Chitrakoot saw 5 SPs in 2 years

Friday 19 June '09

The Chitrakoot district, which witnessed a 50-hour firefight between the police and dacoit Ghanshyam Kewat...

With Assembly on radar, Maya wants feedback from districts

Tuesday 16 June '09

Having fared poorly in the Lok Sabha elections, Chief Minister Mayawati is now trying to streamline the local administration and improve delivery systems in the 10 Assembly constituencies and a Lok Sabha constituency where the by-elections are due later this year.

Before bypolls, trusted Maya officers on feedback mission

Tuesday 16 June '09

Having done badly in the Lok Sabha elections, Chief Minister Mayawati is now trying to tone up the local administration....

Maya whips her horses to rein in Rahul b’day plans

Sunday 14 June '09

Exactly four days after the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee decided to celebrate the AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi’s birthday on June 19 as “Social Harmony and Equality Day”, Chief Minister Mayawati has asked her party leaders...

Maya plan for Rahul b’day: Meets in all dists

Sunday 14 June '09

Four days after the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee decided to celebrate AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi’s June 19 birthday....

SP thinks ahead, may project Akhilesh as CM

Saturday 6 June '09

In an apparent bid to counter the growing political clout of Rahul Gandhi, the Samajwadi Party plans to project party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s son Akhilesh as its chief ministerial candidate for the 2012 Assembly election.

Tonnes of pilfered wheat found in mills, three arrested

Thursday 4 June '09

A scandal in wheat pilferage from the public distribution system — which is then sold at wheat procurement centres — has surfaced in Bareilly.

After poll lesson, Maya returns to B for Bahujan

Wednesday 3 June '09

Her social engineering failing to construct for her a strong Lok Sabha foundation...

Goyal steps down from Upper House

Friday 29 May '09

Two days after being nominated as a member of the state Legislative Council, BSP leader and state’s former information minister Sudhir Goyal resigned from his post on Thursday.

Another layer of cops for supervisory duty

Thursday 28 May '09

Within three months of introducing a two-tier police system in the field by abolishing the post of zonal IGs, the Mayawati government has now introduced a new layer.

With Maya down in defeat, old OBC hand rises to occasion as troubleshooter

Wednesday 27 May '09

Even as Chief Minister Mayawati goes on a rampage following the setback for her party in the Lok Sabha elections...

Social engineering taking poll hit, OBC face Maya govt’s No.2

Wednesday 27 May '09

As heads roll in the state bureaucracy and the BSP organisation amid Chief Minister Mayawati’s stock-taking of the Lok Sabha election losses....

Maya meets legislators again to cheer, reassure

Monday 25 May '09

A day after her one-to-one meeting with her ministers, on Sunday, chief minister Maya-wati called the legislators who represent the various constituencies of Faizabad, Basti, Lucknow and Allahabad to share their problems with her.

Maya looks ahead, scripts action plan for her team

Saturday 23 May '09

As part of her efforts to set her house in order after the BSP’s poor show in the Lok Sabha elections, Chief Minister Mayawati told her ministers and senior bureaucrats that she wants quick improvement in “the governance and delivery of services.”

Maya goes all out to keep MLAs happy, checks babus, ministers

Thursday 21 May '09

Facing a bunch of restive legislators after the BSP’s poor show in the Lok Sabha elections, Chief Minister Mayawati mollified them on Wednesday, promising to set up a new system to redress their grievances.

Maya goes all out to keep MLAs happy, checks babus, ministers

Thursday 21 May '09

Facing a bunch of restive MLAs after the BSP’s poor show in the Lok Sabha elections...

After Maya’s poor show in polls, heads about to roll in UP

Tuesday 19 May '09

Following the BSP’s poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections, Chief Minister Mayawati on Monday obtained resignations of the partymen working as chairpersons in various government boards, corporations and commissions.

Resignation letters with Maya, corpn heads may go

Tuesday 19 May '09

Following the BSP’s poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections, Chief Minister Mayawati on Monday obtained resignations....

Maya’s dream cut short in reserved seats

Monday 18 May '09

After storming the Assembly with its “Sarvajan Samaj” formula, the BSP could only bag two reserved Lok Sabha seats — Lalganj and Misrikh.

Rahul keeps cool in glory, clams up on Cabinet berth

Sunday 17 May '09

All India Congress Committee general secretary Rahul Gandhi has said the real challenge for him in Uttar Pradesh has just begun.

Just the beginning: Rahul

Sunday 17 May '09

AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi has said the real challenge for him in Uttar Pradesh has just begun....

Maya decides to wait it out

Saturday 16 May '09

On the eve of counting, as political leaders scramble for allies, trying to strike deals, BSP president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati chose to stay home, away from the TV cameras.

Ahead of Saturday heat, Mayawati stays indoor

Saturday 16 May '09

While every political leader of consequence was searching for allies and trying to strike deals...

With agenda to keep Varun out, Muslim vote divided in Pilibhit

Thursday 14 May '09

For the first time in her life, 18-year-old Shadmane turned up to vote in Barkhera’s Purva Madhyamik Vidyalaya, in the Pilibhit constituency.

Vote for revenge or nation? A first-time Muslim voter’s dilemma

Thursday 14 May '09

For the first time in her life, 18-year-old Muslim girl Shadmane turned up at a polling booth to cast her vote on Wednesday....