Chandra Pant

President Droupadi Murmu presented 66 Padma awards at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Violinist N Rajam received Padma Vibhushan. Actor Dharmendra was honored posthumously with Padma Vibhushan. Actor Prosenjit Chatterjee received Padma Shri. The ceremony recognized distinguished service in various fields. A total of 131 Padma awards were approved for 2026.

The BJP on Thursday retained the Pithoragarh assembly seat in Uttarakhand, defeating its nearest rival Congress by more than 3,000 votes. Chandra Pant of the BJP polled 26,086 votes and Congress's Anju Lunthi 22,819 votes. The bypoll was necessitated after the death of BJP MLA Prakash Pant in June, following which the party fielded his wife Chandra Pant.

Chandra Pant had in 2019 defeated Congress's Anju Lunthi.

Former state finance minister Prakash Pant’s wife Chandra Pant seems set to contest the Pithoragarh bypoll to be held on November 25, on a BJP ticket.

In Pithoragarh, women voters outnumber their male counterparts in three out of four constituencies. According to the district election commission data released last year, women voters are more than men in Dharchula, Didihat and Pithoragarh constituencies.

The body of an 18-year-old youth was found in Naini lake on Friday morning. It was spotted by a local resident who was on a morning walk.

Around 47% polling was registered (till 5 pm) for the Pithoragarh assembly bypoll that was held on Monday.

In yet another twist in the Kashipur custodial death case, the investigating officer claimed on Monday that the deceased teenager, Ziyauddin Raza, was not a minor but 19 years old

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath honoured platoon of the 46th Corps PAC (Provincial Armed Constabulary) of Rudrapur, which joined the parade held in Lucknow on Republic Day. The CM awarded Rs 1 lakh to the platoon for their excellent performance and felicitated the team with shawls

Kajal Raghawani is on a roll! The actress has signed two new films opposite Anand Ojha, the Bhojpuri ventures are titled 'Rann' and 'Mahi'.

Bhojpuri director, Rajkumar R. Pandey’s son Pradeep Pandey is all set to begin work on his next movie, ‘Namaste London’.

Their song ‘Choye Choye’ from the film ‘Nirhua Chalal London’ is going viral and getting loved by the audience.

The suspense over posting of top officials in the forest department is over with the state government issuing official orders to name Alok Kumar Joshi as the new principal chief conservator of forest and head of forest force (HoFF) on Friday evening.

The fifth convocation of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (IIIT-A) would be held at its Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Information Technology, Amethi Campus on August 19.

The cover was released with traditional military fervour by the chief justice of Meghalaya, justice Prafulla Chandra Pant, at Rhino Auditorium here.

The corvette was built by the Mazagaon Dock Shipbuilders on August 23, 1989 and had the distinction of being part of both the Western and Eastern Fleets. The ship was commissioned in Mumbai by Krishna Chandra Pant, the then Defence Minister and Sudha Mulla, wife of late Capt Mahendra Nath Mulla, MVC with Commander (now Vice Admiral Retired) Sanjeev Bhasin as her first Commanding Officer.

Justice Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya and Justice Prafulla Chandra Pant, while hearing a contempt petition filed by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, posted the matter to October 13 for further hearing.