

Thursday 26 March '09
Insisting that he would never quit the Samajwadi Party nor contest the coming Lok Sabha elections, general secretary Mohammad Azam Khan....Wednesday 25 March '09
The Election Commission is examining the compact disc containing the speech of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.Wednesday
25 March '09SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav today denied he had made any derogatory or threatening remarks against the Mainpuri DM...Thursday
19 March '09Taking a cue from the success of cheerleaders in Twenty20 tournament, the Samajwadi Party has hit upon the idea of using “cheer boys” for its poll campaign.Thursday
5 March '09Come Thursday and party loyalists appointed by the BSP government as administrators of the cooperative societies will have to vacate office.Monday
23 February '09Within 48 hours since the Azamgarh-based Ulema made its political ambition public at a huge rally in Lucknow...Wednesday
18 February '09In a surprise action, the Mayawati government moved a Bill in the state Assembly on Tuesday to repeal a law to govern the management of the Ambedkar Memorial —saying this was being done on the advice of the advocate general.Monday
16 February '09With an aim to put votebank politics to rest, Muslims of the state, particularly Deobandi sect of Sunni Muslims, are set to float a new political party ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.Monday
16 February '09With the Lok Sabha polls round the corner, a new political front of Muslims, dominated by the Deoband sect of Sunni Muslims, is in the offing.Saturday
14 February '09After spending thousands of crores on several memorials in Lucknow, the UP government needs another Rs 685 crore for these projects, of which Rs 104 crore is proposed to be spent on the construction of the statues of Dalit icons alone.Friday
6 February '09Erosion of his party’s Muslim support base and BSP inroads into his home turf — stretching from Kanpur to Agra and Etah to Badyun — have forced SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to join hand with old enemy Kalyan Singh.Wednesday
4 February '09After redefining its relationship with Kalyan Singh as a “friendship” rather than an alliance, the Samajwadi Party on Tuesday went one step further to contain the damage over its dalliance with the former BJP leader.Wednesday
4 February '09After redefining its relationship with Kalyan Singh as a “friendship” rather than an alliance...Friday
30 January '09Cash-strapped UP is likely to draw a blank from the two economic stimulus packages announced by the UPA Gov.Friday
30 January '09The cash-strapped state government is likely to draw a blank from the two economic stimulus packages announced by the UPA government to limit the impact of the global economic slowdown on the Indian economy.Saturday
24 January '09Efforts made by Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to forge a pan-backward caste alliance by bringing together all the OBCs on board is likely to unleash new political realignments in the caste dominated politics of Uttar Pradesh.Friday
23 January '09The coming together of Samajwadi Party and former Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kalyan Singh has stirred a hornet’s nest as Muslim leaders have termed the move as a betrayal of the minorities by Mulayam Singh Yadav.Wednesday
21 January '09Dealing the BJP a severe blow ahead of general elections, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh, during whose rule the Babri Masjid was demolished in 1992, today quit the party, saying he had been “humiliated and insulted” by the BJP leadership.Saturday
17 January '09Chief Minister Mayawati’s largesse to slum dwellers on her birthday has set her on a collision course with the elected urban local bodies.Friday
16 January '09The freebies worth Rs 2,750 crore which Chief Minister Mayawati announced on her birthday came at a time when the state’s finances are already under severe strain due to revenue shortfalls.Saturday
3 January '09The Congress has sparked of speculations of possible alliances by asking its candidate for the upcoming UP Legislative Council polls to manage votes without the party’s support.Friday
2 January '09When a demand and supply story goes horribly wrong, a bumper crop — like that of potatoes in Uttar Pradesh...Wednesday
31 December '08The sugar industry in the state is facing a crisis with the drop in the sugarcane production coupled with the diversion of the crop to gur (jaggery) and khandsari units in the state.Saturday
27 December '08The PWD engineer, Manoj Kumar Gupta, whose murder on Wednesday led to the arrest of BSP legislator Shekhar Tiwari and his associates, was subjected to electric shocks and beaten up brutally, leading to a fatal brain haemorrhage, his autopsy has revealed.Tuesday
23 December '08The ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) stands to gain most in the Legislative Council polls scheduled in January.