Tag: Uttar Pradesh

Association with IIM will help Uttar Pradesh become $1 trillion economy: Yogi Adityanath

NEW DELHI :Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said by joining hands with IIM-Lucknow, the state government will deliver good governance and achieve the goal of becoming a $1 trillion economy. Adityanath was speaking at the second edition of ‘Manthan’— a leadership development programme conducted by senior faculty of the Indian Institute of […]

Uttar Pradesh power tariff to increase up to 12 per cent

NEW DELHI: The Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission on Tuesday approved up to 12 per cent hike in power tariff for various categories of power consumers to make up for increased expenditure of state distribution utilities. The commission, however, also abolished the regulatory surcharge of 4.8 per cent for state discoms, giving relief to customers […]

Rajendra Kumar Tiwari is acting Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary

NEW DELHI: Agriculture Production Commissioner and Additional Chief Secretary Higher Education Department Rajendra Kumar Tiwari on Saturday took over as the acting Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh. A 1985-batch IAS officer, 56-year-old Tiwari took the charge following the retirement of incumbent Anoop Chandra Pandey on August 31, 2019. In a statement issued here, the government […]

Former Samajwadi Party leaders Surendra Nagar and Sanjay Seth join BJP

NEW DELHI: Two former Samajwadi Party leaders, who had quit their party and Rajya Sabha membership recently, joined the BJP on Saturday, lauding the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Surendra Singh Nagar, a two-time Member of Parliament, and Sanjay Seth, a well-known realtor of Uttar Pradesh who was the SP’s treasurer, joined the BJP […]

Vivo to set up new manufacturing unit in Uttar Pradesh to ‘double existing capacity’

NEW DELHI: Mobile phone maker Vivo is in the process of setting up new manufacturing unit spread over an area of 169 acre in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, a senior company official said on Wednesday. The unit will have a capacity of manufacturing 25 million smartphones a year, said Vivo India Director (Brand Strategy) Nipun […]

First tranche of land acquired for airport in Uttar Pradesh’s Jewar

NEW DELHI: The first tranche of land for the upcoming international airport in Uttar Pradesh’s Jewar, near Delhi, was on Tuesday acquired and transferred to the project’s implementing agency, officials said. The Gautam Buddh Nagar administration acquired the 80 hectare farm land and handed it over to the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA), they […]

DLF transfers Noida mall, land to JV firm; reduces dues to Rs 5,500 crore

NEW DELHI: Realty major DLF has settled Rs 3,100 crore amount payable to its joint venture with Singapore investment firm GIC by transferring Noida shopping mall and some land parcels. At the end of 2018, DLF owed Rs 8,700 crore to DLF Cyber City Developers Ltd (DCCDL), which is a joint venture between DLF and […]

Adani Group to invest Rs 5,500 crore in Uttar Pradesh’s food processing, power sectors

NEW DELHI: Adani Group will invest Rs 5,500 crore over the next five years in power transmission and food processing sectors in Uttar Pradesh, its chairman Gautam Adani said on Sunday. Speaking on the occasion of the second ground breaking ceremony that will see the launch of multiple projects by corporates, Adani said he had […]

Flipkart CEO sees Uttar Pradesh becoming India’s first trillion-dollar state economy

NEW DELHI: Projects that formed part of the second Ground Breaking Ceremony will help in Uttar Pradesh’s quest to be first trillion-dollar state economy in India, Flipkart Group Chief Executive Officer Kalyan Krishnamurthy said in Lucknow on Sunday. “The groundbreaking ceremony will play a key role in propelling Uttar Pradesh as an industrial and innovation […]

Make source of funds received during elections ‘public’: Mayawati to BJP

NEW DELHI: BSP chief Mayawati on Friday attacked the BJP asking it to make public the source of funds received by it during elections and alleged that it cannot tolerate when people of deprived sections progress in business. The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister’s remarks came a day after the Income Tax Department attached a […]

CBI searches three districts of Uttar Pradesh in connection with illegal mining scam

NEW DELHI: The CBI is carrying out searches at various locations in three districts of Uttar Pradesh in connection with an illegal mining scam, officials said on Wednesday. The searches started this morning in Hamirpur, Fatehpur and Bulandshahr, they said. Further details are awaited as the operation is still on and may be expanded during […]

Bids open for developing Rs 15,000 crore Jewar airport, say officials

NEW DELHI: The Noida International Airport Limited (NIAL) on Thursday invited global players to float bids for development of an international greenfield airport in Uttar Pradesh’s Jewar, officials said. The airport, second in national capital region after Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International airport and billed to be the biggest in the country when fully operational, will […]

Mandate for creating new India’s new Uttar Pradesh: Yogi Adityanath

By Subhashis Mittra LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath says the massive mandate in the Lok Sabha polls was a mandate for creating “new India’s new Uttar Pradesh” and gave a befitting reply to those parties which cheated the poor in the name of social welfare and relied on caste politics. Adityanath says his […]

Priyanka Gandhi roars into Uttar Pradesh with roadshow to enthuse Congress workers

LUCKNOW: Making her political debut as Congress general secretary, Priyanka Gandhi on Monday roared into Uttar Pradesh with thousands cheering as her cavalcade slowly made its way through the city during a roadshow, being seen as launch of the party’s campaign in the state ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. Accompanied by Congress president Rahul […]

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