

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 scheduleWednesday 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?Sunday
18 June '06In 1999 UNESCO awarded it the ‘danger’ status, prompting various agencies to launch restoration schemes. None has managed to pull Hampi out of the ruinsFriday
16 June '06Suggesting 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 wifeWednesday
14 June '06Perhaps stunned by the widespread protests across UP against the alleged Income Tax notices on Amitabh Bachchan...Monday
12 June '06They differ on whether the government, which is providing Rs 6,600 crore for the Games, should have say in planning and executionSunday
11 June '06Forget shady peddlers and desperate junkies, Vrinda Gopinath introduces the suave super groupie who fixes the high for those already high on money and powerWednesday
7 June '06Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati’s clarion call to party workers to be on ‘election alert’ has cranked the party machinery into action.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 busesMonday
29 May '06SP, BSP show unusual restraint over Lucknow’s medics’ strikes but their eye is on the upper-caste vote, and next year’s electionsFriday
26 May '06The champions of Mandal politics in Uttar Pradesh, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati and Samajwadi Party chief and Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav...Thursday
25 May '06The 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 IndiaTuesday
16 May '06The 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.Sunday
14 May '06The Sahitya Akademi, set up by the Government in the 1950s to foster and coordinate literary activities in all Indian languages...Friday
12 May '06The 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.Monday
24 April '06The battle for Uttar Pradesh has begun. Former Prime Minister VP Singh on Sunday revived the 20-year-old Jan MorchaThursday
13 April '06The 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.Wednesday
12 April '06The ‘Made in India’ dysfunctional garment has finally come out of the closetTuesday
11 April '06In 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.Monday
3 April '06The 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 DalFriday
31 March '06In a show of resolve and solidarity with former chairperson Sonia Gandhi...Thursday
30 March '06The Indian Railway is all set to usher in an era of luxurious train travel through public-private partnership.Sunday
26 March '06In her characteristic upright and honourable style, Mehar Bhargav was outraged by the acquittal of Jessica Lall’s murderers.Friday
24 March '06The 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’’.Wednesday
22 March '06In 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