Investigation agencies have launched a hunt for a man who received a call from Mumbai, minutes before the December 7 Varanasi blast, which left two dead and 30 injured.
Taking serious note of indictment by the Lokayukta, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday dropped one of her ministers charged with graft.
Taking serious note of alleged obscenity at a cultural event organised in the state health ministry, the Mayawati administration on Thursday ordered suspension of three top officers and four office bearers of the employees union. Action was ordered on the basis of a prima facie report submitted by an inquiry committee, which confirmed that departmental officials organised an obscene dance programme and indulged in drinking during the installation ceremony of new officers.
Samajwadi Party activists staged demonstrations across Uttar Pradesh on Monday against the arrest of independent member of Legislative Assembly Raghuraj Pratap Singh, popularly known as Raja Bhaiya, for his alleged involvement in an attempt to kidnap and murder a candidate in the local bodies election. More than 500 party activists were detained for resorting to violence, said a SP spokesperson.
Athelete Sudha Singh, who brought honours to India and Uttar Pradesh by bagging the Asiad Gold at Guangzhou, has decided not to run for her state anymore, thanks to state sports minister Ayodhya Prasad Pal.
Janshakti Party chief Uma Bharti has advised Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi against following the guidance of senior party leader Digvijay Singh, warning that the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister's advice could land him in a real soup.Bharti was reacting to the observations made by Gandhi about 'saffron terror' during his conversation with United States Ambassador Timothy Roemer, which was exposed by WikiLeaks on Friday.
More than 20 months after Bhartiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Varun Gandhi spewed communal venom during his election campaign in Pilibhit, the Uttar Pradesh government on Friday gave its mandatory sanction for his prosecution.
Other than detention of three labourers, the local police and the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad has failed to make any headway in the Varanasi blast case so far.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday vehemently refuted Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's claim that the Centre had forewarned the Uttar Pradesh government against a possible terrorist strike in Varanasi.
Barely 15 hours after a low intensity blast rocked Varanasi and killed a two-year-old child, Home Minister P Chidambaram, who visited the pilgrimage city on Wednesday, claimed that he had warned the Uttar Pradesh government about a terror threat to Dasshwamedh ghat."We had sent a letter to the UP government way back in February to share intelligence reports hinting at the possibility of terrorist outfits targeting this particular ghat of Varanasi," Chidambaram said.
Controversial IAS officer and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Neera Yadav , who was on Tuesday, convicted by a special Central Bureau of Investigation court and arrested in Ghaziabad on account of her involvement in the NOIDA land scam had always received the patronage of successive chief ministers of India's most populous state.
The controversial judgment in the 125-year-old legal battle in the Ayodhya title suit may have reopened the debate about the Babri Masjid issue. But the 18th anniversary of the demolition of the 16th century mosque remained a non-event on Monday.
Firebrand Muslim leader Mohammad Azam Khan on Saturday formally rejoined the Samajwadi Party and attended a meeting of the state office bearers in Lucknow. Azam went to SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's residence and later reached the party office with Yadav to attend the meeting called to discuss the party's strategy for the 2012 assembly polls. Khan, party sources said, has been offered the post of leader of opposition in the state assembly.
In an unprecedented move, the Allahabad high court has decided to move a petition against derogatory "remarks" made by Supreme Court judge Justice Markanday Katju against it.
Waking up to the realisation that state assembly elections in the state are barely 18 months away, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has begun to sound an alert to her party rank and file.
The first day of Congress president Sonia Gandhi's three-day visit to Rae Bareli, her parliamentary constituency, was devoted to Dalits and Muslims. She visited several villages on Monday and took stock of implementation of various centrally-sponsored schemes.
The success story written by Nitish Kumar in Bihar has not gone unnoticed in the neighbouring Uttar Pradesh where his counterpart chief minister Mayawati appears to be getting serious about governance.
Expelled Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan is all set to rejoin the party on December 9.Khan on Saturday told mediapersons, "Now that SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has admitted his mistakes and taken suitable corrective action, I have decided to formally join the party on December 9."He said, "Mulayam Singh Yadav has been sincerely apologetic about expelling me from the party and now he has declared that he would offer me an appropriate position in the SP hierarchy."
Accompanied by his wife Jaya and a few other people, the megastar drove down to the village in the afternoon. He hopped on to an awaiting tractor, which he rode for a bout 20 minutes over the 2.4 hectare plot of land owned jointly by him and his wife.
Their lunch on Wednesday afternoon was a meal that patrons of Aryan, a popular fast food restaurant in Lucknow, would remember for a long time. For it is not everyday that they have Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi for company during lunchtime. The restaurant staffers, along with the guests, were initially stunned when the Gandhi scion sauntered in to have his lunch. Gandhi was on his way back to Delhi after completing his three-day visit of Amethi.
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