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  • President Kovind calls upon academia to work for excellence in modern science and technology

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: Calling upon the academia to work genuinely for excellence in the field of modern science and technology,  President Ram Nath Kovind asked the students and teachers to come together to achieve the motive by drawing inspiration from the rich cultural and moral values of the country. The President was speaking as the chief guest on the 9th convocation of Dr BR Ambedkar University here on Thursday.

    President Kovind, on Thursday, embarked upon his four-day visit to Uttar Pradesh, during which he will attend several other events in Gorakhpur and will visit Ayodhya on Sunday. The president appreciated the steps taken by Uttar Pradesh government to strengthen the education sector in the state under the purview of new education policy. The President took the opportunity to praise the governance of UP CM YogiAdityanath and the measures taken by him in favour of the people of the state.

    During the function, the president also laid foundation of Savitribai Phule hostel for girls on university campus. He was accompanied by state Governor Anandiben Patel and UP CM Yogi Adityanath on the occasion.

    “Education is the most potent tool to ensure social justice and personal progress as well. The way UP CM Yogi Adityanath government is taking the education forward as a mission needs to be appreciated,” said the President. President Kovind heaped praise on women Olympians for their performance at recentlyconcluded Tokyo Olympics 2020. “Given equal opportunities, our daughters leave their male counterparts behind. This is substantiated by the number of female medal winners at the convocation today,’ said the President adding that it should be seen as an indication of a healthy society and the growing nation.

    The President will participate in diamond jubilee celebrations of Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey UP Sainik School and inaugurate an auditorium on Friday in Lucknow, where he will also unveil a six-foot-tall bronze statue of Dr Sampurnanand, the former UP CM. Later on Friday, he will attend the 26th convocation ceremony of the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) in Lucknow. The President will, thereon, proceed to Gorakhpur where he is expected to lay the foundation stone for the Mahayogi Guru Gorakhnath AYUSH Vishwavidyalaya and inaugurate the Mahayogi Gorakhnath Vishwavidyalaya on August 28.

    On August 29, President Kovind will embark in a presidential train to Ayodhya where he will launch various projects of the department of culture and tourism under the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government. The projects include renovation and construction of the Tulsi Smarak Bhavan, the development of the Nagar Bus Stand, and the Ayodhya Dham.

    However, before concluding his visit to the historic temple town, President Kovind is scheduled to visit the construction site of the Ram Janmabhoomi temple and perform ‘puja’ there, the President’s Secretariat informed in an official statement.

  • Viral photos show UP IAS officer selling vegetables. Here’s his explanation

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: An IAS officer of special secretary rank turns into a vegetable vendor overnight. Thanks to social media which is abuzz with his photographs showing him sitting on a roadside vegetables makeshift shop and a few customers standing in front of him.

    The senior Uttar Pradesh IAS officer is Akhilesh Mishra, special secretary in the UP transport department. The images doing rounds on social media after they were posted on the Facebook timeline of the officer, show Mishra seated on what looks like a sack with a plethora of vegetables laid out in front of him. The shops seem to be in the busy market on the side of a road as other vegetable sellers and customers can also be seen.

    However, after photos being shared on social media, the officer came out to clear the air. Claiming the images to be genuine, but not the action in which he was seen, said Mishra.

    The IAS officer took to Facebook to explain what led to the now-viral photographs. “I was on a visit to Prayagraj for some official work yesterday. While on my way back, I stopped at a roadside market looking at the fresh vegetables. In the meantime, the vegetable vendor, an old lady, requested me to look after her shop saying she would be back in a moment as her child had gone too far,” said Mishra in the post in Hindi on his timeline.

    The officer added: “Just as I sat down at her shop, a customer and the seller came. One of my friends took the photo and put it on my Facebook account from my phone. I saw these today itself. For your kind information….”

  • Mother, two children die in house collapse in Kanpur

    By PTI

    KANPUR: A woman and her two children were killed after a three-storey house in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur collapsed on Thursday morning, police officials said.

    The incident occurred in the Bekanganj area in the city.

    It was not immediately clear what led to the collapse of the building.

    A woman, in her mid-30s, and her two children died when the roof of the first floor of the house collapsed, while her husband sustained injuries and is undergoing treatment, police said.

    “The husband, his wife and their two children lived on the ground floor of the house. The house collapsed in the morning after which a fire brigade team and local police officials rushed to the spot and pulled out the family members trapped in the rubble,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Kanpur East) Anoop Singh said.

    “They were rushed to the Ursula Hospital where doctors declared the wife, the son and the daughter (both minors) dead,” Singh said.

    The condition of the husband is stated to be stable, he said.

  • Resettle Sikhs, Hindus from Afghanistan in Uttar Pradesh: Minister writes to HM Shah

    By PTI

    BAREILLY: Uttar Pradesh minister Baldev Singh Aulakh has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah urging him to resettle Hindus and Sikhs displaced from Afghanistan in Rampur district of the state.

