Allahabad
Metropolis in Uttar Pradesh, India
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Allahabad, officially known as Prayagraj, also known as Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of Allahabad district—the most populous district in the state and 13th most populous district in India—and the Allahabad division. The city is the judicial capital of Uttar Pradesh with Allahabad High Court being the highest judicial body in the state. As of 2011, Allahabad is the seventh most populous city in the state, thirteenth in Northern India and thirty-sixth in India, with an estimated population of 1.53 million in the city. In 2011 it was ranked the world's 40th fastest-growing city. Allahabad, in 2016, was also ranked the third most liveable city in the state and sixteenth in the country. Hindi is the most widely spoken language in the city.
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Covid-19: SC stays Allahabad HC order directing lockdown of 5 UP citiesThe Uttar Pradesh government on Monday moved the Supreme Court to appeal against the Allahabad high court order directing lockdown in five cities of UP. SG Tushar Mehta will mention before CJI for..IndiaTimes - Published | |
UP govt moves SC against HC order to impose lockdown in 5 citiesThe Uttar Pradesh government on Monday moved the Supreme Court to appeal against the Allahabad high court order directing lockdown in five cities of UP. SG Tushar Mehta will mention before CJI for..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Covid-19: HC wants 5 UP cities shut but Yogi govt rules out lockdownThe Uttar Pradesh government on Monday refused to go for a lockdown, saying it was necessary to protect livelihoods of people, after the Allahabad High Court directed the state government to enforce..IndiaTimes - Published | |
UP lockdown: Here's what will remain closed till April 26 in five citiesAll kinds of establishments in Prayagraj, Lucknow, Varanasi, Kanpur and Gorakhpur will remain kept closed.DNA - Published | |
Lockdown in UP's Lucknow, Prayagraj, Kanpur, Varanasi, Gorakhpur from tonightLockdown in UP's Lucknow, Prayagraj, Kanpur, Varanasi from tonightDNA - Published | |
After service of 132 years, Indian Army closes military farmsThe military farms in India are spread over more than 20,000 acres of prime defence land across the country in cities such as Ambala, Kolkata, Srinagar, Agra, Pathankot, Lucknow, Meerut, Allahabad and..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Priyanka Gandhi reaches UP's Prayagraj, extends support to boatmen who were 'harassed' by local policeIndiaTimes - Published | |
43 years on, channel cleared for hilsa to reach PrayagrajIndiaTimes - Published | |
Allahabad HC orders home guard sacked for being gay reinstatedObserving that any display of affection among members of the LGBT community towards their partners in public, so long as it does not amount to indecency or has the potential to disturb public order,..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Call from SC prods jail to release Faruqui 36 hours after bail orderIndore Central Jail superintendent Rakesh Bhangare, who had all evening said they couldn't release Munawar until they got a certified copy of the SC stay on his production warrant in a case in..IndiaTimes - Published | |
HCs of Bombay, Calcutta and Allahabad face Judge shortageThe Allahabad HC with a sanctioned strength of 160 Judges is functioning with just 96 of them. In the Bombay HC out of sanctioned strength of 94 Judges, 30 are lying vacant. The situation is alarming..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Allahabad HC asks UP cops not to harass interfaith coupleThe Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has barred Amethi police from taking any coercive action against an interfaith couple in a three-year-old case . The bench asked the state government's..IndiaTimes - Published | 50 archaeological sites found in PrayagrajThe survey stretched for 70 km on the ground surface and 3 to 5 km (in width) on both sides of the river.DNA - Published |
30-day notice for interfaith marriage optional, says HCThe Allahabad high court’s Lucknow bench has ruled that it should be optional rather than mandatory for an interfaith couple to give 30 days’ prior notice to a marriage officer to register their..IndiaTimes - Published | Publishing of notice for interfaith marriages will be optional, rules Allahabad high courtIndiaTimes - Published |
Remember your 'national duty' while using 'right to protest': PM ModiPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the people of the country need to remember their national duties and responsibilities while exercising their democratic right to protest. He was..IndiaTimes - Published | Broken ammonia plunger caused ammonia gas leakage at Phulpur plant in Prayagraj: IFFCOA detailed investigation will be conducted to ascertain the cause of the incident, said MM Ahmad, Unit Head Phulpur, IFFCO earlier on Wednesday.DNA - Published |
Two dead, 15 ill after gas leakage at IFFCO plant in UP's PrayagrajA plant unit has been closed and the gas leakage has stopped now. The situation is under control, informed Prayagraj DM.DNA - Published | Job on compassionate grounds is no bar for remarriage, says HCThe Allahabad high court has recently held that a husband's appointment on compassionate ground will not take away his fundamental right to remarry.IndiaTimes - Published |
Want to leave our village: Hathras girl kinWe want to move out of our village,” the victim’s younger brother told TOI on Saturday.The family had approached the Allahabad high court with a plea to secure their relocation to Delhi so they..IndiaTimes - Published | SC dismisses plea against HC order that freed Dr Kafeel KhanThe Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by the Uttar Pradesh government against the Allahabad high court order that had quashed Dr Kafeel Khan’s detention under the National Security Act..IndiaTimes - Published |
Allahabad high court orders NSA detainee freed due to no ‘fair hearing’The Allahabad high court has quashed the detention of a person booked for rioting and arson under the National Security Act (NSA), saying the state showed "extraordinary haste" in initiating action..IndiaTimes - Published | Two adults can live together without interference from families: Allahabad HCTwo adults in a live-in relationship have the right to cohabit peacefully, the Allahabad high court has observed while directing the SSP Farrukhabad to provide security to a couple that lives together..IndiaTimes - Published |
