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Days after UP bypoll losses, Yogi Adityanath government celebrates 1-year in power

Agencies
March 19, 2018

Lucknow, Mar 19: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government will celebrate its first year in office, in Uttar Pradesh (UP), on Monday.

To mark the completion of its first year in office, the UP government will be releasing a film called " Ek Saal-Naee Misaal" and a booklet highlighting its achievements.

A programme will also be held at the Lok Bhawan, which will be attended by the chief minister.

A government spokesperson said that the state government, in one year, has worked tremendously and has brought UP back on the track of development.

Recent losses

The one-year celebrations come less than a week after BJP lost the Lok Sabha seats of Gorakhpur and Phulpur to rival Samajwadi Party (SP) in bypolls.

SP won the seats after Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) agreed to not field their candidate and called on people to vote for the SP candidate instead.

Gorakhpur is the home constituency of Yogi Adityanath while Phulpur, a former constituency of Jawaharlal Nehru, was with now deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya.

Reacting to the losses at the News18 Rising India Summit, CM Adityanath said "every defeat is a lesson for us."

"Victories and losses are not a moment of happiness or sadness for us. Whenever we work with overconfidence and take results for granted, we will end up not working hard enough, so such results will naturally happen. Our workers and voters thought these are the seats of the chief minister and deputy chief minister, and so they took them for granted. Some didn't step out to vote, some didn't go for door-to-door campaign," Yogi said.

Mounting criticism

However, the Samajwadi Party attacked the BJP and said it had "not done anything significant" during its time in office.

SP President Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday said that the Yogi Adityanath-government in UP has deviated from the "real issues" and that it was the character of the BJP and only the regional forces "can stop its march," according to a statement issued here by his party.

Yadav also said that "the government of Yogi Adityanath has spent its first year in office by removing the word 'Samajwadi' from various schemes."

The BJP had swept the Assembly election in February 2017 by winning 325 off the 403 legislative seats.

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Agencies
May 4,2020

Mumbai, May 4: Days after Facebook, private equity firm Silver Lake said it will invest 56.56 billion rupees ($746.74 million) in Reliance Industries's digital arm, giving it a valuation of 4.90 trillion rupees. Silver Lake on Monday agreed to pay Rs 5,655.75 crore to buy 1.15 per cent stake in the firm that houses billionaire Mukesh Ambani's telecom arm Jio.

The investment in Jio Platforms comes within days of Facebook investing USD 5.7 billion to buy a 9.99 per cent stake in Jio Platforms. The investment is at a premium of 12.5 per cent to the Facebook deal.

"This investment values Jio Platforms at an equity value of Rs 4.90 lakh crore and an enterprise value of Rs 5.15 lakh crore and represents a 12.5 per cent premium to the equity valuation of the Facebook investment announced on April 22, 2020," Reliance said in a statement.

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News Network
May 25,2020

New Delhi, May 25: Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra on Monday said lockdown extensions are not just economically disastrous but also create another medical crisis.

While acknowledging that choices are not easy for policymakers, he said a lockdown extension will not help.

"Lockdown extensions aren't just economically disastrous, as I had tweeted earlier, but also create another medical crisis," Mahindra said in a tweet.

He was referring to an article that highlighted "the dangerous psychological effects of lockdowns & the huge risk of neglecting non-COVID patients".

Mahindra, who had earlier proposed a comprehensive lifting after 49 days of lockdown, further said, "The choices aren't easy for policy makers but a lockdown extension won't help".

He said, "The numbers (coronavirus cases) will continue to rise & the focus must be on rapid expansion of field hospital beds with oxygen lines".

He further said, "The army has enormous expertise in this".

On March 22, before the government announced nationwide lockdown, Mahindra had proposed such a move expressing concerns over reports that India was likely to have already reached stage 3 of coronavirus transmission.

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February 18,2020

New Delhi, Feb 18: A Delhi court today sent Sharjeel Imam, who has been named as an "instigator" by the Delhi Police in its chargesheet on violent protests against the amended citizenship act at New Friends Colony near Jamia in Delhi last year, to judicial custody till March 3.

Sharjeel Imam was arrested on sedition charges last month.

The Delhi Police has filed a chargesheet before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Gurmohina Kaur, naming Sharjeel Imam as an instigator of the violence.

It said it has attached CCTV footage, call detail records and statements of over 100 witnesses as evidence in the chargesheet.

The court had on Monday sent Sharjeel Imam to one-day custody of Delhi Police in the case.

Protestors had torched four public buses and two police vehicles as they clashed with police in New Friends Colony near Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi during the demonstration against the CAA on December 15, leaving nearly 60 people including students, cops and fire fighters injured.

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