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  • PM Narendra Modi calls for strict action, Uttar Pradesh CM Y ..

    Taking a strong view of the Hathras incident, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for a “strict action against the accused” in the brutal gangrape of the 19-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district on Wednesday.

    The special investigation team will be headed by home secretary Bhagwan Swaroop and deputy inspector general of police Chandraprakash and IPS officer Poonam.
    The 19-year-old survivor had died in Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital on Tuesday. She had suffered multiple fractures, paralysis in a brutal attack on September 14 in a Hathras village, from where she was admitted to a local hospital.

    The special investigation team will be headed by home secretary Bhagwan Swaroop and deputy inspector general of police Chandraprakash and IPS officer Poonam.
    The 19-year-old survivor had died in Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital on Tuesday. She had suffered multiple fractures, paralysis in a brutal attack on September 14 in a Hathras village, from where she was admitted to a local hospital.

    Yogi Adityanath also said that the panel will submit a report in seven days. The chief minister has also asked for the trial to be conducted in a fast-track court.

  • MOTN: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath is the best Chief Minister of the country

    According to Aaj Tak’s survey, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is the second most preferred Chief Minister in the country. 15 percent of the people considered them good. Kejriwal has increased his popularity compared to January, when he was the favorite of 11 percent people.

    • Arvind Kejriwal is second most favorite Chief Minister
    • Bihar CM Nitish’s popularity decreased

    Aaj Tak also conducted a survey on the working of the governments of various states of the country. In this survey, questions were asked about public governance in different states of the country. Among these, the people considered Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as the best and he proved to be the most popular Chief Minister.

    In the survey conducted to know the Mud of the Nation, the highest 24 percent people liked Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and believed that he was doing the best. The same question was raised in January, when 18 per cent of the people were liking him. That is, Yogi has increased his popularity with his work.

    According to Aaj Tak’s survey, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is the second most preferred Chief Minister in the country. 15 percent of the people considered them good. Kejriwal has also increased his popularity compared to January, when he was the favorite of 11 percent people. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy was the third, followed by 11 per cent of the people.

    Decrease in popularity of nitish

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was liked by 9 per cent and she became the fourth most popular Chief Minister. Although his popularity has decreased compared to January. Then 11 percent people were liking Mamata. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is at number five along with Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.

    Uddhav Thackeray’s popularity has increased slightly compared to January, while Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s popularity has decreased. This is followed by Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik (6%), Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (3%), Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel (2%), Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani (2%), Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. (2%) and Karnataka Chief Minister B.C. S. Yeddyurappa (2%) remained popular.

    The most popular CM in the state is Jagan Mohan Reddy

    Apart from this, when the people of the state were asked about their Chief Ministers, the most popular inside their state was Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. 87 percent people of the state who participated in the survey liked their work and considered it good. On the second number, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. 63 percent of the people of Delhi consider them to be good.

    This was followed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee (59%), Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar (55%), Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray (55%) and Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath (49%) in their respective states. Be favorite

    This survey was done by Karvy Insights Limited for Aaj Tak. In which 12 thousand 21 people were talked to. Of these, 67 per cent were rural while the remaining 33 per cent were urban people. A total of 97 Lok Sabha and 194 assembly seats from 19 states were included in the survey.

    The 19 states in which the survey was conducted include Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Are included. The survey was conducted between 15 July and 27 July.

    The survey included 52 percent men, 48 percent women. If seen from the perspective of religion, then 86 percent of Hindus, 9 percent of Muslims and 5 percent of people of other religions got their opinion. Those surveyed included 30 percent upper castes, 25 percent SC-ST and 44 percent other backward classes.

    57 per cent of the people involved in the survey were people with an income of less than Rs 10 thousand a month, while 28 per cent were people earning more than Rs 10 to 20 thousand and 15 per cent more than Rs 20 thousand a month. Farmers, job occupations, unemployed, businessmen, students, etc. were included in the survey sample.

  • Embarrassment for Rahul Gandhi’s close friend! Tejashwi Yadav has to vacate govt bungalow after Patna HC rejects his plea

    Following footsteps of the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav, here’s yet another former CM forced to leave his house! Welcoming a major setback in a row, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and former Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav is forced to leave his bungalow without his wish and as per the orders of High Court.

    Yadav is set to vacate the government bungalow in Patna in Bihar after the Patna High Court rejected his plea seeking an extension to his stay in the bungalow, though he is no more the deputy CM of Bihar. Yadav had filed a plea with HC challenging the Bihar government’s order asking him to vacate the bungalow.

