PM Modi was in Azamgarh to lay the foundation stone for the 340-km Purvanchal Expressway which will connect Lucknow with Ghazipur at a cost of Rs 23,000 crore. Modi then left for Varanasi where he inaugurated a slew of development projects.

Additional Chief Secretary, Information, Awanish Awasthi said that the loan would be repaid in 48 installments with three years moratorium.

The bypolls hold importance as the opposition parties were hoping to repeat the Karnataka formula this time. Analysts are also calling it a referendum to the BJP before the 2019 General Elections.

While Congress' strong social media campaign garnered a few laughs, it failed to create the necessary impact.

Among the states where polling is underway are: Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka, Telangana, Jharkhand, and Chhattisgarh. The voting will continue till 4 pm and counting of votes will be taken up at 5 pm.

The Lok Sabha today passed without discussion the Finance Bill 2018 anda Rs 89.25 lakh crore spending plan for the next fiscal year beginningApril 1, all in a matter of 25 minutes during which opposition partiesshouted slogans and created the din.

Gorakhpur and Phulpur are high-profile constituencies as both the seats were represented by BJP's firebrand leader and current UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya respectively.

BJP mayor candidates in Varanasi and Lucknow are leading. At both the seats Samajwadi Party candidates are at second place. The BJP is also leading in newly formed Ayodhya Nagar Nigam.

Mumbai witnessed a standstill as members of Maratha Kranti Morcha began their protests in the city. Lakhs of members of this politically powerful community are taking out their first 'mook morcha' or silent protest in Mumbai to pitch for reservation in jobs and colleges.

Call it a political manoeuvring or Nitish Kumar's opportunism, but one has to concede that the Grand Alliance was never a serious alternative due to weak agenda and whatever weight it carried - with the stalwart like Nitish Kumar - is now completely gone.

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Weighing around 60 gm, the packet was reportedly found under the seat of Samajwadi Party MLA Manoj Pandey.

The new taxation system will be launched with the beating of a gong when the clock strikes 12.

\"The world will witness a transformation (in India) and how all the political parties subscribing to different ideologies united for the implementation of the GST,\" he said.

During the previous Samajwadi Party regime, total wheat purchase was just 7.9 thousand metric tonnes, BJP's state spokesman Shalabh Mani Tripathi claimed.

The latest report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India or CAG noted that this took place despite the flagship unemployment allowance scheme having specific guidelines that the money should be deposited directly in the bank accounts of the beneficiaries.

Aam Aadmi Party MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj on Tuesday gave in-camera demonstration on how EVMs can be rigged in the Delhi Assembly.