EC’s ‘third eye’ monitoring UP polls

Lucknow, (IANS) : As voting got underway in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, the Election Commission is extensively using information technology to ensure free and...

Former BSP heavyweights figure in BJP’s third list for UP

Lucknow, (IANS) : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday released its third list of 67 candidates for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. Like...

UP minister booed at Meerut polling booth

Lucknow, (IANS) : Uttar Pradesh Labour and Employment Minister Shahid Manzoor faced a hostile crowd in Meerut's Kithaur constituency on Saturday when he visited a...

BSP-SP supporters clash in UP’s Meerut city

Lucknow, (IANS) : Supporters of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) clashed on Saturday in Meerut city of Uttar Pradesh over issues...

Yogi as CM is BJP’s message on ‘Hindu Rashtra’: Yechuri

Hyderabad, (IANS): CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechuri on Sunday said that by making Yogi Adityanath the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, the BJP and...

Adityanath government asks sugar mill owners to pay arrears to farmers

Lucknow, (IANS): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked sugar mill owners in the state to pay arrears of the previous and current...

यूपी चुनाव में मुस्लिम वोटों की ठेकेदारी का टेंडर ओपन

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net यूपी चुनाव में दूसरे चरण की अधिसूचना लागू हो चुकी है. खुद को सेकुलर कहने वाली सियासी पार्टियां सबसे अधिक परेशान...

सम्भल : यहां ओवैसी नहीं बर्क़ का है जलवा

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCirles.net सम्भल : यूपी के सम्भल में ओवैसी फैक्टर काम कर रहा है. ओवैसी की पार्टी ऑल इंडिया मजलिस-ए-इत्तेहादुल मुस्लिमीन (मजलिस) के उम्मीदवार ज़ियाउर्रहमान...

CPI-M flays BJP’s ‘communal rhetoric’ in Uttar Pradesh

New Delhi, (IANS): The CPI-M has accused the BJP of taking recourse to communal rhetoric in the ongoing assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. "The BJP's...

Lucknow, Feb 21 (IANS) In a fresh trouble for the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP),...

By Kushagra Dixit  New Delhi, (IANS): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's "Gujarat ke Gadhe (Donkeys of Gujarat)" jibe might have been meant to score points...

ओबरा और दुद्धी : कोर्ट ने कहा कि आदिवासी ही लड़ेंगे अपनी ज़मीन पर...

सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net ओबरा : सोनभद्र मंडल की दो विवादित विधानसभा सीटों - जिनमें ओबरा और दुद्धी शामिल हैं - पर इलाहाबाद हाई कोर्ट ने...

Akhilesh humiliated me like no one, alleges Mulayam

Lucknow, (IANS): Differences between Samajwadi Party (SP) founder Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Akhilesh Yadav came to the fore again on Saturday when...

Mayawati admits ‘lesser goon’ Mukhtar Ansari into BSP

Lucknow, (IANS) : Mafia don turned politician Mukhtar Ansari on Thursday joined the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) along with his son and brother ahead of...

गाज़ियाबाद : ‘मोदी जी ही यूपी के सीएम बनेंगे’

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net गाज़ियाबाद : प्रथम चरण का चुनाव प्रचार आज शाम 5 बजे थम गया है. इसी के साथ अब वोटरों में सक्रियता...

Despite loss, BSP’s politics of social justice is the only antidote to BJP’s communal...

By Sanjay Kumar for Twocircles.net The recent assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh (UP), one of the most populous states in India, has ushered in a...

SP-Congress combine may form next government in UP: Survey

New Delhi, (IANS) : The Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance is likely to gain majority with 187 to 197 seats and around 35 per cent vote...

Protest in Ghaziabad over alleged tampering with EVMs

Ghaziabad, (IANS): A group of about a hundred people on Tuesday protested outside District Magistrate Nidhi Kesarwani's office here, demanding that President Pranab Mukherjee...

UP polls: Key lies in Modi regaining the Muslim vote

By Amulya Ganguli A major reason why the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is believed to be finding it difficult to cross the finishing line with...

