Uttar Pradesh Polls: Ground report from key constituencies in the fourth and fifth phasesWhile Lucknow East and Lucknow Cantonment are traditional bastions of BJP, Sarojini Nagar could pose a challenge to the party. Former joint...
After RSS leader Dattatreya Hosabale’s meetings, national party leaders to head to UPA senior functionary told ET that the focus of these meetings will be to firm up the UP unit’s ‘seva hi sanghathan’ programmes that will go...
Accident at power plant in UP's Sonbhadra, 13 labourers injuredIn a letter addressed to the district magistrate and Superintendent of Police of Sonbhadra, factory manager of Lanco Anpara Power Ltd SK Dw...
What made rural India abandon its cattle in drovesAn extraordinary situation is prevailing in rural India. Stories of cattle distress are aplenty.
The takeover story: Congress gears up for a new era with Rahul Gandhi as party presidentMany Cong leaders feel factors such as slowdown, meltdown of note ban plank, pains of GST rollout & farm distress have provided a tactical ...
Cycle kiski? How Samajwadi Party cadre & candidates are caught in between Mulayam-Akhilesh family feudUP is already in poll season. But the ruling party has yet to get its act together in deciding its national and state presidents, as well a...
BJP sees itself as largest bloc; right camp imploding, says Samajwadi PartyIt is positive for us that other parties are either working out an alliance like SP-Congress or appealing for votes like BSP, both saying t...
Advantage Akhilesh: The tug-of-war between the SP factions will doubtless continueEven if some of this is true, such manipulation of the 77-year-old SP president would be possible only if there were fundamental difference...
The Agra-Lucknow Expressway has been inaugurated but don’t try driving on it, not yetThe project aims at connecting farms and industrial cities with large cities; mandis will come up from where farmers can sell their produce.
Demonetisation effect: Most political parties are in a tizzy, but it may not be a level playing fieldThe timing of the demonetisation, ahead of poll season, is not lost on political observers who feel it is a landmark move towards electoral...
Should there be space for more seats at IITs?When IIT results come out, around two lakh students will know whether they are among the 10,000-odd who have made it to the 23 coveted inst...
Congress Working Committee to meet on September 8, to chalk out agenda against Modi govtCWC is meeting here on September 8 when it will deliberate on a host of issues to take on the Modi government, which it forced onto the bac...
- Jewellers to end strike today after Pranab Mukherjee assures excise duty review
Jewellers will up their shutters on Saturday after a 21-day strike, following the government's assurance that it will consider their demand...
- Lucknow University bans Anna Hazare's meeting on campus
An ugly scene was created on the campus on Wednesday morning when university proctorial board tried to block media persons from talking to ...