Former UP chief minister Kalyan Singh has demanded that the ongoing census should be stopped immediately and restarted only after a decision on the caste-based census is taken.

In yet another instance of honour killing in central UP, a brother chopped-off his sister’s head with a sickle on Tuesday and then buried the body in the courtyard.
The mother, who was away at the time of the incident, returned home on Wednesday and found the daughter missing. The freshly dug earth in the courtyard made her s

UP chief minister Mayawati and 12 other candidates were elected unopposed to the UP Vidhan Parishad here on Thursday.
An announcement to this effect was made here on Thursday by the returning officer and principal secretary of the UP Assembly, Mr Pradeep Dubey, after the withdrawal of papers.

A group of 10 to 12-year-olds, all dressed in swanky new clothes, were a regular feature at weddings taking place in the Alambagh and Krishna Nagar localities in the state capital.

It was his 45th unsuccessful attempt to clear the high school examination but Jabbar Hussain is not giving up. “At 66, I have made 45 attempts to clear the Class 10 examinations and have failed. But I am not giving up. I will continue to try and pass the examination till my last breath,” he says.

With political parties now making an all-out effort to ensure unanimous polls in Rajya Sabha and Vidhan Parishad elections in Uttar Pradesh, state legislators have been left high and dry — quite literally.

A court in Barabanki on Monday asked the police to investigate allegations that superstar Amitabh Bachchan and five others had “cheated” people by delaying the college they had promised to set up in D

Tej Pratap of Mathura district was made to spend nine years in jail for a murder that did not take place.
The police arrested Tej Pratap in 2002, when his father-in-law lodged a complaint claiming that his daughter had been killed by Tej Pratap. Tej Pratap had married Rani, a

Jaya Bachchan has turned down the Samajwadi Party ticket for the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh. SP spokesman Mohan Singh will now be the candidate for the Rajya Sabha seat.

The Mayawati government, on Friday, withdrew the ordinance and the draft bill for the special force to guard statues and memorials. A decision to this effect was taken at a Cabinet meeting here on Saturday after the governor B.L. Joshi reportedly did not sign the draft ordinance and held back his assent to the bill too.