Azamgarh, India News

For the family of Umang Singh , a research fellow who died in a blaze at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre on Tuesday, it is the end of a dream.

Barring an incident of stone-pelting in Moradabad and minor incidents of clash in Agra, Auriya and Gorakhpur, the Yaum-e-Ashura or tenth Day of Muharram passed off peacefully in the state on Monday.

LUCKNOW: Four persons were arrested on Monday night in connection with the murder of police gunner, Ram Lal, near Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's residence on Sunday night.

Jaunpur, Dec 11 : Senior Lok Janshakti Party leader and Poorvanchal Rajya Gathan Morcha president Raj Kumar Ojha today said their party would hold a symbolic fast in front of the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha from December 21.

India Gazette Monday 30th November, 2009 A massive trafficking racket, through which young women are whisked off to Arab countries for prostitution from the porous Nepal border with the collusion of corrupt police officials and even politicians, has been uncovered by a fact-finding team of the National Commission for Women .

Playing the Muslim card: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh with party leaders Akhilesh Yadav, Amar Singh, Abu Azmi and Jaya Bachchan at a function in party headquarters in Lucknow on Tuesday.

Special Task Force sleuths in Uttar Pradesh have arrested two people involved in issuing fake visas, days after a suspected Pakistani spy was taken into custody in New Delhi with an Indian passport.

The six new medical colleges and two para-medical colleges coming up in Uttar Pradesh would be run under a public-private partnership arrangement.

At a time when the Samajwadi Party is witnessing an alarming erosion in its electoral fortunes, it has found a new Muslim mascot in Abu Asim Azmi.

His incendiary rhetoric may have marked him as an enfant terrible of Maharashtra politics, but when Abu Asim Azmi - the Samajwadi Party MLA who loves collecting guns and riding his Mercedes Benz bicycles with his grandsons - talks, people listen.

The ruling Bahujan Samaj Party has declared the names of its candidates for all the 36 seats of the UP Legislative Council from the local body constituencies.

Mumbai From being briefly charged in 1993 blasts, Azmi has come a long way, reinventing himself as the voice of Muslims, North Indian migrants.

The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad is probing leads that David Coleman Headley, arrested by the FBI for allegedly plotting a terror attack in India at the behest of the Lashkar-e-Toiba, had contacts with Indian Mujahideen operatives involved in the 2008 serial blasts in Delhi.

Lucknow, Nov 9 Acting on a complaint by a woman Haj pilgrim who alleged she was forced to pay Rs 2000 to policemen for verification relating to her passport, the Uttar Pradesh Minorities Commission today sought an explanation from a top officer.

Maharashtra Napunsak Sena members on Monday attacked state Samajwadi Party chief Abu Azmi inside the legislature after he insisted on taking his oath as a legislator in Hindi.

India Gazette Sunday 8th November, 2009 A criminal case was registered against 28 people, including 26 women, in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district Sunday for drawing widows' pension on forged documents.

Azamgarh, Nov 7 : Bollywood actor and social activist Shabana Azmi today said recital of the National Song Vande Mataram was a controversial issue that should not be inflammated for the peace of the country.

India Gazette Sunday 1st November, 2009 Three people were arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district Saturday night and fake currency with the face value of Rs.37,000 recovered from their possession, police said Sunday.

NEW DELHI: Five people of Indian origin are on a journey to India to visit the villages that their ancestors left over a hundred years ago to work on sugar plantations in Caribbean colonies.

A youth's skeleton lying on the terrace of a police station in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district since July 2007 has allegedly been cremated by the police two years on, but the dead man's father has cried foul.