Uttar Pradesh government has extended the deadline for two schemes till March 31, under which defaulting power consumers, including farmers, have more time to clear their dues.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to the Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary and the Director-General of Police (DGP), on a complaint filed by Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra over alleged police atrocities during anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) protests in the state.
The Allahabad High Court on Thursday asked the Uttar Pradesh government and the AMU administration to file its replies within two weeks on a plea about baton charge and tear gas shells used against students who were protesting against the controversial citizenship law.
Over Rs 2,600 crore of the power employees' provident fund (PF) was reportedly invested in the scam-hit Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DHFL), prompting the state government to order a CBI probe.
UP Government grants State Fair status to Deepotsav Mela in Ayodhya. Yogi government approves Rs 33 crore for Deepotsav.
The case was registered at the Expressway police station on a complaint lodged by two irrigation department officials, they said.
Staying the notification on Monday, the high court directed the state government to file its reply in three weeks on a petition against its decision to declare 17 OBCs as SCs.
Twenty-three ministers – the 18 new faces and five others who were elevated from the minister of state rank they held earlier – were sworn in by Governor Anandiben Patel at the Raj Bhavan. Six of the 23 were sworn in as cabinet ministers, six as ministers of state with an independent charge and the remaining 11 get the MoS rank. Their portfolios are likely to be announced later. Five ministers resigned Tuesday night from the original 43-member ministry.
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The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the National Green Tribunal's (NGT) 2015 directive and asked the Uttar Pradesh government to constitute a shrine board for three temples in the pilgrimage town of Govardhan in Mathura district. The apex court also stayed another recent verdict of the NGT asking AK Awasthi, additional chief secretary of the state, to appear before it for non-compliance of its 2015 order, which issued directions on several issues including setting up of the shrine board.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought a report from the UP government into the incident in which over 50 students were injured after a high-tension wire fell into a primary school in Balrampur district.
In a major administrative reshuffle, the Uttar Pradesh government transferred 30 IAS officers including the social welfare Director, Chief Minister's Secretary and PWD Special Secretary. The development happened close to midnight on Friday.
The Uttar Pradesh State Information Department will now foot the Rs 2.5 crore bill that was incurred on the programme organized last August for the immersion of the ashes of late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
In 2011, the then Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati had gotten Lucknows city centre, Hazratganj, painted pink.
In 1984 riots in Kanpur, at least 125 people were killed.
The proposal to rename the historic city of Allahabad as Prayagraj was approved by the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday.
Several directions were earlier passed by another bench of the High Court, over improving the conditions of government hospitals.
She had on Tuesday refused to take cash award at a programme in presence of Governor Ram Naik and CM Adityanath, saying that she wanted the job.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced Rs 30 lakh and gazetted officer's job to Sudha, who hails from Rae Bareli district, about 80 km from the state capital.
"Why have you given a draft plan? Are we supposed to vet it for you? Is it our job to vet it?" SC bench asked the counsel appearing for UP govt.
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