    One cannot deny that the opposition leaders are well versed with enjoying Government facilities, whether they are serving the post or not. The BJP party was successful in removing Yadav from his post and thus the present leader of opposition in Bihar Assembly had to quit his post in 2017 after CM Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) walked out of the alliance with Congress and the RJD, to join hands with the BJP.

    The single-judge order had said “the petitioner has been allotted a bungalow, matching his status as a minister in the government, at 1, Polo Road, Patna. He cannot raise complaint on the decision so taken, simply because the present bungalow is more suited to him”.

    Despite the government order and after almost a year since RJD lost power, Tejashwi, continued to occupy the posh bungalow, which is located next to the chief minister’s residence. The government had asked Tejashwi to switch residences with his successor, BJP’s Sushil Kumar Modi, who presently lives a kilometer away from the CM’s residence.

    Reports have also stated that Yadav had previously targeted Sushil Modi for “trying to oust him” out of his bungalow. Well, we are in a state of confusion that whether the RJD leader has lost his senses or rather forgotten the basic rules and regulations of Government. Trying and blaming the BJP Leaders for insensible reasons has become a daily routine for the opposition these days.

  • NIA detains 10 people in connection with probe into new ISIS module

    The NIA on Wednesday detained 10 persons from Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi for their suspected involvement with a new ISIS inspired terror module planning to carry out blasts in north India, especially in the national capital, officials said.

    The National Investigation Agency conducted searches across 16 locations in Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi in connection with its probe into the new module called ‘Harkat ul Harb e Islam’, they said.

    Of the 10 persons detained by the anti-terror probe agency, five were picked up from the western Uttar Pradesh district of Amroha following a joint operation with the UP Anti-Terrorist Squad, Inspector General ATS Asim Arun said in Lucknow.

    Five more were detained from north-east Delhi with the help of Delhi Police’s Special Cell, officials said.

    “The searches are going on,” an NIA spokesperson said.

    The group was under NIA surveillance for some time following inputs of their  suspicious activities, officials said.

  • UP govt has failed to control crime: Mayawati

    Citing the Agra case in which a girl was burnt alive, BSP leader Mayawati Friday lashed out at the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh for its “failure” to fight crime, particularly that against women.

    “It is a matter of grave concern that one girl is set on fire in Agra while another is subjected to gang rape,” she said referring to two recent cases in the same district.

    “These incidents prove that hardened criminals are moving about freely in Uttar Pradesh,” the Bahujan Samaj Party leader said in a statement.

    The 15-year-old Dalit girl died Thursday at a Delhi hospital after being set on fire by two youths, who are yet to be traced.

    Mayawati charged that the recent incidents and the state government’s statements in the assembly showed that checking crime was not a priority for it.

    “What to say about the honour of women, even their security is not being taken seriously,” she alleged.

    She said these incidents of crime against women soon after the Bulandshahr violence, in which a police inspector and a youth were killed by a mob protesting over alleged cow slaughter, had forced people to think there is no police or government worth its name in UP.

    “The failure to nab the killers of the police officer in Bulandshahr even three weeks after the incident goes to prove the failure of the BJP government on the law and order front,” she added.

  • BJP coins new ‘gotra’ for Rahul, calls it ‘gotra Itlus’

    The BJP on Thursday coined a new ‘gotra’ for Congress president Rahul Gandhi, mocking his Italian lineage through his mother and party leader Sonia Gandhi.

    Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Mahendra Nath Pandey called it “gotra Itlus”. This is the latest remark in the row over Gandhi’s gotra. A priest at Pushkar lake in Rajasthan recently said Gandhi gave out his gotra during a ritual as “Dattatreya”, who are Kashmiri Brahmins.

    Some BJP leaders challenged the “claim”, reminding that Gandhi’s paternal grandfather was a Parsi, not a Hindu with a ‘gotra’.

  • Swachchh Bharat campaign makes slow progress in UP

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship programme of  ‘Swachchh Bharat’, which was launched on October 2, 2014, is struggling in Uttar Pradesh as against the daily generation of over 15,000 MT of solid waste, only 30 per cent is being processed and recycled while the rest is being despatched to landfill sites, rivers, nullahs, water bodies and agriculture land.

    Same is the state of close to a dozen solid waste management plants set up under Jawaharlal Lal Urban Renewal Mission in big cities of the state during the Bahujan Samaj party regime (May 2007- March, 2012). These solid waste management plants are either defunct or working far below their installed capacity to recycle garbage from cities of the state.

