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After clean chit, Gorakhpur doctor seeks apology from UP govt

On Thursday, the administration of the BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur had handed over an internal probe report to Khan, a paediatrician, clearing him of charges of medical negligence and corruption.

In search of a memorial to the Urdu legend Firaq Gorakhpuri

Laxmi Nivas, the old, two-storey building in Gorakhpur’s Turkmanpur area, where noted Urdu poet Raghupati Sahay, better known as Firaq Gorakhpuri, grew up and penned some of his immortal creations, is today Saraswati Shishu Mandir, the junior high school run by the RSS since 1980.

Justice Ismail – Indian citizen, Pakistan high commissioner in Delhi

Gorakhpur local in J&K helps prepare Kashmiris for IAS exam

A 1994 Geography graduate from AMU, Aligarh, Bashar started The Civil IAS Academy first at Gandhi Nagar, in Jammu, in 2009, and then at Lal Chowk in Srinagar.

Deranged, abandoned, there’s hope yet with Smile in Gorakhpur

Smile Home is a first-of-its-kind orphanage, shelter home-cum-treatment centre for such abandoned, mentally ill persons.

Spreading festive cheer with free ‘iftar’ to the poor

After offering namaz at around 5 pm daily, the volunteers, who also observe fast, have been carrying the food packets on their bikes to distribute them to the poor for the last 27 days.

DDU students carve a career out of ‘lassi’, and how!

The unique start-up, the students claim, has not only made them financially independent to pay their fees and meet daily expenses but has given jobs to at least three dozen people in the town.

Muslim family names baby born on poll result day after Modi

On Thursday, Mainaz Begum, 40, a resident of Parsapur Mahrarur village in Wazirganj, gave birth to a baby boy.

Bypoll loss to LS win: How Yogi Adityanath turned game changer

Heading a BJP government in the state (the saffron party won a near two-thirds majority in the 2017 state polls), Adityanath was seen as having failed to delivered his pocket borough of Gorakhpur to the party.

Deoria Election Results 2019: Seat witnesses straight fight between BJP and SP-BSP alliance

The general mood in the constituency indicates that it is witnessing a direct contest between the BJP and the SP-BSP alliance. BJP’s Ramapati Tripathi is pitted against SP-BSP alliance candidate Vinod Jaiswal.

Congress now a vote cutting party: PM Modi

Modi also accused Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav of cheating his Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Mayawati by benefitting from her vote bank and falsely promising her the PM’s chair.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Transgender candidates vow to clean corruption

Uttar Pradesh has 8,374 registered transgender voters. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the total number of “third gender” voters is 41,292, a rise of about 45% from the figures of 2014, when the Election Commission first started the category.

SP names Lok Sabha candidate from Gorakhpur day after Nishad Party exits alliance

The announcement comes a day after Nishad Party severed ties with the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party led ‘gathbandhan’ in Uttar Pradesh.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Days after joining SP-BSP alliance, Nishad Party walks out, may join BJP

Sanjay Nishad, president of Nishad (Nirbal Indian Shoshit Hamara Aam Dal) party, along with his son Praveen Nishad, a sitting Samajwadi Party MP from Gorakhpur, met CM Yogi Adityanath on Friday evening.

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Parties in pursuit of power ‘look east’ in Uttar Pradesh

Lok Sabha Elections: Eastern Uttar Pradesh has 32 Lok Sabha constituencies, including the politically crucial Allahabad, Phulpur, Varanasi, Ballia and Gorakhpur, among others.

Yogi Adityanath’s mentor Mahant Avaidyanath introduced ‘dining with Dalits’ in 1980s

While politicians of all hues have indulged in such photo sessions, not many know that it was Mahant Avaidyanath, the mentor of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, who had launched a social campaign of ‘dining with Dalits’ across the country way back in 1980s.

BJP shoe fight: MLA, MP trade barbs as Yogi promises action

The BJP MP had to be rescued by the police in the midnight after Baghel’s supporters assembled to avenge the attack.

Sisters turn barbers in UP’s Kushinagar, shave off poverty

The girls say that they picked up the scissors not by choice but out of compulsion after their father suffered a paralysis attack.

Uttar Pradesh panel to give aid for rearing abandoned cows

Municipal corporations were given Rs 10 crore for stray cattle management in each district. Every district had been given Rs 1 crore additionally for the purpose, he said.

Basti woman hopes for Paa-nacea for progeria-afflicted son

Basti-based Pooja Pandey says her two-and-a-half-year-old son Sundaram suffers from progeria , a rare genetic disorder in which a child shows accelerated ageing symptoms and dies in the early teens.

Aroma of Kala Namak rice to waft abroad, now

The Terai belt of Sidhdharthanagar, Maharajganj and Gorakhpur, close to Nepal, was once called the ‘pride of Purvanchal’ due to the cultivation of a very special variety of rice there called Kala Namak.

African ‘super food’ to fight malnutrition among poor children in Gorakhpur region

Known in local parlance as ‘Sunahri Kand’, African super food ‘golden sweet potato’ is loaded with 150% more Vitamin A than carrot and papaya. It is very similar to the Indian sweet potatoin appearance but differs largely in nutritional value.

Gorakhpur Imambara: Burning for 250 years, flames of faith offer miracle hope

A bonfire lit by a Sufi saint is burning continuously for nearly 250 years at Gorakhpur’s historic imambara and draws people of all faiths, the Imambara estate and the faithful claim.

Gorakhpur: Doctors, attendants clash at BRD, 8 hurt

Eight people, including four junior doctors and two security personnel, were injured when attendants of a patient clashed at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur.

RTI activist from Uttar Pradesh who exposed quacks shot at, five booked

Last year in November, an RTI query by the victim Tahir Khan had brought into focus illegal dental clinics being operated by the accused.

UP police expand search for 18 girls missing from Deoria shelter home

Deoria additional district magistrate (ADM) Sitaram Gupta said they were focusing on ascertaining the number of residents who lived at the shelter home, to better identify the ones missing.

Couple who ran Deoria shelter home were secretive, got rich quickly, say locals

Locals say Girija and Mohan Tripathi had a sudden upward swing after Girija registered an NGO and started the shelter home eight years ago. The couple, who once ran a stitching centre, apparently now owns property and flats in the area.

Muzaffarpur redux? Couple arrested for allegedly running sex racket at Deoria shelter home in UP, 24 women rescued

The action was taken after a girl escaped from the shelter home and informed the police that all the inmates there were being treated like servants.

Gorakhpur: Photocopies of BRD doctors’ degrees stolen, sold

Some unidentified people stole photocopies of doctors’ degrees from the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College office in Gorakhpur and sold them to others who used these papers to run two fake pathology labs, people familiar with the matter said.

Oppn doing negative politics, says Yogi

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday hit out at the opposition parties for doing negative politics by undermining the development work done by the Narendra Modi government.