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Pawan Dixit

Pawan Dixit has been a journalist for over a decade. He has extensively covered eastern UP for around five years, covered 2012 UP assembly polls, 2014 Lok Sabha polls while being stationed in Varanasi. Now, in Lucknow, he covers outstation political assignments, reports special cases from district court, high court and state information commission

Articles by Pawan Dixit

2024 Lok Sabha polls: Rajnath Singh hits campaign trail in Lucknow

Under the Modi government, the entire world looks up to India as a powerful nation, says Rajnath Singh

Lucknow

Updated on May 07, 2024 05:04 AM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Lucknow

As Lok Sabha elections shift to Awadh region, “Pasi factor” needs to be watched

In the region that comprises around nine Lok Sabha seats, Pasis constitute about 50% of the total Dalit population. Since 2014, they had been largely with the BJP. The question is will the trend continue in 2024

A nomination procession for the Mohanlalganj Lok Sabha constituency, which has a sizeable number of Pasi voters. (HT FILE)

Lucknow

Updated on May 04, 2024 09:08 AM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Lucknow

Sindhis from Pakistan to visit Ayodhya today, pay obeisance to Ram Lalla

A delegation of 200 Sindhi community members from Pakistan will visit Ayodhya to pay respects to Ram Lalla, as part of a religious tour to India.

The Ram temple in Ayodhya (HT File Photo)

Lucknow

Updated on May 03, 2024 05:32 AM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Lucknow

Like father, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh’s younger son Karan Bhushan no stranger to world of wrestling

The younger son of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, Karan Bhushan has also been a national level double trap shooter. He is also a law graduate.

BJP’s Kaiserganj candidate Karan Bhushan Singh speaks to the media on Thursday. (ANI PHOTO)

Lucknow

Updated on May 02, 2024 09:04 PM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Lucknow

Chitrakoot jail incident: HC rejects bail of Abbas Ansari

Allahabad HC rejects MLA Abbas Ansari's bail plea in illegal meeting case with wife in Chitrakoot jail. Wife Nikhat arrested, meeting facilitated by jail authorities.

Lucknow

Updated on May 01, 2024 09:27 PM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Lucknow

Temple Trust rebuts Rahul’s charge of not inviting President for consecration

In a statement issued on Tuesday evening, Champat Rai, general secretary of the trust, dubbed Gandhi’s allegations baseless and misleading

Lucknow

Updated on May 01, 2024 02:48 AM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Lucknow

BJP fighting to retain Bareilly bastion

Bareilly puzzled by BJP's decision to replace long-time MP Santosh Gangwar with Chhatrapal Gangwar, causing rift in local party unit.

Other Cities

Updated on Apr 29, 2024 07:56 PM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Bareilly

Improving Budaun-Delhi connectivity will be my priority: Aditya Yadav

During his hectic election campaign, Aditya spoke to Pawan Dixit about his action plan, strengths and weaknesses and priority for Budaun.

Samajwadi Party leader and Shivpal Yadav’s son Aditya Yadav addressing the SP Badaun workers conference that passed proposal to make Aditya the Badaun SP candidate. (HT FILE PHOTO)

Other Cities

Updated on Apr 29, 2024 07:26 AM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Budaun

From sleepy to sizzling: Contest spices up in Budaun

The Samajwadi Party has secured victory in the Budaun seat six times consecutively from 1996 to 2014. However, the seat was won by BJP candidates only twice, in 1991 by Chinmayanand and in 2019 by Sanghmitra Maurya.

Samajwadi Party national general secretary Shivpal Singh Yadav during a public meeting in Budaun. (Sourced)

Lucknow

Updated on Apr 29, 2024 05:00 AM IST

ByPawan Dixit

Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance a hit, to continue in 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls: Shivpal Yadav

Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Yadav rebuts “parivarwaad (dynastic politics)” charge by questioning how will those who do not have family know its value

Samajwadi Party national general secretary Shivpal Yadav was initially named the party candidate for the Budaun Lok Sabha seat but now his son Aditya Yadav is contesting it on the SP ticket. (FILE PHOTO)

Lucknow

Updated on Apr 28, 2024 07:26 AM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Budaun

PM Modi’s road show today to underline Bareilly’s importance for BJP

The BJP replaced sitting MP Santosh Gangwar, who won the seat for the party eight times, with former minister Chhatrapal Gangwar.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to supporters at a rally in Aonla in Bareilly district on Thursday. (ANI PHOTO)

Lucknow

Updated on Apr 26, 2024 04:00 AM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Bareilly

Mirrors, lenses: Science behind Surya Tilak of Ram Lalla on Ram Navami

The Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, an autonomous body under the department of science and technology, played a crucial role in the Surya Tilak project.

