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AICC General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra with others, releases party manifesto Unnati Vidhan Jan Ghoshna Patra for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections at UPCC headquarter, in Lucknow, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. (PTI Photo/ Nand Kumar)

Priyanka releases third poll manifesto for UP; vows farm loan waiver...

Electricity bills for farmers will be halved, bills for Covid-affected periods will be waived and farmers who lost crops...

10 Feb 2022 8:40 AM IST

TRS leader K.R. Suresh Reddy (ANI)

TRS slams food subsidy cuts: '90 crore poor ignored in Budget'

TRS leader K.R. Suresh Reddy said 2022 was the year to double the farmers' income but the govt reduced Rs 10,000 crore...

10 Feb 2022 8:33 AM IST

olling officials check election material after collecting from a distribution centre, a day before the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, in Noida, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Tough fight looms in west UP: 58 seats vote in Phase 1 today

Following the 13-month-long farmers' unrest, the BJP just might find it difficult to repeat its performance in the 2017...

10 Feb 2022 7:34 AM IST

Students participate in a procession to protest against barring Muslim girls wearing hijab from attending classes at some schools in Karnataka, in Kolkata, Feb. 9, 2022. (AP /Bikas Das)

3-judge Karnataka HC bench set to hear hijab matter today

Whether it is a bikini, a ghoonghat, a pair of jeans or a hijab, it is a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear,...

10 Feb 2022 7:17 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. (AFP)

China, Pakistan warned: Don't meddle over J&K, India's affairs

It was a direct attack on a Sino-Pakistani joint statement released three days ago after Pakistan PM Imran Khan's visit...

10 Feb 2022 6:55 AM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. (PTI)

From Phase 3, focus in UP elections to shift to Bundelkhand

Though in central UP the ruling party had won nearly one-third of the total number of seats, party strategists are not...

10 Feb 2022 6:51 AM IST

The success of the BJP in UP reflects the crude politics of communalism and casteism of the party. (Representational image/ PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Backward UP's alarm bells for India's...

The success of the BJP in UP reflects the crude politics of communalism and casteism of the party

10 Feb 2022 1:06 AM IST

A total of 23,855 suicides were reported in the 53 mega cities of the country in 2020. (Photo: Representational Image)

Over 16,000 suicides due to bankruptcy, 9,140 due to unemployment in 3...

MoS for Home Nityanand Rai said 5,213 people committed suicide due to bankruptcy or indebtedness in 2020, 5,908 in 2019...

9 Feb 2022 3:05 PM IST

The deck, named Mata Ramabai Ambedkar Smruti viewing deck, is near Chaityabhoomi in Mumbais Dadar. (Photo: Twitter/@AUThackeray)

Maharashtra Minister Aaditya Thackeray inaugurates viewing deck at...

Thackeray further announced that BMC will have its own Waghoba Club in schools for nature trails

9 Feb 2022 2:19 PM IST

Devotees stand in a queue to offer prayers next to the under-construction site for a temple to Ram in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh. (SANJAY KANOJIA / AFP)

Hindu pride and Muslim fears overshadow UP Assembly polls

BJP is now banking on efforts to style itself as the custodian of India's majority faith to secure re-election in Uttar...

9 Feb 2022 1:43 PM IST

14 drones were launched reportedly from across the International Border and LoC in the recent past. (Representational Photo:AFP)

BSF foils Pakistan drone bid to smuggle drugs, pistol into Punjab

The officials said the drone is suspected to have escaped to the Pakistani side

9 Feb 2022 1:18 PM IST

The drug, molnupiravir, could provide a much-needed weapon against the virus. (Photo: AP)

New antiviral drug combo highly effective against COVID-19: Study

Combining remdesivir or molnupiravir with experimental drug brequinar blocks reproduction of SARS-CoV-2 virus, the study...

9 Feb 2022 12:25 PM IST