The Latest Breaking News from Uttar Pradesh

Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the world's longest river Cruise, MV Ganga Vilas in Varanasi via video conferencing on Friday. Read on for details:

It was 1978. Kuldip Nayar, then an editor at the Indian Express, had written an editorial on the army regime in Pakistan after a trip to the neighbouring country. A boy based in Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh shot him a critical letter.

The Uttar Pradesh police yesterday arrested Manish Jagan Agrawal, a Samajwadi Party leader, following a complaint filed by Richa Rajput, head of social media for the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha – the BJP’s youth wing. Agrawal is alleged to be the person behind “offensive” tweets posted by his party’s media…

MAU (UTTAR PRADESH): A 35-year-old grandson of former MLA late Kedar Singh was beaten to death by seven-eight people in a village under Kopaganj Police Station area in Uttar Pradesh's Mau, police said on Sunday.

KANPUR: A truck driver was killed while the driver and attendant of another truck suffered critical wounds after their vehicles collided head-on due to fog on the Tanda-Banda highway early Sunday in Tindwari area of Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district.

FARRUKHABAD (UP): Two persons were killed and five others injured when a bus collided head-on with a truck due to dense fog in Uttar Pradesh's Farrukhabad on Sunday, police said.

LUCKNOW: The BJP reached out to 30,000 SC/ST dominated villages of Uttar Pradesh – which is almost 40% of the target set by the party nationally (75,000 villages) – under its ambitious ‘Basti Sampark Abhiyan’ organised last year.

Cold wave retains its hold in Kanpur, Prayagraj, Varanasi, Lucknow and in other cities of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday as the mercury drops. Read on for details:

Supreme Court stays Allahabad High Court’s order directing the Uttar Pradesh government to hold local urban bodies elections in the State without granting reservation to OBCs. Read on for details: