Uttar Pradesh News

defamation case against Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi in a MP-MLA court in this Uttar Pradesh district was postponed on Saturday due to a health camp organised by the bar council. The matter will now be heard on October 1. Plaintiff Vijay Mishra's lawyer Santosh Kumar Pandey said his client's statement was to be recorded on Saturday, but due to the health camp organised by the Bar Association on the civil court premises, the lawyers were busy in it and no court work could be done. «The court has postponed the matter to October 1,» he said. Gandhi has been accused of making objectionable comments during the 2018 Karnataka polls about Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who was the BJP president then.

Allahabad High Court on Friday denied bail to former Uttar Pradesh minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati, who is serving a life sentence for gang rape. Justices Vivek Chaudhary and Mohd FA Khan of the Lucknow bench of the court denied the bail. The bench had reserved its order for Friday after completing the hearing in the matter on September 10. The former minister had sought bail while his appeal against the conviction in the case by a special court is pending.

police complaint on Wednesday and held massive protests against BJP leaders, including Union minister Ravneet Singh Bittu, over their statements against Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi. The protesters shouted slogans, burned effigies, stood on barricades while protesting against the BJP as the police tried to control the crowd. The protest against Bittu extended beyond the national capital, with party members staging demonstrations across the country. Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Ajay Maken filed a police complaint against Bittu, Delhi BJP leader Tarvinder Singh Marvah, Shiv Sena's (Shinde) Sanjay Gaikwad, and Uttar Pradesh minister Raghuraj Singh.

ISKCON Temple in Patna on the occasion of the Janmashtami festival, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rajeev Mishra said that no injuries have been reported and the police brought the situation under control quickly. «The situation is orderly. For half an hour, a huge number of devotees thronged the ISKCON Temple on the occasion of the Janmashtami festival. When the crowd increased, the number of security forces also increased. All senior officers are present on the spot. The program is going on in a very orderly manner. So far, no injuries have been reported,» SSP Mishra told reporters on Monday. On the occasion of the Janmashtami festival, devotees flocked to temples across the country to seek Lord Krishna's blessing on his birth anniversary, with political leaders like Rajasthan CM Bhajanlal Sharma and Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel paying their obeisance.

Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee Chief, Ajay Rai and former state president Ajay Kumar Lallu among 100 other unknown people for creating disruptions near Raj Bhawan in Lucknow. Congress had on August 22, led by Rai staged a protest outside Raj Bhawan in Lucknow for a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the Hindenburg Report on Adgroup and Madhabi Puri Buch. The complaint against Rai was filed by Hazratganj sub-inspector, Rahul Singh.

potato and rice have started falling. Having remained firm for the last three months, prices of potatoes have fallen by 8 per cent in the last 20 days as the cold storages in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal are overloaded with potatoes which need to be used up before November. Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee in the third week of July had stopped inter-state movement of potatoes and didn't even allow truck movement carrying potatoes from Uttar Pradesh to the north-eastern states resulting in oversupply and prices falling. Prices of potatoes which stood at Rs 36 a kg 20 days ago are now commanding a price of Rs 34 a kg. Even though Mamata Banerjee on last Tuesday allowed inter-state trade of potatoes for the next seven days on the consideration that there will be no shortage of the tuber for the state and the prices will not rise, the potato trade in Uttar Pradesh said that the sudden decision to stop movement of potatoes has disrupted the supply chain.

Bahujan Samaj Party on Wednesday extended support to the day-long Bharat Bandh called by some Dalit and Adivasi groups to protest against the Supreme Court's recent verdict on the sub-classification of Scheduled Castes (SCs). The party also accused the BJP and the Congress of colluding to end reservation. It said these parties and others should understand the necessity of reservation and not play with it. «BSP supports the Bharat Bandh because there is anger and resentment against the Supreme Court's August 1 decision regarding the sub-classification of SC/ST and the creamy layer among them due to the conspiracy against reservation by parties like BJP and Congress and their collusion to make it ineffective and eventually end it,» BSP president Mayawati said in a post in Hindi on X. «In this regard, the people of these classes will submit a memorandum to the government today as part of the Bharat Bandh and strongly demand that the changes made in reservation be abolished through a constitutional amendment...,» she said.

Yogi Adityanath on Sunday alleged the opposition Samajwadi Party consider it «their life's goal to prove every rapist and criminal innocent» and asserted that it would not be possible in the state. In his address at an event at Kumarganj in Ayodhya, he said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is working to empower women across the country through the 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' drive and the Nari Shakti Vandan Act, ensuring 33 per cent reservation of women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies. «On the other hand Samajwadi Party leaders are supporting those who gang-raped a doctor in Kolkata,» Adityanath said after distributing tablets and smartphones to students and appointment letters at a district-level mega employment fair and youth conference in Ayodhya. The alleged rape and murder of a trainee woman doctor while on duty at West Bengal government-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata and subsequent vandalism there has sparked nationwide protests.

Sabarmati Express derailed between Kanpur and Bhimsen stations in Uttar Pradesh early Saturday morning. Fortunately, no injuries or fatalities have been reported. Seven trains have been cancelled, and three diverted due to the incident. Emergency services, including buses and a MEMU train, were arranged to transport passengers to Kanpur. This comes at a time when India is seeing an increasing number of train mishaps that have killed hundreds over the last one year. However in this case, no injuries or fatalities were reported so far. «No injury to any person has been reported as of now. We are trying to find details regarding the number of coaches derailed,» stated a Railway Board official.

rave party' at an apartment in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, police arrested 39 university students, some of them were younger than eighteen, according to a statement issued on Saturday. According to the police spokeswoman, they were tipped off about the Friday night «rave party» at the Supernova residential society in Noida Sector-94. According to the official statement, 39 students from a prestigious university who were between the ages of 16 and 20 were taken into custody by the police squad when they arrived at the scene.

