Uttar Pradesh

NEW DELHI: Fifty women candidates, including mother of Unnao rape victim, figure in the first list of 125 Congress candidates released by Congress General secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh election. “As promised the list includes 50 women candidates,” said Priyanka Gandhi, who is also in-charge for Uttar Pradesh Congress while releasing […]

LUCKNOW: In a massive jolt to ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, state minister Swami Prasad Maurya on Tuesday resigned from the party. And no sooner was it done, Samajwadi Party chief and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav welcomed Maurya to the party fold. In his resignation letter […]

UTTAR PRADESH: Uttar Pradesh Police have registered an FIR against Congress leader Imran Masood for violating Covid-19 norms. Masood, the controversial ex-MLA from Nakud assembly seat in Saharanpur district, called a public gathering of his supporters on Monday despite Election Commission of India putting a ban on public rallies till January 15. By calling his […]

KANPUR/LUCKNOW: Asim Arun, a 1994-batch Indian Police Services (IPS) officer, who was untill Saturday holding post of Kanpur Police commissioner has resigned from services, opting for voluntary retirement scheme (VRS), to join the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh. “I feel its a matter of privilege that I have chosen to opt my rest […]

LUCKNOW: In view of sharp surge in Covid cases across the country, Uttar Pradesh Congress has written to the Election Commission (EC) demanding cancellation of mega events and big public meetings in the state. The Congress also made a suggestion to the poll body to stop Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UP CM Yogi Adityanath […]

UTTAR PRADESH: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who has been assigned the task of reviving the party in Uttar Pradesh where it has been out of power for the last three decades on Wednesday said that the women are being exploited and they are not getting their deserved rights and urged them to come […]

LUCKNOW: To check the poll preparedness in Uttar Pradesh that will witness a hot contest between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the other opposition parties including the Samajwadi Party and the Congress among others, a delegation of the Election Commission of India led by Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra held a review meeting on […]

KANPUR: Looks like the political battle is intensifying in Uttar Pradesh, as incidences of possible disruptions seem to be cropping up more frequently. The Kanpur Police claims to have foiled an attempt to disrupt Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s programme on Tuesday. The Police have arrested the office bearers of Samajwadi Party (SP) in this connection […]

KANPUR/NEW DELHI: Adding impetus to the infrastructural push of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated the completed section of Kanpur Metro Rail Project. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had sanctioned for the construction work of the Kanpur metro project to begin on November 15, 2019. The […]

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police on Monday detained several doctors who were protesting against the delay in the NEET 2021 counselling. Doctors claimed that they were brutally thrashed and manhandled while holding a peaceful march towards the Supreme Court and threatened to shut down all healthcare institutions in Delhi. The protest was organised by the […]