Postal ballots air govt employees’ ire against NDA over OPS
In a significant show of discontent, government employees in Uttar Pradesh have voiced their dissatisfaction with the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government through their postal ballot votes in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections. Out of the 2,36,508 votes cast via postal ballots, the NDA secured 40.75 per cent,...
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Opposition attacks govt over outsourcing in police dept UPP admits mistake
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With heatwave sweeping UP, peak power demand reaches 29,820 MW
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Akhilesh resigns from Karhal assembly seat
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SP grappling to choose new leader of opposition in UP assembly
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8 members of a family killed as sand-laden truck overturns on them
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We lost some seats in UP as BJP misused official machinery: Rai
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Priyanka would have defeated Modi in Varanasi: Rahul
12 June 2024 | PNS
Tension in Moradabad after cleric shot dead
Tension prevailed in Moradabad after another cleric (Imam of a mosque) was shot dead in the early hours of Tuesday. Last Saturday, Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind general secretary and well-known religious leader Maulana Farooq (67) was brutally murdered in the Sonpur village in Pratapgarh, which also led to tension in the area. The police...
Foreign investment has fallen by 3.5 per cent: CPI leader
Communist Party of India leader Dr Girish said on Tuesday that despite claims of being the world’s fifth largest economy and the ongoing election noise, foreign investment in the country had fallen by 3.5 per cent to 44.42 billion dollars. “This figure mocks the establishment’s claims of making the country the...
UP govt sets sight on infra projects
With the electoral battle over, the Uttar Pradesh government has focused its attention on important infrastructure projects. Besides Ganga Expressway, the state government has expedited the process of land acquisition for the Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor (AKIC) project passing through UP. National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation is developing AKIC along the alignment...
Balyan lost due to his own actions: Som
In a heated response to former Union minister Dr Sanjeev Balyan’s comments regarding internal betrayal leading to his electoral defeat, Sardhana former MLA Thakur Sangeet Som asserted that Balyan’s loss was due to his own actions and behaviour. Balyan had alleged that Som assisted the Samajwadi Party (SP) in the recently-concluded...
UP govt approves new transfer policy
The Yogi Adityanath government on Tuesday approved the New Transfer Policy for 2024-25. Under this policy, Group A & Group B officers who have completed three years in district and seven years in division can be transferred. However, the oldest officers in Group C and Group D will be transferred...
BJP candidates who lost poll allege sabotage, betrayal by partymen
Over a dozen Bharatiya Janata Party candidates, who lost the election in the just concluded Lok Sabha elections, have submitted a report to the high command alleging sabotage and betrayal by the party leaders and workers of their constituencies. A senior party leader told this reporter that party candidates have alleged...
Modi’s new cabinet balances UP’s caste, regional dynamics
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet 3.0 aims to balance the regional and caste dynamics of Uttar Pradesh. Interestingly, despite a significant drop in the number of Lok Sabha members elected from the state – from 64 in 2019 to 36 in 2024 – the representation of UP in the cabinet...
