UTTAR PRADESH,JUN 23 : Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday has reinstated her nephew, Akash Anand, as the party’s national coordinator and declared him her political successor. The decision was announced during a meeting with the party’s office bearers in Lucknow. In May this year, Mayawati had removed her nephew from the post of […]Continue Reading
VARANASI, JUN 22: Acharya Laxmikant Dixit, the chief priest who had performed the consecration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, died Saturday morning. Family members said Dixit, 86, was not well for the last few days. His last rites will be conducted at Manikarnika Ghat. Lord Ram’s idol was consecrated at the Ayodhya temple on […]Continue Reading
LUCKNOW, JUN 19 : A constable of Uttar Pradesh Special Security Force (UPSSF) deployed at Ayodhya Shri Ram Janmabhoomi complex, died after getting injured by a gunshot fired from his own rifle on early Wednesday morning. Senior police officers, who visited the spot, said they were trying to ascertain if it was a case of […]Continue Reading
VARANASI, JUN 18: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday released Rs 20,000 crore as part of the income support scheme for more than 9.26 crore farmers. Modi released the amount during the PM Kisan Samman Sammelan in Varanasi. It was his first visit to his Lok Sabha constituency after assuming office as prime minister for […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,JUN 1: Extreme temperatures in the Northwest India have induced dust storms and may reduce the intensity of rainfall. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted dust storms over Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and adjoining regions in the next three days. The IMD said that a dust storm is very likely over East Rajasthan from […]Continue Reading
UTTAR PRADESH, MAY 11 : Shockwaves ran through Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur after the news of the death of six members of a family spread in the area. A man allegedly brutally murdered five members of his family before killing himself. The incident took place in Palapur village on Friday. As per a police report, the […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,MAY 3 : Congress leader Rahul Gandhi filed his papers from Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli constituency, barely an hour before nominations closed for the Lok Sabha seat on Friday. Earlier, in the morning, the Congress ended the suspense over Amethi and Rae Bareli, announcing his candidature from the seat held by his mother Sonia […]Continue Reading
AYODHYA, APR 17: The ‘Surya tilak’ of Ram Lalla in Ayodhya was done at noon on Wednesday on the occasion of Ram Navami using an elaborate mechanism involving mirrors and lenses by which sunbeams were directed on the forehead of the Ram idol. This is the first Ram Navami since the consecration of the Ram […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, APR 5: The Supreme Court on Friday imposed an interim stay on an order of the Allahabad High Court that declared the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act, 2004, “unconstitutional” and violative of the principle of secularism. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud issued notices to the Centre, […]Continue Reading
LUCKNOW, MAR 29 : Mukhtar Ansari was subjected to slow poisoning in jail, Umar Ansari, the son of the gangster-turned-politician who died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda, alleged early Friday. The charge has been denied by authorities. Mukhtar Ansari was brought to the Rani Durgavati Medical College in Banda from […]Continue Reading
