Four persons succumbed to severe cold conditions in different parts of Uttar Pradesh, taking the toll in the state this winter to 117. Two elderly persons died in Gonda district while one death was reported from Sitapur. A constable succumbed to the intense cold wave in Gorakhpur. Najibabad, which recorded a minimum of 2 degrees Celsius, was the coldest place in the state and capital Lucknow, recorded a minimum of 3.2 degrees Celsius on Thursday morning.
There will be total of 51 seats going to polls spread across 7 states in the fifth phase.
The Delhi police claim to have identified the killer of 20-year-old Radhika Tanwar, and say that he will be arrested soon. "The accused is a mentally disturbed youth from Uttar Pradesh, and he wanted to avenge the humiliation he suffered when he was beaten up for stalking her three years ago," a police official said.
Shahjahanpur bore the maximum brunt of the weather's onslaught on Saturday, as six people were killed in incidents of lightning strike, while seven were injured.
Additional Director General Intelligence SB Shiradkar had Friday submitted a report on the violence.
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A similar protest was organised by farmers on the Lucknow-Sitapur Highway.
The death toll due to the cold wave that has disrupted normal life across north India rose to 326 on Wednesday.Another 38 deaths were reported from Uttar Pradesh, taking the death toll in the state to almost 300. The dense fog has further added to the problems of the people in the region with Kanpur recording a temperature of 3.7 degree Celsius, the coldest place in the state, followed by Varani, where the temperarure was recorded to be 4 degree Celcius.
Rahul Gandhi on Thursday joined his sister Priyanka Gandhi in attacking Narendra Modi over snoopgate controversy, saying the Gujarat government has no regard for women as it gets their phones tapped.
Rahul also held a 75-km long road show and a Nukkad Sabha in Haridwar.
In a major blow to the Samajwadi Party, Ranjana Bajpai, chief of the SP's women's wing, joined hands with the party's avowed rival Bahujan Samaj Party on Saturday.The move comes in the wake of SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's decision to withdraw her ticket as the party nominee for the Sitapur Lok Sabha seat.Attributing her decision to the 'neglect of Brahmins in the Samajwadi Party', Bajpai pointedly accused SP general secretary Amar Singh of having "hijacked the party."
Here's a recap of the events from the past 24 hours.
The BSP chief alleged that Modi and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party considered the Dalits as lowly.
Home to several Yadav family bastions, Phase III of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections is especially crucial for the Samajwadi Party.
Addressing a 'Hindu Panchayat' in Sitapur, Togadia said Hindus hesitate from openly speaking on the issues concerning their society.
Old enmity is stated to be the reason behind the murders.
A shoe was hurled at Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Monday during his roadshow in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh.
Reliance Industries Ltd on Thursday launched its fourth highway hospitality 'dhaba' in Uttar Pradesh at a company petroleum retail outlet in Kamlapur on the Lucknow-Sitapur highway.
51 constituencies across 7 states go to the polls in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha election.
Six people were killed in rain-related incidents in Uttar Pradesh where major rivers flowed above the red mark today as showers drenched several parts of the state.
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court quashed a lower court order rejecting a divorced Muslim woman's prayer for maintenance.
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Earlier, army chief Gen Bipin Rawat said that full cooperation will be extended in investigation of the incident.
In the worst hit Sitapur district, 40 people, including women and children, were killed in a number of incidents of house collapse.
A dust storm also hit the national capital on Saturday and its surrounding areas that had been reeling under the scorching heat for a few days.
The party office in Lucknow buzzed with activity as enthusiastic Congress workers gathered outside the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee building, even before she returned from an overnight stay in Jaipur.
Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Sunday said that her party has given maximum number of tickets to Muslims and they should vote unitedly in favour of her party to save the country from the "fascist forces and dynasty rule".
"The meeting lasted 50 minutes," Jail Superintendent Shashikant Mishra told PTI.
According to villagers in the region, builders have been doing the rounds of the area, trying to spot suitable locations for residential projects.
Sending out a strong message to party office bearers, the Aam Aadmi Party on Friday sacked two leaders from Uttar Pradesh for demanding money in exchange of party tickets.
A day after the Goa police arrested six persons, including a Uttar Pradesh Member of Legislative Assembly, during a raid at a dance bar here, investigations have revealed that the accused brought the girls to the state on their trip and even stayed with them in a hotel.
The toll in Uttar Pradesh floods on Monday mounted to 41, with reports of 13 more deaths in the state where over 1,000 villages were affected by the flood waters of several rivers flowing above the danger mark.
With the outrage over the Badaun gangrape still echoing across the country, news of yet another incident of similar brutality has come in from Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh.
According to an insider, "Winning is all that matters to the BJP. The leaders were warned that he was an undesirable character but they said look at his victory margin."
While a nine-year-old girl was raped and murdered in Uttar Pradesh's Etah, an 11-year-old girl was allegedly raped and killed by a guest at a wedding in Chhattisgarh.
Sending out a strong message to party office bearers, the Aam Aadmi Party on Friday sacked two leaders from Uttar Pradesh for allegedly demanding money in exchange of party tickets.
From police refusing to name the accused when the complaint was first filed to seeing her father tortured and killed, from her uncle being ensnared in an unrelated case to suffering an accident, which had clear marks of a conspiracy, the going was tough for her.
1980-batch IPS officer Sulkan Singh, who was DG-Training, will replace Ahmed, a 1984-batch IPS officer, who has been shifted as the DG of Uttar Pradesh Provincial Armed Constabulary, a senior home department official said.
'What motivated us was that a lot of people, especially youngsters, had a negative image about India.'
Rahul said that an atmosphere of fear has been prevailed in the country.
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