Swamy Prasad Maurya, formerly with the Mayawati led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) joined the BJP on Monday in the presence of BJP president Amit Shah, BJP general secretary in charge of UP Om Mathur, state unit chief Keshav Prasad Maurya, senior leaders Rameshwar Chaurasia and Shrikant Sharma. Welcoming him to the party, Mr Keshav Prasad Maurya said that his namesake […]
» Read moreA school in Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad that apparently never allowed the singing of the national anthem deeming it “un-Islamic”, has been shut down and its manager has been arrested after several teachers resigned over his refusal to allow the anthem this Independence Day. Zia-Ul Haq, the manager of the MA Convent School, has been arrested under a law against “Insults […]
» Read moreSheila Dikshit, the Congress’ 78-year-old chief ministerial candidate for Uttar Pradesh, today began a three-day bus tour to Kanpur as her party launched its campaign for India’s biggest state. The bus with slogan “27 saal, UP behaal” (27 years of UP in ruins)” was flagged off by Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son and deputy Rahul. Accompanying Ms Dikhsit […]
» Read moreNext year’s Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress on Thursday named Sheila Dikshit as its chief ministerial candidate. She will be up against Akhilesh Yadav of the SP and Mayawati of the BSP. The BJP is yet to name a CM candidate. The announcement is a departure from the Congress’s past and comes at the behest of poll strategist […]
» Read moreThe Uttar Pradesh government on Monday removed the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Noida, Greater Noida and the Yamuna Expressway Authority, Rama Raman, officials said. Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav gave the order following a rap from the Allahabad High Court which stopped the CEO from all work. Last week, the court had taken a grim view of Mr. Raman’s continuance […]
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