The Hindu Morning Digest: June 30, 2024

The Hindu Morning Digest: June 30, 2024

T20 World Cup 2024 final: India lifts second T20 WC title after 17 years The long wait is over. India is world champion again .In a classic ICC Men’s T20 World Cup final sure to be remembered for years to come, India made history with a nail-biting seven-run win over South Africa .And with it … Read more

Politics or pressure? What’s driving Mayawati’s 2024 poll moves

Politics or pressure? What’s driving Mayawati’s 2024 poll moves

The complex electoral landscape of Uttar Pradesh is engulfed in the ‘mysterious’ political moves by its former chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati. Under opposition fire over allegations of being ‘BJP’s B team’, a jibe often taken by Samajwadi (SP) Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Mayawati was almost close to shedding the label … Read more

In eastern U.P, INDIA bloc going all out for victory

In eastern U.P, INDIA bloc going all out for victory

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

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