The court of additional judicial commissioner Rajiv Anand awarded the punishment after holding Mahto guilty of murder and hiding the body after the murder. read more

The order was passed by a division bench comprising chief justice Govind Mathur and justice Jaspreet Singh on a writ petition filed by local lawyer Prashant Agrawal. read more

With this achievement, Tanisha, who is the daughter of Allahabad high court judge justice Jahangir Jamshed Munir, also qualified for the 20th World Crossbow Championships scheduled to be held from August 12 to August 19 in Ulyanovsk, Russia. read more

The detainees, who are from Lucknow, Varanasi, Prayagraj and Sonbhadra, are associated with a private real estate and investment firm based in Lucknow and Allahabad read more

Speaking of the adverse effect it has had on their sales, the shopkeepers say the brothels kept women buyers off the area. Now the market will be like any other in the city, after seizing of 15 brothels. read more

In comparison to the voting pattern in 2014, Allahabad witnessed a 2.86% drop in voter turnout in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. read more

In Sultanpur, union minister and BJP candidate Maneka Gandhi had a verbal duel with BSP candidate Chandra Bhadra Singh aka Sonu Singh over allegations of the latter pressurizing people to vote in his favour. read more

Incidents were reported from Azamgarh, Sultanpur, Phulpur, Allahabad. Complaints about missing names from voters’ lists, electronic voting machine (EVM) snags in Pratapgarh and Allahabad, and sporadic incidents of violence marred the polling on Sund... read more

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: In Allahabad, nostalgia is at a premium here, so much so that the traders of the British era municipal market in Chowk have preserved the wall writing inscribed during former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri’s Lok Sabha election... read more

The BJP faces a tough challenge now that the SP has forged an alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). It will be a triangular contest between the BJP, the SP-BSP alliance, and Congress in two seats — Sultanpur and Pratapgarh. read more

The family of Ram Naresh Bhurtia in Bahraicha village in Allahabad has 82 members of which 66 are voters. read more

A scrutiny of affidavits filed by 14 candidates in the fray from the twin seats of Allahabad and Phulpur reveals that Rita Bahuguna Joshi of BJP in fray from the Allahabad seat is a most educated candidate in Prayagraj. read more

Allahabad election results 2019: No party, except the Congress, has been able to keep its hold over the seat for long. BJP’s Murli Manohar Joshi managed to win from the seat thrice and Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh of the SP was successful twice. read more

Narrating their plight, Atul said that a sex worker’s daughter who is a student of Class 3 was advised to not attend school until she had her uniform. read more

Uttar Pradesh has 8,374 registered transgender voters. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the total number of “third gender” voters is 41,292, a rise of about 45% from the figures of 2014, when the Election Commission first started the category. read more