    “Hindu and Sikh families displaced from Afghanistan are being brought to India by the government. I sincerely request you to settle them in Rampur… there will be no inconvenience,” Minister of State for Jal Shakti Aulakh said in his letter to Shah on Wednesday.

    “The residents of Bilaspur are ready to give land in Tehsil Bilaspur in Rampur district. Agricultural land will also be made available for the displaced Hindu and Sikh families,” the minister, who is an MLA from Bilaspur, said.

    Hindus and Sikhs settled in Afghanistan have fled the country after its takeover by the Taliban.

    The government of India undertook a massive evacuation exercise to airlift Hindus, Sikhs and natives from the neighbouring country passing through a phase of volatile uncertainty for its people.

    India had on August 17 announced that it will issue an emergency e-visa to Afghan nationals who want to come to the country in view of the prevailing situation in Afghanistan.

    All Afghans, irrespective of their religion, can apply for the ‘e-Emergency X-Misc Visa’ online and the applications will be processed in New Delhi.

  • Infant among 7 children die of dengue in Mathura: Officials

    Besides the children, more than 40 adults were found suffering from fever in the village.

  • UP reports just 8 Covid cases in 24 hours as downward trend continues

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: UP has reported just 28 cases during the last 24 hours with 14 districts having zero active cases. There has been no death due to Covid in the state for the last three days. Now the tally of total active cases stands at 352.

    However, Tuesday’s number is four times more than that of Monday when the state had reported just seven cases, the lowest since the onset of the pandemic in the country in March 2020. The state capital Lucknow reported the first positive Covid case on March 11, 2020, while the maximum cases in the city were witnessed on April 16, 2021, when the city had reported 6,598 fresh cases during the second wave.

    The average number of samples tested in the state capital remains at 14,000 samples per day while to date more than 49 lakh samples have been tested in Lucknow. The state capital has 26 active covid19 cases at the moment.

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    UP’s 14 districts, which have zero cases, include Aligarh, Auraiyya, Badaun, Deoria, Farrukhabad, Fatehpur, Gonda, Hamirpur, Hardoi, Kanpur Dehat, Mahoba, Mirzapur, Sant Kabir Nagar, and Unnao.

    In Uttar Pradesh, an average of 2.5 lakh tests are being conducted on daily basis. The positivity rate is around 0.01% and the rate of recovery is 98.6%, the highest in the country. During the last 24 hours, 1,56,524 samples were tested in the state. In all 58 districts, there was no fresh case of Covid whereas in 17 districts, the cases were in single-digit during the last 24 hours.

    High recoveries and a low number of new cases have subsided the Active Caseload in the most populous state to 352, while the percentage of active cases as against the total confirmed cases is just zero.

    CM Yogi Adityanath cautioned the people of the state amid the studies suggesting the threat of the third wave in and around October. The CM called upon the people of the state to be more careful and cautious and follow the COVID protocol as the lockdown was totally lifted in the state.

    Despite registering a steady decline in the number of fresh cases, Uttar Pradesh has been pushing for more testing, tracing, and treatment. Under the state’s ‘Covid Control Model’, Covid-19 testing has been one of the most effective weapons against the pandemic. Uttar Pradesh has conducted over 7.07 crore samples so far followed by Maharashtra’s 5.22 crore.

  • UP reports just 28 Covid cases in 24 hours as downward trend continues

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: UP has reported just 28 cases during the last 24 hours with 14 districts having zero active cases. There has been no death due to Covid in the state for the last three days. Now the tally of total active cases stands at 352.

    However, Tuesday’s number is four times more than that of Monday when the state had reported just seven cases, the lowest since the onset of the pandemic in the country in March 2020. The state capital Lucknow reported the first positive Covid case on March 11, 2020, while the maximum cases in the city were witnessed on April 16, 2021, when the city had reported 6,598 fresh cases during the second wave.

    The average number of samples tested in the state capital remains at 14,000 samples per day while to date more than 49 lakh samples have been tested in Lucknow. The state capital has 26 active covid19 cases at the moment.

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    UP’s 14 districts, which have zero cases, include Aligarh, Auraiyya, Badaun, Deoria, Farrukhabad, Fatehpur, Gonda, Hamirpur, Hardoi, Kanpur Dehat, Mahoba, Mirzapur, Sant Kabir Nagar, and Unnao.

    In Uttar Pradesh, an average of 2.5 lakh tests are being conducted on daily basis. The positivity rate is around 0.01% and the rate of recovery is 98.6%, the highest in the country. During the last 24 hours, 1,56,524 samples were tested in the state. In all 58 districts, there was no fresh case of Covid whereas in 17 districts, the cases were in single-digit during the last 24 hours.

    High recoveries and a low number of new cases have subsided the Active Caseload in the most populous state to 352, while the percentage of active cases as against the total confirmed cases is just zero.

