Sitting BSP MLA Farid Mehfooz Kidwai, created a flutter in political circles on Monday when he joined the Samajwadi Party.
Mr Kidwai, who represents the Masauli Assembly segment in Barabanki district, is the first sitting BSP MLA to quit the party.

UPA government is trying to make the PAC a "puppet" in its hands and divide it on party lines when the mandate of the panel is to be bipartisan, Murli Manohar Joshi, chairperson of the parliamentary committee that examined the 2G spectrum scam, on Tuesday said.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi will undertake a two-day tour of her parliamentary constituency Raebareli from Wednesday to review developmental projects, a party official said here on Tuesday.

Senior BJP leader and Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chief Murli Manohar Joshi on Tuesday accused four union ministers, including Kapil Sibal and P. Chidambaram, of influencing United Progressive Alliance members to oppose the panel's report on the 2G spectrum scam.

Squarely blaming Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati for the farmer-police clashes in greater Noida, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said here on Monday that his party would continue to fight for farmers' rights.

Indian Institute of Management Lucknow set a record of sorts on Saturday when it organised a one-day coordinated and simultaneous worldwide meeting of the alumni at 10 locations — five in India and five abroad.

On May 13, when UP chief minister Mayawati completes four years in office — her longest-ever tenure in the post — she will announce projects worth over `1,000 crores for various sections of people in the state.

Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Shekhar Tiwari and 10 others were convicted by a trial court on Friday for lynching a PWD engineer, Manoj Gupta, in Aurraiya in December 2008.

The ruling Bahujan Samaj Party is seriously mulling the idea of not contesting the local bodies which will now be held on party symbols.
The Allahabad high court, on Thursday, had struck down the Mayawati’s government’s controversial decision to hold partyless civic polls.

A court here on Friday sentenced to life Uttar Pradesh's ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator Shekhar Tiwari along with eight others for the 2008 lynching of a Public Works Department (PWD) eng