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‘Pleased that members are raising relevant issues’—UP assembly speaker on 24-hr Vision 2047 debate

Speaker Satish Mahana's remarks come after a 24-hr-long session on the document, which promises that UP would become 'the most developed state' in the country by 2047.

Why Modi-Shah can’t do to Yogi in 2024 what Vajpayee did to Kalyan Singh in 1999

The RSS loved both poster boys of Hindutva—Kalyan Singh & Yogi Adityanath. Singh faced rebellion from within the BJP after 1999 polls. Yogi is also under siege from within after 2024 polls.

What is Uttar Pradesh’s Nazul Property Bill and why BJP lawmakers are opposing it

Politicians, especially from Prayagraj region, have hit out at Yogi govt for the bill which empowers state to reclaim Nazul govt properties leased out to pvt individuals & entities.

SP MLA Abdullah Azam Khan disqualified from UP Assembly over 2008 case

Samajwadi Party veteran Azam Khan's son was earlier disqualified in 2020 after the Allahabad High Court set aside his election to the Assembly.

Why Rampur turned against Azam Khan & voted BJP — ‘corruption, instigation, economic decline’

This month's bypoll, necessitated by Khan's conviction in hate speech case, saw a Hindu candidate, BJP's Akash Saxena, win in the Muslim-majority constituency for the first time.

‘Unconstitutional’ — 3 BJP MPs skip UP speaker’s meeting, lay bare in-fighting in state unit

Kanpur MP Satyadev Pachauri, Akbarpur MP Devendra Singh Bhole & Misrikh MP Ashok Singh Rawat wrote to CM Adityanath claiming review meeting by Satish Mahana to be 'against parliamentary traditions'.

Samajwadi Party rebel MLA Nitin Agrawal elected UP assembly deputy speaker

BJP-backed candidate Nitin Agrawal defeated Narendra Verma, the official candidate of Samjawadi Party, by 244 votes. The opposition BSP and Congress MLAs had boycotted the election.

SP’s Nitin Agarwal files nomination for UP assembly deputy speaker post in BJP leaders’ presence

Uttar Pradesh will get its first Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly after a gap of over 14 years.

UP speaker says ‘quoted out of context’ as his Mahatma Gandhi-Rakhi Sawant remark sparks row

At a BJP event Saturday, speaker Hriday Narayan Dixit said if people could become great just by shedding clothes, Rakhi Sawant would have been a taller personality than Gandhi.

How Mayawati, Priyanka or Akhilesh could defeat Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh in 2022

The challenge before the three opposition leaders in UP is to convert a four-cornered contest into a two-cornered one.

On Camera

Why SIR is an exclusionary exercise for Persons with Disabilities

In the ongoing SIR 2.0 exercise, nearly half of the 90 lakh registered PwD voters in India were affected, showed an RTI application.

Antitrust watchdog Competition Commission to probe IndiGo flight disruptions

While the commission didn’t mention provisions under which IndiGo's market domination would be examined, Competition Act 2002 prohibits abuse of dominant position by any enterprise.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.