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GORAKHNATH TEMPLE (GORAKHPUR): Shortly before sunrise, Kailash Prajapati, a cook, is wide awake to prepare a strict vegetarian meal, with not a single stodgy item on the frugal menu that comprises only porridge and some cut fruits. Maharaj is busy reciting the ritual hyms of Durga aarti and ved shlokas before he sets out for a walk to feed […]

KUSHINAGAR: With just a few hours left for the sixth phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the three-storey residence of State Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu in Sewarhi town of the district is bustling with visitors. As Lallu’s father Shivnath Prasad and his younger brother Praveen Kumar greet and mingle with the visitors, they […]

Jaidpur (Barabanki): Even as polling for the fifth phase for crucial Uttar Pradesh (UP) assembly elections is underway, Tanuj Punia, son of senior Congress leader PL Punia and Jaidpur candidate declared that he would emerge victorious given the anti-incumbency against ruling BJP and the Samajwadi Party sitting MLA. Punia’s confidence is based on calculations that […]

Amethi: Dr. Sanjay Sinh, 70, the erstwhile ‘Raja of Amethi’, is contesting the 2022 Assembly election from Amethi seat as the BJP candidate — the first time in 33 years and almost one and a half years later he left Congress. Taking potshots at the Congress, he said “People don’t believe the grand old party […]

Lucknow: Barely few hours to go to voting for the four phase of assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Congress candidate from Lucknow central, Sadaf Jafar, said that party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra chose her to contest from this seat because she is a “fighter”. Speaking to The New Indian, at her office in the […]

AMRITSAR: With only less than 30 hours left for campaigning for the Punjab assembly polls to end, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and former state minister Bikram Singh Majithia is leaving no stone unturned in pushing his case against his political rival cricketer-turned politician and Congress candidate Navjot Singh Sidhu at one of the hotly […]

Chandigarh: In his maiden speech for Punjab Assembly elections, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in a veiled attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said that the government instead of rectifying the problems of the past is choosing to pin the blame on the country’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Manmohan Singh, 89, also asserted that […]

Pathankot (Punjab): It’s been six years since Ikaagar Singh, a taxi driver, was brutally killed by Pakistan terrorists on the fateful night of January 1, 2016. His children are still awaiting for the government to fulfil its promise of proper education for them and to build a memorial gate in his village. The promise was […]

Anand Singh/Qadian( Punjab): With just over a week left for polling for the 117-member Punjab assembly, Congress leader Pratap Singh Bajwa said that party may have announced Charanjit Singh Channi as chief ministerial candidate in the state but in politics nothing can be guaranteed as things keep on changing and anything can happen. His comments […]

In the wake of simmering ‘hijab’ controversy, which kicked off in Karnataka, a thread exposing the alleged conspiracy behind it has gone viral on Twitter. A verified Twitter user, Vijay Patel, put out several tweets in a thread which alleges that the student wing of a radical outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) orchestrated the […]