Uttar Pradesh

The Minister for Women & Child Development, Smt Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, alongwith Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath will inaugurate the widows’ home ‘Krishna Kutir’ at Vrindavan, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh today.Krishna Kutir is a special home for 1000 widows set up by the Ministry of Women

When police in Gautam Buddha Nagar started Operation Muskaan on June 18, even they couldn’t imagine they would be able to reunite 96 children with their families. The operation, which continued till August 18, was launched by the Uttar Pradesh DGP to bring families together. The families of 53 boys

Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation, Shipping, Road Transport & Highways Nitin Gadkari inaugurated 20 newly constructed/ restored Ghats on river Ganga in Kanpur and Bithoor on Monday .The Minister also announced projects to tackle pollution from two of Kanpur’s

Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor took off to a great start with an announcement of investment over Rs. 3700 crore in defence production at Industry Meet organized at Aligarh, on Saturday. The event was graced by Raksha Mantri Smt Nirmala Sitharaman, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi

Minister of State for Tourism K. J. Alphons has said that Govardhan Teerth of Mathura needs to be made into a world class destination and the Govardhan Maharaj Utsav shall be organized in October every year. The Minister conveyed this after a site inspection in Mathura to assess the requirements for

Manoj Kumar Saini can be easily mistaken for just another roadside dweller. However, the 26-year-old is nothing short of a superhero in UP's Muzaffarnagar district. That's because in the last one year, Saini has risked his life on seven occasions and has saved the same number of people. Police and

Dreams start small. Ask Sudiksha Bhati, student and winner of a Rs 1.92 crore scholarship in a college in the US. Sudiksha, whose father runs a small dhaba and mother is a homemaker, used to dream about studying in a school when financial constraints forced her to drop out in 2009. Today, the 17

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by P M Narendra Modi, approved the project for construction of 9.9 km long new 6 - lane bridge across river Ganga on NH - 96 at Phaphamau in Allahabad with total capital cost of Rs. 1948.25 crore. The construction period for the project is three

Last Sunday, 24-year-old Arjun Vajpai from Noida scaled Kanchenjunga(8,586m), the world’s third highest peak. The feat made him the youngest mountaineer in the world to summit six peaks above 8,000 metres, including Everest, at 16. Arjun’s love of mountaineering started at the age of 10 when his

The government plans to promote the Kumbh Mela as a destination for tourists, and encourage visitors and dignitaries from foreign countries to attend the event. The Kumbh Mela will be held between January 15 and March 4 next year in Allahabad. Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to promote the

This is the story of one Ramji Yadav, who was an Ekal school teacher in village Gaipura Kalna in the Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh. Ramji talks of the economic conditions of his family and how his father was addicted to liquor. It was in such conditions that he came in contact with Ekal and got

SEVERAL YEARS ago, when Radha’s teenaged daughter suddenly lost her hearing, she knocked on the doors of all hospitals she had heard of, including AIIMS in Delhi. When no doctor could help, Radha says, she got so frustrated that she burnt all the medical reports. Last Friday, Radha joined several