Thousands of Samajwadi Party workers spilled on to the streets in various cities of Uttar Pradesh on Monday to mark the beginning of the party’s three-day offensive against the Mayawati government.

The principal of a government school has been suspended for allegedly molesting girl students in Hamirpur district.

Varun Gandhi, BJP MP and the youngest scion of the Gandhi family, married Yamini Roy Choudhury, a graphic designer, at a simple yet elegant ceremony at the Kanchi Kaamkoti Math on the banks of Ganga r

Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Akhilesh were allegedly put under "house arrest" following a call by the Opposition party for a three-day agitation from today to press for ouster of the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh.

In a bizarre sequence of events, the UP Vidhan Sabha secretariat has sent a letter to Mrs Manjula Singh, wife of sitting congress MLA Vivek Singh, asking her to submit her husband’s “death certificate

Two BSP leaders, including one MLA, were arrested late on Thursday night for their involvement in the torching of UPCC president Rita Bahuguna Joshi’s house in July 2009.

A large number of candidates whose tickets has been finalised by UP chief minister and BSP president Mayawati, may finally end up losing their claim to contest on the BSP symbol.

A division bench of the Allahabad high court played Cupid and Amit Chaturvedi, a 22-year-old brahmin youth, overcame caste barriers to marry Kiran, a dalit girl, at a local Arya Samaj temple on Tuesday.

Factionalism continues to bog down the Uttar Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the fact that Assembly elections are barely a year away matters little to state leaders who are busy settling their own issues instead of reviving the party.

With the Bahujan Samaj Party, Samajwadi party and the Bhartiya Janata Party mounting an offensive against the UPA government on the union budget, the Congress in Uttar Pradesh is now apprehensive that the angst of the salaried and middle-class may prove to be its undoing in the next Assembly elections in the state.