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Denial of ex gratia to kin 'mockery of policy': HC

PRAYAGRAJ, Dec. 10 -- The Allahabad high court recently pulled up the state authorities for denying ex gratia (compensation) to a minor orphan, whose parents died in a train accident though the centra... Read More


PIL seeking directions on religiousdesecration trashed

Lucknow, Dec. 10 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has disposed of a public interest litigation petition seeking sweeping directions to the Union and state governments to prevent allege... Read More


SIR: EC flags around 19% UP voters as 'uncollectible'

LUCKNOW, Dec. 10 -- Around 2.93 crore voters (approximately 19%) in Uttar Pradesh are under the scanner of the Election Commission of India (ECI) for not submitting their enumeration forms under the o... Read More


Winter session of UPlegislature from Dec 19

LUCKNOW, Dec. 10 -- Uttar Pradesh legislature's winter session is to be convened from December 19. A recommendation of the state cabinet in this regard is being sent to governor Anandiben Patel for ap... Read More


Gomti in focus as UPplans river transport

Lucknow, Dec. 10 -- The first meeting of the Uttar Pradesh Inland Waterways Authority on Tuesday outlined a clear roadmap to start and expand water-based transport across the state. The authority deci... Read More


Bharatmala E-way to redefine UP-eastern India connectivity

LUCKNOW, Dec. 10 -- Among the web of expressways in Uttar Pradesh is also the long awaited 686-km-long eight-lane Bharatmala Expressway connecting Chandauli in eastern Uttar Pradesh to Kolkata in West... Read More


SIR an organisational responsibility, says Yogi

GORAKHPUR, Dec. 10 -- Chief minister Yogi Adityanath reviewed the progress of the SIR of electoral rolls in a meeting with public representatives and BJP office-bearers from the Gorakhpur division dur... Read More


Paid nothing, killers abducted, strangled farmer, burned body

LUCKNOW, Dec. 10 -- A contract to murder farmer Shiv Prakash alias Kabir, 42, reportedly went unpaid, yet he was abducted, strangled, and his body burned, Nigohan police revealed here on Tuesday. Inve... Read More


History-sheeter with Rs.50,000 reward shot dead in Shamli encounter

Meerut, Dec. 10 -- Wanted for several serious criminal offences, a history-sheeter was shot dead in a late-night police encounter in Shamli district on Monday, police said. The criminal had a reward o... Read More


Sc reluctant to place police under eci in w.b.

New Delhi, Dec. 10 -- Amid allegations of violence and threats to booth level officers (BLOs) conducting the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, the Supreme Court on Tu... Read More