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Gathering storm over UP poll horizon

Thursday 29 June '06

With rising speculation on whether Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav will announce early elections, a few months before the February 2007 schedule
Are Mulayam’s doles aimed at early polls?

Wednesday 21 June '06

Is Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister preparing for early elections in the state, perhaps in November 2006, instead of its scheduled date of February 2007?
Stuck in the ruins

Sunday 18 June '06

In 1999 UNESCO awarded it the ‘danger’ status, prompting various agencies to launch restoration schemes. None has managed to pull Hampi out of the ruins
Month later, Amar discloses news of IT notice to wife

Friday 16 June '06

Suggesting that the Samajwadi Party is being selectively targeted by the Income Tax department, Rajya Sabha MP and party spokesperson Amar Singh today announced that the I-T department had served a notice on his wife
Big B: SP not behind protests, says Amar Singh

Wednesday 14 June '06

Perhaps stunned by the widespread protests across UP against the alleged Income Tax notices on Amitabh Bachchan...
Aiyar & Kalmadi’s tug-of-war slowing preparations for Games

Monday 12 June '06

They differ on whether the government, which is providing Rs 6,600 crore for the Games, should have say in planning and execution
POWER FIX

Sunday 11 June '06

Forget shady peddlers and desperate junkies, Vrinda Gopinath introduces the suave super groupie who fixes the high for those already high on money and power
Mulayam’s Noida hospitality to hotels has BSP on alert

Wednesday 7 June '06

Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati’s clarion call to party workers to be on ‘election alert’ has cranked the party machinery into action.
The (vicious) cycle of progress

Saturday 3 June '06

Chandni Chowk sees a turf battle between minister and MP, Centre and State, over a move to replace rickshaws with CNG buses
Quotas turn caste politics UPside down

Monday 29 May '06

SP, BSP show unusual restraint over Lucknow’s medics’ strikes but their eye is on the upper-caste vote, and next year’s elections
Quota quiet in UP as parties woo upper castes

Friday 26 May '06

The champions of Mandal politics in Uttar Pradesh, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati and Samajwadi Party chief and Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav...
House panel blasts ASI for ‘unscientific’ ways

Thursday 25 May '06

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture, headed by the CPI(M)’s Sitaram Yechury, in its report has made scathing remarks against the functioning of the Archaeological Survey of India
PDF not a good sign, will strengthen BJP, says SP

Tuesday 16 May '06

The Samajwadi Party is ready to take up the political challenge posed by the Muslim clergy in Uttar Pradesh, which has come together to look after the interests of the community.
New Sahitya Akademi secy provokes war of words

Sunday 14 May '06

The Sahitya Akademi, set up by the Government in the 1950s to foster and coordinate literary activities in all Indian languages...
The third (divided) front

Friday 12 May '06

The Assembly elections in Assam were supposed to a test case for the new ‘third front’. As the day wore on, and the Congress-led forces shifted uneasily at what at one stage looked like a hung Assembly before breathing easy, the non-Congress, non-BJP alternative lay aborted.
VP revives Jan Morcha with Babbar at helm

Monday 24 April '06

The battle for Uttar Pradesh has begun. Former Prime Minister VP Singh on Sunday revived the 20-year-old Jan Morcha
To fill Ambani RS vacancy, SP looks to play OBC, Muslim card

Thursday 13 April '06

The Samajwadi Party has decided not to field an industrialist for the Rajya Sabha seat vacated by Reliance honcho Anil Ambani and, instead, elect an influential party worker to the post.
Future frock shocks?

Wednesday 12 April '06

The ‘Made in India’ dysfunctional garment has finally come out of the closet
Tourism Ministry wants coast curbs off

Tuesday 11 April '06

In a move that will make environmentalists see red, the Tourism Ministry has recommended to Environment Minister D Raja to reduce the 500m regulated zone along the Indian coast to a mere 50m if tourism is to bring economic benefits to locals of the region.
A son’s politics brings new ideas, new tensions

Monday 3 April '06

The time seems right for yet another son to stake claim to an inheritance in the dustbowl of heartland politics. Jayant Singh, the 26-year-old son of Rashtriya Lok Dal
NAC: Business almost as usual, Sonia in loop

Friday 31 March '06

In a show of resolve and solidarity with former chairperson Sonia Gandhi...
Oberoi’s Luxury on Wheels soon

Thursday 30 March '06

The Indian Railway is all set to usher in an era of luxurious train travel through public-private partnership.
The Jessica the nation forgot: Shot in Lucknow, died in Delhi

Sunday 26 March '06

In her characteristic upright and honourable style, Mehar Bhargav was outraged by the acquittal of Jessica Lall’s murderers.
Sonia Gandhi, in and as Second Renunciation

Friday 24 March '06

The Congress juggernaut of mourners and chest beaters began to roll outside the party office within an hour of party president Sonia Gandhi’s ‘‘Second Renunciation’’.
In snub to Mulayam, Madani put up for RS

Wednesday 22 March '06

In the battle to woo the Muslim vote in Uttar Pradesh, with Assembly elections looming large, the RLD’s Ajit Singh has pipped Chief Minister Mulayam Singh by putting up Mehmood Madani
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