BSP boss known for her over-the-top celebrations, where crores are splurged, has decided to keep it low this year. Does Kejriwal have anything to do with this?
Sharat Pradhan gets mixed reactions from locals, as the Aam Aadmi Party takes a stride into Amethi, the bastion of the Congress VP.
The New Year in Uttar Pradesh dawns the advent of the state's first Muslim director general of police, with chief minister Akhilesh Yadav naming 1978 batch Indian Police Service officer Rizwan Ahmed as the new police chief.
The Uttar Pradesh government deployed bulldozers to demolish a relief camp housing the victims of Muzaffarnagar riots in Loi village on Friday evening.
If the Aam Admi Party has gained popularity in Delhi, its symbol -- the broom (jhadoo) -- has become a bone of contention in Uttar Pradesh, where a regional party has staked claim to it.
Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav appears to be quite cut up with Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi over the latter's surprise visit to the relief camps for victims of communal violence in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts in Western Uttar Pradesh.
Apparent realisation that the reputation of his son Akhilesh Yadav's 21- month old government had declined drastically largely on account of its failure to control lawlessness in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav has suddenly turned his attention to the lumpen element within the party.
The Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court has put brakes on Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's bid to appease all and sundry by offering a minister's status to them in one form or the other.
While taking strong exception to the arrest and humiliation of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, Uttar Pradesh's all powerful Samajwadi Party leader and Urban Development Minister Azam Khan has offered her a party ticket to contest the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
Rampant corruption in the Uttar Pradesh police is an open secret. But how blatant it has become has been spelt out by none other than widely known ruling Samajwadi Party Member of Legislative Assembly Ravidas Mehrotra.
Addressing a press conference in Lucknow on Monday, he sought to emphasise that he had charted out a comprehensive development plan for the state.
After remaining in a denial mode for weeks, the Uttar Pradesh government has at long last admitted that 11 children did die due to cold in the poorly maintained post riot relief camps in Muzaffarnagar.
Pained at the pace of justice in our country, says Uma Kant Misra, who was acquitted in a case of embezzlement. Sharat Pradhan reports.
Of late, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been concentrating on Uttar Pradesh, where he has held four rallies over a span of one month. Clearly, this was a departure from the routine as UP was not even among the states where assembly elections were being held currently.
Twenty months after he had pushed his son Akhilesh Yadav to the forefront of politics and crowned him as the youngest chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party President Mulayam Singh Yadav is trying to once again project himself as the poster boy of his party.
Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav are all set to put up a show of strength by holding rallies in Agra and Bareilly respectively on Thursday.
Having faced much political embarrassment after the drubbing in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh polls, Rahul Gandhi is in for another jolt when 'Uncle' Sanjay Singh joins the BJP and contests the Amethi election against him, reports Sharat Pradhan.
The Bombay HIgh Court refused to issue stay orders on the film's release.
Hours before Narendra Modi's scheduled rally in Bahraich, the district administration gave a conditional permission to the Bharatiya Janata Party to hold the meet on Friday.
Eight persons have been arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police in connection with Wednesday's renewed communal rioting in Muzaffarnagar, which left four dead.
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