The Bharatiya Janata Party swept urban local body elections in Uttar Pradesh winning 10 of 12 mayoral posts in municipal corporations with Congress failing to open its account.
With six more persons succumbing to encephalitis, the death toll due to the disease in eastern Uttar Pradesh has mounted to 351 this year, health officials said on Wednesday. The worst affected districts are Gorakhpur, Deoria and Kushinagar.
The 5087 Gorakhpur-Jammu Tawi Express hit the truck at the crossing near Domingarh Station, 7km from Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh.
Adityanath will be the 21st UP chief minister and the fourth from the BJP.
It was not clear if any decision was taken to act against those responsible for killing police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh.
'All statue-building is an exercise in hubris, but Mr Adityanath's enterprise begs a question: Can a state with rampant child malnutrition and 325 children dying in a Gorakhpur hospital afford Rama's benediction?' asks Sunil Sethi.
In her letter to her husband Sajeesh, Lini expressed her pain and anguish that she could not see him again.
The elections in this phase are seen as a big test for the Bharatiya Janata Party
At least 20 passengers were on Monday feared killed as the Gorakhdham Express rammed into a stationary freight train in the district. The incident occurred on Monday morning when the express train came on the same track as the freight train near Chureb Railway Station, District Magistrate Bharat Lal said.
Official sources said on Saturday the chill claimed six lives in Barabanki, four in Sultanpur and one in Etah.
A suspected terrorist from the Hizbul Mujahideen, who was recently arrested by the Delhi police, had planned a fidayeen strike in the city, sources in the police have revealed.
The military is 'totally prepared to stand up to the demands made by the government and the people.'
Wife of slain Depuuty Superintendent of police Zia-Ul-Haq, who was shot dead in Pratapgarh on March 2, has joined as an officer on special duty, a post offered to her on compassionate grounds.
Taking exception to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan not mentioning the death of healthcare workers due to Covid-19 in his statement in Parliament, the Indian Medical Association has published a list of 382 doctors who died due to the viral disease and demanded that they be treated as "martyrs".
The National Investigating Agency may not oppose bail application of suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Liyaqat Shah, who was arrested by the Delhi police for his alleged role in a conspiracy to carry out terror attacks in New Delhi.
For firebrand Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yogi Adityanath, Hindutva and development complement each other and the sitting MP from Gorakhpur is harping on this ideology of political Hinduism, which he says is a "symbol of our nationalism", as he eyes a fifth straight term.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi and general secretary in charge of western Uttar Pradesh, Jyotiraditya Scindia, will accompany her.
Two children succumbed to encephalitis in Gorakhpour, taking the toll in the viral disease in eastern Uttar Pradesh to 101 this year.
Police said the teacher has been arrested under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code.
Security officials in Gorakhpur on Thursday hailed the decision of the Central Government to ban Chinese mobile phones.
'The Mallahs may remain divided between the two competing coalitions in Bihar,' says Mohammad Sajjad.
Life in Mumbai was on Wednesday slowly coming back on tracks as rains subsided and hundreds of stranded commuters headed home with the partial resumption of suburban train services.
As the festivities of Raksha Bandhan are upon us, colourful and decorated Rakhis are being sold in large numbers at markets all over the country.
As many as 18 people have lost their lives in rain-related incidents in parts of Uttar Pradesh where normal monsoon led to moderate to rather heavy rainfall at a few places in the past 24 hours.
The Bhartiya Janata Party is back to adopting its old Hindu hardline agenda to garner votes in the on-going civic polls across Uttar Pradesh, where the party had failed to make a mark at the March 2012 state assembly elections.
The couple had alleged harassment by a passport official, saying they were targeted because of their interfaith marriage.
The trolling of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is wrong, the HM said.
Potters in Uttar Pradesh gear up for brisk business this festive season.
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After an invitation to him to attend an Allahabad university function stoked controversy, Aditynath has been 'advised' against entering the district and may face 'legal action' if he does not comply.
As their parties are locked in a fierce battle for Bengal, Tathagata and Saugata Roy, siblings who belong to the BJP and the TMC respectively, answer the same questions put to them about the assembly election.
The final phase saw voting in all 13 seats of Punjab and an equal number of seats in Uttar Pradesh, nine in West Bengal, eight seats each in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, four in Himachal Pradesh, three in Jharkhand and the lone seat Chandigarh.
Several nuclear power projects held up for the lack of such an insurance pool can now be expected to move forward.
Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat took everyone by surprise when he opened a seven-day national convention of the organisation in Gorakhpur with all focus on corruption. Interestingly, he steered clear of the traditional Hindutva-related issues.
At least 12 passengers in the three trains were robbed.
The Congress also fielded Madhusudan Tiwari from Gorakhpur against BJP's actor-turned politician Ravi Kishan.
In Assam, nearly 27.80 lakh people across 26 districts have been affected by the deluge. The deaths were reported from the Barpeta, Kokrajhar and Morigaon districts. The death toll due to floods and landslides this year has risen to 122.
Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh has criticised Bharatiya Janata Party leader Lal Krishna Advani for raising the contentious Ram temple-Babri mosque row before the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
Khan has been in jail since January after he delivered the allegedly provocative speech at the AMU during the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests in December last year. He is lodged in Mathura jail.
Prominent Bhartiya Janata Party leaders on Friday came out openly against their party leadership's decision to induct tainted and ousted Bahujan Samaj Party minister Babu Singh Kushwaha into the party fold.
