The Latest Breaking News from Mathura

Discontent against local leaders for lack of amenities is off set by communal rhetoric

Mr. Modi was addressing voters in Mathura, Agra and Bulandshahr, days before the first phase of the State Assembly polls

AGRA: Over 34,000 personnel of the Central Armed Paramilitary Forces (CAPF) will be deployed for the first phase of elections in Agra, Aligarh and Mathura on February 10.

AGRA: Mathura police booked BJP’s district president and two unidentified persons for allegedly misbehaving with a team of election observers comprising magistrate and police personnel after their vehicle was stopped for checking earlier this week. The trio also “threatened” to strip them. After a video of the incident went viral,…

AGRA: With an almost 80% population of Hindus, the holy town of Mathura has become an often-repeated theme for BJP in the run-up to polls in UP this time, amid renewed calls for construction of the Krishna Janambhoomi temple.

AGRA: The Mathura police has arrested ten persons including five proxy candidates, who are also students, for alleged impersonation in UPTET (Uttar Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test) exam held in the city on Sunday.

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath launched a counter-attack on SP chief Akhilesh Yadav for questioning the former’s candidature from a “safe” seat, saying that the Gorakhpur constituency, which BJP has chosen for him to make his debut in the assembly polls, was not one which reflected the “dynastic and caste-based…

As many as 15 coaches of a goods train got derailed in the middle of Bhuteshwar Vrindavan on Mathura-Delhi rail route late on Friday.

AGRA: RLD chief, Jayant Chaudhry, has outplayed his ‘rebel’ party candidate, Yogesh Nahuwar, who had refused to withdraw his candidature from Maant constituency in Mathura after the seat was allotted to the party’s ally, Samajwadi Party, by allotting his party symbol to SP’s prospective candidate’s wife. The RLD chief took…