The Allahabad High Court Tuesday granted two weeks time to the Uttar Pradesh government to submit its response on a Public Interest Litigation seeking direction for a CBI inquiry into all the major riots, which took place in the state after Samajwadi Party, came to power.

The Lucknow bench of justice Imtiyaz Murtaza and justice Anil Kumar Tripathi II passed the order after additional advocate general Bulbul Godiyal, appearing on behalf of the UP government, sought two weeks time to seek instructions and file response.

Muzaffarnagar: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi, and vice president Rahul Gandhi will visit certain riot-affected localities in Muzaffarnagar district today.The BJP slam

Muzaffarnagar: With normalcy returning to riot-hit areas of the district, curfew was relaxed for seven hours today."The administration has decided to relax curfew in three police station areas betwee

Agra: Hardening its stand against senior UP Minister Mohammad Azam Khan who skipped the party national executive meeting, Samajwadi Party today said either he should have attended the meet or resigne

Lucknow:  BJP MLA Som Sangeet was booked on Tuesday for uploading a fake video on Facebook that incited communal tensions in Muzaffarnagar district and nearby areas of western Uttar Pradesh.  He is o

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav and UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav’s meeting with Ashok Singhal and other Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders has apparently not gone down well with

Lucknow: Suspended IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal on Friday night submitted her reply to the chargesheet Uttar Pradesh government had served on her over the demolition of the wall of an under-constr

Samajwadi Party (SP) Monday struck a defiant note on the issue of suspension of IAS officer Durga Sakhti Nagpal, saying officials are punished whenever they do something wrong and the Centre can withdraw IAS officers from the state.

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday served a chargesheet to IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal whose suspension eight days ago triggered a huge controversy.
Official sources said on Sunday n

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party today struck a defiant note on the issue of suspension of IAS officer Durga Sakhti Nagpal, saying officials are punished whenever they do something wrong and the Centre can w