New Uttar Pradesh DGP takes charge, warns criminals

Lucknow, (IANS): Senior IPS officer Sulkhan Singh took charge as the 66th Director General of Police (DGP) of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. The 1980-batch officer,...

SP candidate’s son shot in UP

Lucknow, (IANS): The son of a Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate was shot and seriously injured in Uttar Pradesh's Mahoba district on Thursday morning, police...

BJP cheated people to come to power, Akhilesh alleges

Lucknow, (IANS): Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party (SP) President Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of cheating...

Yogi’s two most controversial decisions also most popular: Survey

New Delhi, (IANS): Unaffected by media outrage over the ban on illegal slaughterhouses and the creation of "anti-Romeo" squads, residents of Uttar Pradesh say...

Mayawati’s campaign turns a new leaf in UP

By Mohit Dubey  Lucknow, (IANS) : People change with times. In Uttar Pradesh, where voters are being wooed left and right, the most striking election...

वोटर बोले : ‘वोट उधर करेंगे, जिधर घर-पटीदार का वोट जाएगा’

सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net वाराणसी : मलदहिया पर बनारस का पुराना रॉयल इनफील्ड का शोरूम है. खुराना ऑटोमोबाइल्स के नाम से. आसपास लोहे के सामानों का...

‘Hindu caste coalition helped BJP more than Muslim division in UP’

By Mohd Asim Khan  New Delhi, (IANS): The BJP's success in consolidating Hindu votes of various castes has rendered any division of Muslim votes redundant...

मड़िहान : जहां काम नहीं, कमलापति त्रिपाठी और लोकपति त्रिपाठी का नाम बोलता है

सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net मीरजापुर : 'ललितेश मड़िहान के हीरो हैं. उनके यहां से जीतने में कोई दाग नहीं है,' हम मड़िहान बाज़ार में बात कर...

Budget offers nothing for poor, marginalised: Mayawati

Lucknow, (IANS) : Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Wednesday flayed the Union Budget and said that it had nothing for the poor...

मुस्लिम वोटों की मजबूरी में कांग्रेस से गठबंधन —सपा राष्ट्रीय उपाध्यक्ष किरणमय नंदा

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net लखनऊ : समाजवादी पार्टी के राष्ट्रीय उपाध्यक्ष किरणमय नंदा ने गठबंधन को लेकर एक चौंकाने वाला बयान दिया है. TwoCircles.net के...

Campaigning ends for last phase of UP elections

Lucknow, (IANS): Campaigning for the final phase of the seven-stage Uttar Pradesh assembly elections came to an end at 5 p.m. on Monday, bringing...

Raj Babbar offers to quit as UP Congress chief

New Delhi, (IANS): Congress Uttar Pradesh chief Raj Babbar on Wednesday offered to quit the post following the partys rout in assembly polls. "I take...

Hindu Yuva Vahini points at ‘ISI activities, Chinese incursion, Kashmir situation’ for disrupting church...

By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Maharajganj: The disruption of Church services at Maharajaganj brought the activities of Hindu Yuva Vahini into the limelight for all the...

‘Mayawati lost as she limited BSP to herself’

By Sushil Kumar  New Delhi, (IANS): The Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) had to face a "humiliating defeat" in Uttar Pradesh assembly elections chiefly because...

After EC, opposition leaders meet President on EVM issue

New Delhi, (IANS): Opposition leaders, including Congress President Sonia Gandhi, on Wednesday met President Pranab Mukherjee on the EVM issue and raised concern over...

People who stood at banks will now queue to reject BJP: Akhilesh

Bijnore, (IANS) : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday claimed that the people who were forced to stand in queues outside banks...

BJP’s victory in UP means only 25 Muslim candidates emerge victorious

By Twocirles.net Staff Reporter A landslide victory for the BJP in UP elections has come at a huge cost for Muslims representation in the state...

Am fine with Akhilesh, problems in SP: Mulayam

New Delhi: Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday insisted he had no differences with his son and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh...

No matter who it allies with, Congress unlikely to gain much in upcoming UP...

