'The local support from our MP is nil. He never comes to see our farms.'
Gearing up for the assembly polls next year, the Congress on Wednesday constituted the election committee for Uttar Pradesh, which includes state unit chief Ajay Kumar Lallu and former Union ministers Salman Khurshid, Rajeev Shukla and R P N Singh.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday filed two separate chargesheets against three accused for murdering Uttar Pradesh Chief Medical Officers V K Arya and B P Singh after they started probing National Health Rural Mission irregularities and also named then deputy CMO Y S Sachan, who was found dead in Lucknow jail, in the conspiracy.
As secrecy shrouded the hanging of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, inmates and authorities of Buxar prison believe that the rope used for the purpose was manufactured by the jail.
The Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday said they have no information about Azamgarh link of any of the suspects in the Hyderabad twin blasts.
The Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court on Wednesday expressed dissatisfaction with the Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the murder of two chief medical officers in Lucknow and said that nothing substantial was done in the last two-three months.
A chowkidar was on Tuesday arrested and five policemen were suspended in connection with the alleged gang rape of a woman inside a police station in Khadda area in Kushinagar district, a senior officer said.
In its charge sheet filed before the special judicial magistrate in Lucknow, the agency has alleged that shooters Anand Prakash Tiwari and Vinod Sharma had murdered the then CMOs Dr V K Arya and B P Singh.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Thursday reportedly sacked two ministers in her cabinet; though the state government maintained that Family Welfare minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and Health Minister Anant Kumar Misra had resigned from their posts voluntarily.Kushwaha and Misra tendered their resignations after taking responsibility for the multi-crore scams unearthed in their respective departments during the investigations in the murder of Lucknow CMO Dr B P Singh.
Shukla had been in jail for almost a month for his alleged role in the murder of two CMOs Dr Vinod Arya and Dr B P Singh who were gunned down allegedly in connection with the NRHM bungling.
Uttar Pradesh police has detained four persons in connection with the murder of Chief Medical Officer of family welfare department B P Singh last month and seized weapons suspected to have used in the shooting.
The district police on Wednesday filed a charge sheet in the Chief Medical Officer B P Singh murder case, holding Deputy CMO YS Sachan responsible for hiring shooters to kill him. The charge sheet was filed by Gomti Nagar police station Station House Officer Abhimanyu Dhar Dwivedi in Chief Judicial Magistrate Rajesh Upadhyay's court.
Opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the mysterious death of a deputy chief medical officer in Lucknow jail, alleging that the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party was shielding the guilty as its leaders were involved in the case.
The jailor and four other staffers of Lucknow jail were on Thursday suspended in connection with the mysterious death of Deputy Chief Medical Officer Y S Sachan, the main accused in CMO B P Singh murder case.
Exactly five days after he was named as the key accused Chief Medical Officer Dr B P Singh's murder case in Lucknow, jailed deputy chief medical officer Dr Y S Sachan was found dead under mysterious circumstances inside the Lucknow district jail on Wednesday evening.
Samajwadi Party on Monday demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the killing of Chief Medical Officer B P Singh in Uttar Pradesh alleging involvement of state ministers in the crime and accusing the police of protecting them.
The Uttar Pradesh police on Friday claimed to have cracked the murder case of Lucknow Chief Medical Officer (family welfare) Dr B P Singh, who was gunned down outside his residence in Lucknow's posh Indira Nagar, while stepping out for his routine morning walk on April 2.
All medical services in every state-run hospital across Uttar Pradesh will remain suspended for two hours with effect from Monday, as a mark of protest against the failure of investigating agencies to crack the sensational murder case of Lucknow chief medical officer Dr B P Singh.
The Supreme Court refused to give any interim relief to Zee-Turner on Wednesday.
Kunal Kemmu's crime thriller Abhay 2 continues to be gripping in the second season, notes Moumita Bhattacharjee.
Governor B P Singh administered the oath of office and secrecy to the 59-year-old chief minister and his ministerial colleagues at Raj Bhawan in Gangtok.
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed Delhi high court order directing Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission to investigate allegations of financial irregularities by Star Plus television channel in its game show Kaun Banega Crorepati.
Free Delhi roads, footpaths of unauthorised hawkers: SC
The complaint in the murder case was registered by the brothers of the deceased in which Thakur's name did not figure.
He settled for a quick draw with Pavel Kotsur in the final round of the chess tournament.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to expedite hearing on a petition filed by three Birla family members, who have challenged the Calcutta High Court's order that refused them right to object to the purported 1999 'will' of late Priyamvada Birla.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to quash the criminal proceedings initiated by an employee of the Birla Group against R S Lodha and three of his associates.
Amid dramatic scenes and vociferous demonstrations by the Film and Television Institute of India students, television actor and Bharatiya Janata Party member Gajendra Chauhan on Thursday took charge as chairman of the premiere institute in Pune, even as police detained nearly 40 protesters who were calling him a "political appointee".
Cancelling the bail bonds of Khursheed, the Bench said "he should be forthwith taken into custody to serve out the remainder of the sentence."
T S Krishnamurthy, appointed as an observer for the BCCI elections, said the present president cannot file his nomination.
The Supreme Court cleared the adjourned AGM of BCCI at Kolkata for it to be held before November 30
The Supreme Court noted that the Union government failed to prove that it has given de facto recognition to the BCCI for discharging its functions.
A see-saw battle of arguments between the Lodha camp and the Birla group, who are fighting for control of Priyamvada Birla's Rs 2,400 crore (Rs 24 billion) assets, on Thursday unfolded before the Supreme Court.
The Andhra Pradesh government had subdivided the reservation for Scheduled Castes into four categories.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgement on petitions filed by Star, Sony and ESPN, which hold rights for content broadcast of major satellite channels.
The court asked the Haryana police to give adequate protection to the lovers, who had married against the wishes of their village panchayat.
The warrants were the outcome of a sting operation by a television journalist to expose corruption in the lower judiciary in Gujarat.
The Board contended that it neither receives a financial grant nor recognition from the government and that it is a private, autonomous body.
The apex court said the charge of culpable homicide should not be added at present in the trial proceedings.
In an order, which may affect the computer industry adversely, the Supreme Court on Friday held that software could be classified as goods for the purpose of levy of sales tax on it.
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