Sugar industry in western UP learns to live by the gun

Friday 3 October '08

The lynching of Italian firm Graziano’s CEO L K Chaudhary by a mob of dismissed employees has brought to the fore the poor law...

Case against Maneka for 'stealing' cattle

Tuesday 1 April '08

The Uttar Pradesh police are busy hunting for the past two days - for three buffaloes.

Win one, lose one for Qureshi

Saturday 12 May '07

Haji Yaqub Qureshi, Mulayam Singh Yadav’s rebel minister who hit the headlines for the Rs 50-crore reward on the head of Danish cartoonists who offended Muslim sentiments...

Red Najibabad unlikely to change hue

Wednesday 18 April '07

The storming of the Bastille, the Russian Revolution or closer home, the Communist uprising in Nepal.

Kavita case: Another accused surrenders

Friday 29 December '06

Chief accused in the disappearance and alleged murder case of Meerut University’s lecturer Kavita Rani — Ravindra Pradhan...

Brother says he spoke to Kavita on December 7

Wednesday 27 December '06

Mystery of the missing Meerut University lecturer, Kavita Chaudhary, deepened with the victim’s brother rubbishing claims of chief accused Ravindra Pradhan that he had murdered her on October 24.

Kavita killed over sleaze money: Accused

Tuesday 26 December '06

Meerut University’s Fine Arts lecturer Kavita Rani, missing since October 23, was murdered the next day and her body thrown into a canal, chief accused Ravindra Pradhan confessed before mediapersons today.

3 suicides, 2 attempts in 15 days at AMU; no one knows why

Friday 8 December '06

Exactly a month back, on the morning of November 7, Rahul, a 21-year-old Law student at Aligarh Muslim University...

Gunning for gold: This part of UP is shooting its way to glory

Monday 4 December '06

In the heart of UP’s gun country, “trigger-happy youths” spend their days honing their shooting skills. The sound of gunfire reverberates from makeshift tin sheds erected all over rural Baghpat and Muzaffarnagar.

Imrana: father-in-law gets 10 yrs, Muslim board applauds order

Friday 20 October '06

More than a year after Imrana, a Muslim woman from a western UP village, defied clerics and village elders...

Meerut hangman Mamu gets the call for Afzal

Thursday 12 October '06

While a mercy petition for Afzal Guru, the man convicted to hang for the December 13, 2001 attack on Parliament, is pending with the President...

His poster-boy targets Mulayam

Saturday 22 April '06

Mulayam Singh Yadav’s poster-boy is sulking. UP Minorities Welfare and Haj minister Haji Yaqub Qureshi...