Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow, Feb 1 (PTI) BSP president Mayawati called the Budget presented Friday by the BJP-led government `jumlebazi', or empty rhetoric, that did not address the ground realties.

She claimed that economic disparities had grown during the last five years with only a handful of capitalists benefiting, instead of farmers and the poor.

"This is wrong and against the interest of the country," she said in a statement.

Ballia (UP), Feb 1 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh minister Om Prakash Rajbhar, who heads the BJP ally SBSP, Friday claimed that a US agency has warned that the saffron party could instigate riots.

The minister was apparently referring to reported remarks by US Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats on an assessment by intelligence agencies on threats worldwide.

According to reports, Coats said there was a possibility of communal violence if the BJP stresses on nationalist themes .

KANPUR:  In view of the poor tax collection the Municipal Commissioner has directed the tax inspectors to speed up the revenue realisation in the review meeting held on Friday. The lowest amount of Rs 8.70 crore has so far collected. Out of a total of 4,06,076 Lakh properties in the municipal precincts, the tax has been realised from 1,07,591properties only. Even the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the Urban Development Minister, UP Govt, have also expressed their respective annoyance over the poor revenue collection.

KANPUR: The banned currency notes were laying in the thick shrubs of the Sanjay Van in Kidwai Nagar area on Thursday. The notes were thrown on the ground in the polythene packets. The daily morning walkers were too surprised to find wads of abandoned banned currency notes while strolling in the gardens.

Gonda (UP), Jan 30 (PTI) A man was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly raping a 10-year old girl in a village in Umri Begumganj area here, police said.

The accused was identified as Vinit Singh, they said.

The incident took place on Tuesday when the minor was returning home from school and Singh took her to a secluded place and raped her, the police said.

Later, the girl narrated her ordeal to her family when she reached home, following which her kin lodged an FIR, they said.

KANPUR: Ample seating arrangements were made for Amit Shah’s rally on Railway Ground at Nirala Nagar on Wednesday, but the BJP office-bearers looked disheartened with the vacant seats. Thousands of the red chairs were empty until noon.

The BJP leaders who were present on the dais kept on telling the crowd of the reason behind the delay in the arrival of the party president Amit Shah and Chief Minister Yogi Aditynath. It was reported that they arrived two hours late.

Muzaffarnagar, Jan 31 (PTI) A case has been registered against 24 people for allegedly evicting students and teachers of a government primary school in Uttar Pradesh to keep stray cows, officials said Thursday.

It has been alleged that villagers in Kudana brought the cows inside the school on Wednesday and closed it, Shamli District Magistrate Akhilesh Kumar said.

In December, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had directed officials to make immediate arrangements for proper care of stray cows within a week.

Bahraich (UP), Jan 29 (PTI) A man has been arrested for reportedly offering allurement to a Dalit family to convert to Christianity, police said Tuesday.

According to a complaint filed by Ramesh Gautam of Ranipurva village under Rupiadeeh police station area on the Indo-Nepal border on Monday, one Dharmendra Singh was misleading him to change his religion.

Allahabad (UP), Jan 29 (PTI) In a historic Cabinet meeting during the ongoing Kumbh Mela, the Uttar Pradesh government Tuesday approved the construction of the Ganga Expressway for better connectivity of Allahabad with western districts of the state.

The chief minister, who presided over the meeting, told reporters that the Cabinet gave its approval for the construction of the 600 km expressway, which will be the longest expressway in the world.

KANPUR: Almost immediately, animal lovers who visit the Allen Forest Zoo infrequently will get an opportunity to have a glimpse of the military macaw monkeys. These will be sent from Byculla Zoo in Mumbai. This is being done on an exchange basis as Kanpur Zoo will send swamp deer (Barasingha) there.