The UPA-II regime continues to be on life support as it is now completely dependent on outside support after the DMK pulled out. The UPA-II, after DMK's withdrawal, is now banking upon the man who has always helped the government survive in crisis, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, who is once again holding the aces. Mulayam with his 21 MPs is the oxygen supply that the UPA needs. ...
08:20 AM, Mar 21, 2013
The DMK's split from the UPA seems complete. The government's dependence on the two warring giants of Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party, now increases ever more. A cornered Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday reached out to SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav over the tiff he had with UPA Cabinet minister Beni Prasad Verma the previous day. Beni Prasad Verma had accused Mulayam of harbouring links with...
10:11 PM, Mar 20, 2013
While DMK has pulled out of the UPA government, even Samajwadi Party which has been extending outside support to the ruling coalition has been playing hardball. The UPA government has been claiming that it is stable and there is no threat of elections taking place before the Lok Sabha terms ends. ...
05:35 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Amid political crisis in the wake of the DMK pulling out of the UPA, the BSP on Wednesday said it will continue to support the government from outside but will not join it. ...
03:01 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Even as Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath claimed that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government was not lame duck after the DMK pulled out from the ruling coalition, it is becoming increasingly clear that while the government may survive, it may not be able to transact important legislative business in Parliament as parties extending outside support to it are not going to be easy to bring on board on every...
02:11 PM, Mar 20, 2013
The UPA government is in crisis with the DMK withdrawing support and now needs to hold on to Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party to sail through. But the Samajwadi Party is posing another challenge with the war of words between Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma and SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav escalating. ...
01:35 PM, Mar 20, 2013
There was more hungama in Parliament as Samajwadi Party MPs thronged the well of the House demanding the resignation of Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma for his alleged disparaging remarks against party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. Beni Prasad Verma himself denied making any such statement where he said that Mulayam had received commission to back the UPA. ...
11:50 AM, Mar 20, 2013
Faced with unrelenting criticism on the state's poor law and order, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday pulled up senior police officials and asked them to improve their and the force's functioning and act tough against criminals. ...
06:00 AM, Mar 19, 2013
Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma skipped Cabinet meeting on anti-rape Bill on Sunday. Earlier in the day, Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav had demanded that Beni Prasad should be suspended and expelled from Parliament and Cabinet after the Congressman accused Yadav of having links with terrorists. ...
07:26 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav has demanded that Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma be suspended and expelled from Parliament after the Congressman accused Yadav of having links with terrorists. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath Kamal Nath later criticized the statement from his colleague and also apologised on his behalf. ...
04:19 PM, Mar 18, 2013
There are 2,63,697 cases pending in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court as of October 2012, the UP government informed the Assembly on Monday. ...
03:53 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma on Monday accused Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav in the Lok Sabha of having links with terrorists. Speaking in the Lok Sabha, Beni Prasad said, "Terror is neither Hindu nor Muslim. Mulayam helped Narendra Modi come to power in Gujarat. Mulayam supports terrorism." ...
12:52 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Actor-turned-politicians Shatrughan Sinha and Jaya Prada have teamed up with the maverick RJD President Lalu Prasad for a Bhojpuri film. Besides the three, Bhojpuri film star Manoj Tiwari would be seen in action in the movie produced by actress-MP Jaya Prada. ...
06:24 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on Saturday expressed disappointment at the performance of the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP) government, saying she was hopeful that it would be different from previous regimes led by his father Mulayam Singh Yadav. ...
02:28 AM, Mar 17, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team on Saturday recovered the slain DSP Zia-ul-Haq's service revolver and its bullets, which were used in the murders of Kunda gram pradhan. The DSP was killed in clashes that followed after the murders of gram pradhan Nanhe Yadav and his brother. ...
06:32 PM, Mar 16, 2013
The key accused in the murder of Kunda Gram Pradhan Nanhe Yadav, Kamta Pal, has surrendered before the CBI probing the Kunda killings in Uttar Pradesh. Kunda DSP Zia-Ul-Haque was also killed at the same place along with Nanhe Yadav and his brother. ...
03:23 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Akhilesh Yadav on Friday completed one year as the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister. Talking about the measures being taken to tackle the law and order problem in the state, Akhilesh said: "We are proposing to set up GPS systems on all police vehicles so that their movement can be tracked. Also, I promise to take action against officials who aren't taking law & order seriously." ...
09:34 PM, Mar 15, 2013
Akhilesh Yadav on Friday completes his first year as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and maintaining law and order remains his biggest challenge. In the latest controversy to have hit his government, his cabinet minister, who later quit, has been named in an FIR in the murder of a senior police officer. ...
08:59 AM, Mar 15, 2013
The CBI has moved court seeking 14-day custody of Rajiv Singh and Sanjay Singh, arrested in connection with Kunda DSP Zia-ul-Haq's murder case. Both the accused were arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police last week. ...
06:36 PM, Mar 11, 2013
