Lalmani Verma

Cabinet Minister and government spokesperson Sidharth Nath Singh said the challenges existing before the government will be highlighted in the white paper.

“The party is very much concerned about keeping up its image when it is ruling both in the state and the Centre. A number of people from other parties wanted to join BJP after it came to power in March," a senior BJP leader said.

According to sources, the first name that has been proposed is of Raj Bhushan Singh Rawat, currently Adityanath’s personal assistant. He used to work with him in Delhi but moved to Lucknow soon after Adityanath was sworn in as Chief Minister.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his deputy, Keshav Prasad Maurya, arrived in New Delhi on Thursday evening to attend Ram Nath Kovind’s nomination ceremony. While Adityanath is a Lok Sabha member from Gorakhpur, Maurya is the MP from Phoolpur.

PM Narendra Modi said that there was once a time when yoga was practised only by sages and monks, but it has now become a part of daily life.

The BJP had recently declared Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind, who is from Uttar Pradesh, as NDA’s candidate for the Presidential elections.

The Prime Minister added that all political parties, leaders, state governments and the Centre are going to do “historic work” with the GST.

While BJP chief Amit Shah Monday said Kovind was “born in a poor Dalit family”, Pyarelal claimed their father Maikulal was the “Chaudhary of Paraukh village”.

In its manifesto for the 2012 Assembly elections, the Samajwadi Party had promised to build the boundary walls around kabristans. After the party came to power, the government decided to give effect to the proposal in its first cabinet meeting on March 15, 2012.

Sodhi said Amul was paying Rs 360 crore annually to farmers in UP and plans to increase this to Rs 3500 crore per annum. The chief minister extended support by offering to enter into an agreement with the company to operate the milk processing plant coming up in Varanasi. He also directed the plant’s capacity be raised from Rs 4 lakh litres to 6 lakh litres a day.

The exam, scheduled for August 20, is open to students of classes IX and X, who will have to answer 100 objective questions on OMR sheets.

Two senior RSS functionaries of Awadh Prant, posted on Facebook about how “dedicated” workers were being “ignored” while “outsiders” enjoyed greater importance in the new government.

Industry department's UP Expressway and Industrial Development Authority could take loans worth Rs 3,500 crore for development of expressways.

“An ordinary carpet was laid on the ground where CM sat with members of the Ambedkar Jankalyan Seva Samiti, who all were Dalits. CM and all others were served food in ‘pattals’ (leaf plates) and were served water in kulhad (earthen pot)”.

The fountain is proposed to be installed adjacent to the Ghaus Mohammad Stadium near Gandhi Setu and the banks of Gomti

As a first step in this direction, the BJP government has decided to put up statues of Raja Suheldeo — the 11th century king of Shravasti who is reported to have belonged to the Rajbhar community (OBC) — both inside and outside the Bhimrao Ambedkar Samajik Parivartan Sthal (Ambedkar Memorial).

When contacted, VHP joint general secretary Surendra Jain said enough mosques already existed in Ayodhya. “VHP will oppose if any new mosque is be built there,” he added.

The previous Akhilesh Yadav government had launched the project with the name Samajwadi Poorvanchal Expressway and estimated it to cost Rs 19,000 crore.

Akhilesh had started pension for Yash Bharti, Padma recipients

For the last six months, 53-year old Rajnikant is the lone artisan working at the workshop. Others have left in search of better opportunities.

BJP's Lucknow chief has issued a showcause notice to Mohanlalganj MP Kaushal Kishore and five other party workers for allegedly inducting SP and BSP leaders without permission and indulging in anti-party activities.

Alleging that previous governments had neglected Ayodhya, Adityanath announced projects worth Rs 350 crore for the area’s development.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) senior functionary Krishna Gopal also met him at the VVIP guesthouse where the latter stayed for a few hours.

The initial booking amount was Rs 18.4 lakh, including the security deposit of Rs 5 lakh, which he paid from the party fund.

Saharanpur clashes: Thirty such meetings were held over the last three days.

The chief minister had ordered that no official from the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA), which executed the project, be involved in the probe.

Speaking to The Indian Express, Siddiqui said that the Rashtriya Bahujan Morcha will be a political outfit, but a decision on contesting polls will be taken during election time.

A BJP MP and an MLA had been booked along with a party functionary for their alleged involvement in violence at Sadak Doodhli in Saharanpur district in April.

Around 400 members of the national executive council will take part in the meeting.

State government to replace 14 office-bearers inducted in Yogi cabinet.

Internet service cut off, officers made to go for allowing Mayawati rally

On May 27, he will address pradhans of villages located along Ganga in BHU.

The board of UP Expressways Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA) approved the proposal on Tuesday, confirmed sources.

The money will be released from the Rs 120-crore corpus fund created by the Mayawati government for this purpose.

The money for the maintenance will be released from the Rs 120-crore corpus created by the Mayawati government for this purpose.