A time bomb was recovered from Agra, the city of Taj Mahal, on Saturday night. A battery and circuit was traced with the bomb in a white polythene believed to be left by two unidentified young men at a roadside eatery, Hemendra Chaturvedi reports.
The central government would soon grant reservation to backward Muslims as promised in the 2009 election manifesto, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh said in Lucknow on Saturday.
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said it was for the first time after 1991 that the party was contesting polls in Uttar Pardesh in a "real sense" and appealed to party workers to work unitedly and ensure its victory.
Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh today said Anna Hazare is "under the influence of people who have their separate political agenda" and asked Team Anna to wait for the decision of parliament before attacking party leader Rahul Gandhi on the Lokpal Bill.
With the Congress and the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) having stitched up a poll pact for the upcoming assembly elections in UP, the ruling UPA has increased its Lok Sabha strength by five members.
In a setback to Samajwadi Party ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, its senior leader Rashid Masood today announced his decision to resign from the party and quit Rajya Sabha before joining Congress.
Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta has registered two new cases of corruption against expelled BSP leader Babu Singh Khushwaha over alleged irregularities in allotment of mining contracts in the state, officials said on Thursday.
With a view to counter "opposition propaganda" against it, the Uttar Pradesh government today released a white paper on functioning of 24 key departments claiming accountability and transparency in their functioning.
Dismissing Rahul Gandhi's criticism of corruption in Mayawati government as a "drama", BJP on Saturday challenged the Congress leader to get an inquiry initiated against the ruling BSP in Uttar Pradesh.
Samajwadi Party (SP) state president Akhilesh Yadav has hit back at Rahul Gandhi, saying the Congress general secretary was misleading people on the SP’s stand on English language and computers. HT reports.
Despite the cold weather (lowest 4.5 degree Celsius), around 50,000 BSP workers from various parts of UP have arrived in Lucknow to participate in Muslim-Thakur-Vaishya rally to be addressed by state chief minister Mayawati on Sunday.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Tuesday said opposition parties targeting her government would only work to her advantage in the assembly elections due in the first half of 2012.
Choosing the occasion of Dalit icon B R Ambedkar's death anniversary, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Tuesday made it clear that her ultimate aim is to secure power at the centre.
Six persons including four minors died and three were injured in a fire outbreak at a school bag manufacturing unit in the city around 1.30am on Sunday. HT reports.