UP MLA Abbas Ansari loses seat after court conviction in hate speech caseAbbas Ansari, a legislator from the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party, has been disqualified from the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly follo...
01 Jun, 2025, 02.08 PM IST
Mukhtar Ansari's MLA son Abbas sentenced to two-year jail in hate speech caseAbbas Ansari, son of gangster Mukhtar Ansari, received a two-year sentence in a 2022 hate speech case. A special MP-MLA court delivered the...
31 May, 2025, 06.58 PM IST
BJP's caste strategy put back on table in Uttar PradeshFollowing a loss in the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP is reviewing its caste strategy in the state by promoting leaders fro...
07 Jun, 2024, 12.05 AM IST
Who was Mukhtar Ansari? From a Indian Army Brigadier's grandson to BHU student leader to a gangster-politicianJailed gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari passed away from a heart attack in Banda. Ansari, 63, faced 65 criminal charges, including murder...
29 Mar, 2024, 02.03 PM IST
OP Rajbhar distances himself from party MLA Abbas Ansari arrested by EDThe ED had arrested Abbas Ansari, 30, son of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, after a long questioning session at the agency's of...
06 Nov, 2022, 04.48 PM IST
Govt taking action against those who damaged Mau like 'termites': UP CM AdityanathWithout taking any name, Adityanath said, "These mafias and their people have committed the sin of obstructing the development of this area...
08 Sep, 2022, 05.59 PM IST
Allahabad High Court rejects anticipatory bail plea of Mukhtar Ansari's MLA son AbbasThe court asked Abbas Ansari, MLA from Mau seat, to surrender before the concerned court which shall decide his plea expeditiously.
29 Aug, 2022, 04.34 PM IST
55.13 pc voter turnout recorded in seventh phase of UP Assembly pollsVoting started at 7 am. It ended at 4 pm in the Chakia (Chandauli), Robertsganj and the Duddhi (Sonbhadra) seats, while in the rest of the ...
07 Mar, 2022, 09.15 PM IST
UP polls: Mukhtar Ansari not in fray this time but remains centre of attentionUnion Home Minister Amit Shah and other BJP leaders have been taking Mukhtar Ansari's name to attack the Samajwadi Party on the issue of la...
27 Feb, 2022, 10.08 AM IST
Bahujan Samaj Party announces candidates on 47 seats for seventh phase of UP pollsThe Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has attempted to strike a fine caste balance in its list of candidates. The Mayawati-led party has fielded it...
13 Feb, 2022, 07.35 PM IST
Voting for UP polls' sixth phase ends; around 60% turnout recordedAccording to officials, 58.67 per cent polling was logged in Kushinagar, 58 per cent in Azamgarh and Gorakhpur while in Ballia, 57.27 per c...
04 Mar, 2017, 06.53 PM IST
48.73% votes cast till 3 PM in phase VI of Uttar Pradesh pollsThere 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...
04 Mar, 2017, 04.21 PM IST
BSP giving tough fight to SP for Muslim supportThe active campaigning by the Ulema Council leaders in favour of BSP does not augur well for the SP in its bastion in Azamgarh.
03 Mar, 2017, 01.42 AM IST
Poll pourri: Local dons carve out their dens in eastern UPBJP has given tickets to several candidates from Most Backward Castes (MBCs) in the areas under the influence of Ansari brothers.
27 Feb, 2017, 01.16 AM IST
Mukhtar Ansari's QED: Akhilesh's loss or Mayawati's gain ?Mayawati had no qualms in allowing merger of Quami Ekta Dal (QED) in her party for a bigger electoral gains.
31 Jan, 2017, 02.01 PM IST
Samajwadi Party's list of 77 nominees, leaves 3 seats for Congress in RaebareliCongress and Samajwadi Party today forged an alliance to contest the polls together with SP contesting 298 of the 403 seats and Congress th...
22 Jan, 2017, 08.28 PM IST
Dayashankar Singh released from Mau jail, dares MayawatiThe leader, who was arrested for allegedly making derogatory comments against the BSP chief last month, was today released from Mau jail.
07 Aug, 2016, 09.38 PM IST