Uttar Pradesh Congress on Friday asked chief minister Mayawati to arrest a BSP MLA and his associates for allegedly raping a girl belonging to the backward class and falsely implicating her in a theft case.

Ten-year-old Sushma Varma is the youngest member to enrol for a graduation course in science from the Lucknow University.
It was on Tuesday that the university decided to allow admission to the young girl who had passed intermediate examination this year.

Yet another BSP MLA has been accused of allegedly raping a minor girl belonging to the Nishad community. To make matters worse, it is the “gulabi gang, a group of woman activists in the region, which has decided to take up cudgels on behalf of the victim and fight against the offender.

Uttar Pradesh government has invoked essential services maintenance act (ESMA) to ban strikes in all the medical institutions of the state for the next six months, officials said here on Thursday.

The State Information Commission (SIC) has slapped a fine of Rs 15,000 on Lucknow University for not awarding medal to a meritorious student as convocation was not held.

Can anyone with two hands play nine percussion instruments at one go and still create melody with it?
Meet Siyaram, a farmer from Chandauli district in UP, who can play nakkara, tabla, jhanjha, dumdum, thali, botal, taiya, drum and naal — all together with a assemblage he has created with steel plates and bottles.

Casteism has been played out but communalism remains a bigger draw in UP politics and major political parties in the state are beginning to realise this.
Political parties are now trying to pay the communal card in order to expand their base in the next Assembly elections. The Muslim vote bank, expectedly, is up for grabs and making a bid for it are the Samajwadi Party, Congress and the BSP.

UP chief minister Mayawati is losing more and more of her ministers and legislators to crime and corruption.
The chief minister, till now, has shown the door to half a dozen ministers who have faced allegations of crime and corruption and nearly a dozen BSP MLAs are facing serious charges on these two counts.

Two persons, including an arms dealer, of an inter-state gang were on Sunday arrested by the Uttar Pradesh special task force and a cache of weapons and ammunition seized from them, the police said.

It has been 30 years since he died and the world has moved on. But for Sanjeev Dixit, a school teacher, time always stands still on December 24 which also happens to be the birth anniversary of singer Mohammed Rafi.