Assembly polls in Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim and Odisha will be held simultaneously in the first phase.
Even as Priyanka is gaining traction among the electorate and the media, her counterpart for the western UP region, Jyotiraditya Scindia, has been low key and perceptibly missing from the 'heat and dust' of elections in UP, reports Virendra Singh Rawat.
Reaching out to Jats, a politically crucial community in western Uttar Pradesh, Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah has presented his party as the best bet for them, saying voting for the Ajit Singh-led Rashtriya Lok Dal or any other party would not help their cause.
The accused father-in-law Mohammed is already in judicial custody.
In a new twist to the Imrana case, another daughter-in-law of the accused, Ali Mohammed, has filed a defamation case against the rape victim.
Imrana, who was allegedly raped by her father-in-law in Muzaffarnagar recently, has decided to the oppose the bail plea of accused Ali Mohammed when it comes up for hearing on July 27 in the district sessions court.
Violence has struck Uttar Pradesh again, this time in Meerut, where clashes between locals and the police has left 20 wounded.
Jat leaders have blamed Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar for not fulfilling their quota demands for which they launched a massive stir last year.
Continuing its probe into covert activities of Lashkar-e-Tayiba, the National Investigation Agency has arrested a man hailing Bihar in the national capital,
It created an approximately three feet deep crater in Kasoli village of Muzaffarnagar district on Sunday night.
The disease has symptoms of Japanese Encephalitis and Meningitis.
