Uttar Pradesh News

Samrat Chaudhary has been appointed as the convenor of the GoM on GST rate rationalisation. According to an official memorandum posted on the GST Council secretariat website, the other members of the reconstituted panel are Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna, Goa Transport Minister Mauvin Godinho, Rajasthan Medical, and Health Services Minister Gajendra Singh. The GoM also includes West Bengal Finance Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya, Karnataka Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda, and Kerala Finance Minister K N Balagopal. The seven-member GoM has been tasked with suggesting required rate rationalisation and correction of inverted duty structure with an objective of simplifying the rate structure, reviewing the GST exemption list and enhancing revenues from Goods and Services Tax (GST).

monsoon in many parts of the country has raised concern over the cultivation of kharif crops such as paddy, pulses and soyabean, even though experts still believe any shortfall can be largely mitigated if rainfall picks up by the first week of July. Soyabean Processors Association (SOPA) said only 10% of the area in Madhya Pradesh – the largest producer of the crop – has been sown for soyabean cultivation this year as compared to 50%-60% by this time last year while in West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh, a majority of farmers are waiting for rains to sow paddy. The pulses trade is worried about the impact of delayed monsoon on tur and urad crops, whose prices have gone up in the last two years due to less production and increased imports. Among pulses, tur, urad and moong are cultivated during the kharif season.

GST) Council is likely to consider a review of 28% tax on online gaming and clarification on several procedural matters at its next meeting on June 22 in the national capital. The council may also take up recommendation of the fitment committee on inverted duty structure of 15 items, officials aware of the matter told ET. However, a broader process of rate rationalisation may be pushed for later, they said. The council secretariat announced the date of the meeting in an X post on Thursday.

The Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh, Mr. Anil Kumar Sagar, has instructed the CEO of the Noida Authority to de-seal the properties of M3M, effectively revoking the earlier decision, according to the company. This decision has brought immense joy to the homebuyers who have invested in the project.

BJP sweeping the Lok Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh by winning all 29 seats in the state, including the Congress citadel of Chhindwara, as many as 311 out of the total 369 candidates in the fray lost their security deposits, officials said on Friday.

National Democratic Alliance (NDA) headed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unanimously selected Narendra Modi as the grouping's leader, paving the way for his return as Prime Minister of India for a historic third term in a row.

legislative assembly polls on Tuesday as the Chandrababu Naidu-led TDP-BJPJSP alliance routed the YSR Jagan Mohan Reddy regime, winning 165 out of 175 seats.

Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha election results in 2024: Uttar Pradesh, which contributes the largest seats to the Lower House of Parliament, has given a big shocker to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance as Opposition INDIA bloc with Congress and Samajwadi Party at the helm is leading on 43 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats. The BJP, which won 62 seats from the state in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, is currently restricted to 33 seats. Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav are seen as major reasons behind the INDIA bloc's strong performance.

Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, Union Minister Ramdas Athawale discussed the issues faced by the ruling coalition. Athawale emphasized the need to accept the electoral results. In Maharashtra, the splitting of Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led to voter preference for Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar, which negatively impacted the NDA's performance, the minister said. Athawale, the MoS for social justice and empowerment, also suggested that voters might have misunderstood the BJP’s role, thinking it caused the split, whereas the factions joined BJP voluntarily, Athawale said.

political leaders, including four from the BJP, crushed the previous record of the highest victory margin in the Lok Sabha polls, with Indore's incumbent MP Shankar Lalwani topping the chart with a winning margin of more than 11.72 lakh votes. Home Minister Amit Shah, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and BJP's Gujarat leader C R Patil were also leading with more than seven lakh votes each from their respective constituencies at the last count. Congress's Rakibul Hussain is also leading from Dhubri in Assam by a margin of more than 7.36 lakh votes.

Madhya Pradesh Election Result Winner List 2024: According to the early vote counting trends on June 4, the BJP is leading in all 29 Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh.

Bharatiya Janata Party, early trends show that INDIA bloc is currently leading in the biggest state of India.

2024 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh was held on May 13 to elect 25 members to the 18th Lok Sabha, with the Telugu state registering a total polling percentage of 80.66 per cent in the elections for the 25 Lok Sabha seats and 175 Assembly constituencies, which were held alongside the general polls.

