Gautam Budh Nagar

Senior citizens dominated the early hours of voting in Noida in the Gautam Buddh Nagar constituency as polling began here Friday morning in the second phase of the Lok Sabha election. The queues were short and many booths reported brisk voting in the first hour, according to some of the electors. District Magistrate Manish Kumar Verma, who is also the District Election Officer, joined the early voters to exercise his democratic right. "I am also excited like other voters. I appeal to residents to exercise their right and cast votes in large numbers. I hope this time we will have better voter turnout than the last time," Verma said after casting his vote at Cambridge school in Sector 27. Ashok Verma (66), who was among the early voters in Noida, said, "It was a good experience. It hardly took 10 minutes to complete the process," the local resident said. A total of 15 candidates are in the fray for the Gautam Buddha Nagar seat, with over 26.75 lakh people eligible to decide their ..

Gautam Buddh Nagar is scheduled for polling on April 26, in the second phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections

Starting Friday, private vehicles registered in Noida and Gautam Buddh Nagar but not having a high-security registration plate (HSRP) will be penalised Rs 5,000 as per law, police said on Thursday. According to officials, the HSRP was introduced by the central government and vide a notification in December 2018 made mandatory on commercial and non-commercial vehicles manufactured or registered after April 1, 2019. A deadline was also set for the implementation of the HSRP, ending on February 15, 2023, they said. The time period provided for installing high-security registration plates on vehicles was February 15 and it has ended now. Accordingly, the Gautam Buddh Nagar Traffic police and the local police at thana levels will start a campaign to take action against vehicles not having HSRP, holding them liable for faulty number plates, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Anil Yadav said. The challan amount in such cases will be Rs 5,000. Hence, it is my request to everyone to ..

Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar on Friday received investment proposals of about Rs 11,500 crore from around 50 investors at the district-level investors' summit, officials said here. Around 250 investors participated in the summit held at the Indira Kala Kendra in Sector 6 here in presence of UP MSME minister Rakesh Sachan, Jewar MLA Dhirendra Singh, District Magistrate Suhas L Yathiraj, Police Commissioner Laxmi Singh, among others. "We got investment intents worth Rs 11,502 crore from 50 investors during the Gautam Buddh Nagar investors' summit today, Deputy Commissioner (Industries) Anil Kumar told PTI. According to officials, three investors were even allotted land by the Noida Authority on Friday itself. Uttar Pradesh is gearing up for a Global Investors' Summit (GIS) which is scheduled to be held in Lucknow in February. Chief Minsiter Yogi Adityanath has exhorted all officials to hold district-level investors' summit in their areas to attract investments into the state.

UP govt currently acquiring 1,181 hectares for phase-2 work on the Noida airport in Jewar, which will be built in four phases over 4,752 hectares. Some villagers had earlier opposed land acquisition

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) here announced its candidates for the upcoming municipal polls in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar. The AAP has fielded Naveen Bhati as candidate for the Dadri Nagar Palika elections, according to a party statement. For Nagar Panchayat, it has fielded Rakesh Awana (Bilaspur), Udayveer Malik (Dankaur), Kailash Sharma (Jewar), Dildar Ansari (Rabupura) and Naresh Prajapati (Jahangirpur), it said. AAP's Gautam Buddh Nagar unit president Bhupendra Singh Jadaun claimed his party will play a "pivotal role" in the municipal elections this time. Noida, which falls in the Gautam Buddh Nagar district, does not have a municipal body. However, parts of Greater Noida have municipal bodies. The dates for the keenly-contested local body polls are yet to be announced.

People invest their lifetime savings - some in lakhs and some in crores - to get their dream house but in most of the cases they are at the receiving end as they don't get the flats on time

Fifteen Chinese nationals, including a woman, staying without valid visas in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar were detained on Monday by the local police, officials said. The Gautam Buddh Nagar police commissionerate had launched an intensive campaign for verification of foreigners living in the district, adjoining Delhi, in the wake of the arrest in June of a Chinese national who was staying illegally in Greater Noida. He is under investigation for suspected hawala links. "As part of the verification campaign, 15 Chinese nationals staying illegally in Gautam Buddh Nagar were detained by the Local Intelligence Unit with support of local police on Monday. They are being sent to the detention centre in Delhi and will be subsequently deported to their country," the police said in a statement.

Thousands of members of the Tyagi community held a mahapanchayat here on Sunday in support of jailed politician Shrikant Tyagi, alleging that he is a victim of conspiracy by BJP leader and Gautam Buddh Nagar MP Mahesh Sharma. Shrikant was arrested on August 9 from Meerut after he remained absconding for four days following an FIR against him for allegedly assaulting and abusing a woman co-resident of his Grand Omaxe society in Sector 93B. He had claimed to be a BJP functionary but the party denied any links with him. At the mahapanchayat held in Gejha village, leaders of the community demanded that an FIR should be lodged against the BJP MP for making a personal argument a political issue. According to police estimates, nearly 10,000 community members from Gautam Buddh Nagar and other western Uttar Pradesh districts like Ghaziabad, Muzaffarnagar, Bulandshahr, Baghpat, Saharanpur, Bijnor, Agra and Hapur participated in the mahapanchayat. Around 1,500-2,000 personnel from police and

The Gautam Buddh Nagar police has set up a special control room to facilitate movement of kanwariyas through the district, officials said on Wednesday

In view of the upcoming festivals and increasing Covid-19 infections, Section 144 CrPC has been enforced in Gautam Budh Nagar from May 1 to 31.

The challans were issued on Thursday to these people during police checks in crowded places such as markets, metro stations and shopping malls in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Budh Nagar district, they said

The Gautam Buddh Nagar health department said 33 more people have tested positive for the infection in the district since Tuesday morning, including the 10 children

Elections to the three assembly constituencies of Noida, Dadri and Jewar in Gautam Buddh Nagar in western Uttar Pradesh are scheduled on February 10 during the first phase of polling in the state

State govt to float global tender for urgent procurement of cryogenic tankers; currently, 89 tankers pressed into service to transport medical oxygen

The Covid-19 death toll in Ghaziabad rose to 303 on Thursday with 15 more fatalities, while 13 more people died of the disease in Gautam Buddh Nagar, pushing its toll to 284

Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar district had recorded its first 100 COVID-19 deaths in a span of 343 days, while the next 100 came in just 13 days, according to official data

Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar recorded six more deaths linked to Covid-19 on Saturday, while 970 new cases pushed the district's active caseload beyond the 5,000 mark

On the brighter side, 21 more patients got discharged during the period with the overall recoveries reaching 24,952, the fifth highest in the state

A maximum of 100 people will be allowed at any gathering, including wedding functions in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar, officials said on Saturday