With two days to go for the Assembly results, senior Congress leader and Union minister Beni Prasad Verma sprang a surprise on Sunday by pleading for a post-poll alliance with the BSP to check the Sam

Elections to the Assem-blies of five states, staggered across a little over a month, ended on Saturday with Uttar Pradesh and Goa joining Punjab and Uttarakhand in breaking previous records and mar-king their highest ever voter turnouts. Counting will take place March 6.

Uttar Pradesh recorded 60.1 per cent voter turnout in the sixth phase polls on Tuesday in western Uttar Pradesh spread over 13 districts covering 68 Assembly segments and having the largest concentration of jats and Muslims.
An election official in Delhi said, “The turnout shows an increase of around 29 per cent as compared to the previous Assembly polls in 2007.”

After Salman Khurshid, it is now Union steel minister Beni Prasad Verma who has enraged the Election Commission by raising the minority quota issue while campaigning in Uttar Pradesh, promising additional reservations for Muslims if his party is voted to power in the state.

Eleven bank lockers of liquor baron Ponty Chadha were sealed on Friday by the Income Tax department which claimed to have seized cash and jewellery worth Rs15 crore during searches carried out at his

The Bharatiya Janata Party thinks the English language is taking a hit in the land of Mayawati. In its vision document for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls released Monday, the BJP has promised to encourage English in the state and among children.

Voices of dissent are growing in BJP over the induction of scam-tainted former UP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha.

The CBI probe into the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam in Uttar Pradesh (UP) has revealed that former UP family welfare minister Babu Singh Kushwaha allegedly played “crucial rol

Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh appears to have kickstarted the Congress’ campaign for next year’s Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections on a stormy note. After UP chief minister Mayawati shot off an angry letter to Prime

In what is being seen as a major embarrassment for the government, minister of state for railways Mukul Roy has virtually ignored a directive by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is also currently handling the railway portfolio, to rush to the site of the Guwahati-Puri Express derailment in Assam. Indications are that Mr Roy, who is now in