The Shameless, many on social media instantly got busy trying to find their three degrees of separation from her. When Payal Kapadia followed in Sengupta’s wake with her own Grand Prix award, even the Prime Minister found time in the middle of an election campaign to congratulate her. What was palpable was not just India’s pride at these achievements but also India’s relief.

Jaunpur: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Wednesday alleged that when the Congress was in power at the Centre, India's borders were insecure and the entire country was in disarray due to scams. He exuded confidence that the BJP would win the Lok Sabha polls with a huge majority and form government for the third time in a row. Addresding a poll rally here, the BJP leader said, «India's borders were insecure during the Congress rule and the entire country was in disarray due to scams.» «Today, the country has become strong under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. When Pakistan made a mistake, it was attacked in its own home,» he said and reminded the gathering that it was the BJP government that abrogated Article 370.

Samajwadi Party supporters and Uttar Pradesh Police entered into a scuffle on Tuesday, following which a stampede-like situation arose. According to news agency ANI, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and his wife Dimple Yadav were on stage when the stampede happened. According to visuals, people were seen climbing the bamboo structure put up for the rally.

Re-election has been recommended to the Election Commission at a polling booth in Aliganj village under Etah district and is part of Farrukhabad Lok Sabha constituency after a video of a youth casting multiple votes went viral on social media platforms.

Farmers' loans will be waived and Minimum Support Price will be guaranteed, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said on Tuesday while addressing an election meeting in Jalaun, where he sought votes for party candidate Narayan Das Ahirwar. He also attacked the BJP alleging it did nothing for the state despite being in power for the past 10 years. «The people of Bundelkhand overwhelmingly voted for the BJP. For the last 10 years, they (BJP) have been the MPs and their government is there. The Uttar Pradesh government has been in power for seven years. This government did not give anything to the people of Bundelkhand, especially Orai, Jalaun and Kalpi. The government in Delhi (Centre) and the Uttar Pradesh government did nothing for the development of this place,» he said. «The people of Bundelkhand have made up their mind that they will teach a lesson to those who have cheated them,» he added.

potato prices will likely continue to pinch Indian households until the new crop comes to the market in December. Tomato prices have fallen by 40% in the past two days at Delhi's Azadpur Mandi, the largest fruit and vegetable wholesale market in Asia, due to increased arrivals from Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab, traders said. On the contrary, potato traders said prices will firm up further by another 5-10% as untimely rains have affected the tuber crop and because of cold storage owners releasing potatoes in a way so that the stock can meet domestic consumption till the arrival of the new crop. Trade sources from Uttar Pradesh, the largest producer of potatoes, said the government has already launched a drive to see whether the cold storage facilities in Agra, the centre of the state's potato trade, were hoarding the tuber to jack up prices. «Once the election is over, there will be state-wide monitoring of the movement of potatoes,» one of them said.

Elections for 96 Lok Sabha seats spread across nine states and the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir will be held in the fourth phase on Monday. Voting will be held simultaneously in all 175 assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh and 28 assembly seats of Odisha. This phase is crucial for Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. In 2019, his YSR Congress Party had won 22 out of 25 Lok Sabha seats and registered a thumping victory in the assembly elections. TDP-led NDA is posing a serious challenge to Reddy's popularity this time. It is contesting polls in alliance with BJP and Jana Sena Party. Congress is led by Reddy's sister YS Sharmila.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Mukesh Kumar Meena on Sunday said 1.6 lakh new Electronic Voting Machines will be used in 46,389 polling stations for the simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in the state on May 13. Besides these, another 20 per cent more EVMs have been kept ready, he said. In a release, Meena said, «Initially, it was estimated that 1.45 lakh EVMs would be sufficient for 46,165 polling stations. However, the addition of 224 auxiliary polling stations necessitated the procurement of another 15,000 EVMs.» He also noted that the Election Commission is striving to increase the polling percentage in the southern state to 83 per cent, compared to the 79.83 percentage registered during the 2019 polls. Further, he requested the voters of Andhra Pradesh to come forward and exercise their franchise, a right enshrined in the Constitution.