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Akhilesh era begins in Uttar Pradesh On March 15, 2012, Akhilesh Yadav was sworn in as the 33rd chief minister of Uttar Pradesh at a huge open air ceremony in Lucknow on Thursday (March 15). The ceremony began at 11.35 am and lasted for about an hour, during which 19 ministers of the cabinet rank and 28 ministers of state were administered the oath of office secrecy by state’s Governor B.L. Joshi. The new cabinet ministers are: Mohd Azam Khan, Shivpal Singh Yadav, Raja Mahendra Aridaman Singh, Ambika Chaudhary, Ahmad Hasan, Waqar Ahmad Shah, Anand Singh, Balram Yadav, Om Prakash Singh, Awadhsh Prasad, Parasnath Yadav, Ram Govind Chaudhary, Durga Prasad Yadav, Brahma Shanker Tripathi, Kameshwar Upadhyaya, Raja Ram Pandey, Raj Kishore Singh, Shiv Kumar Beria and Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya. The new ministers of state are Abhishek Mishra, first time MLA from Lucknow North, Iqbal Mahmood, Mahboob Ali, Shahid Manzoor, Riyaz Ahmad, Farid Mahfooz Kidwai, Waseem Ahmad,...

Heritage run for ancient railway engine Chennai: January 26, 2012. It was a special day at the Chennai Egmore railway station on Southern Railway as the 157-year old steam locomotive – the oldest in the world -- embarked on its third heritage journey to mark India’s 63rd Republic day. The platform at Egmore wore a festive look as officials of the Southern Railway, Integral Coach Factory (ICF), mediapersons and others boarded the single-coach heritage train amid a huge crowd and police arrangement. The Heritage run was a 10-km journey from Egmore to Guindy, and it was the third in so many years. The locomotive, East Indian Railways (EIR) 21, created by Kitson Thomson and Hewitson of England in 1855, was attached to a 25-year-old compartment that also completed its shelf life in 2010 and was converted into a heritage special. The Southern Railways general manager Deepak Krishan, chief mechanical engineer of ICF Hemant Kumar, director general of police K Ramanujam a...