BSP chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Sunday said her party doesn't agree with the recent Supreme Court's verdict allowing sub-classification within Scheduled Castes. «The sub-classification of people within Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) has been permitted, our party doesn't agree with it at all,» Mayawati said while addressing a press conference here.

AAP government for the tragic incident. BJP leader and New Delhi Lok Sabha MP Bansuri Swaraj blamed the AAP's «utter apathy» for the death of the students and demanded that an inquiry committee under the Home Ministry be set up to probe the incident.

₹58,900 crore. This is made up of ₹26,000 crore for the construction of highways and a 2-lane bridge on the river Ganga at Buxar, ₹21,400 crore for power projects, including a new 2400 MW power plant at Pirpainti in Bhagalpur district, and another ₹11,500 crore in special financial assistance for flood management, Similarly, for Andhra Pradesh, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced special financial support of ₹15,000 crore for a new capital city, fulfilling commitments made in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act.

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Uttar Pradesh (UP) state executive in Lucknow, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath acknowledged the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) overconfidence as a factor in its unexpected reverses in the Lok Sabha (LS) polls. This meeting, attended by BJP president J.P. Nadda, highlighted internal tensions amidst accusations and the need for organizational restructuring, a TOI report stated. UP CM Yogi Adityanath candidly acknowledged the overconfidence that may have impacted BJP’s recent performance, pointing out how the opposition, previously dispirited, now appears rejuvenated after their electoral gains. He addressed the “fake narratives” pushed by the opposition, particularly concerning the controversy over reservations. «When we assume with such confidence that we are winning, naturally we have to pay the price. The opposition, which had lost heart before the election, is now working with a renewed spring in their step,» Adityanath stated in English during the meeting.

Akhilesh Yadav and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya over reports of alleged infighting within BJP's UP unit. While reacting to Akhilesh's claim regarding alleged infighting in the BJP's UP unit, Maurya asserted that BJP has a strong organisation and has its government both at the Centre and the state. «SP Bahadur Shri Akhilesh Yadav ji, BJP has a strong organisation and government both in the country and the state, SP's PDA is a 'Dhokha» (fraud/cheat). The return of SP's hooliganism in UP is impossible. BJP will repeat 2017 in the 2027 assembly elections," Maurya posted on X. Since Maurya is his party's prominent OBC face, his comments are politically significant.

Chandrashekhar Azad, MP and chief of the Azad Samaj Party, on Monday said the law and order in Uttar Pradesh has «collapsed» in the BJP rule. Azad, who arrived here to meet the family members of mob-lynching victim Fareed alias Aurangzeb and the bereaved family members who lost their loved ones in the Hathras stampede, said this while talking to reporters. «The mob lynching of the Muslim youth in the heart of the old city a fortnight ago, followed by the stampede in neighbouring Hathras is a clear pointer that the police force in Uttar Pradesh has lost the moral right to serve the common people because in both cases innocents are being framed by the police, while in both cases the guilty are moving scot-free,» he alleged. Referring to the mob-lynching incident in Aligarh on June 18, Azad claimed family members of the deceased told him the victim had 22 broken bones and the entire sequence was captured in the CCTV in which the victim was beaten to death by steel and iron rods.

Suraj Pal Singh or "Bhole Baba" broke his silence on Saturday in connection with the Hathras stampede in which 121 people, mostly women and children, died, stating that «those who created the chaos will not be spared.» In a video statement Suraj Pal who also goes by the name of Narayan Sakar Hari expressed his grief and condoled the deaths at the tragedy that took place earlier this week during a 'Satsang' in Fulari village in Hathras district. «I am deeply saddened by the incident of July 2. May God give us the strength to bear this pain. Please keep faith in the government and the administration. I have faith that those who created the chaos will not be spared. Through my lawyer AP Singh, I have requested the members of the committee to stand with the bereaved families and the injured and help them throughout their lives,» the 'Baba' said.

electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers, especially as it comes hard on the heels of a plunge in June sales. It's also divided the industry, pitting those that are betting on pure electrics such as Tata Motors against those that prefer the hybrid route, like Toyota and Maruti Suzuki. Sales of electric cars in June plunged 13.5% from the year earlier, having suffered a marginal drop in May, triggering fears that the Indian market may be following global trends. After last year's euphoria, domestic sales slumped to 20% growth in the January-June period to 46,845 units. That's down from a 135% surge in the same period last year, prompting Tata Motors and others to recalibrate expectations. UP Govt Holds Meeting with Auto Cos

Hathras claimed the lives of 121 people, the Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) of the Sikandra Rao division of the district submitted a prime facie report to the District Magistrate of Hathras on Wednesday. The prime facie report suggests that the stampede occurred as devotees rushed to seek blessing from 'Bhole Baba', the preacher at the religious congregation Satsang, as he was about to leave the venue after the prayer. The preacher 'Bhole Baba' identified as Suraj Pal is also known by the names of Narayan Sakar Hari and Jagat Guru Vishwahari.

BJP of ruining the future of the youth, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday said the country's examination system has been completely ruined and handed over to the copying mafia. The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said the government does not have the ability to conduct even a single examination transparently. «The BJP government has ruined the future of the youth. The education and examination system has been completely ruined and handed over to the copying mafia,» he said in a statement issued by the Samajwadi Party. Yadav said the government is steeped in corruption.