Sonia vows to rid state of ‘mafia raj’

Friday 6 April '07

Congress president Sonia Gandhi has said that the United Progressive Alliance and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have made her proud by giving a large number of welfare schemes to the poor and implementing it effectively.

IITians snub Rahul invite as poll stunt

Thursday 5 April '07

A day after IIT-Kanpur students were stopped from meeting Rahul Gandhi and registering their protest against OBC reservation in higher educational institutions

After Manmohan, Rahul remembers Rao’s qualities

Thursday 5 April '07

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has said despite the fact that he has been criticising P V Narasimha Rao for his role during Babri demolition

Rahul keeps roadshow tempo, talks tough in SP heartland

Wednesday 4 April '07

From Bharthana in Etawah, the hottest bed of politics in UP, to Govindnagar in Kanpur, the largest assembly constituency of India, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi showed an unusually aggressive side to his personality during his campaigning.

Muslim leaders miffed with Cong

Tuesday 27 March '07

Even as he tried to hardsell the Congress party at a meeting with Muslim intellectuals in Lucknow...

The Yogi who courts controversy

Wednesday 14 March '07

Yesterday, BJP MP Yogi Adityanath wept in the Lok Sabha as he spoke of being “framed, maligned and tormented” by the Mulayam Singh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh.

Proof of ‘confidence’? This was his 22nd floor test

Tuesday 27 February '07

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has created a history of sorts by winning the trust vote for the second time within a month...

VHP says allow Dalit entry in temples

Wednesday 14 February '07

On the first day of World Hindu Convention at Ardh-kumbh in Allahabad, the VHP called upon the Brahmin community to throw open the temples for everyone, including the Dalits.

After Gorakhpur, discontent against Yogi on the rise

Saturday 10 February '07

Yogi Adityanath may have got relief from court but a section of society in Gorakhpur wants him removed from this Gorakshnath Temple of Naath Sampraday.

Sufi tradition waits for peace in Gorakhpur

Thursday 8 February '07

It's a 303-year-old tradition that couldn’t be kept this year due to the violence in Gorakhpur.

Yogi’s review plea posted for today

Wednesday 7 February '07

BJP MP Yogi Adityanath got a breather on Tuesday as the District Court revoked his arrest on charges of disturbing peace...

Ex-MP renews protest for Yogi

Tuesday 6 February '07

Contrary to the claims of the district authorities that Gorakhpur is returning to normality, tension still marks life in the violence-hit town.

Fight Guru

Sunday 4 February '07

There is a curious connection between the emergence of BJP MP Yogi Adityanath in politics and the rise of communal conflict in eastern Uttar Pradesh.

Classroom coexistence

Sunday 4 February '07

A Muslim society in UP runs schools that go beyond community. Sanskrit and Urdu are both part of curriculum

Rioters destroy shops, temple; set train coach afire

Thursday 1 February '07

Tension continued to prevail in eastern UP after more than 250 shops including Sidhuwa-sthan, a temple in Padrauna in Kushinagar and a bogie of the Inter-City Express on Lar Road, Deoria was set afire by rioters.

Kid, woman die as cops, Parivar men fight it out

Wednesday 31 January '07

A two-Year-old boy and 55-year-old woman were killed in Nagua-Naurangia in Kushinagar district following a clash between right wing activists and the police.

Help us, help yourself: Vajpayee to Muslims

Monday 25 December '06

Contrary to the tone at the BJP national executive and council meeting, which resolved to “oppose at any cost the policy of Muslim appeasement by the Congress led UPA at the Centre and Samajwadi Party led UP government”,

Survey: 73 pc students don’t want LUSU polls

Wednesday 20 December '06

While political parties may not have supported his decision to rid the campus of “crypto-criminal” student leaders, Lucknow University Vice-Chancellor RP Singh drew strength from a survey conducted by some students of the department of statistics about three months back.

V-C to Mulayam: Do what you want but I won’t allow campus gundagardi

Friday 15 December '06

Post-master’s son takes on politicians, says he grew up among rubber stamps, so can’t be one to the Chief Minister

Mulayam slams V-C in House, Cong says govt must step in

Tuesday 12 December '06

Three days after Vice-Chancellor RP Singh closed Lucknow University sine die, all the political parties, including opposition BJP and Yadav’s alliance partner Congress, today opened a united front against him.

State’s record dismal, Mulayam plays the Dalit Muslim quota card

Thursday 23 November '06

Gearing for Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh next year, the Mulayam Singh government is all set to get a resolution adopted by the House which will ask the Centre to include Dalit Muslims...

‘Quran not for ringtone’

Sunday 19 November '06

Kicking off yet another controversy, the Darul Uloom Deoband has appealed to the members of the Muslim community to refrain from downloading verses of the Quran as a ring-tone in cell phones.

After swipe at Muslims, Maya offers 120-seat platter to UP Brahmins

Sunday 12 November '06

A day after she said Muslims preferred hardliners as leaders, BSP Chief Mayawati called a Brahmin convention in Lucknow today and cleared 120 candidates from the community for the forthcoming Assembly elections.

After vaccine drive across UP, JE toll over 200

Wednesday 18 October '06

Notwithstanding the Uttar Pradesh Government's claims of having vaccinated over 57.5 lakh children this year, Japanese Encephalitis has come back to haunt the hinterlands of eastern UP with 211 deaths and over 1,200 cases in five months.

Mum on Rahul, Sonia asks youth to work for party first

Monday 18 September '06

Congress delegations from Rae Bareli and Amethi had but one point to stress with AICC chief Sonia Gandhi...