By Faisal Fareed, Twocircles.net In an era of coalition politics, all parties are looking forward to alliances with other parties to reap benefits in the...

UP voters rebelling against politics of SP, BSP and Congress: Jaitley

Varanasi, (IANS): Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday claimed a groundswell of support in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and said...

BJP slams Akhilesh over SC order against tainted Minister

Lucknow, (IANS): Hours after the Supreme Court ordered the Uttar Pradesh police to file an FIR against Transport Minister Gayatri Prajapati in an alleged...

दंगों के बाद क्या होगा मुज़फ्फरनगर में चुनाव का रुख?

आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net मुज़फ्फरनगर : ये शहर अब चुनावों में उतर रहा है, लेकिन सच है कि इस इलाके ने चुनाव के पहले क़त्लेआम...

First phase polling in UP ends, over 60% turnout

Lucknow, (IANS) : Barring a few incidents of violence, the first phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh ended peacefully on Saturday with over 60...

यूपी चुनाव में उतरेंगे आसाराम के बेटे नारायण साईँ, बनारस से लड़ सकते हैं...

By TCN News वाराणसी : आसाराम बापू के बेटे और सूरत की दो लड़कियों के बलात्कार के आरोप में जेल की सजा काट रहे नारायण...

Mayawati, Akhilesh indifferent to Dalits’ plight: Minister

Lucknow, (IANS) : Union Minister for Social Justice Thawar Chand Gehlot on Monday lashed out at the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) government and the Bahujan...

BJP MLAs to elect new UP Chief Minister on Saturday

Lucknow, (IANS): The newly-elected legislators of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will meet in the state capital on Saturday to elect the new Chief...

जयापुर : मोदी का आदर्श ग्राम जहां प्राइमरी स्कूल में सूत कताई केंद्र चलता...

सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net वाराणसी : जयापुर प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी का पहला आदर्श ग्राम है और मैं यहां पांचवीं बार जा रहा हूं. नरेंद्र मोदी के...

आधा प्रतापगढ़ इस बार जाति और शांति पर वोट कर रहा है

सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net प्रतापगढ़: प्रतापगढ़ की राजनीति पर बात करने के लिए आपको दो नाम ज़रूर लेने होंगे, राजा भईया और प्रमोद तिवारी. लेकिन इन...

Congress-SP differences on seat sharing will be ironed out: Congress

New Delhi, (IANS) : As deadlock over seat-sharing continued to dog the Congress-Samajwadi Party alliance in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress on Thursday said that...

बूचड़खानों पर तालाबंदी के साथ मुसलमानों के बड़े रोजगार पर संकट

आस मोहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net पश्चिमी उत्तर प्रदेश के कई जिलों से : मेरठ के रहने वाले हाजी तौफ़ीक कहते हैं, 'हम पुश्तों से इस कारोबार...

UP CM orders review of Yash Bharti Awards

Lucknow, (IANS): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered a review of the prestigious Yash Bharti Awards that were started by Samajwadi Party...

BJP MLA kin held with pistol in polling booth

Lucknow, (IANS) : Gagan Som, brother of senior BJP leader and Sardhana legislator Sangeet Som was detained on Saturday after a pistol was recovered from...

मुस्लिम सियासी पार्टियों के ‘इत्तेहाद फ्रंट’ में नहीं है कोई ‘इत्तेहाद’

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net साल 2015 में उत्तर प्रदेश की चार मुस्लिम सियासी पार्टियों ने इत्तेहाद फ्रंट नाम से एक राजनीतिक गठबंधन का ऐलान किया...

In Noida, many find their names missing from voters list

By Sidhartha Dutta Noida, (IANS) : There was evident enthusiasm among voters in Noida which went to the polls in the first phase of the Uttar...

Dear BJP, spare us the moral high ground: your politics is no different from...

By Mohammed Rehan Ansari for Twocircles.net The UP elections show that Narendra Modi’s charisma and Amit Shah’s strategies rolled over the new-born Samajwadi Party, the...

