New Delhi: Senior Samajwadi Party leader and India’s oldest MP in Parliament from Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal, Shafiqur Rahman Barq, passed away following prolonged illness at a private hospital in Moradabad yesterday. He was 94. Barq, who has been a four-time MLA, was elected as MP from Sambhal for the fifth time in 2019. He was…
New Delhi: The Delhi Police yesterday detained a 53-year-old man from near his residence in Orai area of Jalaun in Uttar Pradesh (UP) in connection with its probe into the Parliament security breach case. The Jalaun Police have identified the accused as Atul Kulshrestha. They said it is suspected that Atul is a member of…
Two-day ‘Maha Prachara Abhiyana’ involving top leaders planned in all 224 Assembly Constituencies Mysore/Mysuru: As part of BJP’s two-day Maha Prachara Abhiyana (Mega Campaign) in the State, Uttar Pradesh (UP) Chief Minister (CM) Yogi Adityanath, considered as one of the firebrand leaders of the party, is scheduled to tour Mandya and Vijayapura districts on April…
New Delhi: Atiq Ahmed, the Uttar Pradesh gangster who faced at least 100 criminal cases, and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were shot dead on camera while they were being taken for a medical check-up in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj last night. Atiq Ahmed’s son Asad was also killed in an encounter in UP’s Jhansi just two…
Supreme Court Bench allows Atiq to approach the Allahabad High Court for protection Prayagraj: Gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and two others have been found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment by a Court in Prayagraj in the 2006 kidnapping case of Umesh Pal, a witness in the BSP MLA Raju Pal’s murder. Umesh Pal, too, was…
Gurugram: Samajwadi Party (SP) Founder and three-time Uttar Pradesh (UP) Chief Minister (CM) Mulayam Singh Yadav passed away this morning at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram. He was 82. He was to turn 83 in six weeks. Though he had been away from active politics for a while, with his son Akhilesh Yadav, also a former…
It’s PunjAAP as AAP sweeps away everyone in Punjab; BJP leading in Goa and Manipur New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to return to power in Uttar Pradesh (UP), the biggest State in the country, as the party has crossed the halfway mark in early rounds of counting. It will be for…
Lucknow/Chandigarh: Fifty nine constituencies spread across 16 districts in Uttar Pradesh (UP) are voting in the third phase of polling today. Congress-ruled Punjab is also voting. UP recorded a voter turnout of 21.18 percent and Punjab 17.77 percent as at 12.30 pm. Soon after polling began in UP, the Samajwadi Party (SP) alleged discrepancies in…
New Delhi: The battle for Uttar Pradesh — said to be the semi-final before the general election of 2024 — began this morning. 58 constituencies in the crucial western part of the State, the hub of farmers’ protest, are polling amid a four-cornered contest. As many as 623 candidates including 73 women are in the…
By T.J.S. George In a matter of weeks, Uttar Pradeshians will be lining up to vote. This election will be of considerable significance to all of India. Yogi Adityanath, the politician dressed in saffron, is well-known for his ambition to replace Narendra Modi as the BJP’s Prime Ministerial nominee. In such situations, Modi develops ten…
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