Uttar Pradesh

Saharanpur, Feb 7 (PTI) The official website of the Islamic seminary Darul Uloom at Deoband in the Saharanpur district was banned on Monday.

The ban was imposed by District Magistrate Akhilesh Singh who had been asked by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights to probe into an alleged diktat over the issue of legal rights of adopted children on their parent's property, an official said.

Kanpur:  At his public contact campaign in the Cantt assembly constituency here, the Samajwadi Party candidate Hassan Rumi assured every voter to resolve issues related to the area. 

Seeking elders' blessings he did not fail to exhort youths to lend their support in the assembly elections.

He covered several localities of the area during his recent campaign.

Many are believing that his success in the coming elections exists side-by-side with his wider popularity among the people. 

He is a well-read candidate. He holds an LL.B.degree.

Lucknow, Feb 8 (PTI) The BJP has developed its poll narratives around Hindutva and development in the battle for Uttar Pradesh and the Samajwadi Party on welfare schemes based on socialism, but the core of their poll strategies appears to be caste arithmetic and communal faultlines.

Kanpur: The Income Tax Department has reportedly conducted raids at the offices of a Kanpur-based jeweller Rajender Aggarwal and recovered a huge amount of cash.

According to the information, the search operation is going on for the last twenty four hours.

The IT sources claimed that the jeweller has not given any satisfactory answer in this regard.

The IT teams reached Swaroop Nagar and his residential address at the Civil Lines area and began scanning various important papers.

Bijnor (UP), Feb 7 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first physical rally in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh on Monday was cancelled due to inclement weather and he will now virtually address the election meeting, BJP sources said.

Arrangements had been made at the Bardaman college ground here for the prime minister's rally but due to bad weather he could not arrive here, they said.

The prime minister would now address the people virtually.

Kanpur: Two smugglers of turtles were caught during a checking push on Ramadevi flyover here. As many as 1868 turtles were recovered.

They were identified as Javed and Mohammad Farookh, both residents of Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district.

Kanpur STF received specific information about these smugglers. The checking on the basis of the input was done on the Ramadevi flyover here.

Soon, a truck was seized by the officials conducting the checking. The arrested ones were smuggling these turtles under the pretext of mica.

Prayagraj, Feb 5 (PTI) Braving the cold and the coronavirus pandemic, around 15.5 lakh devotees bathed in the icy waters of the Ganga river and at Sangam here till 8 pm on Saturday on the occasion of Basant Panchami, the fourth major bathing festival of the ongoing Magh Mela.

Officials said devotees started thronging the river banks in the early hours of the day and they continued to arrive in huge numbers for a holy dip.

Lucknow, Feb 6 (PTI) The BJP on Sunday postponed the release of its manifesto for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls in view of death of legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar, state party president Swatantra Dev Singh said.

The manifesto release programme was scheduled at the BJP office here at 10.15 am, and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya and state party president had gathered for it.

Kanpur: Political parties are following varied gimmicks to lure young voters in this episode of the UP assembly polls.

Reportedly there are registered more than 33 thousand young voters who will exercise their vote for the first time.

What requires to be focused upon is increasing the voting percentage on different seats here.

According to the information a target of 70 percent voting has been recommended. For it there proceeds awareness programmes. Even children are being motivated to inspire their parents to vote for.

Kanpur: The Sisamau assembly here is the Samajwadi Party stronghold.

A triangular election will be held for the  assembly seat.

The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress have laid siege to the seat.

This time, winning the seat for the Samajwadi Party will be challenging.

The assembly elections in the seat are very engaging, with BJP and Congress entering the fray.

The three-time Samajwadi Party MLA Irfan Solanki is encircled by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress ace candidates into the battle of ballots.