Amethi: When Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi interacted with corporate India in the first week of April, there were talks of aspirations and his vision of India but does he actually understand the vision of his constituents in Amethi? CNN-IBN travelled to ground zero in Amethi to understand the mood of the young and the old. Brothers Sandeep and Yogendra sounded extremely bitter. They told us that the absence of...
09:57 PM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: A circle officer was transferred and two constables suspended after the media aired a footage of policemen brutally lathicharging women protesters in Aligarh on Thursday as they clashed with the security over the murder and alleged rape of a 6-year-old girl. The UP government acted quick and later suspended 21 officials, including 4 SDMs, one regional officer and one DFO. The girl had gone missing on Wednesday night...
08:33 PM, Apr 18, 2013
The protesters had clashed with the police after the dead body of a 6-year-old girl was found on Thursday in Aligarh. She had gone missing on Wednesday night. ...
07:20 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Lucknow: With an eye on upper caste vote bank, BSP chief Mayawati on Thursday announced names of 36 candidates for Lok Sabha polls, 18 of whom are Brahmins. Seeking to exploit the upper caste card to the hilt, she alleged atrocities were being committed on such people during the Samajwadi Party rule in Uttar Pradesh. "Just as Dalits are facing onslaughts, atrocities are being committed on Brahmins too under the...
06:10 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Aligarh: A six-year-old girl was found dead in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, leading to clashes between protesters and the police. The protesters pelted stones at the police and the latter resorted to lathicharge to control the crowd. However, the visuals of the protest clearly showed the police brutally beating up women protesters and dragging them away from the protest site. What was even more shocking was that the police...
02:14 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati said on Wednesday the Lok Sabha elections could be preponed as the country is heading towards "political instability" due to corruption, inflation and unemployment. The BSP chief asked the party workers in Lucknow "to make all preparations" required for giving a better result in Uttar Pradesh this time on Wednesday. "People are unhappy due to corruption, inflation and unemployment under the UPA government and...
03:10 PM, Apr 17, 2013
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
