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  • Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation Institute will be established in UP: Chief Minister

    Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation Institute will be established in UP: Chief Minister

    Lucknow (IANS) | Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath discussed the possibilities of development of the pharmaceutical sector in the state in a high-level meeting on Wednesday. In a special meeting, the Chief Minister laid emphasis on encouraging research in the pharma sector and gave necessary guidelines for setting up a new institute in the state.

    He said that Uttar Pradesh is the 6th largest state in the country in terms of number of pharma manufacturing units, now our target is to become the leading state in the country. Similarly, our contribution in the pharma manufacturing ring in the country at present is 2 percent, which needs to be increased to 10-12 percent. There is great potential for growth in the pharmaceutical sector. Uttar Pradesh should take advantage of these possibilities. Along with drug manufacturing, we also have to focus on research.

    He said that high level research institutes like IITR, CDRI, CIMAP and NBRI are functional in the state. While there are also academic institutions like SGPGI, KGMU. With planned efforts, Lucknow has emerged as a biopharma hub in the last few years. AKTU and other technical educational institutions are capable of providing human resources for the pharmaceutical sector. While the process of construction of Pharma Park is going on in the state, Medical Device Park is also to be constructed. Better use of this resource has to be made.

    Yogi said that to encourage the pharmaceutical industry, we need to focus on all three areas, quality educational institutions, research labs and industry. In such a situation, Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation Institute should be established. This institute will basically focus on research and innovation, as well as act as a bridge between other institutes and industry related to the sector.

    He said that a detailed action plan should be prepared regarding the nature of the Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation Institute. Prepare a panel of sector experts. Assess the future needs of the pharmaceutical sector and submit a detailed action plan within the next 15 days, studying best practices from around the world. Suitable land should be identified for this in the capital Lucknow. This institute will give a new identity to Uttar Pradesh in the field of pharmaceutical research and manufacturing on the national platform.

    –IANS

  • Teachers in UP paid the price for Hindutva campaigns against a song

    Teachers in UP paid the price for Hindutva campaigns against a song

    Uttar Pradesh : Like many children growing up in Uttar Pradesh in the 1980s, Waziruddin, 55, learned to sing Lab Pe Aati Hai Dua, a poem by the renowned Urdu poet Mohammad Iqbal, in school.

    “Everyone, whether Hindus or Muslims, would recite it,” Waziruddin said.

    He added: “Par mahaul ab badal gaya hai.” The situation has changed now.

    He should know. Only four months ago, in December, the former elementary school teacher in a government school in Bareilly was forced out of his job after Hindutva activists objected to a video of his students singing the Iqbal poem in school and accused him of trying to convert some of them to Islam.

    Not only was he terminated from his job as a Shiksha Mitra, the post of a temporary teacher in the state’s government schools, Waziruddin also had to spend 10 days in jail.

    On a complaint by Vishwa Hindu Parishad members, the police filed a first information report against Waziruddin and another teacher under Sections 298 and 153 of the Indian Penal Code, accusing them of hurting religious sentiments and provoking with an intent to cause a riot.

  • Army commando killed in parachute accident

    Army commando killed in parachute accident

    Agra (IANS) | An army commando died after falling from a height after his parachute got entangled in a high tension line in Malpura area of Agra district of Uttar Pradesh on Friday.

    Police officials said that the incident took place in the dropping zone of Malpura police station area when commando Ankur Sharma’s parachute got stuck in the high tension line.

    In the incident, Sharma fell from a height and sustained injuries, a police officer said.

    Sharma was taken to Military Hospital where he died during treatment. Sharma was posted in Jammu and Kashmir.

    –IANS

  • UP CM watches ‘The Kerala Story’ with cabinet

    UP CM watches ‘The Kerala Story’ with cabinet

    Lucknow (IANS) | Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath watched the film ‘The Kerala Story’ along with his cabinet colleagues on Friday. A special screening of the film was held at Lok Bhavan Auditorium. The Chief Minister was present throughout the film. Along with the Chief Minister and ministers, a large number of BJP officials, women associated with various social and cultural organizations, school students and media representatives were present here. While congratulating all the people associated with the film, CM Yogi Adityanath tweeted and sent his best wishes.

    More than 50 cabinet ministers and legislators were also present along with the CM. Apart from this, there were more than 50 officers and 300 female students. On May 9, the Chief Minister had announced that the film would be tax free in UP. Earlier, BJP Yuva Morcha also showed this film free of cost to schoolgirls in Lucknow and Agra.

    During this, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya said, I am very happy that I am getting an opportunity to watch ‘The Kerala Story’ with the entire cabinet at Lok Bhavan. We demand lifting of the ban on this film in West Bengal. In the coming time, the truth of West Bengal will also come in front of the people.

