Tag: Ghazipur

Nepal plane crash victims cremated in their village in Ghazipur

The dead bodies of the four youths were brought to Ghazipur through Raxaul in separate ambulances at around 9 am on Tuesday.

January 24, 2023

JP Nadda to launch BJP campaign for LS polls from Ghazipur, UP

The BJP has set a target of winning all the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh in the 2024 general elections. To achieve this goal, the party has especially focused on those 14 seats in the state it had lost in the last Lok Sabha polls. Among them, Ghazipur parliamentary seat is very important for the party.

January 17, 2023

Four friends from Ghazipur die in Nepal plane crash

They had gone to the neighbouring country on January 13 to pay obeisance at the Pashupatinath temple.

January 15, 2023

MCD polls will be fought solely over issue of garbage: Kejriwal

Launching a scathing attack on the BJP for the 'garbage mountain' ahead of the MCD elections, the Delhi Chief Minister said, "In the last 15 years, BJP gave nothing except three mountains of garbage to the people of Delhi and made the whole of Delhi a huge dumpster. I appeal to Delhiites to vote for the cleanliness of Delhi this time in municipal elections; together we have to make Delhi clean and beautiful."

October 27, 2022

NGT slaps 900 cr penalty on Delhi gov: Congress blames AAP, BJP of inaction

Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) said, slapping of such a penalty on the Arvind Kejriwal government speaks volumes of the corruption, inaction and incompetence.

October 13, 2022

Mountains of shame

The Ghazipur and Bhalswa fires posed a big challenge to the Delhi Fire Service. The firemen found it slippery to climb the mountains and reach the fire spots.

May 9, 2022

Delhi govt slaps fine of Rs 50 lakh on MCD over Ghazipur landfill site fire incident

Environment Minister Gopal Rai stated, “Directions have been issued to take strict action against employees and officers who were on-duty at the time of the fire.”

March 30, 2022

FIR lodged in Delhi’s Ghazipur landfill fire incident

On Monday, a big fire broke out at a dumping yard in Ghazipur, east Delhi.

March 29, 2022

Polling begins in 54 constituencies for last phase of UP elections

Polling began on Monday on 54 seats for the seventh and last phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.

March 7, 2022

NGT concerned over environmental violations at Ghazipur abattoir in Delhi

A NGT bench headed by its chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, in an order passed on February 23, observed that the abattoir was discharging untreated effluent and abstracting groundwater illegally.

February 25, 2022

Farmers plan to turn ‘House on Wheels’ built at Ghazipur protest site into heritage home

The house now stationed at Ghazipur on the border of the national capital with Uttar Pradesh captures the perseverance of the farmers who had camped on the outskirts on Delhi from November 2020 braving the chilly winter, rains and the bristling summer.

December 12, 2021

Sukhbir Badal visits Ghazipur, lends support to protest

Badal met Tikait for ten minutes near the protest site, and assured support to the protesting farmers.

January 31, 2021

Farmers break through barricades at Singhu, Tikri ahead of time

According to the consensus reached by the two sides, not more than 5,000 tractors and 5,000 persons would be permitted to participate in the tractor rally that is slated to start once the Republic Day celebrations in the national capital end.

January 26, 2021

Modi in UP: Major blow to BJP as party’s UP allies boycott PM’s events

Patel said his party leaders will not attend the events scheduled to be held in Varanasi and Ghazipur, demanding Modi's intervention in sorting out the matter of the increasing divide between the two parties.

December 29, 2018

Delhi Lt Governor Baijal bans dumping of solid waste at Ghazipur landfill

A day after a huge portion of a landfill in east Delhi’s Ghazipur collapsed leading to two deaths, Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal on Saturday banned dumping of solid waste at the site. Baijal held an emergency meeting for immediate measures to be taken in view of Friday’s incident of garbage slide at Ghazipur landfill...

September 2, 2017

Landfill cave-in: Delhi LG bans garbage dumping in Ghazipur

Garbage dumping in Ghazipur has been banned with immediate effect and the landfill site is likely to be cleared within two years, Lt Governor Anil Baijal’s office said on Saturday. A day after a portion of the waste dump, estimated to be as high as a 15-storey building, collapsed, killing two persons, Baijal held a...

September 2, 2017