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Time of India
17-06-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
‘1K converted Sikhs reverted'
Lucknow: The All India Sikh Punjabi Welfare Council (AISPWC) announced on Tuesday that it will launch a state-wide campaign to combat religious conversion of Sikhs in Uttar Pradesh. Speaking at the UP Press Club, AISPWC national president Harpal Singh Jaggi said around 1,000 people had been reverted to Sikhism out of approximately 3,000 who had converted to Christianity in Pilibhit district. "We will organise public meetings, awareness drives, campaigns and dialogue programmes across the state to prevent such conversions," said Jaggi. President LGPC Devendra Singh Bagga, another council member, expressed concern that such "unconstitutional activities" were disturbing communal harmony and peace in the region. TNN
Hindustan Times
11-06-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Commoners to politicians, all join in to celebrate last Bada Mangal
Faith was served hot on the city streets as everybody from commoners to politicians soaked in the Bada Mangal festivities on Tuesday. While some distributed food, water and juices, others organised unique bhandaras. BJP city president Anand Dwivedi participated in various bhandaras, including one organised by excise minister Nitin Aggrawal at his residence in Gautampalli where state general secretary BJP Anoop Gupta, state president BJP Bhupendra Singh, deputy chief ministers Brajesh Pathak and Keshav Prasad Maurya were also present. Dwivedi also participated in bhandaras organised by former MLC Arvind Tripathi Guddu, Vinayak Pandey, Gautam Kumar, Ravi Shankar Chaurasia, Shishir Bajpai, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Anita Tiwari, Madan Kumar, Kulbir Chaudhary, Danish Sonkar, Rajiv Mishra and Alambagh Vyapar Mandal and distributed prasad. Senior BJP leader Neeraj Singh also participated in the feasts and cultural programmes organised by social organisations, traders and workers. At a bhandara organised by Shiv Sharan Singh at UP Press Club, he was present with deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak. Samajwadi Party's state general secretary and business leader Rambabu Rastogi organised a grand bhandara next to Thakurganj Kalyangiri temple in which former cabinet minister Shivpal Singh Yadav distributed prasad after performing the puja. During the puja, Jagdeep Chaudhary, Rajesh Yadav, Rajbala Rawat, Anil Verma, Neeraj Srivastava, Satendra Rajput, Narendra Singh, Mayank Singh, Vijay Verma, Sanjay Dwivedi, Ashwini Mishra, Umesh Bajpai, Ajay Verma, Mudit Mishra, Salim Hussain were present. Some socio-cultural organisation held bhandaras with a cause on the occasion. At a bhandara organised by a group of individuals from Madad Karona foundation, towels and water was distributed to rickshaw pullers and labourers. Abdul Saboor, founder of the foundation said that while there is an abundance of food for people on Bada Mangal, we distributed towels and water for those who work hard under scorching summer heat. 'The towels will help those doing tedious work by preventing them from getting heat strokes for the entire summer season,' said Saboor. A bhandara with tree saplings was organised outside UP Sangeet Natak Akademi by Repertwahr Foundation to promote green cover and importance of plantation.
Time of India
10-06-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Dy CM grace bhandara at Press Club
Lucknow Working Journalist Union organised a bhandara at UP Press Club on the last Bada Mangal on Tuesday. Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak and senior BJP leader Neeraj Singh inaugurated the event. UP cabinet minister Dhrampal Singh, leaders of various political parties also attended the event. UP Press Club president Ravindra Singh, UP Working Journalist Union president Haseeb Siddiqui, general secretary Devraj Singh and Lucknow Working Journalist Union president Shiv Sharan Singh and general secretary Vishwadev Rao welcomed the guests.
Time of India
18-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
‘Need to ensure 9% growth rate'
Lucknow: Renowned economist Prof on Sunday said that the biggest that the country faces today is dwindling . Delivering the 21st Freda Laski Memorial Lecture at the UP Press Club, Mehrotra said: "The problem is that the number of people in our working age (15-60 yrs) is narrowing down and is likely to be at an all-time low by 2040, which leaves us only 15 years to find a solution. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now " "The answer lies in creation of more jobs. China can handle its falling demographic dividend only by creating jobs. To do this, we need to create at least 11 million jobs every year," he said. Admitting that India was the world's fastest growing economy, he said: "We need to ensure rise in from 5.8% to 9% to achieve our target of Viksit Bharat by 2047." Former vice-chancellor of Lucknow University Prof Roop Rekha Verma hosted the event.
Hindustan Times
14-05-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Veteran scribe K Vikram Rao cremated
The mortal remains of the veteran journalist and president of the Indian Federation of Working Journalists, K Vikram Rao, were consigned to the flames with state honours at Bhainsakund Cremation Ground in Lucknow on Tuesday, a day after he passed away. He was 87. Bihar's governor, Arif Mohammad Khan, dignitaries, politicians, state government officers, colleagues, family and friends paid their last respects to Rao before the cremation. Earlier, Rao's body was placed at the UP Press Club for people to pay tributes where his wife, Sudha Rao, daughter Vinita Rao, and the younger son Vishwa Dev Rao were present. Sudev Rao, the elder son of K Vikram Rao lit the funeral pyre at the cremation ground. UP Working Journalists' Union president Haseeb Siddiqui, UP Press Club president Ravindra Kumar Singh, UP Working Journalists' Union's Lucknow Division president Shiv Sharan Singh, UP Accredited Journalists' Committee secretary Bharat Singh paid tributes on the behalf of various journalist organisations. Apart from his long career as a journalist, columnist, K Vikram Rao had been a prominent voice for press freedom, better wages and working conditions for working journalists. He had been the bureau chief of an English daily in nine different states and also worked in the South Asia bureau of an American media house. He wrote many books. Rao had also served as a member of the Indian Press Council for six years. He had also been in five different jails in the country totalling 13 months during the Emergency in the country. Among those who expressed condolences on Tuesday were UP Governor Anandiben Patel, Union ministers Pankaj Chaudhary, Jitin Prasada, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav, Madhya Pradesh deputy CM Rajendra Shukla, Madhya Pradesh BJP president VD Sharma, UP ministers Suresh Khanna, Nand Gopal Nandi and Nitin Agrawal. Trade union leader Umashankar Mishra, Vidhan Parishad member Pawan Singh Chauhan, former minister Rajendra Chaudhary, Samajwadi Party state president Shyamlal Pal, Samajwadi Party backward cell coordinator Rajpal Kashyap, UP BJP media in-charge Manish Dixit, UP Kshatriya Samanvaya Samiti coordinator Pradeep Singh Babbu, Apna Dal spokesperson Sanjeev Singh Rathore, NCP leader Siraj Mehndi, Insram Ali, journalists Punya Prasun Joshi, Ram Dutt Tripathi, Hemant Sharma, Amitabh Agnihotri, Awadhesh Kumar, MLA Shalabh Mani Tripati, RLD leader Anil Dubey, Vidhan Parishad member Mahendra Singh, former union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, and BJP spokesperson SN Singh were also among those who paid their tributes.