    Minister Swatantra Dev Singh said that the film ‘The Kerala Story’ is based on the real pictures of the society and the incidents that have happened. Society will get direction from this film, children will be alert. It is not fair to ban artists.

    Madhu, who came to see the film, said that every Hindu girl needs to take a message from this film. We all need to make each other aware. If it is known that a friend is entangled in a matter related to religion, then he should be explained.

    Kartika Singh said that this film is giving the message of awakening in the society. If we make our children aware about the culture and Hindu religion, then the situation of disorientation will never come.

    Romita Singh said that this is not just an issue of religious conversion. It is shown in the film how religion is being converted into terrorism. This film gives us a message to be careful.

    –IANS

  • Uttar Pradesh: Preparations complete for the first phase of civic elections

    Uttar Pradesh: Preparations complete for the first phase of civic elections

    Lucknow (IANS) | All preparations have been completed for the first phase of urban body elections in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday amid tight security arrangements. According to the State Election Commission (SEC), people in 37 districts will vote in the first phase to elect 7,593 representatives, including 10 mayors and 820 corporators. The second phase of polling will be held on May 11. The two-phase polls will be a crucial test for the parties ahead of the Lok Sabha elections next year.
    Over 2.40 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in the first round of polling, officials said. All the posts are being contested on the symbol of the party.
    In the first phase, polling will be held for the posts of 103 Nagar Palika Parishad presidents and 2,740 Nagar Palika Parishad members. Besides this, the voters of the first phase will also decide the fate of 275 Nagar Panchayat presidents and 3,645 Nagar Panchayat members.
    A total of 44,232 candidates are in the fray in the first round. State Election Commissioner Manoj Kumar informed that 85 representatives including 10 councilors have already been elected unopposed. The districts where the mayor will be elected in the first phase include Saharanpur, Agra, Moradabad, Firozabad, Mathura, Jhansi, Prayagraj, Lucknow, Gorakhpur and Varanasi. The counting of votes for both the phases will take place on May 13.
    During the first phase, two lakh personnel in uniform including 35 companies of Central Armed Police Forces and 86 companies of PAC have been deployed for security arrangements. Senior police officials said 19,880 inspectors, 1.01 lakh head constables, 47,985 home guards and 7,500 trainee sub-inspectors would also be part of the security set-up.
    Special Director General of Police (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar said that so far 1,101 people have been booked under the Gangster Act to ensure peaceful polling, while the NSA has been slapped on another 14 who are already in jail and Want bail before voting.
    He said, 2,012 miscreants have been pulled out from different districts of the state. Similarly, 6.48 lakh other people have been booked for breach of peace in the last 15 days.
    The Special DG said that as part of the exercise, 42 illegal factories manufacturing country-made pistols were busted, in which 2,958 arms and 4,500 cartridges were recovered. Similarly, a low intensity explosive weighing 3,470 kg was seized.
    Police also arrested 987 persons smuggling drugs worth Rs 37 crore, while 2.99 lakh liters of illicit liquor was seized and 766 persons were booked for making/smuggling illicit liquor. The police official said that 8.19 lakh vehicles were found flouting the rules, while another 7,426 vehicles were seized in violation of the election code of conduct across the state. Patrolling has been intensified near the polling stations and also in the districts where polling will be held on Thursday, he said.

  • Despite being jailed, Atiq murder accused active on social media

    Despite being jailed, Atiq murder accused active on social media

    Pratapgarh: Lovelesh Tiwari, one of the accused in the murders of gangster Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf, is active on the social media despite being lodged in the Pratapgarh jail.

    The Banda police are said to have taken serious cognisance of the contents posted on Tiwari’s social media accounts over the last two weeks.

    The posts are inflammatory and hateful in nature, according to the police.

    One of the accounts with the name “Maharaj Lovelesh Tiwari ChuChu” has been locked.

    SP Banda Abhinandan said the police were trying to look for the person handling Tiwari’s social media accounts.

    “We have started an investigation. This is serious,” he said.

  • Dwapar-like grandeur will return to Braj with 32 thousand crores: Chief Minister

    Dwapar-like grandeur will return to Braj with 32 thousand crores: Chief Minister

    Mathura (IANS) | Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the formation of Mathura Vrindavan Municipal Corporation in 2017 and then the formation of Braj Teerth Vikas Parishad has worked to advance the work plan of overall development in Mathura. Today, projects worth 32 thousand crore rupees are going on here, the day these plans will get on the ground, that day the grandeur and divinity of Dwapar Yug will be seen here.

