Tag: Uttar Pradesh

With the kind of clarity we have rarely heard in recent time, the honourable Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh said: 1) [in Hindi] if during Eid I cannot stop the namaz being offered on roads. then I have no right to stop the celebration of Janmashtami at police stations. if he cannot… Read More

Nearly 15 crore mid-day meals are served in government schools all across. Each state and district organizes these differently. In the states where these are considered well run, they are generally outsourced. But in the some other states like Bihar and UP, teachers are involved in both cooking the food… Read More

Telangana does it again by focusing only on giving top education of minorities. VOTE BANK POLITICS TO THE EXTREME. They spend hundreds and thousands of crores on such things while leaving out the majority. Previous state governments in many states have done this - Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka (currently), Kerala, and… Read More

In a proactive move, Yogi Adityanath, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh has cancelled 15 holidays for schools, colleges and government, which were there to commemorate "great people". The chief minister said, "special programmes will be held to educate school children about the great leaders. Many times, children don't even know… Read More

The new Uttar Pradesh government has shut-down essentially illegal slaughter house (not sure why they were operating in the first place). This has led to the expected shortage and a hike in prices. People are taking tofish instead and that is seeing a spike. There are reports that as this… Read More

BJP's Election Manifesto for UP was to ensure safety and remove harassment for girls and women. As promised, the government is forming anti-romeo squads in each police station. Each "squad" consists of 5 police personnel with 3 women and 2 men. They patrol schools, colleges, malls, markets and parks and… Read More

43 year MP and Mahant of the Gorakhpur Temple was elected as the 32nd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Yogiji became the youngest MP of the Lok Sabha at the age of 26 and has continually won all elections as BJP MP of Gorakhpur constituency since 1988. Yogiji is very… Read More

Uttar Pradesh was already divided as Uttarakhand comprising of hill section was carved out to be a state. Mayawati had passed a bill to divide UP into four states - Awadh, Pashchim Pradesh, Bundelkhand and Purvanchal. BJP won a landslide in UP and rules in the center and is a… Read More

One party has said that in Uttar Pradesh, which is in the midst of assembly polls, the government first asks for your religion and caste first and if it is not favorable - THEY WILL NOT GIVE YOU A LAPTOP. Obviously pretty shocking, and if true - how is the… Read More

Intelligence source have said 200 Pakistani terrorists have already entered Kashmir and 100 more are waiting to get pushed in by the Pakistani Army and ISI. Their plan to step up violence and go after both armed forces and soft targets both in Jammu & Kashmir and rest of India.… Read More

The skewed sex-ratio or gender gap in the Gujarati Patel community, has also forced the Patidars to go searching for brides in other states such as Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, or even further away in Oriya. To highlight how dire is the situation, in the first-ever matchmaking ceremony… Read More

In 2 separate incidents in Uttar Pradesh, a woman was burnt to death and in another the woman suffered serious burn injuries. This is really sad. The question for us is why in the 21st century such things still happen? How can we overcome once and for all? Source: PTI Read More

Mulayam Singh, currently a Samajwadi party Loksabha MP, as chief minister of undivided Uttar Pradesh ordered the police to fire on lacs of karsevaks who were approaching Ayodhya - many were killed on that day. Suddenly, he is feeling sad for that incident, however, no regrets have been expressed. One… Read More

A recent UP gov't order makes a person with two or more wives not eligible to apply for Urdu teacher positions. Also, female candidates who are married to a man who has two wives, both living, would also be considered non-eligible. So the minister quoted the reason for this: "This… Read More

Today, November 2nd marks the 25th year anniversary of firing (on 2nd November, 1990) on VHP Karsevaks by UP Govt as they were proceeding to Ayodhya. Hundreds of unarmed volunteers and sadhus dies in the cold blooded firing. Now the same Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party government has declined to… Read More