Prominent Cong leaders get UP poll tickets

With Rahul Gandhi having given his final nod, the Congress party on Monday released its first list of 73 candidates for the next state assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.Election to the 403-member......

UP lawyer ends life, blames minister for plight

Forty-year old lawyer Vinay Kumar Yadav, who ended his life by hanging himself in his home in Lucknow in the wee hours of Thursday, has blamed it all on the rampant corruption in the Uttar Pradesh......

UP MLA sentenced to life imprisonment

Vijay Singh, an independent legislator from the Uttar Pradesh assembly, was on Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Central Bureau of Investigation court in Lucknow in connection with the......

Don-turned-MLA Mukhtar Ansari back in UP

Dreaded don-turned-legislator Mukhtar Ansari has once again managed to evade detention at Delhi's high security Tihar jail to be back in Uttar Pradesh.Sentenced to ten years in prison under the......