Lucknow, Apr 29: The Samajwadi Party on Monday declared dismissed BSF constable Tej Bahadur Yadav as its candidate against Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi.
Yadav was dismissed in 2017 after he posted a video online complaining about the food served to the troops.
He will be challenging Modi in Varanasi constituency of Uttar Pradesh, an SP leader said here.
Varanasi will go to polls in the seventh phase on May 19 and the last date for filing nomination is Monday (April 29).
Jun 5: Meerut Police on Thursday claimed that around 13,500 mobile phones in the country are running on the same IMEI, the number used to identify the device.
A case of fraud has been registered against the mobile phone manufacturing company and its service center, the police said.
The matter surfaced, after police personnel gave his mobile phone to the staff at cybercrime cell for examination, as the new phone was not working properly despite being repaired, Meerut SP (city) Akhilesh N Singh said.
The cyber cell found that around 13,500 other mobile phones are also running on the same International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) as that of the police personnel's phone, the superintendent of police said.
He said the matter is a serious security issue.
Prima facie it appears to be negligence on part of the mobile phone company and criminals can use it to their advantage, Singh said.
He said a case has been registered under relevant sections of the law at a Medical police station and a team of experts has been called to look into the matter.
Geneva, Jun 24: The global cumulative count of confirmed coronavirus cases is approaching nine million, with 133,326 cases recorded over the past day, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in its daily situation report on Tuesday.
Over the past 24 hours, 3,847 people died from COVID-19 worldwide, taking the cumulative death toll to 469,587 fatalities, according to the report.
The global case total has now reached 8,993,659.
The Americas still account for the majority of cases and deaths -- 4.4 million and 224,207, respectively.
The United States remains the country with the highest count of cases and fatalities -- 2.3 million and 119,761, respectively.
New Delhi, Jun 11: Petrol and diesel prices on Thursday were hiked by 60 paise per litre each - the fifth straight daily increase in rates since oil PSUs ended an 82-day hiatus in rate revision.
Petrol price in Delhi was hiked to Rs 74 per litre from Rs 73.40 while diesel rates were increased to Rs 72.22 a litre from Rs 71.62, according to a price notification of state oil marketing companies.
Rates have been increased across the country and vary from state to state depending on the incidence of local sales tax or VAT.
This is the fifth daily increase in rates in a row since oil companies on Sunday restarted revising prices in line with costs, after ending an 82-day hiatus.
In five hikes, petrol price has gone up by Rs 2.74 per litre and diesel by Rs 2.83.
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