Lucknow, April 12: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav Thursday filed his nomination papers for the state legislative council. Yadav, a member of parliament, needs to get elected to either of the two legislative houses in the state within six months of becoming chief minister. The legislative council polls are slated to ...

New Delhi, April 12: A day after she was reported missing, dentist Nupur Talwar, an accused in the 2008 murder of her teenaged daughter Aarushi, Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking a stay of the non-bailable warrant issued against her by a special CBI court. The apex court bench headed by Justice ...

Lucknow, April 9: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is likely to attend the chief ministers' conference on internal security in New Delhi April 16 in a marked departure from his predecessor Mayawati. Sources in the chief minister's office told IANS that Akhilesh Yadav discussed the matter with his father and Samajwadi ...

New Delhi, April 6: Stressing that he was "not the one to get defeated", Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Friday indicated that the party's Uttar Pradesh unit could be dissolved for a new look and that party functionaries will be held accountable for the work entrusted to them. Gandhi, who Friday met ...

Lucknow/New Delhi, April 5: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Thursday filed a third chargesheet in the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam in Uttar Pradesh, accusing another three people of irregularities in purchasing computers and peripherals. The agency filed the chargesheet in a CBI court in Lucknow against Managing Director ...

Lucknow, April 5: The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) Thursday slammed the Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh for its "overzealousness" to please Muslims. Taking offence at the state Home Department's move to seek the views of the Law Department on the status and charges levelled against terrorists in the state, state president ...

New Delhi, April 5: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Thursday exhorted the party's candidates who contested the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls to unitedly start working for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and hinted at changes in the state organisational structure to revitalise it. Gandhi met over 150 candidates and took feedback from ...

New Delhi, April 5: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi today held meetings with the party's legislators from Uttar Pradesh and some candidates who lost in the assembly elections to analyse the party's poor show. The interaction is aimed at galvanising the party for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The interaction will continue ...

New Delhi, April 4: The CBI Wednesday named four people in its second charge sheet filed in a Ghaziabad court in connection with alleged irregularities in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in Uttar Pradesh. A senior Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) official informed that the charge sheet was filed against former ...

New Delhi, March 3: With the debacle in Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls coming as a shock to the Congress, Rahul Gandhi will be analysing the outcome at a meeting of party leaders on April 6 in a move to set the house in order ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. Newly elected ...