A love story went horribly wrong on Valentine’s Day eve in Agra, a city that is home to the eternal monument of love.

The Samajwadi Party will launch a three-day agitation in Uttar Pradesh from March 1 to 3 to completely paralyse the functioning of the state government. SP president Mulayam Singh Yadav asked party workers to paralyse the working of the government completely on issues relating to corruption, atrocities, autocracy.

Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav has asked his party workers to prepare for a final do-or-die battle against the Mayawati government.
The three-day state convention of the Samajwadi Party in Gorakhpur has sent out a clear message to party cadres that they should remain prepared for the final assault on the Mayawati government in the next Assembly elections.

As election time draws near, the sun is beginning to shine for dalit officers in UP. UP chief minister Mayawati is apparently unnerved by the fact that she has been receiving maximum complaints from dalits during her inspection tours of the state.

Tempers are rising in Darul Uloom Deoband and factionalism wars are turning ugly as the date for the all-important meeting of Majlis-e-Shoora draws near. The meeting, scheduled to be held on February 23, is expected to decide the fate of Darul Uloom Deoband vice-chancellor, Maulana Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvi who has been facing fire for his statements on Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi.

There is finally some good news for UP chief minister Mayawati and Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav.
The Congress-led UPA government at the centre is in no mood to “irritate” the two leaders at the moment and this means that both can expect further relief in the disproportionate assets cases pending against them in the Supreme Court.

The absence of chief minister Mayawati from the UP Assembly rankled the Opposition on Wednesday when Leader of the Opposition Shivpal Singh Yadav was about to initiate the debate on the motion of thanks to the governor’s address.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday mounted another attack on the Mayawati government when he said that there was no security for the common man in the state which was hampering development.

Even as the rising incidents of rape and atrocities on dalits in Uttar Pradesh continue to grab headlines, the Mayawati government on Wednesday claimed a 16 per cent decrease in atrocities on dalits and a 17 per cent decrease in rape cases.

Uttar Pradesh government has transferred 10 IAS and six IPS officers, including two district magistrates and a divisional commissioner.