Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow, Jan 15 (PTI) The Uttar Pradesh government has allocated Rs 4,200 crore for the Kumbh Mela being held in the 'sangam' city of Allahabad, which is over thrice the budget of the Maha Kumbh in 2013, making the mega pilgrimage perhaps the costliest ever.

"The UP government has allocated Rs 4,200 crore for 2019 Kumbh Mela. The previous state government had spent around Rs 1,300 crore for the Maha Kumbh, which was held in 2013," state Finance Minister Rajesh Agarwal told PTI.

14 Jan 2019; AFP: The largest religious gathering anywhere on earth gets under way Tuesday, with tens of millions of Hindu pilgrims congregating in India to bathe in sacred rivers for the Kumbh Mela.

Organisers are expecting the enormous spiritual festival in Allahabad to attract more than 100 million devotees over the next 48 days, with seas of pilgrims camped by the riverside.

The ancient city in northern Uttar Pradesh state rises alongside the banks of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers.

KANPUR: A discord erupted on a simple issue when a ball darting into air descended into a house of Ajitganj locality in Babupurwa area here on Sunday. Enraged persons losing their mental control allegedly attacked one youth of the rival side with a sharp-edged knife. He was injured seriously. Police got the blood-smeared youth admitted into the hospital and urged both the agitated groups to maintain order and calm.

KANPUR: In view of the state government’s order, the city areas will once again be put under a drive making the roads pothole free. Above three-metre wide roads which are badly affecting the vehicle riders will be repaired. This time it will not be only a cover-up but the quality of the work will be checked by a third party.

Lucknow, Jan 14 (PTI) RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav Monday promised full support to the BSP-SP alliance in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, asserting that the move by the two regional parties to come together to fight the BJP has gone down well throughout the country.

Stating that the alliance will be hailed in the future, Tejashwi also said Uttar Pradesh and Bihar will decide who will come to power at the Centre after the general elections.

Bulandshahr (UP), Jan 14 (PTI) The Bulandshahr district administration on Monday invoked the National Security Act (NSA) against seven people arrested in connection with the alleged cow slaughtering incident in Siyana tehsil last month, officials said.

Cattle carcasses were found strewn in the fields outside village Mahaw in Siyana on December 3 after which a mob went on the rampage, attacking the local Chingrawathi police post.

Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh, 44, and civilian Sumit Kumar, 20, of Chingrawathi village were killed of gunshot injuries in the ensuing violence.

Lucknow, Jan 13 (PTI) A day after it was virtually left out being part of an anti-BJP alliance formed by the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party, the Congress on Sunday declared it will contest all the 80 Lok Sabha seats from the state on its own.

However, the grand old party of India has kept the doors of a possible alliance open saying if any secular party which is competent to fight the BJP and willing to go with it (Congress), then it will be accommodated.

KANPUR: As many as 7 people died and 44 were injured in an accident between truck and roadways on Kanpur-Allahabad highway on Sunday. As the moving truck laden with cement lost its control owing to bursting of its tyre suddenly it collided with a roadways bus of Fatehpur depot approaching from an opposite direction.

The mishap occurred near Mohar village of Chaudagra in Fatehpur. A gypsy car was also crushed herewith. 

12 Jan 2019; AA: The UN human rights body's experts expressed “alarm” over alleged 59 extra-judicial killings by police in northern Indian state, where many victims belong to Muslim community.

The UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) said in a statement on Friday that its experts have written a letter to the government of India on 15 of the cases in Uttar Pradesh since March 2017.

KANPUR: The admission committee of the prestigious Harcourt Butler Technical University has decided to increase seats in the engineering branches. In a meeting held on January 10, 2019, a consensus on making admission possible at least on 120 seats on all the seven branches of the engineering department has reached.