Balloting starts in 15 UP Lok Sabha seats
Polling for 15 seats in the crucial fifth phase of Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh, to decide the fate of 243 candidates, including Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and BJP national secretary Varun Gandhi started peacefully on Wednesday morning. “The polling has started peacefully at 7 am... read more »
Let Modi not be lost in the Varanasi fair
Varanasi: It’s 10am and the campus of the hallowed Benaras Hindu University (BHU) is bustling with activity. A huddle at the entrance to the Department of Arts. The topic of discussion? Whether this should be Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s last year in Indian Premier League. Elections? Narendra Modi?... read more »
Police asks Kumar Vishwas’s wife, family members to leave Amethi, cla...
LUCKNOW: A posse of police swooped on party candidate Kumar Vishwas’s house late on Monday night, asking all family members who are not voters of Amethi to leave or else they will be arrested. Though police said that it was enforcing orders of the Election Commission to make... read more »
AAP’s Kumar Vishwas dares UP police to tell Priyanka Gandhi to leave ...
Lucknow: In a sensational claim, the Aam Aadmi Party has alleged that the Amethi district administration late Monday night asked the family of Kumar Vishwas, the party’s candidate from the constituency, to leave the district or else they will be arrested. According to reports, district police... read more »
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