Polling for the sixth phase of UP assembly elections covering 68 seats spread over 13 districts would be held on Tuesday that would decide the fate of RLD's youth face Jayant Chaudhary and state En

For seven senior ministers in the Mayawati government, the sixth phase of elections will be a battle for survival.
While the BSP faces an intense anti-incumbency wave across the state, the challenge before these ministers is to save their citadels and retain their position in the party hierarchy.

When UP chief minister Mayawati got a resolution passed in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly on November 22, 2011, seeking division of the state into four smaller states; she hoped that the issue would help her ride back to majority in the Assembly elections.

The CBI on Saturday conducted more searches at 23 locations in Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Bihar in connection with the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission scam.

The government’s auditor has said more than half of the Rs 8,500 crores sent by the Centre to UP from 2005 to 2011, under the NRHM scheme, has been embezzled.

The Uttar Pradesh Government on Sunday recommended a CBI probe into the death of Health Department accountant Mahendra Kumar Sharma in Lakhimpur Kheri district.

"The state government has recommended

It is still a fortnight before results start pouring out of EVMs in Uttar Pradesh but two Union ministers have already started promoting themselves as chief ministerial candidates.

In an unusually aggressive speech, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday asked voters to snap out of the “Maya-jaal” and vote for development.

The CBI, which carried out searches at 30 locations in 22 districts in connection with alleged irregularities in the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam in UP on Friday, is apparently waiting for the on-going election process to get over before it begins to target the “big fish” involved in the scam.

The CBI raids in UP on Friday in connection with the NRHM scam were carried out on a tip-off provided by BSP MLA R.P. Jaiswal who had been interrogated in Delhi two days ago. Jaiswal, it is said, has agreed to spill the beans on the NRHM scam in UP.