While the world rages over Octopus Paul, it is a peacock that is attracting crowds in Bulandshahr district. The peacock in question may not possess astrological powers but it is being looked upon as a messenger of god. The peacock arrives in a local mosque in Borghasi village every day and dances while others offer namaaz.

A young girl accused her father of sexual exploitation merely to save herself from his wrath after she secured poor marks in B.Tech.
The girl, who is studying in an engineering college in Ghaziabad, sent a letter to the superintendent of police in Sonebhadra district, accusing her father of sexually exploiting her.

A woman entered a 12-feet deep tank filled with raw material for making tomato sauce to clean the area and slipped and fell into it. Eight of her co-workers jumped into the tank to save her, and six of them, including the woman, died while two are still battling for their lives in the hospital.
The deaths, according to police sources, occurred due to some poisonous gas in the tank.

UP chief minister Mayawati’s letter box, rather bag, seems to be overflowing.
The number of letters that the chief minister receives every day has been steadily going up and the general post office in Lucknow has now set up a separate cell that deals exclusively with letters addressed to the chief minister.

BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Sunday lashed out the UPA government and accused the Congress of working under American pressure.

Prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Saturday mounted a veiled attack on the Mayawati government when he said that Central PSUs were awaiting approval from the state government to set up power plants in Uttar Pradesh, which was facing an acute power crisis.

UP chief minister Mayawati now holds a record for carving out the maximum number of districts in Uttar Pradesh. Alongside, she also remains the only political leader to have given a marked presence to dalit icons in the state by naming the new districts after them.

When BJP president Nitin Gadkari arrives in Lucknow on July 4 on his first trip to Uttar Pradesh, he will have an onerous task before him.
Party cadres in UP are waiting with their bundles of demands, suggestions and complaints to greet the party president whose two earlier visits to UP have been cancelled at the last minute.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s constituency, Amethi, has been renamed and given the status of a district by the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh.
This was decided by the state Cabinet on Thursday. The new district, the state’s 72nd, will be renamed Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar.

The Congress in UP is getting ready to serve old wine in new bottles. After publicly denouncing caste-based politics, the UP Congress is promoting just that — albeit, under a new cover. The Congress will now take out seven yatras in Lucknow on June 30. Each yatra will be dedicated to one particular community.