The US-India Business Council (USIBC) has invited Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to be the guest of honour at its 38th Anniversary Leadership Summit in Washington DC on July 11.
Samajwadi Party preside......read more
Akhilesh orders probe; family alleges murder.
An accused in the serial blasts at Lucknow and Faizabad courts in 2007 — 30-year-old Khalid Mujahid —-died mysteriously on Saturday while returning to Luc......read more
Within a month of imposing a ban on motorcycles in boys’ hostels from the next academic session, the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) vice-chancellor Lt Gen. (Retd) Zameer Uddin Shah today said that cr......read more
Lucknow: Two former legislators from the Congress and BSP joined the Samajwadi Party on Saturday. Anil Verma, a three-term MLA from Laharpur in Sitapur had contested the 2012 Assembly election on a Co......read more
BJP national general secretary Amit Shah will take part in the party’s Jail Bharo Andolan in UP and court arrest in Rampur district on May 29, amid rumours that he is in the race to take charge of the......read more
Oral polio drops will make way for injectable vaccine gradually, says PolioPlus chairman.
In order to sustain its polio-free status, Uttar Pradesh will have to strengthen its routine immunisation, all......read more
The Election Commission has decided to videograph all 314 polling stations during the bypoll at Handia Assembly constituency in Allahabad on June 2 because the constituency has been found to be sensit......read more
With the UP government identifying land for developing a civilian airport in Jhansi, a team of senior officials from Airports Authority of India (AAI) and UP Civil Aviation have visited the proposed s......read more
A Chinese national was arrested for travelling in India allegedly with an expired visa and a fake identity card.
Police said Chinese national Lu Guangji was caught by immigration officials at Sonuali......read more
An undertrial, who was admitted in a hospital after he was allegedly tortured in police custody, succumbed to his injuries, according to the family. One police sub-inspector has been suspended and a c......read more
The family of slain DSP Zia-ul-Haque has sent a list of eight names for government jobs on compassionate grounds.
Besides Haque’s wife Parveen Azad and his younger brother Sohrab, the list sent to the......read more
The CBI, which took over the probe into the murder of Uttar Pradesh DSP Zia-ul-Haque on Thursday, named MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh, alias Raja Bhaiyya, in one of its four FIRs.
Sources said Raja Bhaiyy......read more
A three-member inquiry committee, set up to investigate reasons behind the stampede in which 38 lives were lost on the day of Mauni Amavasya (February 10) at Allahabad Railway station, has begun its t......read more
More than 40 police personnel were stationed at various points on the 25-km stretch between Shipra Mall in Ghaziabad and Dasna, the route taken by the stolen auto in which an abducted 19-year-old girl......read more