolkata, 15 January: The Bharatiya Janta Party’s West Bengal unit president Dilip Ghosh, national vice president Mukul Roy and Bengal in-charge and national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya have been summoned to Delhi by the central leadership to formulate a strategy regarding WB upcoming assembly elections. Actually, the assembly elections in...

National

Central Government files petition in Supreme Court to cancel ‘Adultery Law’ in Armed Forces

New Delhi, 13 January: The Central Government has filed a petition in the Supreme Court demanding that the decision of Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) relating to adultery being unconstitutional should not be applied to the Armed Forces. The Supreme Court has issued a notice on the...

Uttar Pradesh

Consumers to get benefit of ‘this’ electricity scheme till January 31

Lucknow, 13 January: The state government has implemented ‘Covid-19- Ek Musht Samadhan Yojana’ from December 15, 2020 to provide relief to electricity consumers of all commercial, industrial and private institutions in rural and urban areas. Under this scheme, consumers of above categories have been given 100 percent discount on the...

Crime Uttar Pradesh

UP STF arrests inter-state ‘ganja’ smugglers

Lucknow, 13 January: UP Special Task Force (STF) on Wednesday arrested driver and cleaner involved in inter-state drug trafficking racket. However, the Police have seized 10.62 quintal cannabis from their possession, which has an international value of about Rs four crores. According to the UP STF team, information was being...

National

Active cases of Covid-19 drop to 214, 507 in India, recovery rate climbs to 96. 51 %

New Delhi, 13 January: The number of corona patients in the country has crossed 14 million. However, in the last 24 hours, 15 thousand 968 new cases of coronavirus disease have been reported across the country with this, taking the total number of Covid-19 cases to 1, 04, 95,147. Meanwhile,...

Uttar Pradesh

Cold Wave conditions return in Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow, 12 January: Due to the blowing of the Northeast winds, people got relief from the bone-chilling winter of the past week but the weather conditions have changed once again. Due to the snowfall in the Himalayas and the movement of the northwest winds, the cold-wave condition has started increasing...

Uttar Pradesh

First consignment of Covid vaccine reaches Lucknow

Lucknow, 12 January: The first shipment of Covid vaccine ‘Covishield’, developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and developed by Serum Institute of India (SII), for vaccination against coronavirus reached the capital Lucknow’s Chaudhary Charan Singh’s Airport on Tuesday. Uttar Pradesh Health Minister Jai Pratap Singh received the vaccine at the...

Uttar Pradesh

Covid vaccine to be given on Jnauary 16 at 852 centers in Uttar Pradesh

Ayodhya, 11 January: Uttar Pradesh Health and Family Welfare Minister Jai Pratap reached the district hospital on Monday to see the dry run (rehearsal) of the Covid vaccine. He Inaugurated the Teen Shed Waiting Room built in the hospital. He said that there was a dry run on 1500 centers...

Uttar Pradesh

World’s biggest Covid vaccination drive to start from January 16, PM Modi chairs meeting with CMs

Bhopal, January 11: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that it is a matter of pride for India that the world’s largest vaccination campaign, Corona Vaccination, is starting in India from January 16. The two vaccines Serum Institute of India’s ‘Covishield’ and Bharat Biotech’s ‘Covaxin’ have been allowed to use...

Crime Uttar Pradesh

Female constable from Ayodhya hangs self in Lucknow

Lucknow, 11 January: (revised). Urmila Verma, 24, a constable posted in the Police Response Vehicle (PRV) of Mohanlalganj police station has allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself on Sunday night. Meanwhile, the deceased’s mobile was missing from the crime scene and no suicide note has been recovered. The police are...