Four areas are proposed to be earmarked for emergency landings for fighter planes on the 300 km stretch.
After two months of dilly dallying, the Uttar Pradesh government has finally decided to come to the assistance of the 42 Muslim families whose bread winners were gunned down by policemen 28 years ago.
The Lucknow-based St Joseph's Inter College has refused entry to a young girl student for wearing a hijab (head scarf) on campus.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh virtually ruled out any enactment of law for building the much debated Ram temple in Ayodhya on Sunday.
Everyone showered praise on UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav for having provided unprecedented support to Nepal
Left with nothing, many survivors staying at a relief camp in UP, recount the horror of Saturday's earthquake.
A special relief camp has also been set up in Gorakhpur.
In his bid to transform Uttar Pradesh's 'poor law and order' image, Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday sought to showcase how the tech-savvy chief minister in him was out to use technology to control the unabated crime in Lucknow.
Even as the Uttar Pradesh government has flatly denied suicides by farmers in any part of the state, state chief secretary Alok Ranjan on Tuesday admitted that the untimely rain, thunder and hailstorm in large parts of the state had caused tremendous loss to the standing wheat crop to the tune of over Rs 1,100 crores.
Mystery shrouds the death of Madhya Pradesh Governor Ram Naresh Yadav's son Shailesh Yadav.
Thirty one people were killed and 45 injured in a train accident on Friday morning at Uttar Pradesh's Bachhrawan railway station, barely 40 km from Rae Bareli, the parliamentary constituency of Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
The Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh will launch the first train carrying Hindus on an officially sponsored free pilgrimage to Haridwar and Rishilesh on March 14.
The Aam Aadmi Party is looking at taking a plunge into the political cesspool of Uttar Pradesh, where state assembly elections are to be held in 2017.
Who would be footing bill for what was supposedly a "family affair" could be anybody's guess.
The Uttar Pradesh chief minister vows to curb corruption and bring in transparency in governance.
The Lucknow police recovered the body of a young girl from a locality near the Ambedkar University. Police suspect that the girl, a law student from the university, had been gang raped before being murdered.
The VHP has felicitated parents who have more than half a dozen children.
UP policemen prevent Godse supporters from installing assassin's statue.
Twelve persons have died and around 100 were hospitalised on Monday after consuming illicit liquor on the outskirts of Lucknow city.
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