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Rourkela: A joint team of Rourkela Police and CRPF busted a Maoist camp inside Sanabalijor forest under K Balang police limits in Sundargarh district and recovered a huge cache of ammunition after an encounter with the Maoists this morning. Talking to media persons here, RK Sharma, IG, Western Range, said acting on a tip-off that […]

Five militias on Friday surrendered before Malkangiri SP Mitrabhanu Mohapatra

Lucknow: Arch rivals Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) announced on Saturday that they will contest the coming Lok Sabha polls together in Uttar Pradesh sharing 38 seats each of the 80 in the state while leaving Rae Bareli and Amethi for Congress, which has been kept out of the alliance. The other […]

Lucknow: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday scored a landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh in a major boost to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, halfway through his first term, and decimated rivals, the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance and the BSP. Riding on the Modi wave, the BJP swept to an unprecedented two-thirds majority winning a whopping […]

Gonda (Uttar Pradesh): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday termed last November’s train accident in Kanpur a “conspiracy” and urged people not to vote for those “who help conspirators”. Speaking at an election rally here, Modi also slammed the Akhilesh Yadav government for “protecting and patronising” the “copying mafia” that harmed the future of the […]

Lucknow: The ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh has claimed that the State government’s policies were finding an echo on foreign shores and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav was being lauded for his visionary decisions. Samajwadi Party spokesman Rajendra Chowdhary said today that during his recent visit to France and Netherlands, policies and schemes like […]

Agra: A young woman took on a Samajwadi party leader here when his motorcade brushed past her two-wheeler and one of the guards, she claimed, winked at her. The woman was on her way to see a doctor on Sunday when local Samajwadi party leader Abhinav Sharma’s car grazed past her vehicle, knocking her down. […]

Global rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) has said that it could raise India's sovereign rating if the economy reverts to real per capita gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 5.5 percent

By Sandeep Sahu A rider at the outset. As of now, the BJD, the ruling party in Odisha, is going strong and there is nothing to suggest that its love affair with the people of the state could sour any time soon. But the ongoing tug-of-war for control of two major regional parties currently in […]

By Sandeep Sahu The incorrigible Abu Azami has done it yet again! Three days after a group of men brought shame to the city of Bengaluru, the country at large and men folk in general by groping, molesting and assaulting women out on the streets to ring in the New Year, the man known as […]

Lucknow: The usage of foul language during electioneering hit a new low Sunday when veteran SP leader Aazam Khan made an “underwear jibe”, which the BJP said was made against actor Jaya Prada, fighting the Lok Sabha polls from Rampur against him. Without naming the actor, who is fighting as a BJP candidate from Rampur, […]

Varanasi: The Election Commission has cancelled the nomination of former Border Security Force trooper Tej Bahadur Yadav, who was set to contest from the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Tej Bahadur Yadav had been served a notice on Tuesday because he had given different reasons for leaving his job in the […]

Lucknow: Till the turn of the millennium, film stars guaranteed crowds and votes in politics. Political parties wooed them ardently. As a result, top stars like Rajesh Khanna, Vinod Khanna, Shatrughan Sinha, Raj Babbar, Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Jaya Prada, Govinda and Jaya Bachchan braved the heat and dust of campaigning for their political parties. Some like […]

Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati said that her party would contest the upcoming Assembly by-elections alone. Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav, on the hand, did not comment on Mayawati’s statement but said in Azamgarh on Tuesday that the Samajwadi Party would form its own government in Uttar Pradesh in 2022 when Assembly elections are […]

Ghazipur: Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday said he will now prepare for Assembly bye-elections and his party will contest on all 11 seats where polls are to be held. “I will consult my party leaders and then we will contest the bye-elections. If the alliance has parted ways, then ‘swagat’ hai (welcome).” The […]