UP cancels public holiday on BR Ambedkar's death anniversary
The Uttar Pradesh government has scrapped the public holiday marking the death anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar. During Ambedkar's 126th birth anniversary in April this year, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had said that holidays on birth anniversaries of great personalities were cutting down academic sessions. A special programme should be held to teach students about them instead, he had suggested.