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New Delhi: Amid a surge in Covid-19 cases, the Election Commission on Saturday extended its ban on physical rallies and roadshows until January 22 in the five poll-bound states. The poll panel, however, granted a relaxation for the political parties to the extent that indoor meetings of maximum 300 persons or 50 per cent of […]
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Samajwadi Party has made inroads into the bastions of the ruling party changing the electoral dynamics.
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Says it will bite dust in elections in five States; urges farmers to protest hike in fertilizers rates
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Lucknow: Another Uttar Pradesh minister, Dara Singh Chauhan, quit the Yogi Adityanath cabinet on Wednesday, giving a jolt to the BJP in the poll-bound state. Chauhan is the second minister to resign from the state cabinet, after Swami Prasad Maurya tendered his resignation on Tuesday. At least three other MLAs have already announced that they […]
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The cook has been arrested with his five helpers Danish, Hafiz, Mukhtar, Firoz, and Anwar who can be seen standing and looking at him in a video clip that has gone viral on social media.
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Lucknow: Resignations are rolling out in the BJP in Uttar Pradesh with an alarming frequency, days ahead of the State goes to the polls in seven phases between February 10 and March 7. After Swami Prasad Maurya and Roshan Lal Varma, yet another BJP MLA – Brijesh Prajapati from Tindwari in Banda – has said […]
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The incident took place on Sunday and the baby died.
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Conducting elections in the midst of a massive surge in coronavirus infections could be a daunting task. The coming round of Assembly polls in five States, including Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, may well be the first elections in India without any physical rallies. Given the bitter experience of the previous round of Assembly polls last […]
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Telangana: Union Minister of State, Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated India’s first unique ‘Rock Museum’ in Hyderabad. The Open Rock Museum, set up with the aim to educate and enlighten the masses about several lesser-known facts, displays around 35 different types of rocks from different parts of India with ages ranging from 3.3 billion years to […]
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Hyderabad: Two handloom workers from Uttar Pradesh who opened up to 40 accounts in different banks and worked as money mules for some fraudsters from Nigeria were arrested by the Hyderabad police on Saturday. The police seized mobile phones and ATM/ Debit cards from them. The arrested persons are identified as Mohd Nayeem (23) and […]
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New Delhi: Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur and Goa will be held between February 10 and March 7 in seven phases with counting of votes on March 10, the Election Commission announced on Saturday, and banned physical rallies and roadshows till January 15 due to Covid concerns. The elections have huge political […]
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Lucknow: The Congress on Wednesday cancelled its four marathon races listed this week and also decided not to hold any big rallies in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh amid rising cases of the novel coronavirus infection. Party sources said apart from the infection scare, the decision also took into account the recent stampede-like situation in Bareilly where […]
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Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Prisons Department has decided to ban visitors to meet inmates in view of the increasing number Covid-19 cases in the state. The Department had allowed visitors to meet jail inmates on August 16 after suspending visits on March 24, 2020, due to Covid-19. Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Avanish Awasthi has instructed […]
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Sonbhadra: School children in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district were reportedly made to take a pledge to make India a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ A video of the incident has gone viral on social media, creating a fresh controversy. The children, dressed in their school uniforms, had gathered in the park after school hours. Some kids visiting the […]
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Hyderabad: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s brainchild initiative of demonetisation has become a “failure” as evident in seizure of a huge pile of cash from a businessman’s residence in Uttar Pradesh. “You should ask the Prime Minister as to how so much of cash was found despite the demonetisation […]
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Lucknow: What is in a name, asked Shakespeare. But it is a lot if one belongs to a place that has changed its name. Well-known poet Akbar Allahabadi has been mentioned as ‘Akbar Prayagraji after the name of Allahabad was changed to Prayagraj by the Yogi Adityanath government, three years ago. The name of the […]
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Hyderabad: The BJP will be dealt a deadly blow in the upcoming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, former Deputy Chief Minister and MLC Kadiam Srihari said on Tuesday. The anti-BJP forces will unite in future and Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao will decide the TRS party’s role in this regard to oust the […]
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Hardoi: In a shocking incident, a woman provoked her husband to kill their daughter after the latter saw her with her paramour. The accused, Kamla, apparently panicked after her daughter Pratibha saw her with her lover Ram Naresh. She later told her husband Nagendra that she had seen Pratibha with Ram Naresh in an objectionable […]
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Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has acquitted a man who had been awarded death penalty in the rape and murder of a minor. The high court said that the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt. While rejecting the reference for affirmation of death sentence and allowing the appeal of Nazil against the […]
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Moradabad: A seven-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped and murdered in a village in Moradabad, police said. The girl, belonging to a minority community, had gone missing while she was playing outside her house on December 22. Her body was found later in a sugarcane field, nearly two kilometres away from her house on Friday night. […]
