Uttar Pradesh

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: Jawahar Lal Nehru university administration and its student union are bracing up for a big showdown after the officials have put their foot down on stalling the screening of Ram Ke Naam, a 1992 documentary that portrays the razing of Babri mosque in Ayodhya by right-wing organizations. ALSO READ & WATCH: 10 Interesting […]

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 […]

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 […]

NEW DELHI: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Friday met Congress General secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in the national capital and discussed strategy for the upcoming elections in Uttar Pradesh. Baghel, who is also the party observer for Uttar Pradesh, held a meeting with Priyanka Gandhi for over one hour at the residence of her […]

LUCKNOW: A senior government officer in Lucknow was arrested on Thursday after a video of him molesting a contractual worker went viral on social media. The accused named Ichharam Yadav is posted with the minority welfare department as a section in charge in Lucknow. According to reports, Iccharam Yadav, an under secretary at Babu Bhavan […]

NEW DELHI: Ongoing investigation into the illegal conversion racket being run by Maulana Umar Gautam and Maulana Kaleem Siddique has led to the arrest of Maulana Umar’s son, Abdullah by the Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh Police. It is said that Abdullah was allegedly a part of a well-heeled conversion racket, being funded […]

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 […]

LAKHIMPUR KHERI: Ashish Mishra, son of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra Teni, who was arrested in connection with Lakhimpur Kheri violence case has been tested for dengue following which he has been shifted to a government hospital. Ashish was arrested by the SIT after questioning him for several hours on October 9. […]

LUCKNOW: A day after Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra ran into former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on a Lucknow-bound Vistara flight from Delhi, there seems to be little indication that Opposition would be united in the 2022 Vidhan Sabha elections. It is interesting to note that Priyanka […]