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"The deparments concerned should start necessary preventive works to protect villages from floods and funds will be provided to them. Our government is serious on the issue and will ensure that the affected get necessary relief," the chief minister said in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly.

To a query by activist Nutan Thakur, the UP Gau Sewa Aayog replied that from 2012 to 2017, it sanctioned Rs 9.66 crore, of which Rs 8.35 crore (86.4 per cent) went to Jeev Ashraya, the NGO run by Aparna Yadav.

As Yogi Adityanath completes 100 days in office this week as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, formidable challenges including funds for the farm loan- waiver, and law and order stare him at his face, with the opposition claiming the misses have outnumbered the hits.

Uttar Pradesh minister Siddharth Nath Singh on Saturday said that SP leader Azam Khan's role in the sale of property belonging to Waqf Board was being probed thoroughly.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the Samajwadi Party (SP) government in Uttar Pradesh and accused it of deviating from the ideals of socialist ideologue Dr Ram Manohar Lohia.

A railway official said that "the Water Express was stationed at Jhansi station and would be of use only when officials take it further".