Surya Tilak being performed on the idol of Ram Lalla in Ayodhya on Wednesday. (PTI PHOTO)

Lucknow

Updated on Apr 18, 2024 09:08 AM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Lucknow

Surya Tilak: Ayodhya basks in glow of sun’s obeisance to Ram Lalla

For around four minutes, the Sun’s rays performed the much-awaited “Surya Tilak” of Ram Lalla. Devotees outside the sanctum sanctorum hailed the event by chanting “Jai Shri Ram”

Ritual of Surya Tilak being performed on the idol of Ram Lalla on the occasion of Ram Navami, at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on Wednesday. (PTI PHOTO)

Lucknow

Updated on Apr 17, 2024 09:30 PM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Lucknow

Science behind Surya Tilak of Ram Lalla

Prime Minister Narendra Modi watched live the 'Surya Abhishek' on Ram Lalla on iPad.

The forehead of Ram Lalla's idol was anointed with a ray of sunlight, known as 'Surya Tilak', on the occasion of Ram Navami, at Ram Janmabhoomi Temple, in Ayodhya.(ANI)

India News

Published on Apr 17, 2024 04:49 PM IST

ByPawan Dixit

No candidates named: Parties wait for 1st move in Rae Bareli, Kaiserganj

Kaiserganj in northwestern UP and Rae Bareli to its east are the only two LS seats among 80 in state where no major party or alliance has announced candidates

In Kaiserganj, incumbent, BJP leader Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, spent the last two years embroiled in serious charges of sexual harassment levelled by some of India’s top wrestlers. (File)

Lucknow

Updated on Apr 17, 2024 06:55 AM IST

ByPawan Dixit

Parties wait for 1st move in Rae Bareli, Kaiserganj

The reasons are the same – a high-profile incumbent, uncertainty about the current political scenario, and a cautious approach by the parties that hold the seat

In Rae Bareli, a traditional Congress stronghold which was won by its former chief Sonia Gandhi even in the middle of two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) waves in 2014 and 2019 is waiting for the party to pick her successor. (Arvind Yadav/ Hindustan Times)

India News

Updated on Apr 17, 2024 06:24 AM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Lucknow

Ram temple in Ayodhya to open for 19 hours on Ram Navami

On April 17, Ram Mandir will be open for 19 hours on Ram Navami, with special arrangements for devotees to have darshan of Ram Lalla.

Ram temple to open for 19 hours on Ram Navami (file)

Lucknow

Updated on Apr 16, 2024 09:30 AM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Lucknow

Will BJP brush aside INDIA challenge, close the door on close contests?

All eyes are on which way the poll wind will blow in Uttar Pradesh now that there is no mahgathbandhan (grand SP-BSP alliance) and the Modi magic continues to be a factor, perhaps still a decisive one, in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

Opposition leaders during Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc’s meeting in Mumbai on September 1, 2023. (Photo by Satish Bate/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times File)

Lucknow

Updated on Apr 15, 2024 06:50 AM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Lucknow

Sun rays on deity: Trial run over, Ayodhya Temple Trust ready for celestial event on Ram Navmi

Experts of the Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee, who carried out the trial run of the celestial event on Monday are camping in Ayodhya now to make the ‘Surya Abhishek’ successful.

Trial run over, Ayodhya Temple Trust ready for celestial event on Ram Navmi (HT file photo)

Lucknow

Updated on Apr 10, 2024 08:56 AM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Lucknow

Ram Lalla to don special gold-imprinted khadi attire during Navratri, shares Sri Ram Janmabhoomi Tirath Kshetra Trust

Sri Ram Janmabhoomi Tirath Kshetra Trust on Monday shared on its official handle on X about the dress code of Ram Lalla and a video related to it.

The block prints used in printing are all inspired by Vaishnav Chinha, informed trust. (SOURCED)

Lucknow

Published on Apr 08, 2024 08:22 PM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Lucknow

Bareilly Region: With Santosh Gangwar, Varun Gandhi out of electoral contest, can BJP still repeat the 2019 clean sweep?

