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  • Man arrested for running fake Twitter account of Bihar CMO 

    By PTI

    PATNA: A man was arrested for operating a fake Twitter account of the Bihar Chief Minister’s Office (CMO), police said on Thursday.

    The accused, identified as Arman Basher of East Champaran district, also used the official logo of the Chief Minister’s Secretariat in the account, they said.

    “Basher was arrested on Tuesday on the charges of running a fake twitter handle in the name of the office of chief minister of Bihar,” the Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of the state police said.

    “The EOU registered an FIR in February this year after it came to the knowledge of the police that a fake twitter handle was being run in the name of CMO’s office,” it said.

    PATNA: A man was arrested for operating a fake Twitter account of the Bihar Chief Minister’s Office (CMO), police said on Thursday.

    The accused, identified as Arman Basher of East Champaran district, also used the official logo of the Chief Minister’s Secretariat in the account, they said.

    “Basher was arrested on Tuesday on the charges of running a fake twitter handle in the name of the office of chief minister of Bihar,” the Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of the state police said.

    “The EOU registered an FIR in February this year after it came to the knowledge of the police that a fake twitter handle was being run in the name of CMO’s office,” it said.

  • PM Modi dials Uddhav Thackeray, praises Maharashtra’s effort to fight COVID-19

    Narendra Modi spoke to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray over the COVID-19 related situation and praised the state’s efforts to fight coronavirus, informed state Chief Minister Office (CMO).

    According to a statement from the CMO, Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the call enquired about Maharashtra’s efforts in the fight against COVID and said that the state was fighting a good battle against the second wave.

    The Chief Minister informed PM Modi about the state government’s planning to face the third wave of novel coronavirus.


    “The Prime Minister and the Union government have been guiding the state in the war against coronavirus from the very beginning and it is being put to good use by the state government,” Thackeray said during the conversation.

    Earlier, Thackeray has also written to the Central government seeking permission to develop a separate app for COVID vaccination in the state. In a letter, he described various issues including complaints of frequent glitches in CoWIN platform.

    Meanwhile, according to the Union Health Ministry, Maharashtra was among the ten states that reported 71.81 per cent of new COVID-19 cases in the country on Friday. The state reported the highest daily new cases at 62,194. The state was among the twelve states that cumulatively accounted for 81.04 per cent of India’s total active cases and had 6,41,281 active cases of the virus.

  • 24 DMs, 20 SPs, 5 commissioners fail to attend calls from UP CMO, issued notices

    Express News Service
    LUCKNOW: The Yogi Adityanath government on Tuesday issued show-cause notices to over two dozen DMs and five divisional commissioners who failed to respond to the recent phone calls to their official CUG numbers from the Chief Minister’s Office.

    There have been clear instructions from the CMO to the officers in the districts and other revenue divisions to respond to the calls promptly by picking their CUG numbers themselves.

    As per the sources, recently the CMO conducted a reality check and make calls randomly to the DMs, commissioners, and senior police officers on their CUG numbers during working hours.

    The calls were made on the directions of the CM. A number of officers, including some from the state capital, did not pick the calls from the CMO.

    The sources claimed that on the basis of the CMO’s report, the appointment and personnel department initiated the process of sending show cause notices to around 25 DMs and five divisional commissioners to explain the defiance.

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    As per the highly-placed sources, while the divisional commissioners of Prayagraj, Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Aligarh, and Lucknow failed to respond to the phone calls, the calls to commissioners of Agra, Meerut, and Azamgarh could not be connected. The CUG number of the Kanpur divisional commissioner was picked up by his PRO.

    Similarly, DMs of 25 districts did not respond to the calls. The PROs of another 16 DMs picked up the calls while the DMs of Rae Bareli, Lakhimpur Kheri, and Sitapur called back.

    Around 20 SPs faltered and failed the reality check. The notices to them would be sent from the home department to seek their explanation.

    “When the officers are not prompt enough to respond to the calls from the CMO, how will they connect with the public. It was an exercise to see if the officers were following the CM’s directives. There are standing orders to all the DMs, SPs, SSPs and divisional commissioner to remain available on their CUG numbers during the working hours to connect with the common people in a better way,” said a senior state government official.

  • UP govt to install ‘advance’ surveillance cameras at 720 locations in Varanasi by March 2021

    Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh): Uttar Pradesh is set to install “advance” surveillance cameras at 720 locations in Varanasi by March next year, Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said on Monday.

    Besides the surveillance cameras, the work of re-development work of various city wards will be completed by July 2021, CMO said.“The work of re-development of Kalabhairava, Kameshwar Mahadev, Rajmandir, Jangambadi, Dashashwamedha wards of old Kashi will be completed in July 2021. The installation of advance surveillance cameras at 720 locations of the city will be completed in March 2021,” UP CMO tweeted in Hindi.

    The state government also said that the work of Shri Kashi Vishwanath Temple Dham Project in Varanasi is being done on a “war footing.”

    “The work of Shri Kashi Vishwanath Temple Dham Project is being done on a war footing. The project will be completed in August 2021,” CMO said in a subsequent tweet.