Next door to Delhi, Meena Rly officers go home to feel safe

Thursday 7 June '07

As Gurjjars gathered at Ghaziabad station, four Meena officers went on leave. Station head’s nameplate still painted over

Bulandshahr: Extortionists gun for traders, kill 1

Thursday 31 May '07

A trader was killed and six others injured when three masked men on a motorcycle went on a shooting spree at four separate places in Bulandshahr on Tuesday night.

Maya village plugs in, campus clean-up begins

Wednesday 16 May '07

Three days and it’s clear who is in charge — from a village to a university campus. Noida Development Authority Chairman Rakesh Bahadur promptly out of the way

1857 rally: Participants go on rampage

Tuesday 8 May '07

The commemorative Jung-e-Azadi rally on the 150th anniversary of the 1857 War from Meerut to Delhi got off to an ugly start today

Charges framed against ex-UP Chief Secy

Wednesday 2 May '07

In what could be fodder for Mulayam Singh Yadav’s rivals during the ongoing Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh...

In phase II, EC eyes on Meerut

Monday 9 April '07

With the focus shifting to Phase 2 of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections when 58 seats in the western part of the state go to polls on April 13...

‘Kidnapping capital’ will be first test

Friday 6 April '07

The first litmus test of paramilitary forces in Uttar Pradesh will be on April 7 when eight constituencies in Etah, state’s kidnapping capital, go to polls.

Proxy party ads add to campaign cauldron

Tuesday 3 April '07

The Samajwadi Party is advertising its achievements in a big way to shore up its chances for the forthcoming Assembly elections.

No breakthrough

Sunday 25 March '07

As tenuous a lead as a mark on a suitcase is what the police have to unravel the conspiracy.

Koli killed Nithari kids, Pandher had no knowledge: CBI

Friday 23 March '07

The CBI today virtually gave a clean chit to businessman Moninder Singh Pandher in the Nithari serial killings, blaming his “psychopath” domestic help Surinder Koli squarely for the murders of 16 people.

Samjhauta: Suitcases bought on Feb 14

Tuesday 20 March '07

The suitcases behind the Samjhauta train blasts were bought in Indore four days before the the incident took place on February 18 on the Attari Express near Panipat killing 68 persons.

With just half in, it’s raining guns in UP

Monday 19 March '07

The police in Uttar Pradesh, which goes to polls next month, are in a double-bind: not only are they finding it difficult to get gun-licence holders...

Mulayam as MLA changes face of Gunnaur

Sunday 18 March '07

Till last year, none of the 127 children of Gunnaur’s Chabilpur village went to school.

UP govt orders land acquisition for Taj Expressway

Sunday 11 March '07

More than four months after an inquiry committee gave the go-ahead for the 165-km Taj Expressway from Noida to Agra...

Samjhauta probe team says 6 not 4 bombs, lifts clear fingerprints

Monday 26 February '07

A week after the blasts on the Attari Special, investigations have revealed that as many as six bombs...

Death’s hour

Monday 26 February '07

Two blasts, bogies on fire and 68 bodies. There is also another story: of a long one hour — when people fought death in vain, with no help in sight.

No breakthrough

Sunday 25 February '07

As tenuous a lead as a mark on a suitcase is what the police have to unravel the conspiracy

‘A Pakistani, he was born here, will be buried here’

Wednesday 21 February '07

It’s 2 am and the family from Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, is the first to claim bodies from the 67 lying at the Panipat Civil Hospital mortuary. It has not been an easy decision.

The hunt has begun

Wednesday 21 February '07

Apollo 600. This pen scrawl on a tailor-made cover of the suitcase in which a bomb was packed is one clue which is being given a hard look by investigators

Panipat calls Pak to hear: Yes, my father was on that train

Tuesday 20 February '07

Nil recovery. Of the 67 bodies at the Panipat Civil Hospital morgue, 50 carried this tag. Bodies charred beyond recognition, identification has become a difficult task.

Police fish out six bodies in two days

Thursday 28 December '06

In search of the body of Meerut University lecturer Kavita Rani, Uttar Pradesh Police have, instead, stumbled upon six other bodies.

Minister quits, his was last call she got

Wednesday 27 December '06

The Kavita Chowdhury murder case today claimed its second high-profile casualty: UP’s Minister of State Chaudhary Babulal. His Rashtriya Lok Dal colleague and former minister Merajuddin Ahmed had quit his party post earlier.

...and how the police played pass-the-buck

Tuesday 26 December '06

What is shocking in the entire episode of Kavita’s disappearance and her subsequent killing, as admitted by the prime accused in police custody

Dec 13: Martyrs’ families return medals in protest

Thursday 14 December '06

President APJ Abdul Kalam on October 29, 2002, awarded the nation’s highest peacetime awards — Ashok Chakra and Kirti Chakra — to families of the eight securitymen who were killed while fighting terrorists during the 2001 Parliament attack.

Latest story from kidnap capital of UP: Cop involved

Wednesday 13 December '06

On December 8, the headless body of a four-year-old Madhav Agrawal was found in a sack near his house in Etah. He had been kidnapped on his way back from school on November 26.