PM Modi inaugurates 6-lane stretch of NH-19 between Varanasi and PrayagrajIndiaTimes - Published | Gita as subject in schools: HC junks plea as ‘vague’A Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court has dismissed a PIL petition, requesting the court to direct the Uttar Pradesh government and its education authorities that “Bhagavad Gita” be taught as one..IndiaTimes - Published |
Right to choose a partner intrinsic to right to life: HCThe Allahabad high court has held that “right to choose a partner, irrespective of religion, is intrinsic to right to life and personal liberty.” Justice Pankaj Naqvi and Justice Vivek Agarwal made..IndiaTimes - Published | Bail plea of YouTuber Heer Khan, arrested for making derogatory remarks against Hindu deities, rejectedThe content creator, Heer Khan, based out of Khulbad in Prayagraj, was arrested by police officials on August 24 after she sparked a controversy on social media for making derogatory remarks against..DNA - Published |
HC: Conversion only for marriage unacceptableWhile reiterating that religious conversion only for the purpose of marriage is unacceptable, the Allahabad high court has dismissed a petition filed by an interfaith couple seeking directions to..IndiaTimes - Published | Hathrase gang-rape & murder case: Allahabad HC to monitor CBI probe, SC saysThe Supreme Court on Tuesday entrusted Allahabad high court to monitor the CBI probe into the gang-rape and murder of a dalit girl in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras. On the plea of transferring of trial in..IndiaTimes - Published |
Cremation without victim kin's consent infringement of their rights: HCThe Hathras district administration's decision to cremate the alleged gang-rape victim's body without the consent of the family and without following religious rituals was prima facie an infringement..IndiaTimes - Published | Law student turns hostile in Chinmayanand ‘rape’ caseThe 23-year-old LLM student who had accused former BJP MP Chinmayanand of sexual exploitation last year, turned hostile before a special MP-MLA court in Lucknow on Tuesday. The court was hearing the..IndiaTimes - Published |
Hathras victim’s family asks HC to shift case out of UPFamily members of the Hathras alleged gang rape case victim on Monday requested the high court to shift the case out of Uttar Pradesh. Appearing before the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court,..IndiaTimes - Published | Hathras family to be in Allahabad high court todayIndiaTimes - Published |
Hathras case: HC takes suo motu cognisance, issues notice to UP govtThe Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Thursday took suo motu cognisance of the Hathras incident and issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government. The Uttar Pradesh government and the UP..IndiaTimes - Published | Durga Puja 2020: Prayagraj Bengali association moves high court against Yogi govt's decisionHowever, the Allahabad High Court refused to intervene in the matter and disposed of the PIL. The petition specially demanded public celebration of Durga Puja in Prayagraj.DNA - Published |
Uttar Pradesh: Case registered against BJP leader, doctor in Prayagraj after girl alleges rapeThe complaint has been lodged in the Colonelganj Police Station.DNA - Published | If not for judiciary, I’d have been eliminated, says Dr Kafeel KhanIt was a bittersweet homecoming for Dr Kafeel Khan on Wednesday. Moments after walking out of Mathura jail, over 12 hours after the Allahabad high court had ordered his release, he said he had begun to..IndiaTimes - Published |
India likely to set up unified air defence command in OctoberIndia is moving towards setting up its new Air Defence Command (ADC), which will eventually be responsible for guarding the country’s airspace against hostile aircraft, missiles, helicopters and..IndiaTimes - Published | Defence ministry working to announce new air defence command by October: SourcesAmid the ongoing conflict with China, the Department of Military Affairs has hastened the process of restructuring the armed forces as the new air defence command under the Indian Air Force (IAF) may..IndiaTimes - Published |
Ganga, Yamuna rising at alarming rate; flood threat at PrayagrajAlthough both, the Ganga and Yamuna, are still flowing below the danger mark, the water being released from barrages in Kanpur and Mata Tila in Lalitpur has put the district administration on alert.DNA - Published | Another proof of hooliganism in UP: Rahul Gandhi on killing of policemen in Kanpur"Another proof of 'Gundaraj' in UP. When the police are not safe, how will the public be? My heartfelt condolences are with the families of the slain martyrs and I wish the injured a speedy recovery,"..IndiaTimes - Published |
Priyanka Gandhi equates UP teachers' appointment matter with Vyapam scamThe Allahabad high court on Wednesday stayed the appointment of 69,000 assistant basic teachers in the state, holding that there has been an 'error' in the evaluation of question paper "The facts of..IndiaTimes - Published | Supreme Court adjourns for two weeks hearing in Yadav Singh corruption caseA bench headed by Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman and also comprising Justice Navin Sinha and Justice BR Gavai adjourned the matter for two weeks after noting that the Allahabad High Court has already..IndiaTimes - Published |
Priyanka slams govt for poor facilities at Covid hospital in PrayagrajIndiaTimes - Published | No one can be forced to hear something: HCThe Allahabad high court has held that “azaan” (the call to ritual prayer in Islam) can be recited from the minarets of mosques by human voice only and without the use of any amplifying device or..IndiaTimes - Published |
Mumbai to Prayagraj: Man uses onion passport to cross lockown barriersIndiaTimes - Published | UP takes battle over 'recovery' hoardings to SCThe UP government on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court against an Allahabad high court order directing it to take down the ‘name and shame’ hoardings installed across Lucknow city against 57..IndiaTimes - Published |
Allahabad HC orders removal of hoardings by UP govt featuring anti-CAA protestersAllahabad high court on Monday ordered to remove the hoardings put up by Uttar Pradesh government, with names, addresses and photos of those who were accused of violence during protests against the..IndiaTimes - Published | Govt obligated to ensure justice for all sections: PM ModiPM Modi on Saturday said a govt is obligated to ensure justice and equal benefits for all sections of society. Citing the “ mangal mantra” from the Vedas at a function in Prayagraj,..IndiaTimes - Published |
