Gorakhpur: The three ghats of the Rapti, Mahayogi Guru Gorakshnath Ghat, Ram Ghat and Baba Mukteshwar Ghat, dedicated by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanth a day earlier evening, witnessed a huge rush of people on Wednesday.
People started thronging the ghats which have undergone beautification and said it has become so beautiful that it will turn into a tourist spot. The locals appreciated the project and thanked CM Yogi.
Gorakhpur Mayor Sitaram Jaiswal said the demand for a paved bathing ghat at Rajghat was two-decade old and has been finally fulfilled by the chief minister.
“Gorakhpur is fortunate that it is the ‘karmabhumi’ of Yogi Adityanath. If you ask for one thing, you get four,” he added.
Supreme Court of India
NEW DELHI: What is the policy framework under which the Union government declares a public holiday, the Supreme Court asked on Monday when a PIL complained that the Centre and state governments arbitrarily notify public holidays mainly to appease a section of population.
The petitioner All India Shiromani Singh Sabha through senior advocate Vikas Singh said while the birth anniversaries of B R Ambedkar and Prophet Mohammad have been declared as public holidays by the Union government, the birthday of tenth Sikh Guru Gobind Singh has been arbitrarily declared merely as a restricted holiday.
A bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices L N Rao and Vineet Saran asked solicitor general Tushar Mehta to respond to the PIL. Mehta said these are policy decisions and that he would take instructions to respond to the PIL. SC gave the Centre ten days to file its affidavit.
Nandini Thakur
MUMBAI: Six days after a young woman s body was found in a sack at Aksa beach, police arrested her father-in-law and two autorickshaw drivers, in what appears to be a case of honour killing.
Nandini Thakur (22) had tied the knot with Pankaj Rai about three years back against the families wishes as they belonged to different castes. Pankaj s father, Kamal (55), was reportedly humiliated by people at his hometown in Bihar for this. Kamal also told police he suspected Nandini s fidelity and had been plotting the killing for some months. He had paid one of the auto drivers a supari of nearly Rs 1 lakh for help.
A year of the pandemic, in 26 photos Susie Neilson A man looks out of the window of his home during the coronavirus pandemic. It s been almost a year since the Chinese government first notified the World Health Organisation about the novel coronavirus. Since then, more than 78 million people have contracted COVID-19, and more than 1.7 million have died. Here are some of the most striking photos of the pandemic s impact so far.
Almost a year ago, on December 31, 2019, the Chinese government notified the World Health Organisation about a cluster of 41 patients with a mysterious pneumonia in Wuhan.
Now, over 78 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 1.7 million have died.