Noida resident held for sharing deepfake video of U.P. CM Yogi Adityanath

Noida resident held for sharing deepfake video of U.P. CM Yogi Adityanath

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

Election Commission readies plan to increase voter turnout in 10 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh

Election Commission readies plan to increase voter turnout in 10 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh

The voter turnout in Uttar Pradesh in the 2019 elections was quite low at 59.11%, even though the State has the highest number of voters. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA The Election Commission has devised a plan to encourage voters in Uttar Pradesh, which recorded a tepid turnout of 59.11% in the … Read more

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adithyanath, Ministers and MLAs offer prayers at Ram Temple in Ayodhya

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adithyanath, Ministers and MLAs offer prayers at Ram Temple in Ayodhya

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath with members of the Assembly and Legislative Council at Ayodhya’s Ram Janmabhoomi Temple, in Ayodhya on February 11, 2024. | Photo Credit: ANI Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs) from all political parties in Uttar Pradesh except the Samajwadi Party (SP) on Sunday visited the Ram Temple in Ayodhya to offer … Read more

BJP eyes alliance with Rashtriya Lok Dal to shore up prospects in western Uttar Pradesh; Samajwadi Party reposes faith in partner

BJP eyes alliance with Rashtriya Lok Dal to shore up prospects in western Uttar Pradesh; Samajwadi Party reposes faith in partner

Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh leg of the Congress’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has reached out to Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Chaudhary Jayant Singh with an offer that he will find difficult to refuse. For now, according to party sources, Mr. Singh is weighing his options. For the BJP, … Read more

Mayawati’s ‘political successor’ Akash Anand issues phone no. for people to connect to him

Mayawati’s ‘political successor’ Akash Anand issues phone no. for people to connect to him

Lucknow: Taking centre stage after being declared as her political successor by BSP president Mayawati, Akash Anand reached out to people on Thursday, asking them to give a missed call on a phone number to get directly connected to him. In a post on X, Anand, the national coordinator of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), … Read more

Uttar Pradesh declares ‘no non-veg’ day on November 25

Uttar Pradesh declares ‘no non-veg’ day on November 25

Uttar Pradesh has ordered all slaughterhouses and meat shops to remain closed on November 25. File. | Photo Credit: Rajeev Bhatt Uttar Pradesh government on Friday declared November 25 as “no non-veg day” on the birth anniversary of Sadhu TL Vaswani, who advocated for a vegetarian lifestyle. U.P. ordered all slaughterhouses and meat shops to remain closed on … Read more

Every community progressing with dignity in BJP rule, says U.P. CM at Dalit conference

Every community progressing with dignity in BJP rule, says U.P. CM at Dalit conference

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during the ‘Scheduled Caste (SC) – Scheduled Tribes (ST) Conference’, in Aligarh district, on Oct. 19, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the country is moving on the path of “transformation and … Read more

NCM chief writes to Uttar Pradesh police over attack on a Sikh man

NCM chief writes to Uttar Pradesh police over attack on a Sikh man

Chairman of National Commission for Minorities Iqbal Singh Lalpura addressing media. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) chairman wrote to the Director General of Police (DGP), Uttar Pradesh, asking him to conduct a fair investigation into the case of an attack on a Sikh man in the State. According to … Read more

U.P. plans to run e-buses under PM e-bus scheme across urban centres

U.P. plans to run e-buses under PM e-bus scheme across urban centres

Uttar Pradesh aims to get a giant share of 1,800 e-Buses out of 10,000 under the PM e-Bus Scheme. The buses will be functional in Lucknow, Kanpur, Gorakhpur, Firozabad, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Ghaziabad, Agra, Jhansi, Varanasi, Meerut, Prayagraj, Bareilly, Aligarh, Moradabad, Ayodhya, Shahjahanpur, Mathura, Rampur, and Saharanpur. The State government Urban Development Ministry is preparing … Read more

Mayawati accuses SP leader of stirring religious couldron for pre-poll mileage

Mayawati accuses SP leader of stirring religious couldron for pre-poll mileage

BSP President Mayawati accused Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya of trying to drive a wedge between communities ahead of election | file photo | Photo Credit: PTI BSP President Mayawati on Sunday accused Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya of trying to drive a wedge between communities ahead of election with his comment on … Read more