Uttar Pradesh

Kanpur: All political parties are active in  making strategies for the upcoming this year's U P Assembly elections. Beyond doubts the Congress party wants to regain its loss under the leadership of the party in charge and General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi, while BJP too wants to repeat it's feat here.

However, factionalism does prevail within the Congress party. The organisation has to bear the brunt because of this factor.

As many as 10 Assembly seats exist in Kanpur. But the Govind Nagar Assembly seat remains in the news.

Mathura, Jan 14 (PTI) Apprehending unlawful activities in the district, prohibitory orders under Section 144 were promulgated here with immediate effect, top district authorities on Friday said.

Prohibitory orders will remain in force till March 12, Navneet Singh Chahal, District Magistrate Mathura said.

He said the orders have been imposed under apprehension of unlawful activities during festivals of different communities and few competitive examinations scheduled to take place.

Lucknow, Jan 14 (PTI) Former Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister and prominent OBC leader Swami Prasad Maurya on Friday joined the Samajwadi Party along with another rebel minister Dharam Singh Saini.

Five BJP MLAs and Apna Dal (Sonelal) legislator Amar Singh Chaudhary also joined the SP in the presence of Akhilesh Yadav.

Kanpur: The leaders, activists and party workers have been making door to door campaigning given the declaration of the assembly elections' date.

A viral video of Govindnagar MLA Surendra Maithani has been going viral here.

He approached his supporter's space where he was bathing. He was shaping himself when the politician reached near him.

The politician asked several questions as the person in the picture was seen bathing.

Though the video is of short duration it has attracted attention on a large level.

Sultanpur (UP), Jan 12 (PTI) A local court on Wednesday here issued an arrest warrant against BJP MLA Swami Prasad Maurya, who recently resigned as cabinet minister, in a seven year old case.

The case was lodged against Maurya in 2014 for allegedly making objectionable comments against Hindu gods.

The MP-MLA court Judge Yogesh Kumar Yadav issued the warrant against him after he did not attend the court hearing on Wednesday.

New Delhi, Jan 13 (PTI) Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday released the party's first list of 125 candidates, including 50 women, for the upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

The party has also fielded Unnao rape victim's mother Asha Singh from the Unnao Assembly constituency.

Addressing a press conference, she said 40 per cent of the Congress candidates are women and another 40 percent are youth and by doing so the party is making a new and historic beginning.

Firozabad (UP), Jan 13 (PTI) In a fresh jolt to the BJP, Dr Mukesh Verma, MLA from Shikohabad Assembly constituency here, on Thursday resigned from the primary membership of the party alleging 'lack of respect' by the government towards backward classes and Dalits.

Verma is the seventh legislator, including two ministers, to have resigned from the BJP over the last three days.

Kanpur: Although Omicron spread is not as much dangerous as Covid's Delta version yet there is an urgent need for a face mask and distance from the crowd.

The restrictions have certainly been imposed on one and all.

What people are reacting upon wearing the mandatory face mask is that they have not necessarily been able to recognise the person coming across face to face suddenly.

One said that he did not recognise the middle-aged man wearing the face mask at sudden presence promptly

Shamli, Jan 12 (PTI) A teenager was raped by a 50-year-old man in a sugarcane field in Unn area of the district, police said.

The incident happened on Tuesday when the 16-year-old girl has gone to cut grass in the fields, they said.

The accused is absconding and the girl has been sent for medical examination, the police said.

A case has been registered and probe is on, they added.

Sultanpur (UP), Jan 11 (PTI) A court here has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for raping a minor girl two years ago and filming the act to prevent her from telling anyone about it.

The court of Special Judge, Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, Pawan Kumar Sharma also slapped a fine of Rs 51,000 on the convict, Suraj Saroj.