Alleging large scale anomalies, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday demanded a high-level probe into all recruitments done during the five-year-regime of the BSP government.
The UP irrigation department has said more than 100 FIRs had been lodged against land mafia, involved in the illegal sale of plots and mining activities, in the floodplains of Yamuna and Hindon, an ecologically-sensitive belt, but the police failed to act.
In yet another instance of highway robberies in Ghaziabad, a senior engineer working with a cellular phone company in Gurgaon was abducted and robbed of his cash and car. The gang of robbers took him hostage for several hours and later escaped with his car.
Uttar Pradesh secondary education director Sanjay Mohan has been arrested in connection with alleged irregularities in the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET).
Team Anna member Shanti Bhushan has challenged an order whereby he had been held guilty of evading stamp duty to the tune of about Rs 1.35 crore and deposited a sum of Rs 70 lakh with the office of chief controller, revenue authority, for the purpose.
The Allahabad high court today issued show cause notice to two news channels for allegedly broadcasting results of exit polls despite restrictions on the same having been imposed by the Election Commission in view of the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.
Samajwadi Party on Wednesday came down heavily on reported statement of Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on imposition of President's rule in Uttar Pradesh and termed it as an insult of the democratic practice.
Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday ridiculed BJP's 'India Shining' slogan, maintaining that those espousing such an idea never visited the poor in the villages and workers and understood their plight.
BJP president Nitin Gadkari had a narrow escape on Tuesday when the dais he was sitting on crashed during an election rally in Mohamadabad assembly of Ghazipur district.
Chief minister Mayawati today targeted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his statement that he respects BSP founder Kanshi Ram and claimed his party had not "expressed a single word of condolence on Kanshi Ram's death.
Film actress Jaya Prada, campaigning for Lok Manch led by former SP leader Amar Singh, today slipped while climbing the dais at an election rally in Kushinagar.
Sealing of commercial establishments in non-commercial areas has taken a new turn with the Noida Authority issuing shutdown notices to about 1,000 units that supply raw material to at least 6,000 industries across the city.
Four bike-borne armed men robbed a jeweller inside his showroom at sector-2 of Vaishali and fled away with cash and gold worth R30 lakh.
At least 26 people from a marriage party were killed yesterday evening when an overloaded mini-bus collided head-on with a speeding truck in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri district, 120 km from Agra, police said today.