Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), Dec 13 (ANI): The Centre’s decision to initiate the process for the formation of the Telangana state has stirred up a hornet’s nest, with people from different regions coming forward to demand a separate states.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has written her third letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this morning, demanding [...]
New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) The viral infection Japanese encephalitis has claimed more than 500 lives in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar so far this year, with children facing the brunt of the disease.
According to a union health ministry document, Uttar Pradesh is the worst affected with 23 of its districts having been declared endemic.
‘Twenty-three districts [...]
Lucknow, Nov 10 (IANS) The ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Uttar Pradesh Tuesday emerged as the clear winner in by-elections to 11 assembly constituencies while its sworn political adversary Samajwadi Party (SP) suffered a rout.
Even SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav’s daughter-in-law Dimple faced a devastating defeat at the hands of Congress nominee Raj Babbar [...]
Lucknow, Nov 7 (IANS) About 49 percent of the 4.9 million electors in Saturday’s by-elections in Uttar Pradesh turned out to cast their vote in 11 state assembly and one parliamentary constituency.
Even as the state’s chief electoral officer Umesh Sinha described the poll as ‘peaceful and incident free’, a death was reported from a village [...]
Lucknow, Nov 7 (IANS) An average of 49.37 percent voting was recorded in by-elections to 11 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh Saturday while the turnout in Firozabad parliamentary seat was over 50 percent, officials said.
In Firozabad, where actor Raj Babbar of the Congress is pitted against Dimple Yadav, the daughter-in-law of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam [...]
Lucknow, Oct 6 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday accused Chief Minister Mayawati of rigging the recent by-polls for four assembly seats and urged the Election Commission (EC) to deploy central paramilitary forces for next month’s by-polls to one Lok Sabha and 11 assembly seats in the state.
‘By misusing the state machinery, the Mayawati-led [...]
Varanasi, Sep 27 (IANS) After some commercial banks decided to give credit cards to farmers, Allahabad Bank has decided to extend the facility to silk weavers in and around this pilgrimage town.
‘The idea behind the move is to save weavers from perennial exploitation by moneylenders’, said Allahabad Bank assistant general manager P.C. Gananayak at the [...]
