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First direct flight between Gorakhpur-Varanasi under UDAN-RCS flagged-off

The first direct flight between Gorakhpur and Varanasi was flagged-off on Sunday.SpiceJet was awarded the route under the RCS-UDAN 4.1, as per a press release by the Ministry of Civil Aviation.The airline will be operating daily flights and will deploy its Q400, 78-seater turboprop aircraft designed for shorter-distance flights on the route. SpiceJet is India's largest regional carrier. The airline operates 63 daily flights under UDAN connecting 14 UDAN destinations to various parts of the country, stated the press release.At present SpiceJet is providing its services at Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Kanpur and Kushinagar airports in Uttar Pradesh. This new flight route is a part of nine new UDAN flights that SpiceJet will be launching today, out of which, six will be for Uttar Pradesh specially and three will be for other states of the country.Speaking on the occasion, Scindia said, "Today is a historic day as we are connecting two ancient cities which have deep cultural and religious impact .

Yogi Adityanath inspects Shaheed Ashfaqullah Khan zoo in UP's Gorakhpur

District Magistrate Vijay Kiran Anand, Chief Forest Conservator, Gorakhpur division, Bheemsen along with other officials were also present at the occasion

UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to lead Holi processions in Gorakhpur

Yogi Adityanath will lead the 'Holika dahan' procession in Gorakhpur on Thursday evening and the Bhagwan Narsingh Holikotsav shobha yatra on Saturday.

UP polls: Adityanath wins Gorakhpur Urban seat with massive margin

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yogi Adityanath won Gorakhpur Urban seat with a massive margin of 54,858 votes.His victory comes as the BJP is on course to retain power in Uttar Pradesh. The counting of the votes polled in assembly elections is underway.According to the Election Commission of India, Adityanath, who is contesting the Assembly elections for the first time, received 85,356 while his nearest rival SP candidate Subhawati Upendra Dutt Shukla got 30,498 votes.Azad Samaj Party chief Chandra Shekhar Azad garnered only 4,501 votes.Adityanath represented the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat until 2017 when he was chosen as the UP Chief Minister after the Bharatiya Janata Party's landslide victory in the state polls. The Gorakhpur Sadar seat had also been a bastion of the BJP, which the party had never lost since 1967 since the days of the Jan Sangh.Meanwhile, according to the latest trends of the Election Commission of India as the counting of the votes is

UP CM Yogi Adityanath leads from Gorakhpur Urban in early trends

Initial counting of votes cast in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections revealed that CM Yogi Adityanath is leading from the Gorakhpur Urban constituency

BJP will win over 80% seats in UP: CM Yogi after casting vote in Gorakhpur

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday cast his vote in Gorakhpur in 6th phase polling for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections and said that the BJP will win over 80% of seats in UP

UP polls: SP fields Subhavati Shukla against Adityanath in Gorakhpur Urban

The Gorakhpur Urban constituency will go to the polls in the sixth phase of the elections on March 3

UP Assembly polls: Adityanath files nomination from Gorakhpur Urban seat

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday filed nomination from the Gorakhpur Urban assembly seat in presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

UP elections: Yogi Adityanath to file nomination from Gorakhpur on Friday

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will file his nomination papers for the Gorakhpur Urban seat on Friday. He will reach the city on Thursday. Union Home minister Amit Shah, Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan, and party state president Swatantra Dev Singh will be present during the filing of the nomination, BJP media cell in-charge Bachcha Pandey said on Wednesday. Before filing the nomination, Yogi will address a meeting at Maharana Pratap Inter College ground under COVID protocols, Pandey said. On Thursday he will hold a meeting with party office bearers and booth presidents. On Friday afternoon, he will address voter awareness convention at Gorakhpur club and also Prabudhdh Varg Sammelan at Nipal lodge. On Saturday, he will address Sikh community at Mohaddipur Gurudwara, Pandey added.

In this UP polls, Gorakhpur gets chance to send a CM to state assembly

Yogi Adityanath's entry into the UP poll scene from Gorakhpur Urban has created a big buzz among the constituency's electorate which now has a chance of sending a chief minister to the state assembly.

Yogi Adityanath second UP CM to contest from Gorakhpur district

Yogi Adityanath, who has been declared BJP candidate from Gorakhpur, will be the second leader to contest from the district

BJP has already sent him home: Akhilesh after UP CM fielded from Gorakhpur

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday took a jibe at the BJP's decision to field Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from the Gorakhpur constituency

Will turn Gorakhpur into a 'Special Education Zone': Dharmendra Pradhan

Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday said Gorakhpur will be developed as a 'Special Education Zone'(SEZ) to groom students as global citizens.

Gorakhpur fertilizer plant was shut from 1990, BJP govt restarted it: Yogi

He was speaking at the event from where Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated development projects worth over Rs 9600 crores on Tuesday in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur

PM to visit Gorakhpur on Tue to inaugurate Rs 9,600-cr development projects

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Gorakhpur, the home turf of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on December 7 and inaugurate development projects worth over Rs 9,600 crore, the PMO said on Friday. It said Modi will dedicate to the nation the Gorakhpur fertilizer plant, whose foundation stone was laid by him in 2016 and which after being in disuse for more than 30 years has been revived and built at a cost of around Rs 8,600 crore. The driving force behind the revival of the plant is Modi's vision to achieve self-sufficiency in production of urea, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) added. The Gorakhpur plant will make available 12.7 LMT per annum indigenous neem-coated urea and will be of immense benefit for farmers of Purvanchal region and adjoining areas. It will also boost the overall economic growth of the region. The PMO noted that the project has been set up under the aegis of Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Limited (HURL), which is a joint venture company of ...

AIIMS in Gorakhpur will be inaugurated next month: UP CM Yogi Adityanath

Adityanath said that in December an AIIMS will be inaugurated in Gorakhpur and a fertiliser factory which has been lying closed since 1990 will be restarted

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi to address rally in Gorakhpur

Priyanka Gandhi had launched her campaign with a rally from Varanasi, which is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency, on October 10.

UP govt recommends CBI probe into Manish Gupta murder case

The Uttar Pradesh government has recommended probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the alleged murder case of Kanpur businessman Manish Gupta who died in a police raid

UP's bid to keep expressway work in the fast lane amid Covid-19 crisis

Four expressway projects with an estimated outlay of Rs 80,000 crore are in different stages of development in the state

UP CM Yogi Adityanath launches 'recycled incense sticks' in Gorakhpur

To promote environment-friendly products in the market, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched 'recycled incense sticks' at an ashram of Gorakhnath Temple, in Gorakhpur, on Sunday