Congress MP Rahul Gandhi once again sent the UP government into a tizzy on Thursday when he suddenly arrived in Lucknow on a secret visit.
Mr Gandhi landed at the Amausi airport late on Thursday afternoon by a commercial flight and headed straight to a resort in Chinhat, on the outskirts of Lucknow, where a training camp for Youth Congress activists was underway.

A village panchayat in Jyotiba Phule Nagar has fixed five shoe hits as punishment for rape.

Three teenage girls, who had gone missing from their homes in Deoria district on October 31, were found dead and buried in a field in Nonawar village.

As many as 80 makeshift shops were gutted in a massive fire that broke out in a market here early Saturday, officials said. No casualties were reported.

The sales figures would put any recession into depression.

Muslims in Lucknow, led by well-known Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Jawwad, will hold protests against US President Barack Obama here on Friday.

Lord Hanuman has finally become a netizen. The lord not only has a profile on Facebook but also has a website of his own called www.sankatmochan.org that allows virtual “darshan”.

Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday revoked the expulsion of Mohammed Azam Khan, paving the way for his return into the party of which he was one of the founder members.

Diwali 2010 is being celebrated as a festival with a difference with “medicinal sweets” and “political crackers” that are dominating the market.
Environmental concerns, scare of adulteration and awareness of health issues have made the consumers search for suitable alternative and the market seems to have responded with equal fervour. More and more people in the “city of nawabs” are turning health conscious and are avoiding regular sweets that are available during the festive season. Responding to health concerns, the sweet shops in Lucknow are laden with medicinal sweets.

UP chief minister Mayawati, on Monday, launched the Mukhya Mantri Mahamaya Garib Arthik Madad Yojana under which families that do not have a BPL card will be entitled to `300 per month.