Mayawati’s men a force to reckon with

Saturday 7 April '07

Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati does not depend on anyone except her own men.

Hindutva overdrive gone wrong? BJP pulls out its hate-Muslim CD

Thursday 5 April '07

Party leaders run for cover, claim it was released as UP campaign material without their knowledge; EC will take a look

Infighting busts ambitions of IITians as party splits

Wednesday 4 April '07

Operation clean was their aim and politics was the means. But internecine squabbles, the bane of Indian politics, has had the better of them.

Maya starts her UP campaign with 35% upper-caste quota

Wednesday 14 March '07

Saying goodbye to her anti-tilak, tarazu aur talwar refrain against Brahmins, Banias and Rajputs, BSP chief Mayawati, releasing the complete party list of candidates for the UP Assembly polls

Man in the middle

Saturday 10 March '07

The Muslim voter in Uttar Pradesh has plenty to choose from. That is perhaps adding to his confusion and Mulayam Singh’s nervousness.

Stars set to light up campaign trail

Friday 9 March '07

The run-up to the elections in Uttar Pradesh this summer will be nothing short of a multi-star blockbuster.

Now, Bukhari talks seat-sharing with SP

Thursday 8 March '07

In a surprise move in the run-up to the Uttar Pradesh elections, the Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid, Syed Ahmed Bukhari...

In Uttar Pradesh, 80 ‘turncoats’, and still counting

Tuesday 27 February '07

Politics is all about opportunism and Uttar Pradesh has no dearth of party hoppers.

Cane rates highest in UP, says CM

Thursday 11 January '07

Ajit Singh’s claim that sugarcane rates in Uttar Pradesh are minimum in the country does not sound reliable in the light of figures.

Huge migration, from Nepal

Sunday 26 November '06

This is infiltration from across the border of a different dimension altogether.

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...

Shia clerics join Lucknow students

Friday 8 September '06

The walls of the Future Foundation Inter College — where most of the students belong to the minority community...

‘Jai Bharat Mata is fine, but don’t force Vande Mataram’

Wednesday 6 September '06

“We are ready to say Jai Bharat Mata, Jai Hind and sing Jana Gana Mana but don’t force us to sing Vande Mataram,” says noted Shia cleric and vice-president of the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board Maulana Kalbe Sadiq.

‘Keep mum or sing Saare Jahan Se Achcha’

Monday 4 September '06

The row over the singing of Vande Mataram on September 7 in schools across the country continues to anger the Muslims, with the community resenting what they feel is an imposition on their religious rights.

Deoband issues fatwa against life insurance for Sunnis, Shia clerics disagree

Wednesday 30 August '06

The Darul Uloom of Deoband, the supreme body of the majority Sunnis, has declared life insurance as illegal but prominent Shia leaders have opposed the decree.

Dacoit Saleem Gujjar, lover shot dead

Thursday 10 August '06

Dacoit Saleem Gujjar, 42, carrying an award of Rs 1.5 lakh on his head, and his paramour, Geeta Jatav, 18, were gunned down by the police in a fierce encounter in the ravines of Auraiyya district today.