What the Bahujan Samaj Party did not insist on doing, the Samajwadi Party government has done.
It has given the status of a deity to former chief minister Mayawati.

A statue of former UP chief minister and BSP president Mayawati was vandalised in Lucknow’s Gomti Nagar area on Thursday afternoon. A relatively unknown outfit, Uttar Pradesh Navnirman Sena, claimed responsibility for the act.

When Babli 16, and Ram Pyari, 60, open their eyes in two or three days from now, they will see the world with the same eyes.

Visitors and pilgrims planning to come for the Maha Kumbh in Allahabad in 2013 will be in for some pleasant surprises.

The changing of names of districts by the Akhilesh Yadav government on Monday, has spurred the Bahujan Samaj Party into action.

Capt. Lakshmi Sehgal, a veteran of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army, died in Kanpur on Monday, aged 97. She is survived by two daughters — CPI(M) leader Subhasini Ali and Anisa Puri. Filmmaker Shaad Ali is her grandson.

Captain Lakshmi Sehgal was the first captain of the women’s wing of Azad Hind Fauj or Indian National Army (INA) and in 1947; she married Colonel Prem Kumar Sehgal.

The Centre and the state government will now work together to give a major boost to tourism in Uttar Pradesh.

Finally, it is the turn of men to face a code of conduct from the panchayat.

While the Samajwadi Party was in Opposition, the scam in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) was its biggest weapon against the Mayawati government.