Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s office in the state capital will be made bulletproof, in the wake of inputs given by intelligence agencies about a possible threat to him. A senior official said that Adityanath’s office located on the fifth floor of the newly constructed Lok Bhawan would now have bulletproof window panes. The […]
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7 cases against UP BJP MLA to be withdrawn
Meerut (1 MIN READ): The Yogi Adityanath government is preparing to withdraw seven cases registered against Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA Sangeet Som. According to sources, these cases were registered against Som between 2013 and 2017 in Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur, Meerut and Gautam Buddh Nagar. These include the case in Muzaffarnagar during the 2013 riots, violation of […]
Sonebhadra carnage: DM, SP shifted, revenue officials booked
Lucknow (2 MIN READ): UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday removed Sonebhadra’s District Magistrate and Superintendent of Police and ordered a departmental inquiry against them in the massacre case in which ten people were killed in the district on July 17. S. Ramlingam has been posted as the new District Magistrate, replacing Ankit Agarwal, while […]
Unnao rape survivor: Family seeks CBI probe, Yogi orders free treatment
Lucknow (2 MIN READ): Mahesh Singh, uncle of the Unnao rape survivor has written to the Yogi Adityanath government seeking a CBI probe into the accident in Rae Bareli on Sunday in which the rape survivor and her lawyer have been critically injured and two women killed. Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police O.P. Singh had […]
Yogi ready for CBI probe into Unnao rape survivor’s accident
Lucknow (1 MIN READ): The Yogi Adityanath government has said if the family of the Unnao rape survivor wants, his government is ready to recommend a CBI probe into the Rae Bareli accident in which two were killed, while the surivor and her lawyer were critically injured. The survivor and her lawyer Mahendra Singh have been […]
Apna Dal MLA had alerted Yogi on Sonbhadra carnage
Lucknow: The massacre of 10 people in Umbha village of the Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh on July 17 has taken a new turn. A letter written by an MLA to the Chief Minister forewarning the state government of the incident went viral on social media on Tuesday. Hariram Chero, the Apna Dal MLA, in […]
Yogi govt withdraws 20 more Muzaffarnagar riots cases
Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has allowed 20 more cases of Muzaffarnagar riots to be withdrawn. With this, the total numbers of cases withdrawn in the Muzaffarnagar riots has reached 74. The cases, which have been allowed to be withdrawn by the government, were registered on behalf of the police and the […]
Yogi orders probe into PWD scam during SP regimes in UP
Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has ordered an inquiry into the alleged scam of more than Rs 1,000 crore in the Public Works Department (PWD). The probe has been handed over to a special investigation team (SIT), which has asked for related files from the Principal Secretary of PWD. The alleged scam […]
Why Yogi is the ‘encounter man’ in UP?
Lucknow: When Yogi Adityanath announced a month after becoming the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh that “Agar apradh karenge to thok diye jayenge” (if you commit a crime, you will be knocked off), few took him seriously. In the past three decades, after all, crime and politics had become inseparable in that state and the relationship […]
Yogi blames Congress for Sonebhadra carnage, flays Priyanka
Sonebhadra: UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday blamed the Congress for the Sonebhadra caste carnage and said the “sins committed by the Congress” led to suffering in this village. The Chief Minister also accused Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi of shedding “crocodile tears” over the farmers’ deaths. The Chief Minister, who was in the village […]