Santosh Gangwar has won Bareilly seat 8 times, Pilibhit had been Maneka-Varun Gandhi’s stronghold for more than 3 decades.

Lucknow

Published on Apr 08, 2024 06:13 PM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Lucknow

Bareilly Region Varun out of electoral contest, can BJP still repeat the 2019 clean sweep?

Santosh Gangwar has won Bareilly seat 8 times, Pilibhit had been Maneka-Varun Gandhi’s stronghold for more than 3 decades.

Lucknow

Updated on Apr 08, 2024 08:54 AM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Lucknow

Mega Ram Navami festivities on cards with extended temple hours

Prasar Bharati to telecast Ram Navami celebrations at Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, with temple open for 20 hours on April 17. LED screens to be set up in Ayodhya.

“Ram Mandir will remain open for 20 hours on April 17 to ensure that every devotee gets darshan of Ram Lalla. Seven queues will be formed to streamline the movement of devotees,” Champat Rai said. (File)

Lucknow

Updated on Apr 06, 2024 07:32 AM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Lucknow

With a Muslim face against Rajnath in Lko, has BSP upped the odds for SP’s Ravidas?

The BSP decision to field a Muslim candidate is likely to make things more challenging for the Samajwadi party’s Ravi Das Mehrotra, who is pitted against BJP stalwart and defence minister Rajnath Singh

Lucknow

Updated on Apr 05, 2024 06:08 AM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Lucknow

Raju Pal Murder: Seventh convict surrenders in CBI court

Raju Pal was gunned down on January 25, 2005, in Prayagraj due to political rivalry with Atiq Ahmad’s brother Ashraf, whom he had defeated in the 2004 bypoll for the Allahabad West assembly seat.

Lucknow

Updated on Apr 02, 2024 06:22 AM IST

ByPawan Dixit

Will Bharatiya Janata Party continue to dominate reserved seat matrix in Uttar Pradesh?

These 17 seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes in Uttar Pradesh are: Agra, Bahraich, Bansgaon, Barabanki, Bulandshahr, Etawah, Hardoi, Hathras, Jalaun, Kaushambi, Lalganj, Machhlishahr, Misrikh, Mohanlalganj, Nagina, Robertsganj and Shahjahanpur.

This time, the ruling party is out to hold on to its winning caste matrix – broadly non-Jatav Dalits, non-Yadav OBCs and upper castes -- that worked wonders for it in the last four polls in Uttar Pradesh. (FOR REPRESENTATION)

Lucknow

Published on Apr 01, 2024 07:50 PM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Lucknow

Seven convicted in 2005 murder of BSP MLA Pal

Lucknow CBI court convicts 7 men for 2005 murder of BSP lawmaker Raju Pal, sentencing 6 to life imprisonment. Atiq Ahmad was also accused but was killed in 2022

Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed being produced at a court amid heavy security, in Prayagraj, in 2023. Atiq Ahmad was also an accused in the same case but the proceedings against him and his brother Khalid Azim alias Ashraf were stopped after they were gunned down by three assailants posing as journalists outside a hospital in Prayagraj last year. (PTI)

India News

Updated on Mar 30, 2024 06:49 AM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Lucknow

Seven years of Yogi raj turned the tables on Mukhtar

Seven years of Yogi Adityanath's government saw a legal strategy and sustained police action leading to the conviction of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari in multiple cases.

Mukhtar Ansari being produced in a special court in connection with various criminal cases filed against him, in 2018. (PTI File)

Lucknow

Updated on Mar 30, 2024 05:28 AM IST

ByPawan Dixit, Lucknow

BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case: CBI court sentences 6 people to life imprisonment

Raju Pal was murdered in broad daylight on January 25, 2005 in Prayagraj while he was on his way back home in a car

Lucknow

Updated on Mar 29, 2024 02:38 PM IST

ByPawan Dixit

HC scraps UP madrasa law: ‘Shift students to govt schools’

“The State has no power to create a board for religious education or to establish a board for school education only for a particular religion and philosophy associated with it,” asserted the court

“We hold that the Madarsa Act, 2004, is violative of the principle of secularism, which is a part of the basic structure of the Constitution of India,” added the court. (File Photo)

Lucknow

Updated on Mar 23, 2024 08:54 AM IST

ByPawan Dixit

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Under the Modi government, the entire world looks up to India as a powerful nation, says Rajnath Singh

In the region that comprises around nine Lok Sabha seats, Pasis constitute about 50% of the total Dalit population. Since 2014, they had been largely with the BJP. The question is will the trend continue in 2024

A delegation of 200 Sindhi community members from Pakistan will visit Ayodhya to pay respects to Ram Lalla, as part of a religious tour to India.

