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UP minister Kamal Rani Varun cremated in Kanpur

6:35 pm August 2, 2020

Kanpur: UP Technical Education Minister Kamal Rani Varun, who died of coronavirus at a Lucknow hospital on Sunday, was cremated at the Kanpur’s Bhairo Ghat crematorium as per the COVID-19 protocol. The local administration made all preparations for her last rites with state honours. “A guard of honour was given as soon as her body […]

Heavy rainfall in several parts of Kerala

Heavy rains in UP affect 331 villages, 1.90 lakh people

8:23 pm August 1, 2020

Lucknow: A total of 331 villages of Uttar Pradesh’s 12 districts have been hit by floods and about 1.90 lakh people affected as water levels of many rivers continue to rise due to heavy rains, a state minister said on Saturday. However, no loss of life was reported due to the floods so far. State’s […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Noida’s COVID-19 tally now 4,466; record 399 patients discharged in Ghaziabad in one day

11:44 pm July 23, 2020

Ghaziabad/Noida: A record 399 COVID-19 patients were discharged after treatment in a day in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad, while its tally of cases reached 4,321 with 115 new infections on Thursday, official data showed. The number of active cases in Ghaziabad came down to 1,015 from 1,299 on Wednesday, according to the data released by the UP Health […]

CM inaugurates diamond jubilee celebrations of country’s first Sainik School in Lucknow

8:12 pm July 15, 2020

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday promised to work personally to help the Lucknow-based, country’s first Sainik School emerge as a role model in the field of education. Adityanath made the promise while kicking off a year-long diamond jubilee celebration of the school set up by former chief minister Dr Sampurnanand in1960. In his inaugural address of the […]

Babri trial: I am innocent, allegations baseless, says Kalyan Singh after hearing

11:14 pm July 13, 2020

Lucknow: Senior BJP leader and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh on Monday accused the then Congress government at the Centre of levelling “false and baseless allegations” against him in the Babri mosque demolition case and said he was “innocent”. “The then Congress government at the Centre levelled false and baseless allegations against me and filed a case out of political animosity,” he told reporters after […]