Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Thursday announced a new “farmer-friendly” land acquisition policy after discussing it with farmers at a “kisan panchayat” here.

The BJP national executive, which begins here on Friday, will target the UPA government on the issue of corruption and inflation, on one hand, and the misrule of the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh on the other.

The Samajwadi Party, poised to challenge the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party in the coming Assembly elections, is now facing the threat of internal sabotage from its own party cadres.

The Ganga river has moved away from the ghats of Varanasi, creating panic among devotees in the holy city.
The river, which is apparently changing its course, has moved about 7-10 feet away from the ghats. At the famous

The three-day national executive of the BJP, being held in Lucknow, will prepare the road map for the next Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

After Bhatta Parsaul in western Uttar Pradesh, it is now Chandauli in eastern UP that is facing the heat over land acquisition.

To protest against the “misrule of the Mayawati government”, the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party has decided not to accept “state guest” status for the dignitaries who will be arriving in Lucknow for the party’s three-day national executive meeting that begins on June 3.

Despite sincere efforts by the party high command to quell dissent in the UP Congress, factionalism and infighting rears its head at regular intervals.

Refusal to develop a second-rung leadership, inability to focus on local issues and a highly centralised system of working have prevented the Bahujan Samaj Party from spreading its wings in other states.

The Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh has decided to embarrass the Congress by raising the issue of Muslim reservation on the eve of Assembly elections in UP.