Five prison officials here were suspended on Thursday a day after deputy chief medical officer Y.S. Sachan, arrested for his two seniors’ killing, was found dead inside a Lucknow jail, the police said.

UP chief minister Mayawati has said that the Criminal Procedure Code will be suitably amended in Uttar Pradesh to make them more stringent in cases of crime against women.

The crime situation in Uttar Pradesh continues to deteriorate at an alarming speed. After a spate of rape cases on Monday, Tuesday proved to be no better.

BJP leader Uma Bharti on Wednesday said though the party has faith in Hindutva and the Ram temple issue, they would not be its political agenda for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections scheduled for early in 2012.

Maoist groups in Nepal are now using police atrocities in the border areas to fuel anti-India sentiments in the Himalayan kingdom.

With four more rapes reported on Tuesday in Uttar Pradesh, the total number of such cases in the state has gone up to nine during the last two days.

Of the four incidents that came to light early in

After UP chief minister Mayawati on Sunday ordered strict action after a dalit girl was blinded in Kannauj district when she tried to resist a rape attempt, the state government suspended one constabl

After UP chief minister Mayawati on Sunday ordered strict action in case of a dalit girl who was blinded in Kannauj district when she tried to resist a rape attempt, the state government swung into ac

Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Uma Bharti Sunday took a dig at the Congress party and its general secretary Rahul Gandhi, to whom she said she had sent a history book on his 41st birthday.

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After UP chief minister Mayawati on Sunday ordered strict action after a dalit girl was blinded in Kannauj district when she tried to resist a rape attempt, the state government suspended one constabl