Uttar Pradesh

May 14, 2024 8:41 AM

Prime Minister Modi to file nomination from Varanasi today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will file his nomination from the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat today in Uttar Pradesh. Before filing the papers, the PM will offer prayers at Dashwamedh Ghat and will take a dip in the River Ganga before boarding the cruise ship. PM Modi also posted on X about his relationship with Kashi. "My relationship with my Kashi is amazing, inseparable and incomparable... all I can say is that it cannot be expressed in words!" PM Modi is the sitting MP and candidate from Varanasi...

May 8, 2024 9:26 AM

Mayawati removes nephew Akash Anand as BSP national coordinator and her ‘successor’

Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati announced on Tuesday the removal of her nephew Akash Anand from the position of national coordinator and her 'political successor'. Mayawati said she is taking the decision in the "larger interest" of the party and Anand is being removed from the positions till he attains "full maturity." "It is known that BSP, besides being a party, is also a movement for self-respect and self-esteem of Baba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao A...

PATNA, INDIA DECEMBER 18: Voters casting their vote during the first phase of Bihar Municipal Corporation elections at a polling booth at Danapur on December 18, 2022 in Patna, India. (Photo by Santosh Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

May 8, 2024 9:07 AM

Lok Sabha elections: Voter turnout recorded at 64.4% in phase-3 amid peaceful polling

The voter turnout for the third phase of the Lok Sabha election held on Tuesday in 93 constituencies recorded at 64.4 per cent as per the Election Commission's update until 11:40 pm on Tuesday. The highest voter turnout of 81.61 per cent was recorded in Assam where four constituencies went to the polls in this phase and the lowest, 57.34 per cent, was recorded in Uttar Pradesh, where 10 constituencies went to the polls. The numbers are provisional and will be updated by the field-level officers....

April 25, 2024 10:35 PM

Preparations Complete for Phase 2 of Lok Sabha Polls in Uttar Pradesh

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has ensured extensive security measures and other arrangements in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming second phase of Lok Sabha elections on Friday. Voting is set to commence at 7 am and continue until 6 pm. A robust deployment of over 2 lakh security personnel is planned for the second phase, with Central forces stationed at every polling booth. The constituencies participating in the second phase include: Amroha, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Gaut...

April 22, 2024 12:34 PM

Heatwave warnings for East Indian states issued for four days

Severe heat wave conditions will continue over East India during four days. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast that a heat wave will prevail over parts of Odisha today and over West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh during the next 4 days. The IMD also said that hot and humid weather will continue over West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karnataka and Kerala till the 25th of this month. Meanwhile, the weather agency has forecast heavy rainfall with...

April 10, 2024 5:48 PM

LS polls 2024: BJP releases 10th list of candidates, fields ex-PM Chandra Shekhar’s son Neeraj from Ballia, SS Ahluwalia from Asansol

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday released its 10th list of 9 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, fielding party's Rajya Sabha MP Neeraj Shekhar from Uttar Pradesh's Ballia. Neeraj Shekhar, the son of former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar, was a Lok Sabha MP from 2007 to 2014, representing Samajwadi Party from Ballia, the constituency earlier held by his father. In 2014, Shekhar lost the polls to his BJP rival and was nominated to the Rajya Sabha. Shekhar joined the BJP after h...