North India

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."

As the Election Commission on Saturday announced dates for Assembly polls in five states, farmer leaders said that people are unhappy with the BJP and it will play a decisive role in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh elections.

Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday urged the Election Commission (EC) to release funds for virtual campaigning to political parties that do not have the "digital infrastructure to compete with the BJP."

Delhi Police Sunday arrested a Madhya Pradesh man Aumkareshwar Thakur who is the alleged creator of the application 'Sulli Deals' - a GitHub App targeted hundreds of Muslim women.

Rajeshwar Singh, the joint director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at its zonal office in Lucknow, took voluntary retirement from government service and is expected to join the BJP and contest the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.

Delhi reported 20,181 fresh coronavirus cases and seven more deaths on Saturday.

The Chhattisgarh Police on Friday ordered a probe into a video showing Hindu group taking an oath to economically boycott Muslims.

Former Rajya Sabha MP Mohmmad Adeeb, who had filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the local Hindus' attack against namaz in Gurgaon, decided to move court against the FIR lodged against him.

Navjot Singh Sidhu said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's security is deliberately being made an issue to divert attention from the fact that chairs remained vacant at the public meeting in Ferozepur that PM Modi was slated to attend on Wednesday.

The Delhi Police on Thursday arrested a 20-year-old Neeraj Bishnoi from Assam, who is allegedly the mastermind behind the ‘Bulli Bai‘– a GitHub app targeting hundreds of Muslim women.

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi has skipped the rally in Punjab’s Ferozepur, as the “road was blocked by some protestors,” Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, while addressing a press conference, clarified that there were neither any security lapses nor any attempt to attack PM Modi.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has skipped the rally in Punjab’s Ferozepur, as "road was blocked by some protestors," a statement by the Ministry of Home Affairs said.