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The former Kanpur police commissioner had in January opted for voluntary retirement from the service and joined the BJP, which has fielded him from the Kannauj (Sadar) seat for the polls.

Punjab is all set for its February 20 assembly poll battle among the political bigwigs – Congress's Charanjit Singh Channi, AAP's Bhagwant Mann, SAD's Sukhbir Singh Badal, along with Captain Amarinder Singh. Who will Punjab pick this time?

Nicaraguan lawmakers loyal to President Daniel Ortega on Monday passed legislation allowing the state to take over six universities the government effectively shut down last week, in a move critics say entrench authoritarianism.

The Assembly polls in the state are scheduled for February 20.

Cash amounting to Rs 35 lakh was seized from a car at the Kumher border between Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan here on Friday, police said. "Imran, the driver of the car, failed to furnish details about the money," Superintendent of Police (rural) Shrish C...

The BJP has argued that students should not be allowed to wear religious symbols in the classroom, while the Congress slammed the saffron party for "creating" hijab controversy.

Parliament LIVE Updates: Owaisi appealed the government to end hate and radicalisation and charged the culprits with UAPA.

Airline and tourism groups are pushing to eliminate the government requirement that international travelers provide a negative test for COVID19 before boarding a U.S.bound plane.

Addressing the Lok Sabha, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi also targeted PM Narendra Modi and said that the 'idea of a king is back'.

Biren Singh also said a ground reality for the removal of AFSPA has to be created and mutual understanding between the state and Centre should be reached. ‘AFSPA has to be repealed.’

While leaders in the ruling BJP hailed the budget calling it 'inclusive' and 'pro-growth', opposition parties such as Congress and TMC said it did not fulfil needs of the common man.

The way BJP and JD-U shared the seats among themselves and did not consider any other alliance partner is disheartening for the HAM, Manjhi said.

Although two sitting Muslim legislators from Congress are in the fray from Haridwar district, AIMIM, SP and BSP have fielded 18 Muslim candidates in Haridwar district and elsewhere.

Such posters and banners bearing photographs of senior leaders of the three parties seeking votes for the consensus candidates are now seen in Kotia region.

While SP and BSP are banking on the Jat-Muslim combination, the BJP is also wooing non-Jat Hindus in western UP, hoping that their combined support is enough to challenge the sheer numbers of Jats and Muslims that may get fragmented among Opposition.

Ohio offered Intel Corp. incentives worth roughly $2 billion to secure a new $20 billion chipmaking factory that the company says will help alleviate a global shortage and create a new technology hub in the Midwest.