    Swachh Bharat campaign aimed at eradication of open defecation by the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on October 2, 2019, by constructing 90 million toilets in rural India at a projected cost of Rs 1.96 lakh crore.

    Urban Development Minister Suresh Khanna told mediapersons in Lucknow on Tuesday that all solid waste management plants were functional and admitted that the Lucknow plant was working below capacity. He said that the national average of recycling or processing of solid waste was 35 per cent while it was 30 per cent in UP.

    Khanna claimed that the sanitation programme in Uttar Pradesh achieved spectacular success under the Yogi government as out of total 653 Urban Local Bodies (ULB), 630 were declared as Open Defecation Free (ODF). He said that over 7 lakh toilets were constructed after the Yogi government came to power in March 2017, over 1.41 lakh toilets were being constructed and 22,900 community toilets were also built. Khanna added that in 653 ULBs, there were total 12,007 municipal wards and door-to-door collection of garbage was being done in over 7,000 wards. He claimed that each ULB had been provided dustbins to prevent littering of garbage.

    “In the national sanitation survey in 2017, of the 434 cities, as many as 50 cities from UP figured in the worst 100 cities. But in 2018, this number came down to zero and four UP cities were declared as most clean cities of India,” he claimed.

    A study by Centre for Science and Environment, a public interest research and advocacy outfit in New Delhi, said on Monday that if more toilets and septic tanks were built without sewer systems, it would swamp the State.

  • VHP demands renaming of Faizabad to Sri Ayodhya

    The VHP Friday hailed the Uttar Pradesh Government’s decision to adopt a proposal to rename Allahabad as Prayagraj and demanded that the name of Faizabad be changed to “Sri Ayodhya”.

    VHP spokesman Sharad Sharma said the renaming of Allahabad aimed to free the mindset of slavery and added all sections of people had hailed this step of the State Government.

    “The Uttar Pradesh Government is taking steps in the interest of the people and their sentiments and its decision to change the name of Allahabad is praiseworthy… Now they need to change the name of Faizabad to Sri Ayodhya,” Sharma said.

    He said there were still a number of streets, buildings and districts which reminded them of the days of slavery.

    “We have got freedom from the British rule but their symbols still hurt the self respect of every Hindustani,” he said.

    The present Government needed to understand their feelings and free the coming generations from these symbols of slavery, he claimed.

    Sharma said the Adityantha Yogi-led Government could make an announcement about it on Diwali and please the seers of the temple town of Ayodhya.

    Earlier this week, the state Cabinet approved a proposal to rename the historic city of Allahabad as Prayagraj.

    Senior Minister Siddhartnath Singh had said the move would help highlight Indian culture at international level.

    BJP spokesperson Manish Shukla had praised the Government for rectifying a historical mistake but Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav had criticised the move.

    Congress spokesman Omkar Singh had opposed the move, claiming the name change would affect the history in which Allahabad had played a significant role in the Independence struggle and later.

  • Rainfall in northern India, including Eastern UP, will get relief from severe heat

    new Delhi. Light rain is expected in northern India including Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana. Weather forecaster SkyMate said on Friday that light rain may occur at some places in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, North Rajasthan, parts of Punjab, Haryana and Eastern Uttar Pradesh in the next 24 hours. According to SkyMate, moderate rainfall may occur on Konkan and Goa, Telangana, Central Maharashtra, northwest Madhya Pradesh, southeast Rajasthan, sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim. There is a possibility of moderate to moderate rainfall in coastal Karnataka, northern interior Karnataka, Kerala, Eastern Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Northeast India, Odisha and coastal Andhra Pradesh. SkyMate has said that Western disturbances have been made on Afghanistan and Central Pakistan.

    A cyclonic wind zone in northwest Madhya Pradesh and adjoining Haryana remains. A trough line from this system is going to the sub-Himalayan West Bengal of Uttar Pradesh. The area of ​​cyclonic winds is in south Konkan and Goa. A trough line from Maharashtra to the Kerala coast is going on. The area of ​​a cyclonic wind is on the Bay of Bengal.

    According to SkyMate, heavy rainfall occurred in the sub-Himalayan West Bengal during the last 24 hours. Mild rains have occurred in parts of Maharashtra, South Chhattisgarh and Odisha and Telangana. Gangetic West Bengal, coastal Karnataka, Kerala and coastal Andhra Pradesh received moderate to moderate rainfall. Light rain occurred in Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, North Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Tamil Nadu. Lu’s position remained at one or two places in eastern Uttar Pradesh and eastern Madhya Pradesh.