Suspended IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal may not be immediately re-instated.

Three ministers, four legislators and over a dozen party leaders have been suspended/ expelled from the Samajwadi Party on charges of indiscipline and anti-party activities since the party came to pow

Tension mounted in the twin towns of Ayodhya and Faizabad on Saturday on the eve of the VHP’s proposed yatra with the arrest of over 347 VHP activists.

VHP was Monday refused permission by Uttar Pradesh government for a yatra from Ayodhya to push for Ram Temple at the disputed site, just days after it asked Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to work as a bridge between Hindus and Muslims on the issue.

For Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, it seemed to be an exercise in mending fences with the media with whom he had crossed swords over the recent Durga Nagpal episode.

A seven-year-old boy’s innocent narration of the sequence of events that led to his father’s death has helped the Lucknow police work out the gruesome murder of a theatre artist.

In a novel strategy to expand its base, the Bahujan Samaj Party will now focus on dalit youth.

Inmates at the Kannauj district jail went on the rampage over the alleged suicide of a prisoner after he was beaten by the jail staff on Thursday.

The ruling Samajwadi Party’s aggressive attempts at Muslim appeasement may have earned it considerable criticism from its rivals but it has made the BJP in Uttar Pradesh “silently happy”.

Samajwadi Party (SP) Monday struck a defiant note on the issue of suspension of IAS officer Durga Sakhti Nagpal, saying officials are punished whenever they do something wrong and the Centre can withdraw IAS officers from the state.