Till last, Mulayam blind to writing on wall

Saturday 12 May '07

Finally what proved to be Mulayam Singh Yadav’s undoing was his refusal to accept the fact that the worsening law...

Ayodhya: Temple takes a backseat

Sunday 6 May '07

Lallu Singh Chauhan, the local MLA, built his vote bank on the bricks and stones brought to Ayodhya to construct the Ram temple.

In Chitrakoot, poll promises run dry

Saturday 28 April '07

If there is one boon that Bhola Yadav’s four sons may ask — if given a choice — from the politicians campaigning in their village, it is to get them married.

Banda villagers may bank on dacoit rather than a neta

Friday 27 April '07

All politicians have cheated us. They are deceitful dacoits while he is an honest dacoit. He doesn’t harm common people like politicians do.” That’s Dayaram Raikwar’s take on dreaded dacoit Ramkumar Thokia.

Chitrakoot will do as ‘Gabbar Singh’ says

Thursday 26 April '07

Driving the rocky 14 km from Mau-gardari to Manikpur town takes one tiring hour.

For wrestler, it comes to grips

Sunday 25 February '07

Mulayam began with innovative schemes but gave away to issues that will fetch poor dividends in the polls

Gorakhpur’s footprint on pre-poll UP

Friday 2 February '07

It can even be termed ‘a run-of-the-mill riot’. Marriage party revellers in Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh clash with participants of a Moharram procession over a trifle.

Why Mulayam won’t tolerate attack on student brigade

Monday 18 December '06

When Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav shook the State Assembly and called Lucknow University Vice-Chancellor Ram Prakash Singh a dictator working at the behest of Governor TV Rajeswar...

UP local-body poll results a shock for Mulayam

Wednesday 8 November '06

Even in his party’s fiefdom, Independents backed by BJP and BSP have emerged victorious

WHO says polio virus detected in four countries was from western UP

Thursday 14 September '06

The news is not just that Uttar Pradesh accounts for as many as 255 polio cases out of the 283 reported across the country this year.

ABCD in UP: Apna alphabet soap

Thursday 7 September '06

Abu Salem is offered a ticket to contest elections by Sonelal Patel’s Apna Dal. The Bharatiya Samajwadi Party, also offers Salem a ticket. Don-turned-writer and BSP member Babloo Srivastav quits the party in disagreement

Three years down, is Mulayam’s time UP?

Thursday 31 August '06

With crime rampant and his own partymen in the dock, the law needs an order. It’s a moot point, though, whether Mulayam still has control

A tide not taken at the flood

Wednesday 16 August '06

The continuing tragedy of Surat is man-made: bad civic planning a decade ago meets up with today’s inefficient, unthinking administration

Congress’s summer of 42

Tuesday 20 June '06

Sonia Gandhi’s party must focus on the Uttar Pradesh outside Rae Bareli-Amethi

Riots are so 2002

Friday 5 May '06

Modi’s image is larger than life, dwarfing critique to cynicism, grouse to anti-Gujaratism.

Rahul begins groundwork but awaits party signal to take charge

Friday 28 April '06

No, I can’t talk to you at this moment, I am talking to my party workers.” He was absorbed in a computerised datasheet of village-wise voting patterns.

Sonrise in Mom’s constituency: Rahul says ready to lead UP Cong

Wednesday 26 April '06

Graduating from his practised refrain during earlier election campaigns that he was still to learn the ropes, Rahul Gandhi today minced no words to say he was willing to take charge of the Congress in the 2007 UP Assembly polls if given the responsibility.

Acid Reflux

Sunday 26 March '06

Among UP’s poorest, bhookhmari is the killer, not ‘starvation’