Category: Uttar Pradesh
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Finally ‘acche din’ for Varanasi
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Mohit Dubey says Prime Minister Modi is working projcts to bring ‘acche din’ for Varanasi Having elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi to parliament, the ancient city of Varanasi is all set to see ‘acche din’ (good days) promised during the election campaign. The Modi government has finalized an “exhaustive makeover blueprint” for the city, its spiritual and…
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27 drown during Ganga Dussehra
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At least 27 people were killed in separate incidents while taking dip in rivers on the occasion of Ganga Dussehra in Uttar Pradesh, police said Monday. The annual festival, which is celebrated as the day when the Ganga river is believed to have to descended on the earth, saw lakhs of devotees take dip Sunday…
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BJP seeks intervention in UP
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The Uttar Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has sought the union home ministry’s intervention in the failing law and order situation in the state, a party leader said Monday. This follows a first-hand probe by the party’s state unit in the recent rape and murder cases in Badaun, Etawah and Azamgarh. State…
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Varanasi ghats to get new life
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The newly installed Modi-government has sanctioned Tourism Ministry INR 18 crores for development of the ghats at Varanasi, and the construction of jetties along the Ganga river. While Modi has assigned the task of cleaning the Ganga river to Uma Bharti, Minister of Water Resources, River Development, it is tourism minister Shripad Yesso Naik’s job…
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Mulayam dissolves state executive
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Thursday dissolved its Uttar Pradesh executive and 15 other wings following the party’s debacle in the Lok Sabha election. But Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav remains the president of the state executive. A senior leader said the action had the nod of Mulayam Singh Yadav, whose desire to send maximum…
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Demise of Congress, caste politics
Saeed Naqvi analyses the Indian elections – Congress and caste parties decimates, whither Indian Muslims Over 180 million Indian Muslims will stand on the margin looking stunned and petrified, watching Narendra Modi and the BJP make history and colour the nation with saffron. What a predicament for the world’s second largest Muslim population which equals…