Did Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav use the recent celebration of 125 years of the UP assembly to build the base for a third front?

Rajaram Kisan, now 98 years old, was a legislator in the first elected Assembly in Uttar Pradesh in 1952. He lives in his Kisan Ashram in Pratapgarh district, does not have a bank balance or a car and spends his time tending to his cows and a small farm.

Long queues of SUVs and cars. Endless boxes of sweets, marigold strings trying to hold on to the icy winds and growing mounds of bouquets carelessly dumped in a corner.

The Uttar Pradesh government has effected changes in its official list of holidays by knocking off two holidays from the 2013 calendar.

The father of the Delhi gangrape victim has now asked the Centre to name the proposed new anti-rape law after his daughter.

An intense cold wave is sweeping across Uttar Pradesh with the state capital, Lucknow, recording a low of 4.4ºC during the past 24 hours.

“Naam wahi jo kaam karaye, Sultanpur ka samman badhaye” — posters carrying this slogan along side a photograph of BJP MP Varun Gandhi have set the political cauldron on the boil in Sultanpur district.

Even as the outrage over the Delhi rape case continues, a 38-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped by three persons at a roadways bus stand in Mau district late on Tuesday night.

As scam after scam unfolds, more and more ministers and legislators of the previous Mayawati government are on their way to jail.

It may sound unbelievable but a young man in Varanasi district is so upset with his wife that he has been living on a guava tree since the past nine months.