30 जनवरी के दिन भी लावारिस रही रामपुर की गांधी समाधि

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net रामपुर : आपको जितना हैरानी ये जानकर होगी कि राष्ट्रपिता महात्मा गांधी की एक समाधि यूपी के रामपुर ज़िले में है,...

UP CM Adityanath may face trial following Allahabad High Court decision

TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Lucknow : A city-based human rights organisation Rihai Manch has welcomed the decision of Allahabad High Court asking the Uttar Pradesh government...

Attempts being made to turn Western UP into Kashmir: Yogi Adityanath

Hapur (Uttar Pradesh), (IANS) : Raking up the issue of "exodus" of Hindus from western Uttar Pradesh, BJP leader Yogi Adityanath said on Monday that...

Sonia’s absence in UP clear sign of generational shift: Congress

New Delhi, (IANS): Remaining silent on party President Sonia Gandhi's absence from poll campaign in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress on Wednesday said "it was...

SP-Congress government will represent youth, farmers: Rahul

Rae Bareli, (IANS): Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the Samajwadi Party (SP)-Congress alliance government in Uttar Pradesh post-elections to the state...

कुंडा और रामपुर खास : किससे क्या बात करेंगे और क्या लिखेंगे?

सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net प्रतापगढ़ : बाबागंज विधानसभा के संग्रामगढ़ गांव में एक मीटिंग आयोजित की गयी है. मीटिंग नहीं है, जनसभा है लेकिन लोग इसे...

UP needs to get rid of ‘KaSaB’, says Amit Shah

Lucknow, (IANS) : Coining an acronym to denote the Congress, the SP and the BSP with the name of the executed 26/11 attacker, BJP...

UP results likely to impact Congress thinking on alliances

By Sidhartha Dutta  New Delhi, (IANS): The Congress has much at stake in the outcome of assembly elections in five states, particularly Uttar Pradesh, where its...

फूलपुर, प्रतापपुर और हंडिया : जहां सपा और भाजपा ध्रुवीकरण और जातिवाद का लाभ...

सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net इलाहाबाद : फूलपुर विधानसभा के वोटर श्याम सिंह बताते हैं, 'सपा का टिकट मुसलमान को, बसपा का टिकट मुसलमान को. हमको आप...

बुंदेलखंड : वोट के लिए दलितों को प्रताड़ित कर रहे हैं भाजपा प्रत्याशी

प्रियंका कोटमराजू और अंशु ललित, TwoCircles.net बुंदेलखंड : 'वोट नहीं दोगे, तो देख लेंगे. सरकारी नल से पानी नहीं पीने देंगे, सरकारी रोड पर चलने...

इस बार दरक सकता है आज़म खान का रामपुर क़िला

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net रामपुर : इतिहास के आईने में रामपुर एक शहर या ज़िले का नाम नहीं, बल्कि मील के पत्थर की तरह ख़ास है. आज...

Prohibition on exit polls extended till March 9

New Delhi, (IANS): The Election Commission on Saturday extended the ban on exit polls for the assembly elections in Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand and...

Polling begins amid tight security for 73 seats in UP

Lucknow, (IANS) : Polling for 73 assembly constituencies spread across 15 districts in western Uttar Pradesh began at 7.00 a.m. on Saturday amid tight...

BJP leaders wear their love for saffron at manifesto release

By Mohit Dubey  Lucknow, (IANS) : Colours have their own charm and significance. In politics, especially in Uttar Pradesh, they enjoy a super special status...

SP leader Ambika Chowdhary joins BSP

Lucknow (IANS) : Senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader and former minister in the state government Ambika Chowdhary on Saturday switched allegiance to the Bahujan Samaj...

Rahul-Akhilesh Varanasi road show cancelled

Lucknow, (IANS) : The much-awaited road show on Friday by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi in Varanasi...

Rahul’s ‘little down’ an existential crisis for Congress in UP

By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, (IANS): On Tuesday, as Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi described the poll outcome in Uttar Pradesh as "a little down", he...

Yogi gives UP’s bureaucracy the jitters

By Mohit Dubey  Lucknow, (IANS): For the burgeoning and slack bureaucracy of India's most populous state, peace of mind is the first casualty after the...

