
The UP government on Monday denied any lapses on its part in connection with the stampede at the Allahabad railway station on Sunday, even as the railways also said the incident did not occur because of them. ...

11:12 PM, Feb 11, 2013

The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday denied any lapses on its part in connection with the stampede at the Allahabad railway station on Sunday, even as the railways also said the incident did not occur because of them. And amidst the blame game, the death toll in the tragedy has climbed to 36, including 29 women and one child while 39 others have been injured. ...

08:40 PM, Feb 11, 2013

The Akhilesh Yadav-led Uttar Pradesh government on Monday came under criticism of party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, who said he was receiving a lot of complaints regarding functioning of the state government. Expressing dissatisfaction over increasing bureaucratic interference in the working of some of the departments, Mulayam advised the government to take corrective measures. ...

08:29 PM, Jan 14, 2013

Lucknow: Facing flak over law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh, the state government on Saturday directed senior officials to take stern action against criminals and keep them behind bars. The directive was issued by Chief Secretary Javed Usmani. Usmani issued the directive during a meeting to review development works and law and order with divisional commissioners, IGs, DIGs and other senior officials. State BJP on Saturday attacked the government...

11:10 PM, Jul 14, 2012

New Delhi: The poor state of healthcare services in a government hospital in Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh has been exposed. Class 4 employees have been caught on camera performing the duties of doctors. The hospital has 23 trained doctors but a sweeper was caught giving stitches to a patient. The video also shows a ward boy administering tetanus shots to another patient. What's more shocking is that all this took...

07:25 AM, Jul 10, 2012

Lucknow: Varanasi's famous Kashi Vishwanath temple will be given a major facelift and the salaries of the priests will be increased, the Uttar Pradesh government announced on Tuesday. After a meeting of the temple trust, Religious Endowments Minister Anand Singh said that other than making provisions for booking online 'darshan' of the deity, fibre glass roofs will also be installed at places where devotees stand in long queues to have...

10:02 PM, Jun 19, 2012

Lucknow: Reverting the previous BSP government transfer policy in the past two years, the Samajwadi Party government on Thursday came out with a policy which empowers concerned ministers and head of departments to shift officers, official sources said in Lucknow. As per the new policy adopted by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's government for 2012-13, it has been decided to transfer group C & D officers who are posted in a...

12:01 AM, Mar 23, 2012

New Delhi: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) on Thursday extended their support to the satyagraha of Baba Ramdev against corruption and black money. We feel it will help eliminate corrupt systems of our country. We support the whole movement meant for the national interest and will take part in it. We hope the proposed satyagraha takes the shape of a revolution throughout the country,...

05:45 PM, Jun 02, 2011

Supreme Court wants NSA revoked with immediate effect. ...

12:25 PM, May 14, 2009

The UP govt said a thorough investigation would be done in Noida serial killing case and no guilty would be spared. ...

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