Chandauli: A strange case of superstition was seen in Uttar Pradesh's Chandauli. A man poured and massaged his body with hot milk in front of a huge crowd which included many children. After massaging his body with the hot milk, the man caught hold of child and poured hot milk on his body too. Surprisingly, the entire incident was also witnessed by Uttar Pradesh Transportation Minister Durga Prasad Yadav but...
02:55 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Lucknow: The bitter war of words between the Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh has escalated in the last few days. The Akhilesh Yadav government has ordered an enquiry into BSP supreme Mayawati's rally at Lucknow's Ambedkar Park where the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister had alleged that the state government was full of goons, mafia and anti-social elements. Samajwadi Party leader and PWD minister Shivpal Singh...
11:24 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Lucknow: Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Tuesday demanded that president's rule be imposed in the state. At a hurriedly called press conference in Lucknow, Mayawati urged Governor BL Joshi to take note of "the breakdown of law and order" and recommend imposition of president's rule in the state. Reacting to the attack on her by Public Works Department Minister Shivpal Singh Yadav,...
05:58 AM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday reserved its judgment on appeals of three convicts against a trial court verdict awarding them life imprisonment for abducting and killing Nitish Katara in 2002. A division bench of Justice Gita Mittal and Justice JR Midha reserved the judgment after all the parties concluded their arguments in the appeals whose hearing started April 16, 2012. The court was hearing appeals of convicts...
04:53 AM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of controversy over Uttar Pradesh officials removing red beacon from her vehicle, Rampur MP Jaya Prada on Tuesday met Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar alleging violation of Parliamentary privileges. Jaya Prada, an unattached MP from Samajwadi Party, met Kumar along with expelled SP leader Amar Singh to hand over a memorandum seeking protection and demanding stringent action" against the officials involved. Earlier, Singh sent an...
02:39 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Lucknow: A 17-year-old class Xth student fell to his death from the second floor of a shopping mall in Lucknow Tuesday, police said. The incident happened at the Saharganj mall in the heart of the city in the evening when Pranjal, along with some friends and relatives went to visit the mall. While he and his friend Vivek went to the second floor for some shopping, the other two friends,...
11:51 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Bijnor: Barely a week after a minor rape victim was detained in a lock-up in Uttar Pradesh, a 16-year-old gangrape victim on Tuesday claimed she was beaten up by police when she went with her parents to file a complaint. Three police personnel - SHO of Afzalgarh police station Ramji Lal, Sub-Inspector Raj Singh and female constable Sukhraj Kaur - have been suspended after the incident in Bijnor, police said....
06:42 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Lucknow: The ruling Samajwadi Party on Tuesday attacked BSP supremo Mayawati saying her behaviour is 'belagaam' (uncontrolled). "Mayawati does not have restrain in her language...The behaviour and action of Mayawati is 'belagaam' (uncontrolled)," SP spokesman Rajendra Chowdhury told reporters. Mayawati, addressing a function to mark BR Ambedkar's 122th birth anniversary on April 14, had said that SP "goons" will be "taught a lesson" when she returns to power. Chowdhury also...
06:36 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: A magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit the Iran-Pakistan border with tremors felt across North India, Pakistan and West Asia. The quake struck at about 4:18 pm (IST) as strong tremors rocked Rajasthan, Delhi, Western Uttar Pradesh and other parts of the National Capital Region (NCR) on Tuesday afternoon. The tremors lasted for over 20 seconds. According to the USGS website, the earthquake to have hit Iran measured 8 on...
04:20 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Etah: A minor girl was allegedly raped at gunpoint by a 30-year-old man in Pathakpur village in Etah district, police said on Monday. On March 25, the accused Balistar barged into the house of the 14-year-old victim and raped her at gunpoint, they said. Later, when the girl's parents reached the Soron Police station to lodge a complaint against the accused, the officials refused to do so. However, on the...
08:00 PM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to file response within a week on detention of a 10-year-old rape victim by police in Bulandshahr, when she approached them to lodge a complaint. "A minor cannot be put in lock up," a bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir said while expressing its displeasure over the incident. The bench also asked advocate Anita Shenoy to assist...
07:59 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Allahabad: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's constituency Amethi in Uttar Pradesh is no longer a district. The Allahabad High Court on Monday struck down the district status of Amethi. Amethi, which was named as Chhatrapati Sahuji Maharaj Nagar by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government and later renamed as Amethi by the Samajwadi Party government, was carved out of Sultanpur and Rae Bareli districts of northern Uttar Pradesh. Suggesting growing...
01:39 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Fatehpur: Supporters accompanying a Samajwadi Party (SP) MP allegedly manhandled the staff of a toll plaza in Mallawan area of the district blaming them for traffic jam, a charge denied by the lawmaker. No police complaint has been lodged from either side. Vehicle of SP MP Rakesh Sachan, who was coming to Fatehpur from Kanpur with his cavalcade, got stuck at the toll plaza due to traffic jam near Chitaura...
08:02 PM, Apr 14, 2013
Lucknow: Accusing the Samajwadi Party (SP) government in Uttar Pradesh of indulging in political vendetta against the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), former chief minister of the state Mayawati said SP "goons" will be "taught a lesson" when she returns to power. Angry over removal of hoardings installed by her party on BR Ambedkar's birth anniversary, the BSP chief on Sunday said during her governance, land was leased to marginal farmers,...
04:40 PM, Apr 14, 2013
Lucknow: Apparently peeved over removal of hoardings set up on the occasion of 122th birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Sunday accused the Samajwadi Party (SP) government in Uttar Pradesh of acting with political vendetta and treating her party as number one target. "Members of the opposition parties are being dealt with political vendetta and BSP is being made number one target," she said....
12:16 PM, Apr 14, 2013
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday shifted 23 senior IAS officers, including Commissioner of the state capital. The state government also gave posting to former NOIDA development authority Chairman Rakesh Bahadur, who was removed from the post after a High Court order in November 2012. He has been made Commissioner social welfare, an official spokesman said. Commissioner Lucknow Sanjiv Dubey has been put on the waiting list while Commissioner...
10:03 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Pratapgarh: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday arrested Babloo Yadav, son of deceased village pradhan Nanhe Yadav, claiming he was directly involved in the killing of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Zia-ul-Haque. The accused has reportedly confessed to shooting the DSP, but further probe is on. Parveen Azad, Haq's wife, had alleged hand of the controversial UP politician Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya in the murder. The...
04:48 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Lucknow: Pushed on the backfoot after "strong political reactions" from New Delhi, the Uttar Pradesh government on Friday restored 24x7 power supply to Rae Bareli and Amethi - parliamentary constituencies of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. While the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) had confirmed on Thursday that power cuts had been effected in the two VIP districts owing to acute power shortage, it now says that power rostering...
09:20 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh has ended 24x7 power supply to Amethi and Rae Bareli, represented in Parliament by Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, indicating a rift between the Samajwadi Party and the Congress. The move was taken by the Uttar Pradesh Power Corp Ltd, officials said on Friday. The nine-month-old decision to provide round-the-clock electricity to these two places was revoked late on Thursday, after which power went off for more...
09:09 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Muzzafarnagar (Uttar Pradesh): The police have arrested Babar Akhtar, the brother-in-law of the Shamli acid attack victim, and his friend Javed Iqbal, in connection with the acid attack on four sisters in Uttar Pradesh. According to the police, the brother-in-law is the main accused. The police say the 23-year-old woman, who was attacked, had an illicit relation with her brother-in-law. When she threatened to make it public, he hatched a...
02:56 PM, Apr 12, 2013
