Friday 20 November, 2009
The Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared a special package worth Rs 7,266 crore for the implementation of a drought mitigation strategy over a three year period starting 2009-10 for the development of 13 districts in the Bundelkhand region.Friday 20 November, 2009
With sugarcane pricing issue offering them an appropriate cover to mount a joint assault on the government, the Opposition parties...Friday 20 November, 2009
In a letter to state Chief Secretary Atul Kumar Gupta, the Cabinet Secretariat has raised issues of serious security lapses on the part of the state police during two visits by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi...
Friday 20 November, 2009
Politicking over sugarcane pricing spilled outside Parliament on Thursday with agitating farmers from western Uttar Pradesh swarming Parliament Street and Jantar Mantar and Opposition leaders cutting across the political divide making the most of it.
Thursday 19 November, 2009
Defending champions China scripted a 3-1 win over Hong Kong in the semi-finals to march into the final of the Champions Division in the 19th Asian Table Tennis Championships in progress at Lucknow.Thursday 19 November, 2009
The state government has provided a financial assistance of Rs 50,000 to the bereaved family of junior Indian cricketer Gagandeep Singh, who was shot dead in a freak incident outside a roadside eatery in Meerut last month.Thursday 19 November, 2009
Security has been tightened at all sugar mills in Muzaffarnagar following threat from agitating farmers over sugarcane price.Thursday 19 November, 2009
The schedule for Lucknow Mahotsav 2009, which will begin from November 25 at the Smriti Upvan in Aashiana, was announced on Wednesday.Thursday 19 November, 2009
To mark the fourth death anniversary of Manjunath Shanmugam, a 2003 batch IIML alumni, students in 25 colleges across the country will participate in candlelight marches and take an integrity pledge on Thursday.Thursday 19 November, 2009
After the abolition of Student’s Union, for the first time in last two-and-a-half years, students of Lucknow University came together to protest against the poor condition in university hostels.Thursday 19 November, 2009
A 55-year-old blind female elephant, injured and too weak to stand, was found in Double Pulia area under Kakadeo police station of Kanpur on Monday evening.Thursday 19 November, 2009
The probe into the fake passport issued to alleged Pakistani spy Mohammad Sayeed Ali was handed over to the DIG of the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad on Wednesday.Thursday 19 November, 2009
Expelled Samajwadi Party leader Mohammed Azam Khan slam-med SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday for raking up the Babri Masjid issue and termed him as “untrustworthy”.Thursday 19 November, 2009
The Bahujan Samaj Party expelled its three leaders — Banwari Lal Kanchal, Sandeep Bansal and Arun Shankar Shukla alias Anna — on charges of anti-party activities after the party lost the Lucknow (West) Assembly by-election.Thursday 19 November, 2009
The 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”.
Thursday 19 November, 2009
When Sarran Ramoutar of Trinidad and Tobago touched the Indian soil recently, it was with the joy and hope of discovering his roots at last.