UP Cabinet Expansion: The Council of Ministers in Uttar Pradesh can have 60 ministers including the Chief Minister. However, there are 54 ministers and six others can join the government.

Sources said that in view of the elections, the strategy for the upcoming party programmes in the coming months was discussed, including the party's Booth Vijay Sankalp program which is going to start on August 23.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also handed an additional cash reward of Rs 25 lakh each to 10 athletes from the state who participated in Tokyo Olympics.

Citing infrastructure projects like the metro rail and the proposed airport in Jewar, the film city, toy park, MSME parks and the medical device park, the government said CM Yogi Adityanath focused on the development of Noida with these things in mind.

Yogi Adityanath has come down heavily on those supporting the Taliban's capturing of Afghanistan and called for exposing such leaders.

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath will felicitate Tokyo Olympians at a function in Lucknow.

The YIAPL signed financing agreements with the State Bank of India (SBI) and Noida International Airport Ltd for financial close for the project.

The supplementary budget was presented by Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna in the presence of CM Yogi Adityanath.

Over one and a half dozen ATS officers, selected from all over the state, will be deputed there, he added in his tweet. According to sources, the government has already allotted over 2,000 square meters of land for establishing the ATS training centre in Deoband.

"The state, which was the sixth biggest economy in the country, has become the second biggest. Once associated with anarchy and known as a state of riots, UP today has become a role model in terms of law and order," Yogi Adityanath said after unfurling the Tricolour outside the UP Vidhan Bhavan.

Nine disricts - Amethi, Aligarh, Chitrakoot, Etah, Firozabad, Gonda, Hathras, Pilibhit, and Pratapgarh - have now been declared coronavirus-free.   

Districts including Meerut, Hapur, Bulandshahar, Amroha, Sambhal, Badaun, Shahjahanpur, Hardoi, Unnao, Rai Bareli, Pratapgarh, and Prayagraj will benefit from the construction of this Ganga expressway.

The Congress leaders and workers are busy preparing for the two-day campaign on August 9-10 during which various protests including the marches will be organized.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched a massive awareness programme throughout Uttar Pradesh to ensure that no beneficiary is left out from availing the benefits of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana.

Munendra Pratap Verma, an Ayurvedic doctor who ran his own private clinic from his home in the village, was attacked by accused Achchey Lal Verma with a sharp-edged weapon multiple times, Superintendent of Police, Sitapur, RP Singh said.

Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government achieved a big milestone of vaccinating over 21 lakh people in a day thus becoming the first state in the country to administer 5 crore Covid shots.

Rajbhar, who had recently launched Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha as a political front of small parties, said, "The BJP is keen to forge an alliance with us.They think it is necessary to enter into an alliance with us to form the government again."

UP government has increased the basic facilities for students in 1.39 lakh primary schools that now have smart classrooms, playgrounds, toilets, drinking water, and libraries.

The cabinet approved the scheme under which children below the age of 18 years who have lost both their parents or either of the parents or a guardian due to reasons other than COVID-19 will be provided financial assistance.

Addressing a PC on Saturday, Owaisi said, "PM Modi led govt in an affidavit submitted in SC in 2020 had said that 'any coercion to have a certain number of children is counter productive and leads to demographic distortions.'