‘SP misusing state machinery to manipulate elections’

New Delhi, (IANS) : Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Monday accused the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party of misusing the administration and its officers...

Congress backs out from approaching EC over Modi’s remarks

New Delhi, (IANS): The Congress on Monday backed out from approaching the Election Commission (EC) against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's controversial "graveyard and cremation...

BJP takes early leads in UP

Lucknow, (IANS): The BJP took an early lead in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday as officials began counting the millions of votes cast in the...

EC cracks whips, transfers officials in UP

Lucknow, (IANS) : Hours before the first phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh, the Election Commission (EC) on Friday cracked the whip on the...

Demonetisation may hurt BJP in UP’s Shahjahanpur

By Anand Singh Shahjahanpur, (IANS): Suresh Khanna, the BJP candidate from Uttar Pradeshs Shahjahanpur, is seeking his eighth consecutive election victory in this urban constituency...

Shivpal Yadav not in SP’s list of star campaigners

Lucknow, (IANS) : Former Samajwadi Party (SP) state president Shivpal Singh Yadav does not figure in the list of 40 'star campaigners' issued by...

Muslims produce more children as they are unemployed: Azam Khan

Lucknow, (IANS): Muslims have so many children since they had no other work to do, Uttar Pradesh's Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mohd...

Muslim women and children beaten, asked to leave community park in Meerut

By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Meerut: With the appointment of Hindu hardliner Yogi Adityanath as the Chief Minister, events and actions have started adversely affecting the...

मोदी रैली करते रहें और किसान अनशन…

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net गाज़ियाबाद : प्रधानमंत्री मोदी इन दिनों अपने चुनावी सभा में किसानों के हित में खूब बोल रहे हैं. बुधवार को भी गाजियाबाद...

Rahul-Akhilesh to begin joint poll campaign on Sunday

Lucknow, (IANS) : Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav will hold a joint road show here in Uttar Pradesh on...

Yogi’s ‘No Agent’ rule causes chaos at RTO

Ghaziabad, (IANS): Chaos gripped the Regional Transport Office (RTO) here on Wednesday after it enforced Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's 'No Agent' policy...

UP casts 11% votes till 9 a.m. in 5th phase

Lucknow, (IANS): Around 11 per cent of 1.84 crore voters exercised their franchise in the first two hours of polling on Monday for the...

Congress releases another list of 29 candidates for UP polls

Lucknow, (IANS) : The Congress on Thursday released another list of 29 candidates for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. The list released by party National General...

Parties pull out all stops to win ‘crucial’ western Uttar Pradesh

By Mohit Dubey  Meerut (Uttar Pradesh), (IANS) : With the crucial first phase elections in western Uttar Pradesh just a week away, all parties have...

Former Union minister Akhilesh Das dead

New Delhi, (IANS): Former Union minister and Congress leader Akhilesh Das passed away after suffering heart attack in Lucknow on Wednesday, a party source...

Campaigning for first phase of UP polls ends, security tightened

Lucknow, (IANS) : Campaigning for the 73 assembly segments that go to polls in the first phase of the crucial Uttar Pradesh assembly elections...

BJP list: Rajnath’s son to contest in Noida

New Delhi (IANS) : The BJP on Sunday released its second list of 155 candidates for the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, fielding Home Minister...

Success of Apna Dal, Bhartiya Samaj Party shows caste politics well and truly alive...

By Faisal Fareed, Twocircles.net Uttar Pradesh assembly polls have also given chance for two smaller parties to expand their wings. In the caste-ridden Hindi belt,...

Education failure, leading reason for UP job woes, isn’t an election issue

By Shreya Shah Bahraich and Mirzapur districts (Uttar Pradesh): "Path mera alokit kardo, naval prath ki naval rashmiyon se, mere ur ka tam har do,"...

Adityanath as CM is shocking, says New York Times

New York, (IANS): The decision to pick Hindutva leader Adityanath Yogi as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh shows the BJP thinks "nothing stands in...

मीरजापुर : एकतरफ़ा लड़ाई की ओर बढ़ती सीट

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