    CM Yogi Adityanath cautioned the people of the state amid the studies suggesting the threat of the third wave in and around October. The CM called upon the people of the state to be more careful and cautious and follow the COVID protocol as the lockdown was totally lifted in the state.

    Despite registering a steady decline in the number of fresh cases, Uttar Pradesh has been pushing for more testing, tracing, and treatment. Under the state’s ‘Covid Control Model’, Covid-19 testing has been one of the most effective weapons against the pandemic. Uttar Pradesh has conducted over 7.07 crore samples so far followed by Maharashtra’s 5.22 crore.

  • Dalit woman raped in Uttar Pradesh village

    By PTI

    SHAHJAHANPUR: An 18-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly raped by a man in a village here, police said on Sunday.

    SHO of Tilhar Police Station Sanjay Kumar said the incident occurred when the young woman was taking her cattle for grazing.

    According to police, the accused is a middle aged man and hails from the same village as the victim, police said.

    The woman narrated her ordeal to her family members after returning home following which the police registered a case on Sunday and she was sent for a medical examination, they said.

  • PM Narendra Modi joined by many senior leaders to pay respect to former Uttar Pradesh CM Kalyan Singh

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: Kalyan Singh ji spent his life to live up to his name, said  Prime Minister Narendra Modi who arrived in Lucknow on Sunday morning to pay respects and his last tributes to BJP stalwart, former Uttar Pradesh CM and ex-Governor of Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh, Kalyan Singh who passed away after a prolonged illness in the state capital on Saturday night.

    “This a moment of great grief for all of us. Kalyan Singh ji was named Kalyan by his parents and he spent his life living up to his name. All his life he worked towards Jan Kalyan. He lived for Jan Kalyan and made it his mantra. He dedicated everything to the BJP, the Bharatiya Jan Sangh and towards a bright future of the country,” said the PM while speaking to media persons after paying tributes to the departed soul at the latter’s residence in Mall Avenue in Lucknow.

    The PM, accompanied by BJP president JP Nadda, reached the state capital at 10.35 am and went straight to Singh’s residence, where his body had been brought from the hospital.

    The PM added that Singh’s name had become synonymous with ‘trust’. He was a committed decision maker and had emerged as an inspiration to others in whatever role he was given, either of an MLA or in the government and also as a governor, the PM said.

    PM Modi said that the nation had lost an able leader and only way to immortalise him and the genuine tribute to the departed leader was to work with his ideals and fulfil his dreams. “I pray to Lord Ram to give strength to his relatives and bereaved family to bear this loss,” said PM Modi.

    Prominent among those who throng state capital on Sunday morning to pay respect to Kalyan Singh included RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosable, BSP chief Mayawati, Defence minister Rajnath Singh and several senior BJP leaders. 

    Singh’s body was taken to Vidhan Bhawan in the early afternoon from where it was shifted to the party headquarters for janata darshan. Later in the evening, the mortal remains of the departed soul were flown to Aligarh in an air ambulance for his final rights which are to be held along River Ganga on Monday. 

    Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is likely to attend the cremation of the BJP stalwart on Monday. The state government has declared a three-day state mourning while August 23, the day of the funeral, has been declared a public holiday.

  • My father was born for ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogan: Ex-Uttar Pradesh CM Kalyan Singh’s son

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: With a lump in his throat, Rajveer Singh, son of former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh, said his father was born for “Jai Shri Ram”, a slogan which was heard outside the veteran BJP leader’s home on Sunday as people gathered there to pay their last respects.

    Singh, who was ailing for some time, died at the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI) in Lucknow on Saturday night. He was 89.

    To a question that every party worker who came out from the residence chanted ‘Jai Shri Ram’, Rajveer Singh, who is also the Lok Sabha MP from Etah, said, “His birth was for this (Jai Shri Ram) only. He was committed to Ram Mandir, and he has gone to Ram himself. He would be seeing the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya. He has gone to Ram Lalla.”

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    The “Jai Shri Ram” slogan had also once galvanised the BJP in the politically-crucial state in the 1990s. Rajveer Singh also said that his family will dedicate itself for the Ram temple. Uttar Pradesh has announced a three-day mourning and a holiday on Monday when the former chief minister’s last rites will be performed.

    Kalyan Singh was the Uttar Pradesh chief minister when the Babri mosque was demolished by a mob of “karsevaks” in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. Along with BJP veterans LK Advani and M M Joshi, he was among the 32 people acquitted in the demolition case in September last year.

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    A Lodhi leader, Singh was instrumental in the rise of the BJP to power in Uttar Pradesh in the 1990s. He is survived by his wife Ramvati Devi, son Rajveer Singh, who is the Lok Sabha MP from Etah, and grandson Sandeep Singh, who is the minister of state for finance, technical education and medical education in Uttar Pradesh.