CHANDIGARH: In a major development on Monday, a senior Congress leader and minister for Technical Education Rana Gurjeet Singh lashed out at Punjab Congress committee president Navjot Singh Sidhu for trying to create divisions within the party and questioning the loyalty of the true and traditional Congressmen. Rana took a dig at Sidhu’s flip-flops in […]
LUCKNOW: Maintaining pressure on the ruling government to remove Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishr Teni from his post so unbiased investigations can be carried out on his role in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, Congress party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra once again slammed BJP and said the minister should not be allowed […]
NEW DELHI: Reiterating that the Indo-Russian ties are stronger than ever, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed the visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin in New Delhi on Monday. “Despite the challenges posed by the pandemic, there has been no change in the relationship between India and Russia”, said the Prime Minister. “The two countries cooperated […]
GORAKHPUR: In yet another move to rev-up its election campaign for 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls, both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and CM Yogi Adityanath will be seen together in Gorakhpur on Tuesday to unveil a urea production unit in Gorakhpur 31 years after it was shut. PM is also expected to open the functional complex […]
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi announced on Friday to repeal farm laws in the upcoming winter session of Parliament. The public discourse and Opposition leaders gave a political angle to this announcement as elections are due in farmer-dominated states like Punjab and Uttar Pradesh early next year. But the statistics from last year and this […]
LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: BSP supremo and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati’s mother Ramrati (92) passed away on Saturday after battling prolonged illness. BSP general secretary Satish Mishra told reporters that the Dalit czarina’s mother was undergoing treatment at a Delhi hospital and died following a cardiac arrest. Her mother’s cremation is scheduled to take place in […]
LUCKNOW: Hundreds of iconic shrines and myriad of tales from religious scripts and epics not just mention Uttar Pradesh as the birth place of Krishna and Rama but also the site where Lord Shiva, Lord Buddha visited extensively. Did no previous chief minister of UP before 2017 ever worked to develop these places for the […]
LUCKNOW: As Opposition parties including Congress have begun to send Delhi leaders to parts of Uttar Pradesh to intensify campaigning to dethrone the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the UP 2022 elections, the saffron outfit has decided to make a public spectacle of its unity and membership drive in Lucknow more frequently. On Friday, […]
SRINAGAR: Union home minister Amit Shah, in the last leg of his visit to Jammu and Kashmir, paid homage to martyrs of Pulwama attack and launched schemes for women entrepreneurs and tribals, culminating his three-day visit to Jammu & Kashmir where he launched a host of schemes and met representatives of civil society along with […]