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LUCKNOW: The suspense on who will lead India's largest state government over here on Saturday after the BJP picked Yogi Adityanath as the Uttar Pradesh chief minister. The decision was taken after a meeting at 4 PM at Lok Bhawan that saw…

Manoj Sinha seems to be Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah’s choice to be Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. In neighbouring Uttarakhand, Trivendra Singh Rawat, national secretary of the party, could be the party's…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, fresh from his landslide election victory in Uttar Pradesh, now has a chance to advance his economic reform agenda. Voters in Uttar Pradesh handed Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) the biggest majority for…

New Delhi: The Election Commission on Thursday reiterated that electronic voting machines (EVMs) were tamper proof and termed the allegations by some political parties as “baseless, speculative and wild”. “It is not for the first time…

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today held that the Centre's decision to ban Zakir Naik's Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) was taken to safeguard national security as it dismissed its plea challenging the ban. Holding that Naik's…