In the Uttar Pradesh constituency of Ghazipur, the late Mukhtar Ansari, a mafia don-turned-politician, remains a significant topic as his b...

The Supreme Court has allowed MLA Abbas Ansari to attend a private prayer service in remembrance of his late father, Mukhtar Ansari, in Gha...

The Supreme Court closed proceedings on jailed politician Mukhtar Ansari's plea against a 24-year-old case's verdict, noting his demise. An...

Jailed gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari passed away from a heart attack in Banda. Ansari, 63, faced 65 criminal charges, including murder...

An MP MLA court in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur on Saturday convicted jailed mafia Mukhtar Ansari in a kidnapping and murder case pertaining to...

These include Dhananjay Singh (Malhani), Vijay Mishra (Gyanpur), Yash Bhadra Singh Monu (Isauli) and Amarmani Tripathi (Nautanwa), son of P...

Campaigning in this phase reached its crescendo with Prime Minister Narendra Modi leading the BJP's poll blitzkrieg in Varanasi and its adj...

Voting for the seventh and final phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections covering 54 seats, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ...

The campaigning in the last phase reached its crescendo with Prime Minister Narendra Modi leading the BJP's poll blitzkrieg in Varanasi and...

The government schemes that have benefitted a large number of people in these constituencies are also a factor, more so among the smaller b...

All six assembly constituencies under the Banda Lok Sabha seat -- four in Banda and two in adjacent Chitrakoot - are currently held by the ...

All the railway stations and railway crossings falling in Ghazipur district have got a new look. Besides, a new zonal training institute an...

There are 635 candidates, including 63 women, vying for laurels. Around 1.72 crore voters, including 94.60 lakh men and 77.84 lakh women, a...

SP has a few sitting MLAs from upper castes in this region. A prime example is former minister Om Prakash Singh, considered to be SP’s Thak...

These four castes are considered among the least empowered in the OBC category and if coalesced can impact over 30 seats in the last two ph...

SBSP is a little-known party founded by Rajbhar, a former BSP leader. In eastern UP, the Rajbhar community constitutes about 18 per cent of...

"The prime minister and home minister were of the view that the encounter was true. That's why I did not press it further," Singh said.