Tag: UP
UP: Gangrape survivor who named SP lawmaker found dead
Four years after a woman accused Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Arun Verma and seven others of gang-raping her, the 21-year-old survivor was found dead near her house on Saturday night. Officials conducting the probe in the case believed that the gangrape survivor was initially poisoned and then strangled. Arun Verma[Read More…]
Rahul has number of jokes on him in Google: Modi
PM Modi mum on Bihar, will stop taking name of UP after polls: Rahul Gandhi
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi takes a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing a joint election meeting along with chief minister Akhilesh Yadav at GIC (Government Inter College) ground here on Sunday. Just as PM Modi has stopped taking the name of Bihar after his party’s defeat in[Read More…]
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar to keep away from UP,Punjab polls
Mulayam Singh Yadav refuses to campaign for the SP-Congress alliance
As UP CM Akhilesh Yadav and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi flaunted the SP-Congress alliance addressing a road show in Lucknow, Samajwadi Party patriarch and Akhilesh Yadav’s father Mulayam Singh Yadav disregarded the tie-up and refused to campaign for the new political set-up. According to NDTV reports, Mulayam said SP was[Read More…]
Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav are like ‘two wheels of a cycle’
Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav left an image of a healthy relationship between the two, as they addressed the crowd in joint conference and roadshow. Flaunting their unity they said that they were like the “two wheels of a cycle” (the SP’s poll symbol) and the[Read More…]
Akhilesh denies tickets to 4 MLAs in new candidate list
The new list of Samajwadi party candidates for 12 seats in the upcoming Assembly elections was released on Thursday by CM Akhilesh Yadav. Surprisingly, Akhilesh has not given tickets to four sitting MLAs, three of whom were announced as candidates in the list Mulayam Singh Yadav had declared last month. The MLAs[Read More…]
BJP leaders detained for breaching code of conduct
8-foot Python pauses Gangajal water project work
EC bars schemes for poll-bound states in union budget
After supreme court passed the judgement that there will be no delay in presenting union budget as demanded by the opposition parties, the Election Commission on Monday said that no particular schemes can be proclaimed in the union budget for the five states where assembly elections are due this year.[Read More…]
Road accidents kill seven children in UP every day
In a shocking revelation, a data from ministry of road transport and highways shows that with 2,610 deaths, Uttar Pradesh witnesses the maximum number of child fatalities because of road accidents in 2015. Thus, road accidents kill seven children in UP every day and of these one-fifth suffered as pillion[Read More…]
Cash, liquor and drugs seizures in UP and Punjab
As the pole dates comes closer, election Commission had appointed surveillance and expenditure monitoring teams which have recovered over Rs 64 crore in cash, including Rs 56.04 crore from Uttar Pradesh alone, and liquor and drugs. As per official data, Punjab has witnessed the maximum seizure of drugs worth Rs[Read More…]
Mulayam Singh Yadav to accept EC’s decision
While the Election commission’s decision is yet to be announced; In a dramatic twist to the Samajawadi Party saga, family partriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, on Monday said he will accept whatever decision the Election Commission takes on the contentious poll symbol issue. The commission is to announce its decision today.[Read More…]
Taj Balloon Festival 2016 colours the skies of Agra
The second edition of the Taj Balloon festival is on in full swing in the glorious historic city of Agra. The lively display of Hot Air Balloons against the backdrop of the iconic Taj Mahal has been on since Nov 25 and shall continue till Nov 30, conducted by the[Read More…]
Poll sop? UP Govt approves 7th Pay Commission; 24 lakh employees to benefit
Ahead of the upcoming polls next year, the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet under the leadership of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday approved the recommendations of the seventh pay commission. As per new salary structure after the big decision few months before the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, entry salary that is[Read More…]
Bharat Bandh: Kerala witnesses complete shutdown; protests continue in Bihar, UP, TN
Bharat Bandh: Kerala sees a complete shutdown; protests continue in Bihar, UP, TN Led by the Congress, the opposition parties on Monday organised a ‘Jan Aakrosh Diwas’ to protest against the Centre’s demonetisation move. Ever since the winter session in Parliament began, the opposition is constantly protesting and standing united[Read More…]
Child dies as father waits at bank; no cash for fee, teen hangs self in UP
In a tragic incident, a three-year-old girl died in a bank in Uttar Pradesh on Monday as her labourer father waited in a line to withdraw money for her treatment while a college student allegedly hanged himself after returning empty-handed the fourth time, police said. The government’s surprise decision to[Read More…]
MLAs will decide next CM: Mulayam Singh Yadav
Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Friday said the party’s chief ministerial candidate will be decided by elected party legislators after the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. “SP legislature party will decide on the name of chief minister,” said Mulayam, indicating that his son and current chief minister Akhilesh[Read More…]
Won’t back down, retorts Rahul Gandhi after shoe attack in UP
Rahul Gandhi blamed BJP-RSS for the shoe attack earlier in the day. He said, “I want to tell that that they can attack me as many as times as they want, I will not back down and will keep on fighting.” Gandhi who is in UP campaigning for the party[Read More…]
Ex-BSP leader Swami Prasad Maurya likely to join BJP: Katheria
Union minister Ramshankar Katheria on Monday said former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) general secretary Swami Prasad Maurya may soon join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Katheria said along with Maurya, many others too will join the BJP, as the BSP takes ₹5 crore for a ticket. However, Maurya has denied[Read More…]
UP: RSS schools claim 30% increase in Muslim students
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has claimed that as many as 7,000 Muslim students are studying in 1,200 RSS schools in Uttar Pradesh and in last 2 years, an increase of 30% has been noticed during the BJP-led government at the Centre. The RSS said the kids have been following[Read More…]