Maktoob Staff

Ahead of Assembly election in the state, Uttar Pradesh minister Swami Prasad Maurya quit BJP and joined Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party on Tuesday.

Demanding the repeal of draconian AFSPA, hundreds of Nagas from different walks of life on Monday joined a two-day walkathon from state’s commercial hub Dimapur to state capital Kohima, a distance of more than 75 kilometers.

The complainant in the Bulli Bai case on Sunday submitted a written complaint to the Mumbai Cyber police Crime Branch after receiving threats from an unknown caller.

The detention camp, sited within a US naval base on the island, was set up in 2002 to house prisoners captured in Afghanistan, and at its peak housed some 780 people, most of whom were detained without trial.

Samajwadi Party (SP) on Sunday urged the Election Commission of India to remove four top officials of the Uttar Pradesh government from their posts immediately for "fair and unbiased election."

Former Delhi University professor and human rights defender G.N. Saibaba, who is serving a life term in the Nagpur Central Prison for alleged links with Maoists, has tested positive for COVID-19 for the second time during the pandemic.