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Pushing for his pro-development image ahead of UP assembly elections due in 2017, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav chose to make higher budgetary allocation for infrastructure projects, including the Lucknow-Agra greenfield expressway. The project, which the government claims will be completed by the end of the year, received a strong financial dose.

A generous Rs 50,000 crore dole in state Budget 2016-17 for rural sector promises better prospects not just for agriculture, particularly irrigation, but also for villages to develop on the lines of the smart city plan.

Teachers of unaided schools welcomed announcement of honorarium for them in the state Budget.Rs 200 crore has been earmarked for the provision.

Hearing in Aashiana gang rape case has been deferred till February 15 due to ongoing lawyers' strike.

State bird sarus crane will get all the needed protection with state government making Budgetary provision of Rs 2 crore to save the wetlands.

Lenders have pegged a reserve price of Rs 150 crore for Kingfisher House, which will be auctioned on March 17 to recover part of Rs 6,963-crore loans due from the defunct eponymous airline.

Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav's promise to provide 24 hours electricity to urban and 16 hours to rural areas by October last year reflected in Budget for UP's ailing power sector on Friday.

Prisoners Sandeep Pandey and Arundhati Dhuru met in the jail, fell in love and got married, while Amit Trivedi and Sanam Habib, despite being of different religions decided to tie the knot in an elaborate wedding in the presence of relatives and friends.

Public sector Canara Bank's third quarter profit plunged 87%, hurt by higher provisions and lower income from loans.

IDBI Bank on Friday reported a loss of Rs 2,184 crore for the December quarter, making it the largest-ever quarterly loss by an Indian bank and casting a shadow over the government's plan to divest up to 26% stake to strategic investors.

Following former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's open admission that ISI has been training Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar militants, India on Friday called upon Islamabad to prevent its "state actors" from supporting terrorism.

Following former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's open admission that ISI has been training Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar militants, India on Friday called upon Islamabad to prevent its "state actors" from supporting terrorism.

Public sector Canara Bank's third quarter profit plunged 87%, hurt by higher provisions and lower income from loans.

For the first time in the history of Gujarat University there will be no senate elections.Results in all the 92 senate seats, elections for which were scheduled to be held on February 28, were declared uncontested.

The first ever online bio-diesel blending system in Indian Railways was installed at the diesel shed in Vatva.

Gujarat has over 50% share in $ Indian medical devices sector, the fourth largest in Asia, is currently valued at approximately $7 billion and is growing at 10-15% annually.

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will have to provide a flat to senior citizen Ratilal Patel in its affordable housing scheme in the east zone of the city on an order passed by a consumer court.

As many as 61 persons fell ill due to food poisoning in Saraspur on Friday.

Japan will unfold in vibrant colour and splendour at Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) during the 5th Japan Festival which was inaugurated by governor O P Kohli on Friday in presence of consul-general of Japan in Mumbai, Yoshiako Ito, and Ahmedabad mayor Gautam Shah.

A city sessions court has written to the city police commissioner over a goof-up by Ramol police when a constable served a bailable warrant instead of a non-bailable warrant.

Special Operation Group (SOG) has named PAAS leader Hardik Patel and some of his associates as accused.

Nikol police on Thursday lodged a complaint against Arjun Thakore, his father Dashrath Thakore, and two others for cremating Arjun's wife without informing her father or the police after she committed suicide by hanging herself.

State ACB arrested four persons for accepting bribes in Vastral and Viramgam on Friday and Thursday.

The two-day national consultation on community-based interventions for maternal health, jointly organized by Sahaj, Anandi, Common Health, and IIPH, Gandhinagar, concluded on Friday.