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Study new re-drawn seats, Maya tells partymen

Friday 29 February '08

The ruling party in Uttar Pradesh has taken the lead in preparing for the general elections, with BSP chief Mayawati issuing clear-cut instructions in this regard.
UP minister gives Rs 2 lakh for boy's kidney transplant

Thursday 7 February '08

A minister in the Mayawati Cabinet, Narayan Singh, has donated Rs 2 lakh...
Maya’s CBI itch: floods agency with seventh case

Tuesday 5 February '08

Setting a record of sorts, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Monday recommended a CBI probe into the police recruitment scam...
Six months on, Maya cornered by emerging politics

Friday 1 February '08

The Opposition in Uttar Pradesh has come out of hibernation and is gearing up to corner...
Centre writes to UP Govt on students spurning Dalit cooks

Wednesday 30 January '08

The Centre has shot off a letter to the Mayawati Government expressing concern over incidents of students in government schools...
UP VAT date Jan 1, ordinance on way

Thursday 6 December '07

Ignoring the Opposition’s protests, the Mayawati Government has decided to introduce Value Added Tax in Uttar Pradesh from January 1, 2008.
UP Oppn wants Periyar’s Ramayan banned, but not a copy to buy in state

Thursday 8 November '07

Even as the Opposition in Uttar Pradesh rallies against the Sachchi Ramayan, the Hindi translation of Periyar...
Maya’s gift to PCS officers: maiden foreign junket

Friday 19 October '07

They are not “step children” any more. The Uttar Pradesh Government is finally sending its Provincial Civil Services officers to a foreign junket.
Maya’s trifurcation remark catches other parties off-guard

Friday 12 October '07

The debate about whether Uttar Pradesh should be split further has taken a new turn with Chief Minister Mayawati’s recent comment...
Cong shakes off power Maya, takes village route

Thursday 11 October '07

Having spent years in airconditioned comfort, the Congress seems to have realised that if it wants to turn around its fortunes in Uttar Pradesh, it has to go to the villages.
UK visitors face hostile crowds in UP

Wednesday 26 September '07

On friday, this young couple visiting India with the Royal Rifle (a regiment of the English army) got engaged in front of the Taj Mahal.
150 yrs on, no place for 1857 British ‘heroes’

Monday 24 September '07

Both Meerut and Lucknow cities have roads named after Major General Sir Henry Havelock, who, in England, is considered a hero of 1857 British-India war.
Maya to spend Rs 54 cr for new set of wings

Friday 21 September '07

No more bumpy rides for Mayawati, her ministers and bureaucrats. The BSP Government in Uttar Pradesh is gearing...
40 yrs after his Canada find, UP geologist’s name etched in fossil

Wednesday 19 September '07

Fractofusus Misrai (after S B Misra) believed to be 565 million years old, the oldest record of multicellular life.
Abandoned UP airstrips: clubs plan institutes

Wednesday 19 September '07

Four flying clubs have signed agreements with the Uttar Pradesh Government to set up flying training institutes using state-owned air strips which are lying abandoned.
Maya to hand over airstrips to private entities

Saturday 28 July '07

The Government airstrips in Uttar Pradesh will no longer languish for want of maintenance or be exploited by politicians for their personal use.
Eye on 2009, Maya ventures to dream of development

Friday 27 July '07

After showing that she means business on the law and order front by making drastic changes in the biggest police force of the nation...
Switching sides cost Dadua dear

Tuesday 24 July '07

Switching political loyalties cost dreaded dacoit Shiv Kumar Kurmi alias Dadua his life.
Crowd puller on a spiritual trip

Sunday 1 July '07

In 2004, Rajput put a pistol to his head, rooting for Sonia as PM. Where is he now?
150-year-old diary scripts reunion story

Wednesday 27 June '07

West’s statement proved true for an NRI family in South Africa trying to trace its roots to India. The diary of patriach Khooddun— a dogeared, 150-year-old volume— led them to Jaunpur In UP.
At peace with the Buddha

Sunday 17 June '07

It took a Thai woman to discover Shravasti, now among the most popular places on the Buddhist circuit
With three SEZs, Maya brings hope for Kanpur

Saturday 9 June '07

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati may have sent a recommendation to the Centre against the proposed SEZ by the Anil Dhirubhai...
Maya marks ‘guest house’ attack

Monday 4 June '07

JUNE 3, 1995: A day after the infamous guest house case in the state capital where she was attacked by Samajwadi Party workers, Mayawati was for the first time sworn in as Chief ...
Not just Anil, all SEZs and high-tech cities under review

Saturday 26 May '07

A day after the Mayawati Government sent Anil Ambani Group’s proposed SEZ to the Centre, it has become clear it’s not just the Noida special zone that’s being reviewed....
His father pulled a rickshaw in Varanasi, son in IAS top-50

Friday 18 May '07

He spent his childhood in a 12x8 ft rented room shared among his parents and three sisters. But Govind Jaiswal, now 23 and expecting to be an IAS officer, still found room for dreams. And the will to realise them.
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