    The Chief Minister was addressing a public meeting organized for the Municipal Corporation elections at the Municipal Corporation Seth BN Poddar Inter College ground in Mathura on Thursday. During this, he said that after the Global Investors Summit, investment proposals worth Rs 35 lakh crore have been received in UP. In Braj region alone, 50 thousand youths are going to get employment. It is said that with 32 thousand crores, the grandeur like Dwapar will return in Braj.

    The Chief Minister said that it is my good fortune that our government formed the Mathura Vrindavan Municipal Corporation in 2017. By forming the Braj Teerth Vikas Parishad, work has been done to take forward the action plan for the overall development of this place. Today India has changed, so we too cannot remain silent in this process of change. Big projects of infrastructure, construction like airport, IIT, AIIMS are completed in a fixed time today. Heritage is respected. Kashi, Ayodhya, Kedarnath, Mahakal are revitalized. This is new India. We have to combine the potential of UP with the potential of this new India.

    The Chief Minister said that we have taken forward the development works without any discrimination. Housing facility was given to more than 38 thousand families. More than 20 thousand street vendors here have got the benefit of Swanidhi Yojana. Earlier the poor were extorted, extortion was collected from the traders. Today the poor are being given the benefit of houses and self-funds. Destitute women, disabled people and old people are being given the benefit of pension facility. Before 2017, people belonging to a particular party used to roam around with guns. Today the youth have tablets in their hands. Earlier there used to be terror of martyrs, today it is a safe city.

    The Chief Minister said that Jawahar Bagh had once been a hub of hooliganism. Today the situation is in front of all of you. Earlier there used to be riots in Kosi art. Today, PepsiCo’s plant has been set up here. In Mathura-Vrindavan where meat and liquor were once sold, we completely banned it. No one can be allowed to play with the sanctity here. Today, as soon as the pilgrimage site is declared, work is being done here on a large scale with an action plan. 84 Kosi Parikrama is going to happen not only in Ayodhya but also in Braj. At present, projects worth Rs 32 thousand crore are going on for the development of Braj region. When these will start appearing on the ground, on that day grandeur and divinity like Dwapar Yug will be seen here. The Chief Minister said that after the formation of Municipal Corporation, work is now being done in the direction of Navnirman of Mathura.

    –IANS

  • Human blood stains found in Atiq Ahmed’s office: Forensic report

    Human blood stains found in Atiq Ahmed’s office: Forensic report

    Prayagraj: In a shocking development, the forensic examination report has confirmed that the blood stains found in the partially demolished office of gangster Atiq Ahmed in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj district was human blood, police said.

    The report was handed over to the Special Investigation Team late on Wednesday night.

    The blood stains and a blood smeared knife was found inside the office in Chakia on Monday after which the forensic team was called in to take the samples.

    Police sources said that investigations had revealed that the demolished and abandoned building was being frequented by some local drug addicts.

    The police have detained some of the addicts for interrogation and some of them had injuries.

    The development follows days after Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were shot dead by three men while they were being taken for medical examination in Prayagraj by a police team. The two brothers were in police custody and the entire shooting was captured live on camera.

  • Man killed for demanding way for tractor to go

    Man killed for demanding way for tractor to go

    Meerut, (IANS) | In Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut, a man was killed for demanding to give way for a tractor. Aamir was passing through Solana village with two of his companions carrying straw on a tractor. Only then some people surrounded the road and found standing on the road.

    When Amir asked them to give way, a scuffle broke out between him and the other group.

    Later the same men armed with weapons reached Amir’s house and allegedly shot him dead after some argument.

    The accused have been identified as Afaq, Abad and Aurangzeb.

    Aamir was rushed to the hospital soon after the incident but was declared brought dead on arrival.

    Aamir’s body has been sent for postmortem.

    According to ASP Meerut Rohit Singh, the relatives of the deceased have given a complaint and the accused are being searched.

    –IANS

  • Woman kills man along with husband

    Woman kills man along with husband

    SULTANPUR (IANS) | In Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur, a woman along with her husband killed a man who had been harassing her for some time. After committing the crime, the couple, identified as Pradeep Nishad and Padmavati, informed the police that they had killed a man who used to stalk the woman.

    The couple has been arrested and the matter is being probed.

    The incident is of Fatehpur Chhaparwa village under Gosaiganj police station area of Sultanpur district.

    According to the police, Ganga Prasad Choubey had come to Padmavati’s house in Sultanpur on Saturday night.

    Around 4 am, Choubey called Padmavati, police said, but her husband picked up the call. The couple, fuming with anger, later thrashed and killed Choubey.

    Superintendent of Police Sultanpur Somen Barma said that the accused Pradeep has claimed in his statement to the police that Choubey used to torture his wife often.

    The SP said the victim knew Padmavati, but had severed ties with her after marrying Pradeep.

    –IANS