Aligarh  

The ministry had launched an ambitious programme to geo-tag all waqf properties in the country in the last term, and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said the progress was on a “war footing”. The minister announced this while chairing a meeting of the Central Waqf Council (CWC) in New Delhi

The murder of a three-year-old in Aligarh has created a stir across India and things have taken a turn after reports surfaced that one of the accused in the case was booked five years ago for raping his own daughter. A total of four cases are pending against him.
 

Three days after a child was reported missing, stray dogs helped find the child after they pulled out her body from a garbage in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. Five policemen have been suspended for negligence.
 

Toddler Twinkle Sharma was murdered in Aligarh after her parents couldn't repay a loan of Rs 10,000. Bollywood actors Abhishek Bachchan, Ayushmann Khurrana, Raveena Tandon, Sunny Leone, Sidharth Malhotra, Gul Panag and others have reacted strongly to the heinous act.

According to the EC, the polling percentage till 6 pm was 62.10 in Nagina, 68.77 in Amroha, 62.14 in Bulandshahr, 61.25 in Hathras, 59.60 in Agra, 62.80 in Aligarh, 60.56 in Mathura, and 61.16 in Fatehpur Sikri.

Mirzapur village, barely 8km from the main Aligarh city, is an epitome of communal harmony. Muslims in the village constructed a Shiva temple. 

MyNation spoke to voters  at the model voting booth at Aligarh's Ramghat road. They were asked about the problems in Aligarh

An educational event for the minorities called 'Talim-e-Tarbiyat' organised in association with esteemed organisations like the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Union bank had invited Shazia as a guest of honour for the panel discussion.   

Baichung Bhutia, former captain of the Indian football team and the head of the Bhutia’s Hamro Sikkim Party has fielded seven candidates in the first list for the 2019 Sikkim Legislative Assembly polls to be held on April  11. Congress MLA Narayanrao has made a scathing attack at Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He went on to indicate that PM Modi is impotent. In response to such crass remarks, BJP spokesperson S Prakash said that these comments are made by frustrated Congress party members due to their inability to come to power. Watch MyNation in 100 seconds.

BJP Member of Legislative Council from Aligarh, Thakur Jaivir Singh, has chosen to stand with his ideology, his party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, even at the cost of his ties with his son.

 

The slain terrorist Mannan Wani had said he received more than education at AMU; that Jinnah, whose portrait at the varsity created a political storm, presented an identity which Indian Muslims might need again; and that AMU was born to the blood of Muslims

Trying to deflect the Jamaat-e-Islami’s connection with terror outfits active in Kashmir, the Aligarh Muslim University students’ body attributed the Modi government’s action to political vendetta and the approaching general election

The AMU student Basim Hilal has been booked under section 153A (promoting enmity between two different religions) and section 67A (publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form) of the Information Technology Act for his objectionable tweet following the Pulwama terror attack.

On August 2018, the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor was launched in Aligarh with projected investments of Rs 3,732 crore.