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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 […]

LUCKNOW: The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and Samajwadi Party (SP) are moving closer to what appears to be a pre-poll alliance between the two political parties ahead of 2022 Uttar Pradesh (UP) assembly elections. RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary on Monday said that his party will share the stage with the SP in a mega rally […]

NEW DELHI: On a long, winding stretch – overlooked by the towering hills on the right — in Bihar’s Gehlaur, it is hard to miss Dashrath Manjhi’s bust. Manjhi, who once earned the sobriquet of mountain man of India, remains Gehlaur’s mentor, inspiration, guide and friend even 14 years after his death.  After all, the […]

RAE BARELI: Most people after acquiring a degree in engineering dream of working with a multinational company. But that is not the case with Santosh Kumar Singh of Rae Bareli. One meeting with the Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in 2012 is all it took to change the life course and leave his well […]

NEW DELHI: Hours after inducting popular Punjabi singer and rapper Sidhu Moose Wala into Congress, cricketer turned politician and Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday dashed to meet former party chief Rahul Gandhi at his residence in Delhi, addressing him as Bhai. With Bhai.. pic.twitter.com/PPovGLF18W — Navjot Singh Sidhu (@sherryontopp) December 3, 2021 […]

NEW DELHI: There seems to be no end in stalemate between Centre and Opposition over three farm bills even as they have been repealed. Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Friday slammed the government for saying that it does not have the list of farmers who died while protesting against the three farm laws. He […]

NEW DELHI: Facing stiff challenge from the Trinamool Congress (TMC), which is visibly assuming the role of the main opposition, the Congress on Thursday hit back at West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief, Mamata Banerjee, for switching alliance between the NDA and the UPA as per her convenience. Calling her a political opportunist in […]

NEW DELHI: A day after West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee took a swipe at the Congress ridiculing UPA, political strategist Prashant Kishor joined the band wagon to target the grand old party saying the idea and space that it represents is vital for strong opposition but its leadership is […]

NEW DELHI: As Congress and other Opposition parties accused the BJP-led government in Centre of not debating the repealing of three farm laws in the Parliament, the team of the New Indian looked back at those bills in the past which were repealed as much instantaneously as these. Here’s a look at some of them […]

Seventy percent of the rural households in our country depend primarily on agriculture for their livelihood, with 82 percent of farmers being small and marginal. While a tiny percentage of farmers enjoy rich lives and another small percentage lead a middle class life, a large majority of farmers in India still live in poverty. A look […]