Amid raging controversy over Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's claim -- that those living in relief camps in Muzaffarnagar were political activists and not riot victims -- his party went into fire fighting mode on Wednesday, saying his statement had been twisted.
Sitting Bahujan Samaj Party member of Parliament Dhananjay Singh was on Wednesday suspended from the party by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for reportedly rendering support and meeting expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh in jail.
Union minister Nitin Gadkari will head a committee which will reach out to social and volunteer organisations while his Cabinet colleague Sushma Swaraj will head a group that will produce literature for the polls.
'Star campaigner' to address election meetings in poll-bound Chhattisgarh, MP, Rajasthan.
Assistant Jail Superintendent R Maurya was caught red-handed during a raid soliciting call girls at his official residence within the jail premises. His family was away in Bihar at the time of the incident, which took place few weeks ago.
The reshuffle may take place before Modi departs for China to attend the BRICS summit.
Names of BJP veterans like L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi also do not figure in the list.
Departing from protocol, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday personally extended a warm welcome to United States President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle at the Palam Air Force Station in New Delhi.
'Whom do I want to marry and what decisions I make for marrying the person I love are totally personal decisions, in which neither the State nor the courts have any right to interfere.'
After the busting a call girl racket in high security Tihar jail in Delhi, a high-level probe that is being led by a director inspector general ranking official, is investigating whether any of the VIP inmates who are currently lodged have any links with the call girls.
The Bharatiya Janata Party Yuva Morcha leader, who had announced a reward of Rs 5 lakh for cutting off Jawaharlal Nehru University Students union leader Kanhaiya Kumar's tongue, was on Saturday expelled from primary membership of the party for six years.
Bollywood says goodbye to Shashi Kapoor.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati held an emergency meeting of senior government officials in Lucknow on Tuesday night after a blast shook the temple town of Varanasi killing a child and injuring 20 people.
From refusing to register rape cases, cops in Uttar Pradesh have got into the heinous act themselves. Two policemen were allegedly involved in the rape of a middle-aged married woman in Ghosi town of Mau district, about 400 km from Lucknow, taking Wednesday's reported rape cases in Uttar Pradesh to three.
The migrants said that they prefer trucks and tempos to go back to their native places as the trucks drop them close to their villages, while buses drop them only till the state border, from where they have to find another mode of transport to reach home.
After criticising United States President Barack Obama's first speech delivered at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai on November 6, the Bharatiya Janata Party has softened its stance against him.
With luxury hospitality chains competing to offer intangibles like the best sleep in town and the purest air to breathe, a 'pure room' is one of the latest innovations to be marketed - as one enabling guests to sleep better and breathe fresher, by keeping allergens at bay!
"Party's central observers -- Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu and national general secretary Bhupendra Yadav -- will be present at the meeting on Saturday at 5 pm," UP BJP general secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak said.
It was conveyed that he would not have a free rein in making bureaucratic postings. Sunil Bansal, handpicked by BJP president Amit Shah to execute his UP blueprint, has made it clear the party's writ would run over the government. But Adityanath has institutionalised a system to keep Bansal out, reports Radhika Ramaseshan.
Its allies Apna Dal (S) and Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party bagged nine seats and four seats, respectively, taking the total tally of the combine to 325.
Non-engineers have been tagged as a less creative breed of students.
The selection committee of the Cricket Board (BCCI) will meet in New Delhi on Saturday to pick the Indian team for the upcoming limited-overs tour of Australia, starting January 12.
The Cricket Association of Bihar (CAB) on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against Board of Control for Cricket in India's acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary and others for allegedly violating the apex court's orders.
Two other ministers Swantradev Singh and Mohsin Raza also took oath.
Closed for renovation, DumPukht, the famous Indian cuisine restaurant at Maurya Sheraton in Delhi, will be ready just in time for the high-profile visit of Barack Obama and his wife, who will stay at the ITC hotel that is engaged in extensive preparations for hosting the United States President. Besides working on various delicacies for the Obamas, who will have a two-day stay in Delhi, the hotel is also preparing to treat them with traditional Indian therapies.
The charegsheet has named Col D K Pathania, Maj Maurya, Major Upinder, Subedar Satbir, Hawaldar Bir Singh, Sepoys Chandra Bhan, Nagendra Singh and Narendra Singh and Abbas Hussain Shah of the Territorial Army (TA) besides two civilians Basharat Lone and Abdul Hamid Bhat.
United States President Barack Obama's two-day stay in Delhi will be a boon for New Delhi's luxury hotels, depending on who bears his contingent's bills.
This step has been taken by the DM after all his efforts to spur the staff failed and the district continued to be placed among the least performing districts of the state in implementation of the scheme, the ADM added.
Against the backdrop of the opposition closing ranks on the CAA issue and the BJP faring poorly in several state elections recently, the 2022 electoral battle is unlikely to be a cakewalk for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, reports Virendra Singh Rawat.
Describing Mayawati as a "living goddess", the ruling BSP in Uttar Pradesh, facing a hail of criticism over the garland issue, says it will continue to weigh its party supremo in gold and silver.
Kautilya, widely known as pioneer of economics in India and author of Artha Shastra (rules of economics), was invoked for the fourth time in the country's annual Union Budget speech on Friday, including thrice by the incumbent Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
The producers of Nachom-ia Kumpasar sent their entry to the Oscars privately in two categories -- Best Foreign Film and Best Background Score.
The Didar De girl now features in the raunchy Desi Soda Whisky music video.
'Uttar Pradesh, our largest state by population and the most powerful, is also the worst governed.'
Two pilots and a civilian were killed after a naval aircraft crashed on a nearby residential building near Begumpet airport during an air show in Hyderabad on Wednesday morning, city police said.
It takes concrete storytelling not style to camouflage John Abraham's limitations. He bears the physicality of a man who could take on a dozen but his blank, pained surface cannot offer threat or evoke sympathy, writes Sukanya Verma.
Two-term Bahujan Samaj Party MP Brajesh Pathak on Monday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party expressing faith in its "developmental" agenda for poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, a day after attending Mayawati's rally in Agra.
Besides Singh, who makes his electoral debut from Noida, Rita Bahuguna Joshi's name also featured in the list.
Quoting medieval India's political thinker Kautilya as well as Mahatma Gandhi, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday punctuated his Budget speech with words of wisdom, wit and humour.
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