

Sunday 22 November '09
Unfazed by the series of electoral drubbings after the Lok Sabha elections, the process of the organisational poll culminating in election of state president has unleashed intense factional fight within the state BJP.Saturday 21 November '09
With the Centre accepting sugarcane farmers’ objections to the “fair and remunerative price” regime, the onus has now shifted on Uttar Pradesh.Thursday
19 November '09The Samajwadi Party has drawn all-round flak for raking up the Babri Masjid issue, with Muslim organisations accusing it of indulging in “opportunism for its own political ends”.Tuesday
17 November '09At a time when the Samajwadi Party (SP) is witnessing an alarming erosion in its electoral fortunes, it has found a new Muslim mascot in Abu Asim Azmi.Tuesday
17 November '09At A time when the Samajwadi Party is witnessing an alarming erosion in its electoral fortunes, it has found a new Muslim mascot in Abu Asim Azmi.Monday
16 November '09Once bitten twice shy. The BJP leaders in Uttar Pradesh are not enthusiastic over Kalyan Singh’s unsolicited offer to work for strengthening the party, his support for the construction of a Ram temple at Ayodhya and his re-affirmation of the commitment to Hindutuva.Sunday
15 November '09Smarting under the crushing defeat of his daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav the Firozabad Lok Sabha bypolls...Sunday
15 November '09Smarting over the crushing defeat of his daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav in the Ferozabad Lok Sabha bypolls, a jittery Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav....Friday
13 November '09Ranged against some senior leaders in a bitter intra-party turf war, Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh is learnt to have shot off a letter to party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav...Tuesday
10 November '09Maharashtra is not the only state to have seen a controversy over a legislator’s choice of language for taking oath in the Assembly.Tuesday
10 November '09Maharashtra is not the only state to have seen a controversy over a legislator’s choice of language for taking oath in the Assembly.Friday
6 November '09The protests by farmers’ organisations, and the utterances and actions of the UP government in the last few days would suggest that sugarcane farmers in the state are facing a crisis.Monday
2 November '09The agitation over sugar prices — the “low price” as announced by the Uttar Pradesh government and the “fair and remunerative...Sunday
1 November '09The Uttar Pradesh government’s new energy policy allowing bagasse-based co-generation units of sugar mills to generate power from coal has no takers. Reason: prohibitive cost involved in shifting to coal as the fuel for power generation.Sunday
1 November '09Rattled by the aggressive campaign launched by the Congress in Firozabad Lok Sabha bypoll, the Samajwadi Party has joined hands with its erstwhile ally Ajit Singh-led Rashtriya Lok Dal.Thursday
29 October '09The first family of the Samajwadi Party has dropped anchor in Firozabad to see their bahu through in the Lok Sabha by-elections early November.Wednesday
28 October '09UP sugarcane farmers have rejected the Centre’s order asking the state governments to pay the farmers the difference if they fix the price of sugarcane in excess of the “fair and remunerative price”...Saturday
24 October '09Even as the case of fraud and money laundering against Amar Singh in Kanpur has become a hot potato for the UP police, the principal secretary of the UP Assembly has declined to conduct an inquiry...Friday
16 October '09The Indian Sugar Mills’ Association (ISMA), an organisation of private sugar mills, has opposed any substantial hike in the state advisory price....Friday
16 October '09The Indian Sugar Mills Association, an organisation of private sugar mills, has opposed any substantial increase in the state advisory price of sugarcane for the current season.Thursday
15 October '09A day after Chief Minister Mayawati issued instructions for observing austerity in her government, a jumbo team of over 150 officials left for Delhi in connection with a meeting of the Planning Commission for the approval of the state’s annual plan for the current year on Thursday.Sunday
11 October '09Notwithstanding the grand plans of the UP government to add fresh power generation capacity of over 18,000 MW during the 11th plan period ending in March 2012...Friday
9 October '09The state faced unprecedented power crisis on Thursday when the Obra (1,382 MW) and Anpara (1,630 MW) thermal power plants tripped causing a near total stoppage of power generation in the state.Friday
9 October '09Yadvendra Ram Tripathi, of Sariyya village under the Khajni development block in Gorakhpur district, a graduate, spurned the offer of a government...Tuesday
6 October '09The state government is negotiating with the Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd, the Tamil Nadu based Central PSU, to set up a 1,980 MW coal-based thermal power plant.