Nearly a year since the Samajwadi Party came to power in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is fulfilling his promise and has begun distributing laptops to about 10,000 students in Lucknow. ...
05:02 PM, Mar 11, 2013
The Joint Director of the CBI will be visiting Kunda on Monday to inquire into the murders of DSP Zia-ul-Haque and two others. The murder is being investigated by the Central Unit of CBI from Delhi. The CBI is in the process of reconstructing the crime scene and will examine some high-profile names in the case in next two to three days including former minister Raja Bhaiya. ...
02:53 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Violence broke out on Saturday at the Allahabad University campus with two groups of students hurling crude bombs at each other and indulging in heavy stone-pelting during distribution of forms for a Uttar Pradesh government's scheme for free laptops. ...
05:23 PM, Mar 09, 2013
A ten-member Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team questioned local police officers in Kunda, Uttar Pradesh on Saturday in connection with the murder of DSP Zia-ul-Haq a week ago. The Station Officer, who had called circle officer Zia-Ul-Haq, is being questioned as are other policemen who were with him when he went to control a frenzied mob. ...
05:12 PM, Mar 09, 2013
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday met the family of slain DSP Zia-ul-Haq at his native village and extended his condolences over the police officer's murder. ...
02:50 PM, Mar 09, 2013
As the world observed Women's Day, Rajya Sabha members on Friday transcended party lines to demand passage of a bill providing 33 per cent reservation for women in the Parliament and state assemblies. As soon as the House met for the day, Chairman Hamid Ansari mentioned that Friday was International Women's Day to celebrate and honour the untiring commitment and persistent efforts of women. ...
01:00 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Protesters on the streets of Uttar Pradesh have been voicing their anger against the murder of Kunda Circle Officer Zia-ul-Haq. It's a murder which reflects the criminalisation of India's most political state and left the Samajwadi Party government deeply worried. ...
10:19 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Even as a strong anti-rape law continued to get delayed, more rapes were reported on Thursday. Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan said, "It's extremely frustrating when I see rapes happening and things not reaching to logical conclusion. I feel as bad as those women who have gone through this. ...
01:58 PM, Mar 07, 2013
There is a fresh twist into the brutal killing of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Superintendent of Police Zia-ul-Haque in Pratapgarh. The government doctors citing his post-mortem report have said that his life could have been saved had he been taken to the hospital within 30 minutes of being shot. ...
07:46 AM, Mar 07, 2013
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is in damage control mode and reached Kunda to meet the family of the murdered village pradhan. The Gram Pradhan and his brother were killed along with Deputy SP Zia-Ul-Haque on Saturday. ...
11:27 AM, Mar 06, 2013
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav will be meeting the family members of two people killed in Kunda on Sunday. The Gram Pradhan and his brother were killed along with Deputy SP Zia Ul Haque. Meanwhile, Additional DGP of the area, Arun Kumar has ruled out arrest of former minister Raja Bhaiya. ...
10:39 AM, Mar 06, 2013
Senior police officers have accepted off camera that the fear of Raja Bhaiya is such that it is getting difficult to record the statements of eyewitnesses. ...
09:48 PM, Mar 05, 2013
BJP on Tuesday slammed the Samajwadi Party government on Tuesday for the UP DSP Zia-ul-Haq's murder. "The law and order situation is deteriorating in UP. The police are afraid of doing their duty as they fear the government. UP government must change its ways of functioning," BJP leader Vinay Katiyar said. ...
01:53 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Uttar Pradesh's notorious Raja Bhaiya was forced to step down as a minister following a complaint that he conspired to murder a police officer after a complaint was filed by the police officer's widow. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, who is about to complete a year in office and is being criticised for failing to curb lawlessness in the state, met the murdered police officer's family and promised a...
07:57 AM, Mar 05, 2013
At around 1.00 pm in Deoria in Uttar Pradesh on Monday, the state DGP was heckled by angry relatives of the slain DSP Zia-ul-Haque. The inconsolable widow of the Circle Officer demanded a personal assurance from Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and a CBI enquiry into the killing of her husband. ...
08:41 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav met slain DSP Zia-ul-Haq's wife Dr Parveen Azad on Monday and assured her of a probe by the CBI. Haq's wife had earlier threatened to commit suicide if a CBI probe was not ordered into her husband's murder. ...
06:21 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Villagers in Uttar Pradesh locked the Director General of Police (DGP) inside a room and surrounded the house of the murdered Deputy Superintendent of Police when the DGP met his wife. The villagers refused to let the DGP out till Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav visits the family. ...
01:35 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Controversial Uttar Pradesh minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya resigned as the state's Food and Civil Supplies Minister on Monday after he was booked for the murder of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Zia-ul-Haq. He met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday and submitted his resignation. ...
10:27 AM, Mar 04, 2013
The wife of the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Zia-ul-Haq, who was killed on Saturday during clashes between villagers and police in Uttar Pradesh, has threatened to commit suicide in front of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's house if she did not get justice. "He was under a lot of pressure. He was constantly being threatened and didn't want to stay here. If justice is not served then I will go to...
10:09 AM, Mar 04, 2013
Controversial Uttar Pradesh minister Raja Bhaiya has been booked for the murder of a Deputy Superintendent of police. Two of his aides have been arrested based on the police officer's wife's complaint. She also said he was shielding one of his associates. ...
08:37 AM, Mar 04, 2013
