Lucknow Dec 23 PTI Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday demanded that the Bharat Ratna be conferred on former prime minister Chaudhary Charan Singh On the Kisan Diwas today we demand that the Bharat Ratna be conferred on the former prime minister who devoted all his life for farmers and the country Akhilesh said in a tweet in Hindi on the leaders 119th birth anniversary The birth anniversary of Charan Singh is observed as Kisan Diwas PTI ABN RDK RDK

Lucknow Dec 20 PTI Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday inaugurated and laid foundation stones of road projects worth Rs 4160 crore in Jaunpur and Mirzapur districts of Uttar Pradesh an official release issued here said While in Jaunpur Gadkari laid the foundation stone for three national highway projects costing Rs 1123 crore he in Mirzapur inaugurated four national highway projects worth Rs 3037 crore the statement said Addressing the gathering Gadkari emphasised on infrastructure development for employment generation and economic prosperity He said We are committed for the development of Uttar Pradesh These road projects will give a boost to the development of state and provide better connectivity in the region The minister said these road projects will facilitate movement of goods with better connectivity in the region and facilitate access to markets for agricultural produce local and other products Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath accompanied with the Union minister on both occasion PTI ABN RDK RDK

Lucknow Sep 24 PTI One more person died from coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh on Friday as 28 fresh cases pushed the states infection count to 1709747 according to an official statement So far the virus has claimed 22890 lives in the state The fresh death was reported from Deoria the statement said In the past 24 hours 24 patients recovered from the infection taking the overall recoveries to 1686668 it said The count of active cases in the state stands at 189 the statement said In the past 24 hours more than 22 lakh samples were tested it said No fresh case was found in 63 districts on Thursday In UP 988 crore people have taken the first dose of coronavirus vaccine The recovery rate stands at 987 per cent the statement said PTI ABN RDK RDK

Lucknow Sep 23 PTI The Uttar Pradesh ATS on Thursday got a 10-day remand of Islamic scholar Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui who was arrested for running a conversion syndicate The Anti-Terrorist Squad ATS had arrested Siddiqui on Tuesday for illegal conversion of people to Islam Siddiqui was produced in a court on Wednesday and the ATS had sought a 10-day custody to probe the case ADG Law and Order Prashant Kumar said The Special Additional District and Session Court NIAATS awarded the custody after going through evidence presented by the prosecution the officer said The remand period will start at 10 am from September 24 Maulana Siddiqui will be interrogated to get more information from him about his links he said Siddiqui a well-known Islamic scholar from Meerut was arrested three months after Delhis Jamia Nagar residents Mufti Qazi Jahangir Alam Qasmi and Mohammad Umar Gautam were apprehended by the ATS Qasmi and Gautam were running Islamic Dawah Centre an outfit allegedly working on the ISI funding for converting deaf-mute students to Islam according to officials The ATS has so far arrested 10 people in connection with the conversion racket Kumar said Those arrested were booked under relevant sections of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act 2020 and the Indian Penal Code as per officials PTI ABN RDK RDK

Lucknow Sep 23 PTI Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday claimed that there has been a drastic fall in the per capita income in UP but the data used by him did not substantiate this In a Hindi tweet he said in comparison to his partys government the per capita income in the state has come down to a third during the current BJP regime Akhilesh said this tagging a graph which showed compounded annual growth rate of per capita income of UP falling from 5 per cent to 18 per cent since financial year 2013 when his partys government was in power In comparison to the SP government the per capita income in UP has come down to about one third during the time of the BJP government Inflation has been manifold but the interest rate on savings in the bank has halved Akhilesh said Attacking the BJP government he said it had promised achhe din but now it should tell people how to deal with the economic crisis He posted newspaper clippings showing poor state of a government hospital and a girl walking on a divider holding an electricity pole PTI ABN RDK RDK

Lucknow Sep 21 PTI The Uttar Pradesh Police has detained Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Prarishad president Mahant Narendra Giris disciple Anand Giri from Haridwar said an official on Tuesday a day after the seer was found dead Anand Giri was detained on Monday night after a case for abetting suicide was lodged against him ADG Law and Order Prashant Kumar said Mahant Narendra Giri the president of the largest organisation of seers in India was found dead on Monday at Baghambari Muth in Allahabad A purported suicide note of seven-eight pages was also found in which the seer had written that he was mentally disturbed and was ending his life Kumar said in the suicide note names of three people were mentioned and on the basis of the FIR Anand Giri was detained He is being brought to Allahabad for further probe he said adding that evidence in the case is being collected An unbiased and transparent probe into the matter is on and the state police is capable of handling the case the officer said About the veracity of the suicide note Kumar said forensic experts are looking into it PTI ABN RDK RDK