Amita Verma

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Bukhari, Azam spat gets murky

CPI(M) delegates dance to a tribal song at the party’s 20th congress in Kozhikode, Kerala, on Saturday. 	— PTI

Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav is caught in an embarrassing situation as the spat between Shahi Imam Syed Ahmad Bukhari and senior SP minister Azam Khan takes a murky turn.

Mulayam works on Muslim support

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This could be bad news for the Congress in Uttar Pradesh.

UP ban on junk food in schools

Children used to feasting on burgers, chips, colas and instant noodles will now be in distress.

When did Gandhi become father of the nation?

The query posed by a 10-year-old girl from Lucknow has revealed that the Central government does not know when and how Mahatma Gandhi became the Father of the Nation.

New norms set for jobless allowance

Unemployed, partially employed and even fully employed are waiting in the queues that seem to get longer by the day outside employment exchanges.

Lobbying begins for 13 Vidhan Parishad seats

Biennial elections to 13 seats in the Vidhan Parishad are scheduled to be held later this month and expectedly, it is the Samajwadi Party that has the maximum number of claimants for the upper house.

More UP houses have mobiles than toilets

The number of households in rural areas in Uttar Pradesh having mobile phones has increased from 2.4 per cent in 2001 to 63.6 per cent in 2011, showing a massive upsurge in telecom penetration.

Etawah lion safari being revived

Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav’s dream project — a lion safari in Etawah — is now being revived by the Akhilesh Yadav government.

NREGA: Jairam for CBI probe

Union minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh has asked UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav to recommend a CBI inquiry into bungling in MNREGA funds in three districts — Gonda, Balrampur and Sonebha

No homeguards for Maya statues

After scaling down the security cover of former chief minister Mayawati, the UP government has now withdrawn the over 450 homeguards deployed in the security of parks and monuments built during the Mayawati regime in Lucknow.

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