Representative image Lucknow: To promote the gems and gold jewellery sector, the Uttar Pradesh government has approved a multi-storey flatted factory complex in Ved Vyas Puri, Meerut, government officials said on Wednesday. “The project, overseen by the Meerut Development Authority (MDA), is moving forward, with work already underway on the detailed project report. The construction…
LUCKNOW: UP government has invoked Section 56 of the Food Safety and Standards Act (FSSA), 2006, for a statewide crackdown on sale of contaminated food, entailing a “verification process” that requires eateries to prominently display the names and addresses of their proprietors and managers.The order, issued nearly two months after Supreme Court put on hold…
LUCKNOW: A murderer successfully concealed his dark secrets and served in UP irrigation department for six years in what clearly puts a question mark on the process of stringent police verification for a govt job. The man in his mid-30s had spent four months in jail in 2013 after being charged with a murder that…
NEW DELHI: After the arrest of a Samajwadi Party functionary over the alleged rape of a minor in UP’s Ayodhya, BSP chief Mayawati on Saturday said that the Uttar Pradesh government’s strict action against the accused in the Ayodhya gangrape case is justified. The BSP chief also questioned the Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav’s remark…
NEW DELHI: AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi criticised the Uttar Pradesh government’s recent directive requiring food shops along the Kanwar Yatra route to display nameplates with the proprietors’ details. Speaking after the all-party meeting, Owaisi condemned the order as unconstitutional and accused the state government of “promoting untouchability” and “discrimination against Muslims“.“We said that if any…
LUCKNOW: Yogi Adityanath government’s ‘experiments’ with law and order, starting with bulldozer action, law against love jihad and cow protection, has been replicated across other BJP-ruled states as well.UP government has been regularly harping on its success in improving the state’s law and order by eliminating mafia, which has resulted in greater employment and investment…
Today, on April 5, the Supreme Court issued a temporary stay on the decision of the Allahabad High Court (HC), which had invalidated the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act, 2004, labeling it as ‘unconstitutional’. Last month, the Allahabad High Court had directed the UP government to integrate the existing students of the Madarsa…
