
August 30, 2005 03:24 IST
The staff at ICICI Bank’s Civil Lines branch here were caught unawares last Thursday when hundreds of lawyers roughed them up and ransa...
Tue, Aug 30, 2005
June 16, 2005 02:09 IST
The state government today arrested around 800 BJP workers including the national vice-president, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who had planned a ral...
Thu, Jun 16, 2005
June 10, 2005 01:43 IST
Mayawati today threw open the Bahujan Samaj Party’s (BSP) doors to Brahmins and other upper castes, promising Cabinet berths to all tho...
Fri, Jun 10, 2005
June 04, 2005 00:08 IST
The doors of the Bahujan Samaj Prerna Kendra, hailed as a ‘‘temple for dalits’’ by the party leaders, were finally opene...
Sat, Jun 04, 2005
May 27, 2005 01:41 IST
The 75-year -old Rajkumari, who apparently committed sati on May 7 in this desolate Uttar Pradesh village, is already a bit of a local legen...
Fri, May 27, 2005
May 26, 2005 00:00 IST
Sending a chilling reminder that the evil of Sati is far from over, a 75-year-old woman burnt herself on her husband’s funeral pyre in ...
Thu, May 26, 2005
May 23, 2005 03:05 IST
After incorporating the Bhim Ganga in her dream project, the Ambedkar Park, former UP chief minister Mayawati is inaugurating a ‘‘...
Mon, May 23, 2005
May 21, 2005 02:13 IST
Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya is the modern ‘‘Maharana Pratap’’, the ‘‘unquestionable’’ l...
Sat, May 21, 2005
May 21, 2005 01:35 IST
Just ahead of the panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh, relatives of Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and members of his community have be...
Sat, May 21, 2005
May 14, 2005 01:49 IST
As the Shatabdi Express chugged into Kanpur station this evening, slogans of “Laloo Prasad hosh mein ayo, UP ko Bihar mat banao” r...
Sat, May 14, 2005
March 23, 2005 01:07 IST
The spread of HIV in UP triggered alarms in the Assembly, with the chief minister advising legislators to ‘‘keep self-restrain...
Wed, Mar 23, 2005
March 19, 2005 01:19 IST
The Uttar Pradesh Assembly today passed the controversial Urdu University Bill through a voice vote, adding to the already strained realtion...
Sat, Mar 19, 2005
January 17, 2005 01:11 IST
On friday, 18-year-old Archana Saxena breached security in a desperate bid to get the President’s ear. A day later, she was sacked from...
Mon, Jan 17, 2005
December 21, 2004 01:40 IST
Supporters of Samajwadi Party legislator Amarmani Tripathi have formed a youth brigade named after him, in an attempt to improve his image a...
Tue, Dec 21, 2004
December 20, 2004 01:37 IST
Throwing all norms to the winds, a Samajwadi Party legislator and former Uttar Pradesh minister has donated Rs 55 lakh from his Vidhyak Nidh...
Mon, Dec 20, 2004
December 18, 2004 02:01 IST
Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav is now embracing kar sewaks accused in demolition of the Babri structure. While three of the 26 ‘...
Sat, Dec 18, 2004
December 16, 2004 02:52 IST
A new low or a positive sign? As bribery stories go, this one from Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, would find even Transparency International hard p...
Thu, Dec 16, 2004
December 15, 2004 02:14 IST
Following the Communications Ministry’s almost complete initiative for connecting villages in Rae Bareli district on the mobile phone n...
Wed, Dec 15, 2004
December 08, 2004 02:00 IST
Conspicuous by their absence during the 12th anniversary of the Babri Mosque demolition in Ayodhya on Monday, top VHP leaders will be assemb...
Wed, Dec 08, 2004
December 07, 2004 01:35 IST
Twelve years after the Babri Masjid was demolished, there is a sense of gloom among the dozen workers at the VHP’s workshop in Ayodhya ...
Tue, Dec 07, 2004
December 04, 2004 02:04 IST
This is a simple case of Mayanomics: BSP workers have been given a target of collecting Rs 2 lakh each from the 402 Assembly segments in UP ...
Sat, Dec 04, 2004
December 01, 2004 00:29 IST
Relations between the Congress and Mulayam Singh Yadav touched a new low today, as the ruling Samajwadi Party managed to get the controversi...
Wed, Dec 01, 2004
September 09, 2004 01:42 IST
In a show of strength, BSP workers across the state today hit the streets in thousands to protest the ‘‘insult’’ of thei...
Thu, Sep 09, 2004
September 07, 2004 01:53 IST
The Congress highcommand was left red in the face today as the statewide bandh called by its party unit in Uttar Pradesh, to put the Mulayam...
Tue, Sep 07, 2004
September 03, 2004 01:42 IST
Despite strained relations and his continued tirade against Governor T.V. Rajeswar, UP Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav today visited Raj ...
Fri, Sep 03, 2004





