Uttar Pradesh

Kanpur: There are no ministers from Kanpur Nagar district while Kanpur Dehat has got as many as three ministers. This has caused an atmosphere of enthusiasm among the party supporters.

Just opposite to this there is a flurry of discussions among the political circles in Kanpur Nagar district.

Not a single minister from Kanpur has been included in the UP cabinet for the first time. But it is being speculated that eight-time MLA Satish Mahana will get Speaker post in the UP assembly.

Kanpur: The new cabinet sparks a barrage of discussions among the politicians here. But the latest news said of Satish Mahana to be seated on Speaker's seat.

Not a single minister from Kanpur has been included in the UP cabinet for the first time.

Satish Mahana, former Cabinet minister and eight-time MLA, was almost certain to be chosen as a minister. But he was dropped from Cabinet.

In the last state government, as many as four MLAs from Kanpur were made ministers in the cabinet.

Kanpur: Pollution in atmospheric air is too much, says a leather professional. He has been living in the Jajmau area for the past several years. Or, in a more precise way since he has been married luckily.

In search of puffing fresh air he went up above the fifth storey of his building but what broke the spell was the prevalence of dusty, filthy air. It was extremely unbearable for him.

Therefore he decided to walk in the serene air available on the Cantonment area spanning from the Golf Course to the second gate opening towards the Mall Road side here.

Lucknow, Mar 24 (PTI) After being elected leader of BJP legislature party, Yogi Adityanath on Thursday met Governor Anandiben Patel to stake claim to form government in Uttar Pradesh.

After dropping Union Home Minister Amit Shah at the airport, Adityanath went to the Raj Bhawan to meet the governor.

Earlier, an NDA delegation met the governor and handed over letters of support for forming government in the state following the conclusion of the legislature party meeting.

Kanpur: Owing to the grave negligence of the municipal corporation, Jalkal, Jal Sansthan and Pollution Control Board, the Namami Gangey Project to make Ganga pure seems to be sabotaged here.

Drains in Sisamau, Parmat, Baba Ghat, Guptar Ghat, Paramiya Purwa and Nawabganj areas were shut down by spending a whopping Rs 63 crore way back in the year of 2018.

Recently, the Sisamau drain, was tracked and monitored by officials. They found that water from the drain was still being dumped into the Ganga.

Kanpur: "There is salt in the air of Jajmau", said the tall boy who brought two young mechanics for repairing the AC set at his relative's house residing in the same area here on Friday. 

It is a good line indeed, said the person who heard him initially. Upon this reaction there came the laughter too.

Why did he say so? Because the main pollutant has been recorded at PM 2.5 while the air quality index remains very poor at 180 today according to the Friday's weather reports.

Airborne salinity refers to the content of gaseous and suspended salt in the atmosphere.

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Mar 25 (PTI) A group of people allegedly tied a man to a tree and raped his wife in this district, police said on Friday.

The incident took place on Wednesday night when the couple was returning to their village, they said.

According to the complaint lodged by the survivor's family, the man was walking back home from his in-laws' house with his wife when 10 people intercepted them.

Kanpur: In a shocking incident, a young man died due to shock from a high tension line while unloading sand from a dumper.

The deceased, identified as Rohit Shukla, came in contact with a high tension wire while working and suffered a painful death.

Bithoor police reached the spot and took the dead body into it's possession. Later the police sent it for post-mortem.

Brother of the deceased, Vijay Shukla told that we the three brothers used to work as labourers in Kanpur and our job was to unload the sand from the dumper.

Lucknow, Mar 23 (PTI) Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday accused the ruling BJP of misusing power and alleged that it is using its "goons" to attack democracy.

"The BJP has done no work for the welfare of the common man. The entire country is watching the hooliganism the BJP is doing to get majority," Yadav said referring to the election to the upper house of the state legislature.

New Delhi, Mar 23 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh chief minister-designate Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday met BJP president J P Nadda to discuss the formation of government in the state.

The BJP, which stormed back to power in the crucial state, is scheduled to elect its legislative party leader on Thursday.

Senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah has been appointed as the party's observer for government formation in the state.