Diwali 2010 is being celebrated as a festival with a difference with “medicinal sweets” and “political crackers” that are dominating the market.
Environmental concerns, scare of adulteration and awareness of health issues have made the consumers search for suitable alternative and the market seems to have responded with equal fervour. More and more people in the “city of nawabs” are turning health conscious and are avoiding regular sweets that are available during the festive season. Responding to health concerns, the sweet shops in Lucknow are laden with medicinal sweets.

UP chief minister Mayawati, on Monday, launched the Mukhya Mantri Mahamaya Garib Arthik Madad Yojana under which families that do not have a BPL card will be entitled to `300 per month.

The ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Uttar Pradesh has virtually swept the panchayat elections even though it had earlier declined to participate in the election process.

Five students of IIT-Roorkee have been suspended and an inquiry instituted into a seemingly harmless competition held on the campus in which boys, holding lipsticks in their mouth, were supposed to apply them on the lips of their female counterparts.

Twelve days after he supposedly travelled by train from Gorakhpur to Mumbai, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s secret train journey remains shrouded in mystery.
According to railway records, Mr Rahul Gandhi boarded the biweekly Lokmanya Tilak Superfast Express train which left platform No. 2 of Gorakhpur junction at 8.45 pm

Within three days of Ms Rita Bahuguna Joshi being renominated as UP Congress president, trouble has erupted in the state unit of the party over the nomination of 138 members to the All-India Congress Committee.

Want to hear the chartbuster Munni badnaam hui or the catchy Cry cry, Hum rote hain kai ko? Well, instead of plugging into your ipod, just stroll into a nearby “Ram Lila” and see how these latest hits are being incorporated into the tales of Ramayana.

She may have cleared the semi-finals but it is the finals that put her patience, political acumen and diplomatic skills to test.
For Ms Rita Bahuguna Joshi, her second term as UPCC president is all set to be much more crucial and decisive than the first term. This time, she will have to fight two wars — one with the political rivals outside the Congress and one within her own party.

Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav on Tuesday questioned the mysterious absence of Samajwadi legislator Vijay Misra. Mr Misra has been missing since 2008 when he was elected to the state Assembly in a byelection from Gyanpur seat in Bhadohi district.

Welcome to Uttar Pradesh — the land of unlimited holidays.
The largest state in the country now enjoys the maximum number of holidays in a year — 204 out of the 365 days in a year are holidays.