UP minister, Raghuraj Pratap Singh a.k.a. Raja Bhaiyya, has kicked up another controversy this time over the alleged false affidavit given regarding his age in the Assembly elections.

With a change of guard in Uttar Pradesh, work has come to a grinding halt in the developmental projects initiated in the Mayawati government.

A taxi driver in Kanpur was allegedly beaten by a Samajwadi Party leader over a paltry sum of `300, after which he committed suicide on Tuesday. This incident led to largescale violence in Kanpur’s Panki area as angry mobs clashed with the police and later set fire to the house and hotel owned by the SP leader.

Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday ruled out the possibility of his joining the UPA government. He said while the SP would continue to support the UPA-2 government to keep communal forces at bay, there was no question of joining it. “We’ll oppose the government in the Lok Sabha whenever there is a need to do so,” he said.

UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav said on Sunday that any decision on the Samajwadi Party joining the UPA government at the Centre would be taken by his father, party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Four ministers of the Akhilesh Yadav government were upgraded on Sunday as ministers of state with independent charge, while senior Samajwadi leader Mohammed Azam Khan was again administered the oath

Rashtriya Lok Dal MP Jayant Choudhury is likely to give up his Maanth Assembly seat and continue to be a member of the Lok Sabha.

Superstar Amitabh Bachchan and his wife Jaya Bachchan are together worth Rs 493.85 crores. Disclosures in the affidavit Ms Jaya Bachchan filed Saturday with her Rajya Sabha nomination papers shows Mr Bachchan has properties and investments worth Rs 402.21 crores, while Ms Bachchan has properties and investments totalling Rs 91.64 crores.

Fulfilling yet another promise made in the manifesto, UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has lifted the ban on student unions in universities and government colleges across the state, thereby, paving the way for union elections in the new academic year.

Amitabh Bachchan and his wife Jaya Bachchan are together worth Rs493.85 crores. Disclosures in the affidavit Jaya Bachchan filed on Saturday with her Rajya Sabha nomination papers shows Bachchan has p