Uttar Pradesh, India News

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Friday said she is for creation of independent states of Bundelkhand and Harit Pradesh out of an "unmanageable Uttar Pradesh". "I have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urging him to give us clearance for creating independent states of Budelkhand and Harit Pradesh out of a giant-sized and ...

India Gazette Friday 11th December, 2009 Congress president Sonia Gandhi arrived here Friday and headed to her constituency Rae Bareli to evaluate the implementation of developmental schemes there, a party official said.

The Bharatiya Janata Party Monday slammed the Liberhan Commission report on the Babri Masjid demolition in Ayodhya, saying the report is a 'political document for character assassination'. Participating in the debate on the report in the Lok Sabha, BJP president Rajnath Singh alleged that the commission made political comments in the report by ...

'Gorkhaland is a 102-year-old demand' Saurashtra, Coorg, Vidarbha, Mithilanchal...the list is long Gorkhaland supporters called for a bandh in Darjeeling for their own state, while Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Ajit Singh threatened to resume the agitation for a separate Harit Pradesh, as the planned statehood for Telangana sparked fresh demands to ...

New Delhi, Dec 5 : The Supreme Court has sentenced six upper caste men from Uttar Pradesh to life terms for killing seven Dalits 30 years ago.

Lucknow, Dec 7 : Saksham Foundation, a voluntary organisation committed to assertion of child rights, has urged the Uttar Pradesh government to set up a child protection body in the state.

Terming the Liberhan Commission report as "only a half-truth", Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday said that veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee was also responsible for the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992.

The gap year, that she took after high school hoping to become fully committed to college, built a different kind of commitment in her to a different purpose: giving a childhood to the neediest children of Nepal.

Lucknow: With less than a week to go for the anniversary of the demolition of Babri Masjid, the Uttar Pradesh police has stepped up security across the State and asked its district chiefs to ensure that programmes to be held by rival outfits on December 6 to mark the incident did not vitiate the atmosphere.

After admitting there were perceptions that former prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao did not do enough to prevent demolition of Babri mosque at Ayodhya in 1992, the Congress Sunday said the leader had to atone for his mistake by denial of the Lok Sabha ticket in 1998.

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi. IANS LUCKNOW: Contradicting Uttar Pradesh Congress president Rita Bahuguna Joshi, party general secretary and MP Rahul Gandhi Tuesday said he did not force his helicopter pilot to land in zero visibility in Sitapur district.

Patience fuels ambition. A Muslim academic from Uttar Pradesh has for 30 years wanted to translate the Bhagavad Gita into Urdu.

In a move that puts LK Advani and other BJP leaders in the dock, Congress on Monday gave a clean chit to Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the conspiracy to demolish Babri masjid in the discussion on Liberhan Commission report in the Lok Sabha, while the BJP dubbed it as a "political document full of grave errors". "Vajpayee's name was not in the conspiracy, ...

Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court on Saturday restrained the Uttar Pradesh Government from arresting Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh in connection with an FIR lodged in Kanpur in which he has been accused of corrupt practices while his party was in power in the State.

Lucknow, Dec 7 : The Mayawati-led Uttar Pradesh administration Monday suddenly withdrew permission for a press conference that was to be addressed by Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, party leaders said.

Shown the door by Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and facing a cold reception by the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership to his rejoining it after two acrimonious exits, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh Saturday announced he was setting up his own 'pro-Hindutva' party.

Ayodhya With fresh focus on the Babri Masjid issue in the wake of the Liberhan Commission's findings, the 17th anniversary of the demolition was observed today amid tight security in Ayodhya and other places in the country.

The youth, who is a resident of Sewain village in Gorakhpur district, some 300 km from Lucknow, has been living in seclusion on the outskirts of the village for the last four days.

Restraining the Uttar Pradesh government from arresting Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh, the Allahabad High Court Saturday, however, said the central government could proceed against him in a money laundering case registered against him.

The Uttar Pradesh government Saturday ordered security to be beefed up across the state, especially in communally sensitive towns, ahead of the 17th anniversary Sunday of the demolition of the 16th century Babri Masjid in Ayodhya.