Samajwadi Party Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Sunday accepted the resignation of his close associate Amar Singh from all party posts including that of general secretary and the parliamentary board.
The stranglehold of Mulayam's family on the party is at the centre of the debate.
The plea, filed in the apex court by advocate Ghanshyam Upadhyay, has referred to media reports and claimed that encounter of these five co-accused by the police is "not only extremely illegal, inhuman, but also it is shocking to the conscience of the court and is nothing but Talibanisation of the country, which cannot be countenanced at all".
Maneka Gandhi will contest from Sultanpur and Varun Gandhi from Pilibhit.
More disappointing was Rahul's 10-minute speech as he repeated all his old phrases and had nothing new to say to the assembled people.
Cold wave claimed 204 lives in north India as dense fog returned to the region after a gap of two days affecting flights and trains in the national capital even as parts of Kashmir experienced sub-zero temperatures.
MPs should be banned from speaking in English in Parliament, Samajwadi Party supreme Mulayam Singh Yadav has said.
Officials found that the permissible limit of 5 KW a day was being busted by as many as eight times. He has been given a time period till the end of the month to pay up.
Holi revelry landed Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav into trouble on Thursday with the Election Commission slapping a notice on him for alleged distribution of cash during a function at his native place in Etawah district.
In the backdrop of the incident of a Dalit girl being beaten by police in Etawah, the United Progressive Alliance Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Thursday said it was shameful that children were being tortured in India. At a function to give away the National Child awards in New Delhi, Gandhi said the country needs to implement laws protecting children very rigorously.
This is the first full-scale review of VIP protectees by the Union home ministry after the Modi 2.0 government took charge.
Senior Samajwadi Party leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Mohammad Azam Khan, UP Vidhan Sabha Deputy Speaker and BJP leader Rajesh Agarwal and former state BSP President Indrajit Saroj are leading.
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav today contended that he had not violated the model code of conduct by giving "reward" to people during Holi, saying it was part of the festivities in Uttar Pradesh.
In a shocking case of brutality, a six-year-old Dalit girl was beaten up and scolded by police officials for allegedly stealing Rs 280 from a woman. The incident happened on Monday when Komal, the victim, had gone to a market near Lohamandi in Jaswantpur area.
The decision to field the party chief from two constituencies taken by the SP Parliamentary Board
As the street battle erupted, Mulayam Singh Yadav and Chief Minister Mayawati traded charges with the SP chief accusing the police of targeting his party workers at her behest and the BSP supremo charging SP with fomenting trouble in league with criminals.
Mulayam Singh Yadav complained of uneasiness and breathing difficulty.
The two-and-a-half-year-old boy had gone out with a servant in the evening and did not return home, police said.
The poll panel has thrown an unprecedented security blanket over Kanpur, the chief minister's stronghold.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
The latest round may have gone against him, but the chief minister is planning his counter-attack.
More than a dozen police teams have been deployed in the Chambal ravines.
He promised a grand city inspired by Cambodia's sprawling Angkor Wat, in the state if his party comes to power.
Shobha Ram is among the estimated 100,000 beggars who roam the streets of Delhi.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party presdient Mulayam Singh Yadav Tuesday said his party would move a no confidence motion in the Lok Sabha against the United Progressive Alliance government over the Iran issue.
Who would be footing bill for what was supposedly a "family affair" could be anybody's guess.
The pradhan gave correct information about the whereabouts of Gujjar, which enabled the STF team to track him.
'Favourable treatment to selected areas has been a pattern throughout the state.'
The boy had been knocked down by a vehicle near Karpur Gate in Anekal on Sunday evening and when his father, a migrant labourer from Assam, took him to the Anekal government hospital, he was declared "brought dead", police said.
A 20-year-old girl, who was allegedly gang-raped and set afire by a youth and his associates in Desarmau village under Ekdil police station area in Etawah, succumbed to her injuries at a hospital in Saifi.
The locusts initially entered Rajasthan from Pakistan and from there the swarms moved towards Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, and Punjab over the last few weeks and are now threatening to enter Uttar Pradesh, putting at risk the summer crop.
Irfan, who represented Bilari assembly seat, was on his way to attend the marriage of son of senior cabinet minister Shivpal Singh Yadav in Saifai in Etawah district when his vehicle overturned and fell into a ditch on Thursday.
Given the controversy over Uttar Pradesh's population control moves, Hemant Shivsaran/Rediff.com digs deep to find out how many children BJP MLAs in UP have.
Police said the gangster snatched a pistol from one of the policemen injured in the accident and was shot when he opened fire while trying to flee.
There was no relief for the national capital, with the mercury crossing the 44C mark in some parts of the city.
The attack occurred when Kamlesh Pathak had gone to settle a land dispute in Bhind district in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh.
Shyama Nair said her father disappeared from a train near Etawah in Uttar Pradesh while travelling to Delhi from Varanasi with the family.
The fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections will go to polls on April 29. The voting will be held for 71 seats spread across 9 states.
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