Yogi Adityanath

LUCKNOW: Eight candidates including deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya filed their nomination papers for the ensuing legislative council elections here on Thursday. Chief minister Yogi Adityanath, deputy CM Brijesh Pathak, and state BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh accompanied the candidates during the process. Apart from Maurya who lost the Assembly elections to Samajwadi Party’s […]

  LUCKNOW: Amid a raging political controversy over the use of loudspeakers at places of worship in Maharashtra, the Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday said it had removed nearly 22,000 unauthorised loudspeakers across the state. As per data released by the UP government, 21,963 loudspeakers were uninstalled from religious sites of worship till Thursday evening. […]

  LUCKNOW: In a statewide drive conducted by the Yogi Adityanath government, 10,923 loudspeakers were removed from religious sites of different communities across Uttar Pradesh till Wednesday. Apart from that, the volume of 35,221 loudspeakers has been lowered in accordance with the prescribed decibel levels. CM Yogi has directed government officials to ensure that the […]

LUCKNOW: Acting tough against gangsters, the Uttar Pradesh Police on Wednesday said that it had attached property worth Rs 25.4 crore of Ajeet Gupta and his aides. Gupta had duped number of people in the state on pretext of giving them high returns on their investments in his company Ani bullion. As per the police […]

LUCKNOW: Yogi Adityanath was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for the second time in a grand ceremony at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium here on Friday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, chief ministers of some BJP-ruled states and other senior BJP leaders attended the oath-taking ceremony. Keshav Prasad […]

  LUCKNOW: Yogi Adityanath will be sworn in as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for second time in a grand ceremony at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium here on Friday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, chief ministers of some BJP-ruled states and senior BJP leaders are expected to attend […]

LUCKNOW: Yogi Adityanath will be sworn in as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh in a grand ceremony at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium here on March 25. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was present at the swearing-in ceremony of Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami on Wednesday, is likely to fly down to Lucknow […]

LUCKNOW: On March 10, Yogi Adityanath became the first chief minister to return to power in Uttar Pradesh in the last 37 years. He is also the first chief minister to complete a 5-year term and retain power in the next elections in the state. Yogi’s outstanding achievements are historic, not just because he set some records in […]

New Delhi: As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the Uttar Pradesh polls, we look at 5 big takeaways from the result that will shape Indian politics in the days to come: 1) The triumph of ‘Rashan’ and ‘Sushasan’ (Ration and Good Governance): During the elections, two biggest factors for the people were law and order […]

LUCKNOW: As the results indicative of victory for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh started rolling out, the mood at the state party headquarters turned festive with the supporters playing holi. As soon as definitive trends emerged suggesting a second consecutive term for the BJP in the state, hundreds of party workers […]