Uttar Pradesh

With Supreme Court set to announce its verdict on the sensitive Ayodhya land dispute case, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath urged people to maintain peace and harmony.

All the states and Union Territories have been put on alert ahead of Supreme Court's verdict in the Ram Temple-Babri Mosque title suit case. Centre issued an advisory to the concerned authorities requesting adequate security at sensitive places, the Ministry of Home Affairs has asked them to ensure "no untoward incident takes place anywhere" following the verdict.

Days after Azam Khan was seen going emotional and shedding tears while speaking about his ordeal at a poll rally, a BJP leader Jaya Prada slammed him asking who is a good actor now? She added, "He is now crying in every public meeting, he used to call me a good actress, but what is he doing now? This is a curse of the tears women have shed because of him."

Den Ranjan Verma, the Superintendent of Police (SP) in Uttar Pradesh's Balrampur, has ordered his staff to apply the leave application only in English. He has also advised them to read English newspapers.

The death toll in rain related incidents in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar has gone up to 150 with several areas waterlogged to inaccessible conditions.

At least 73 people have reportedly been killed in downpour in several parts of the Uttar Pradesh. A red alert for heavy to very heavy rainfall has also been sounded by the weather agencies in many districts of the eastern UP.

In the inducted ministers, 18 happens to be the new faces. Four ministers of state (independent charge) have been elevated to cabinet rank while a minister of state has been rewarded with minister of state (independent charge) rank.

A set of resignations were seen on Tuesday, hinting a major shakeup of the ministry as RSS leaders met top leaders in the government and BJP organization.

The state's law department has written a letter to officials asking them about the status of seven cases filed against Sangeet Som between 2003 and 2017; three out of seven cases are related to Muzaffarnagar Riots in which over 60 people had lost their lives.

The Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) on Wednesday booked Bharatiya Janata Party's MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar and 10 others for murder charges in the accident case of Unnao Rape survivor, said a news report.