The younger son of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, Karan Bhushan has also been a national level double trap shooter. He is also a law graduate.

Allahabad HC rejects MLA Abbas Ansari's bail plea in illegal meeting case with wife in Chitrakoot jail. Wife Nikhat arrested, meeting facilitated by jail authorities.

In a statement issued on Tuesday evening, Champat Rai, general secretary of the trust, dubbed Gandhi’s allegations baseless and misleading

Bareilly puzzled by BJP's decision to replace long-time MP Santosh Gangwar with Chhatrapal Gangwar, causing rift in local party unit.

During his hectic election campaign, Aditya spoke to Pawan Dixit about his action plan, strengths and weaknesses and priority for Budaun.

The Samajwadi Party has secured victory in the Budaun seat six times consecutively from 1996 to 2014. However, the seat was won by BJP candidates only twice, in 1991 by Chinmayanand and in 2019 by Sanghmitra Maurya.

Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Yadav rebuts “parivarwaad (dynastic politics)” charge by questioning how will those who do not have family know its value

The BJP replaced sitting MP Santosh Gangwar, who won the seat for the party eight times, with former minister Chhatrapal Gangwar.

The Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, an autonomous body under the department of science and technology, played a crucial role in the Surya Tilak project.

For around four minutes, the Sun’s rays performed the much-awaited “Surya Tilak” of Ram Lalla. Devotees outside the sanctum sanctorum hailed the event by chanting “Jai Shri Ram”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi watched live the 'Surya Abhishek' on Ram Lalla on iPad.

Kaiserganj in northwestern UP and Rae Bareli to its east are the only two LS seats among 80 in state where no major party or alliance has announced candidates

The reasons are the same – a high-profile incumbent, uncertainty about the current political scenario, and a cautious approach by the parties that hold the seat

On April 17, Ram Mandir will be open for 19 hours on Ram Navami, with special arrangements for devotees to have darshan of Ram Lalla.

All eyes are on which way the poll wind will blow in Uttar Pradesh now that there is no mahgathbandhan (grand SP-BSP alliance) and the Modi magic continues to be a factor, perhaps still a decisive one, in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

Experts of the Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee, who carried out the trial run of the celestial event on Monday are camping in Ayodhya now to make the ‘Surya Abhishek’ successful.

Sri Ram Janmabhoomi Tirath Kshetra Trust on Monday shared on its official handle on X about the dress code of Ram Lalla and a video related to it.

Santosh Gangwar has won Bareilly seat 8 times, Pilibhit had been Maneka-Varun Gandhi’s stronghold for more than 3 decades.

Santosh Gangwar has won Bareilly seat 8 times, Pilibhit had been Maneka-Varun Gandhi’s stronghold for more than 3 decades.

Prasar Bharati to telecast Ram Navami celebrations at Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, with temple open for 20 hours on April 17. LED screens to be set up in Ayodhya.

The BSP decision to field a Muslim candidate is likely to make things more challenging for the Samajwadi party’s Ravi Das Mehrotra, who is pitted against BJP stalwart and defence minister Rajnath Singh

Raju Pal was gunned down on January 25, 2005, in Prayagraj due to political rivalry with Atiq Ahmad’s brother Ashraf, whom he had defeated in the 2004 bypoll for the Allahabad West assembly seat.

These 17 seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes in Uttar Pradesh are: Agra, Bahraich, Bansgaon, Barabanki, Bulandshahr, Etawah, Hardoi, Hathras, Jalaun, Kaushambi, Lalganj, Machhlishahr, Misrikh, Mohanlalganj, Nagina, Robertsganj and Shahjahanpur.

Lucknow CBI court convicts 7 men for 2005 murder of BSP lawmaker Raju Pal, sentencing 6 to life imprisonment. Atiq Ahmad was also accused but was killed in 2022

Seven years of Yogi Adityanath's government saw a legal strategy and sustained police action leading to the conviction of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari in multiple cases.

Raju Pal was murdered in broad daylight on January 25, 2005 in Prayagraj while he was on his way back home in a car

“The State has no power to create a board for religious education or to establish a board for school education only for a particular religion and philosophy associated with it,” asserted the court

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