Indiscipline is rearing its head in a big way in the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh and is even chipping away at the party’s numerical strength in the state Assembly.

A Class 9 student shot at his schoolmate over a trivial dispute in a Uttar Pradesh town, police said Thursday. The victim is battling for life at a hospital while the attacker has run away.

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A passenger of a Kingfisher Lucknow-Delhi flight opened the emergency exit door of the aircraft just before it was to take off from here last night, delaying its departure by nearly two hours.

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To help patients and attendants find their way in the labyrinthine structure of the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), a battery of volunteers known as “Rogi Mitras” have been deployed to serve as guides.

For a change, it is the CBI that is in the dock.

Buoyed up by the arrest of Reddy brothers in Karnataka, the Congress is now demanding a CBI inquiry alleged irregularities in mining of sand and stone in Uttar Pradesh. In a statement issued late on Thursday, UP Congress

Former UP minister Avadh Pal Singh Yadav, who resigned last month after being indicted by the Lokayukta, was suspended from the BSP on Thursday after he filed a petition in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court claiming that he was forced to resign by UP chief minister Mayawati. Mr Yadav has said that his removal from his ministerial post was, therefore, illegal and arbitrary and has sought the court’s intervention in the matter.

UP chief minister Mayawati on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and said that he had either gone “mad” or was working for her political rivals.

Calling WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ‘mad’, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Tuesday rubbished US embassy cables leaked by the online whistleblower that said she had sent a special jet to Mumbai to bring in her favourite sandals.

Slamming the WikiLeaks report about her, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Tuesday alleged that its owner was either playing in the hands of her political opponents or had gone "mad".