🔴 The decision, ahead of the UP assembly elections, is estimated to set the UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) back Rs 1,000 crore a year.

🔴 The allegations contradict the local police version. On Tuesday, Kolebira Police Station Officer In-charge Rameshwar Bhagat had said that they could reach the spot only after the lynching.

🔴 While Channi expressed regret, he categorically stated that there was no threat posed to the PM. Interestingly, PPCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu was conspicuous by his silence.

🔴 Addressing a press conference in Ferozepur after the rally, which Modi was to address was cancelled, state BJP president Ashwani Sharma said that it was a matter of shame that the state government failed to provide adequate security to the PM.

🔴 The petition said election in the state is expected in February-March for which all political parties are holding “enormous” election rallies.

🔴 Zira said they were staging a dharna over the bridge at the drain near Piyaareana village on the Ludhiana-Ferozepur highway.

🔴 During the investigation of documents in the police station, the Home Minister found that several complaints of people were left unresolved and investigations in many cases were not completed.

🔴 For the last five months, the woman’s family, activists and several political leaders have demanded that her death be treated as murder as the body was found in a state of undress.

🔴 At least four structures including a store room and several attached sheds were destroyed in the blast.

🔴 Adityanath said while searching for products for the scheme from Rampur, he thought of “Rampur ka chaaku”. Thinking about the usage of that chaaku (knife), reminded him of 'Guru Parampara', the CM said.

🔴 Four years later, little has changed at the akhara – one of many in this village that is part of the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat – where over three dozen young wrestlers still slide down a rope hanging from a tree and jog on a cemented road nearby.

🔴 Meanwhile, the state home department has warned of proceedings against persons violating Covid protocols of masking, social distancing, and no spitting in public spaces.

🔴 The report will be placed before Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath next week.

🔴 Earlier, several khap leaders who had gathered in Jind on December 23 had stated that the Centre should continue allowing parents to marry off their daughters at the age of 18 instead of the proposed 21.

🔴 According to party sources, both the leaders will hold meetings with state leadership and discuss issues that are plaguing the party after back-to-back poll debacles in the state.

🔴 Sources said the corporate office of the pharmaceutical company is in Sector 8, Chandigarh. The manufacturing units are situated in Barwala, industrial area phase-2 in Panchkula, and near Derabassi in Mohali.

🔴 Without taking any names, Channi told police personnel to perform their duty irrespective of who says what.

🔴 Surat city on Wednesday added 72 more cases and six Covid-19 patients in the city were detected with the Omicron variant, two of whom had a history of international travel while the remaining four had no travel history.

🔴 Thakur also said the Samajwadi Party does not come anywhere near the ruling party as far as these three factors are concerned.

🔴 “This mischief of the Congress is a crime against the nation and the Congress must apologise before people of the country for it,” Yogi said.

🔴 Addressing women in Firozabad as part of the party’s “Ladki Hun, Lad Sakti Hun' campaign ahead of the Assembly polls in the state, Priyanka Gandhi said the Yogi Adityanath government has cast aside women in its list of priorities.

A wreath laying ceremony was organised at the Hut of Remembrance at the NDA on Tuesday in memory of Wing Commander Sinha, who died in the flying accident during a training sortie on board MIG-21 on December 24 at Jaisalmer in Rajasthan.

As it caters to the armed forces, veterans and their dependents only, udChalo has a captive audience close to 10 million.

“All the testing has been successful and the CMRS Janak Kumar Garg expressed his satisfaction and appreciated the quality of work by Maha-Metro,” said Hemant Sonawane of Pune Metro rail in a statement.