The Latest Breaking News from Uttar Pradesh

Around 900 kilometres from Delhi, it is difficult to find a single household unaffected by illness in Tiwaritola village of Ballia﹘a border district cushioned between Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Reason: presence of high levels of arsenic in groundwater.

LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party on Monday released a list of 159 candidates for the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, fielding party chief Akhilesh Yadav from Karhal in Mainpuri district, jailed leader Azam Khan from Rampur and renominating party MLA Nahid Hasan from Kairana.

LUCKNOW: In an extensive crackdown, Uttar Pradesh police arrested 33 persons for allegedly attempting to rig Uttar Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test (UPTET) on Sunday. The arrests were made by police teams from different districts and Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (UP STF).

Parties such as Congress are vote-cutters, says BSP chief

MUZAFFARNAGAR: An illegal arms factory was busted at Budhana bypass road under Khatoli police station area with seizure of a cache of weapons, police said on Sunday.

The national weather forecasting agency, India Meteorological Department (IMD), has predicted cold wave conditions over Delhi, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh for the next few days.

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…

In the first phase of election for 58 seats covering parts of the sugarcane belt and districts adjoining the NCR, the BSP fielded 17 Muslims.

“We have to defeat those who work for one particular caste or community”