Samajwadi Party National President Akhilesh Yadav is being garlanded by party workers and engineers during a press conference on the occasion of Engineers’ Day at the party office, in Lucknow on Monday, September 15, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Monday (September 15, 2025) slammed the BJP government in Uttar … Read more
An elderly passenger was killed when a private bus carrying pilgrims from Telangana to the Prayagraj Maha Kumbh caught fire on Tuesday, police said. Authorities are investigating the cause of the blaze, which created chaos at the tourist facility in Vrindavan where the bus was parked, they said. According to Additional SP City Arvind Kumar, … Read more
File photo. Former underworld don Om Prakash “Babloo” Srivastava being brought to court. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Supreme Court has directed the U.P. government to consider within two months the premature release of gangster Om Prakash Srivastava, alias Babloo Srivastava, serving life term in a 1993 murder case. A bench of Justices Abhay. … Read more
Devotees walking during the Kanwar Yatra at Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh in July this year. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP Around 17,600 trees have been cut in Ghaziabad, Meerut, and Muzaffarnagar districts of Uttar Pradesh to make way for a new Kanwar Yatra route, a four-member panel constituted by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) … Read more
Uttar Pradesh Congress President Ajay Rai. File | Photo Credit: PTI Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajay Rai on Tuesday said that irrespective of the outcome of the seat-sharing talks with the Samajwadi Party (SP), both parties will contest the upcoming bypolls in the State unitedly. He said that the only goal of the INDIA alliance is … Read more
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath with State DGP Prashant Kumar during an event. File | Photo Credit: ANI The Uttar Pradesh government has granted the highest pay scale to its acting Director General of Police (DGP) Prashant Kumar, bypassing at least 12 senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officers above him in the hierarchy. The … Read more
Samajwadi Party supporters during a campaign meeting in support of party candidate Dharmendra Yadav for Lok Sabha polls, in Azamgarh, on May 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Soaring temperatures do not trouble Jagananth Tiwari, in fact, it is the only time he does a brisk business. Pouring out extra sweet lassi in earthen tumblers, … Read more
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. File A man was arrested here by the Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh Police for allegedly posting an AI-generated “deepfake” video of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, officials said on May 2. The video was used to spread misleading facts, strengthening anti-national elements, Additional Director General of Police … Read more
The blue lights beckoned Somesh Kumar, 17, on his way back home after his Class 10 Mathematics paper. He followed the unmetalled road into Silai Baragaon village in Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur district. It was dusk and the sky in parts matched the deep blue of the poster erected at the centre of the park he … Read more
The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached 58 immovable properties worth ₹27.49 crore in a case alleging cheating, forgery, and fraud by an alleged land Mafioso and his associates. The properties are registered in the name of the main accused Sudhir Kumar Goyal, his wife Rakhi Goyal, his close associates Jay Prakash and Alok Kumar, and … Read more