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Chilly winds usher in sit back issue, fog blanket to stick
The wintry weather sit back is at height within the town of nawabs which is now gripped in dense layer of fog together with chilly winds expanding the affect of sweeping chilly wave on this a part of the rustic. Even a couple of showers right here and a couple of reasonable ones there are including to the appeal of the wintry weather sit back. Reduction isn’t anticipated anytime quickly with predictions of cloudy skies and a couple of spells of sunshine rainfall until the weekend. Alternatively, the similar sheet of fog didn’t permit sunshine throughout the day, leading to a drop in most temperature to 18. 5 levels Celsius, 2.4 devices beneath commonplace. Weathermen name it western disturbance over the Himalayas and a cyclonic stream over neighbouring Rajasthan.

AIMPLB items to ‘Surya Namaskar’
The apex Muslim organisation, All India Muslim Private Legislation Board (AIMPLB), has one once more objected to Centre’s directive to organise ‘Surya Namaskar’ match in faculties around the nation to mark the 75-year Amrut Mahotsav nation’s Independence calling a type of worshiping the Solar while Islam most effective allows worshiping the Almighty. The board stated scholars will have to be requested to sing the nationwide anthem as an alternative to mark the instance. In an authentic remark, board’s common secretary Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani, stated Muslim scholars at govt faculties should now not be pressured to take part within the match and prompt the Muslims now not to participate within the ‘Surya Namaskar’ drill.  The federal government will have to as an alternative center of attention on problems similar to unemployment and value upward thrust, the AIMPLB stated.

Railway station to be named after warrior queen
Jhansi Railway Station will quickly be referred to as Veerangana Lakshmibai Railway Station, after its most famed warrior queen. The notification for identify converting, coming in a yr when the rustic is celebrating the seventy fifth yr of independence beneath Azadi ka Amrut Mahotsava, was once issued just lately. Jhansi could be 5th railway station in UP to go through identify trade. Previous, Mughalsarai railway station has been renamed after BJP ideologue Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Railway Station, In a similar fashion, Faizabad Raiway station has develop into Ayodhya, Allahabad had develop into Prayagraj railway station and Maduadih railway station of Varanasi is referred to now as Benaras station.

Government web site again with poet’s  unique identify 
After clamour over alleged mischief via some cyber savvy miscreants who modified the pen identify of well known poet Akbar ‘Allahabadi’ to ‘Prayagraji’ on a web site, officers rushed to revive the unique identify of the mythical poet and different literary figures belonging to the Sangam town. But even so Akbar ‘Allahabadi’, the names of 2 different literary figures – Tegh ‘Allahabadi’ and Rashid ‘Allahabadi’ – have been additionally corrected. The web site, whilereferring to poets and writers from Prayagraj, had stated, “But even so Hindi literature, Persian and Urdu literature also are studied within the town. Akbar ‘Prayagraji’ is a famous trendy Urdu poet…” 

Namita bajpai
Our correspondent in Uttar Pradesh namita.bajpai@newindianexpress.com