Coronavirus Live Updates: Get ready for ‘Maha Lockdown’, says minister; DCGI gives nod to Sputnik V Covid vaccine

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India has more than 12 lakh active cases at the present. (Express Photo by Kamleshwar Singh) Coronavirus India Lockdown LIVE tracker, Covid Live updates: The ugly reality of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic has hit home as India overtook Brazil to become the second worst-hit nation in the world. India has arrived at … Read more

BJP teams from UP, Bihar help run Bengal backroom operations

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Teams of BJP workers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are helping their Bengal counterparts in the party’s backroom election management operations as they are trying to replicate the party’s electoral victories in the UP assembly elections of 2017 and that of Bihar last year. The focus is to import the “successful” booth management strategies deployed … Read more

Discrimination results in distorted form of society like Maoism: Yogi Adityanath

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said whenever society discriminates against its own people, a distorted form of it like Maoism in Nepal is witnessed. Addressing an event held to mark International Women’s Day, the CM said the question remains why there is a discrimination against women and could solutions be found by … Read more

UP takes steps to keep Covid’s new strain at bay as old strain claims 13 lives

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With 13 more people dying of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the disease fatality toll rose to 8,306 in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday while the total number of cases reached 5,81,980 with 959 more people being found infected. Meanwhile, the discovery of new strain B-117 of coronavirus in the UK and elsewhere has led … Read more

Centre, state govt committed to restoring Ayodhya’s ancient glory: Adityanath

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LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said the Centre and the state government are committed to restoring the ancient glory of Ayodhya and large scale development work is being undertaken for this. At a meeting held to review the work for integrated tourism development of the Ayodhya Dham, the chief minister directed … Read more

Women MPs, MLAs from UP condemn treatment of Hathras victim’s family

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NEW DELHI: Quite a few women members of parliament (MPs) and the legislative assembly (MLAs) from Uttar Pradesh, cutting across party lines, have criticised the state government’s treatment of the Hathras rape victim’s family, and said that the Yogi Adityanath administration should take corrective measures to ensure it is not repeated. ET spoke to five … Read more