Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit his Parliamentary constituency Varanasi on September 18, a trip that he has been forced to cancel thrice earlier.
CBI said the hunt was on to nab Bajrangi and Rehman, who have been absconding since Rai was killed.
Drones are being used for carrying out a host of tasks like surveillance to ensure that people are maintaining social distancing, spreading awareness about COVID-19 in densely populated areas, spraying disinfectants and checking people's temperature
'It may take two years for the economy to return to normal.' 'We should ensure that the vulnerable do not dig into their savings or give up their assets because that will set them back by several years.'
The water-level of the river Ganga on Tuesday hovered near the danger mark, threatening a flood-like situation in the district.
Ram Gopal Yadav, whose Samajwadi Party heads the UP government, accused BJP of using the incident as an excuse to spread communal tension.
Attacking the BJP, Akhilesh Yadav said the specifications of the project had been lowered by the current government.
As many as 48 ministers of National Democratic Allaince government were in the fray in the general elections.
At an online book release event, former vice president Hamid Ansari lays to rest the controversies surrounding his tenure.
He was arrested after a 'brief exchange of fire'.
Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com gives the lowdown on the 59 seats spread across seven states and one Union territory going to polls in the last and final phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections on May 19, 2019.
No arrest has been made yet in this connection.
A special control room at the forces' headquarter New Delhi is monitoring the situation 24X7.
Massive crowds thronged liquor stores, more vehicles plied on roads and cab-hailing platforms resumed services as India entered the third phase of the lockdown on Monday with further easing of curbs except in containment zones in the shadow of the highest rate of recovery yet from coronavirus.
Manoj Sinha, earlier minister of state for railways, will be tasked to conduct the auction and deal with issues like net neutrality.
'To become more Indianised we had to be more colourful,' Rahil Ansari, Audi's India head, tells Ajay Modi.
No untoward incident has been reported from the district over the past three days.
The Ganga has crossed the danger mark in West Bengal, Bihar and neighbouring districts of Uttar Pradesh where Yamuna river is also in spate, while heavy rainfall has created a flood-like situation in some parts of Rajasthan where six persons have died so far.
The government said there was no immediate plan to extend the 21-day lockdown period, which entered its sixth day on Monday, while the Indian Army dismissed as "fake" social media posts about a possible emergency declaration next month.
The total number of positive cases has increased by 106 in the last 24 hours to reach 1,024.
Polling will be held in all 13 seats in 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.
In the Northeast, while three people died in Assam, two each lost their lives in Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram in rain-related incidents.
Ministerial expansion: Focus on Purvanchal, Brahmin voters in UP.
In East Delhi the biggest challenge for BJP's Gautam Gambhir, barring his opponents, is one of perception, says Thirumoy Banerjee.
The BJP is banking on development. The opposition is raking up caste identities and the dangers of hyper nationalism.
Union Ministers Arun Jaitley and Venkaiah Naidu have also spoken to Thackeray.
At least 28 people have so far lost their lives in rain related incidents in Uttar Pradesh whereas a population of five lakh in some 600 villages of the state has been affected because of it.
In Uttar Pradesh, two persons were killed since Tuesday in the floods which have affected around 8.7 lakh people in 987 villages of 28 districts in the state.
Accusing the erstwhile Congress governments of pursuing "vote bank politics", PM Modi reached out to the numerically significant Nishad community in Uttar Pradesh
The turnout for these seats was 57.92 per cent in the last assembly polls in 2012.
Although the Opposition has been making a hue and cry over demonetisation, the BJP's programmes have been attracting crowds.
A task force will speed up the recalibration of 200,000 ATMs so these can dispense the new Rs 2,000 notes.
Police, activists allege that the arrested men were cruel to buffaloes.
Only 40 of the 160 projects under the Namami Gange Mission -- a Rs 20,000 crore project for cleaning the river -- have been completed.
Army Chief General Dalbir Singh paid tribute to the colonel.
Manoj Sinha will retain his current role in the railways.
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