June 26, 2004 02:24 IST
In a setback to the Congress, the Uttar Pradesh returning officer for Rajya Sabha polls today rejected nomination papers of the two party ca...
Sat, Jun 26, 2004June 25, 2004 01:40 IST
The Congress is gearing up for a political battle ahead of the Rajya Sabha elections even as the re-scrutiny of the nominations of two of it...
Fri, Jun 25, 2004June 23, 2004 00:00 IST
The Mulayam Singh Yadav government has asked Sahara Group to undertake ‘‘infrastructural civil development work’’ in Agr...
Wed, Jun 23, 2004June 19, 2004 00:00 IST
With reports of his wife, Alka Mishra, enjoying unlimited facilities at the Lucknow jail where she is lodged, DIG (Prisons) P.K. Mishra was ...
Sat, Jun 19, 2004June 18, 2004 00:00 IST
Weather played spoilsport with the official Congress nominee for the Rajya Sabha today, forcing him to return to Delhi without filing his no...
Fri, Jun 18, 2004June 17, 2004 00:00 IST
After naming actress Jaya Bachchan for the Rajya Sabha, the Samajwadi Party leadership tripped up its so-called ally, the Congress, as well ...
Thu, Jun 17, 2004June 17, 2004 00:00 IST
Alka Mishra may be an undertrial, but she is also the wife of DIG (Prisons) P K Mishra. A fact that is very evident at the Lucknow district ...
Thu, Jun 17, 2004June 15, 2004 00:00 IST
Keeping her political rivals guessing about her motive, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati filed her nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha s...
Tue, Jun 15, 2004June 11, 2004 00:00 IST
Differences between the Samajwadi Party and Congress have now extended beyond a war of words, with the latter deciding to launch state-wide ...
Fri, Jun 11, 2004June 09, 2004 00:00 IST
If Mulayam Singh Yadav was under any illusion that his support to the Congress at the Centre would make it a friendly ally in the state, the...
Wed, Jun 09, 2004June 08, 2004 00:00 IST
The Election Commission may be yet to decide on the election formalities for bypolls in 13 Assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, but UP ...
Tue, Jun 08, 2004June 07, 2004 00:00 IST
Amethi and Rae Bareli are high on the Congress development map, and, the UPA’s. With Sonia and Rahul Gandhi making it clear they mean b...
Mon, Jun 07, 2004May 27, 2004 00:00 IST
“For the Congress this was the semi-final while the final will be played later for which ground preparations have started from day one,...
Thu, May 27, 2004May 22, 2004 00:00 IST
With speculation on who will be the next Prime Minister over, Congress leaders and workers in Uttar Pradesh have now engaged themselves in d...
Sat, May 22, 2004May 20, 2004 00:00 IST
Dr Manmohan Singh may have been elected the Congress Parliamentary Party leader but for the voters of Rae Bareli, who have elected Sonia Gan...
Thu, May 20, 2004May 18, 2004 00:00 IST
While the top BJP leadership is busy mulling the reasons for the party’s worst-ever performance in the state since 1991, the ground sit...
Tue, May 18, 2004May 17, 2004 00:00 IST
In the Doldrums after its worst-ever electoral performance since the 1991 Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP has decided to go in for...
Mon, May 17, 2004May 04, 2004 00:00 IST
With this election likely to be the last one Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee is contesting, the toughest challenge before the BJP in Lucknow se...
Tue, May 04, 2004May 03, 2004 00:00 IST
Rahul Gandhi’s whirlwind tour of Kanpur today was closely reminiscent of father Rajiv Gandhi’s visit to the town 13 years ago. For...
Mon, May 03, 2004May 03, 2004 00:00 IST
With dreaded dacoit Shiv Kumar Kurmi a.k.a. Dadua pledging support to the Samajwadi Party, there is enough reason for the other parties to f...
Mon, May 03, 2004April 26, 2004 00:00 IST
Strange as it may sound, the BJP’s Ayodhya face, Murli Manohar Joshi, is talking about a massive exercise by the HRD Ministry for mode...
Mon, Apr 26, 2004April 24, 2004 00:00 IST
This is a seat of proxy war. While a jailed Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya is fighting a proxy poll battle for his cousin on the S...
Sat, Apr 24, 2004April 22, 2004 00:00 IST
Facing an angry Muslim chorus once again, the Samajwadi Party today said it would drop its advertisement drawing a parallel between Mulayam ...
Thu, Apr 22, 2004April 19, 2004 00:00 IST
With the Election Commission order having left him little choice, senior BJP leader Lalji Tandon today ‘‘voluntarily’’ s...
Mon, Apr 19, 2004April 18, 2004 00:00 IST
Yes, it was a BJP show. Yes, it was an election exercise to get votes. And yes, the party must answer for the chain of events that started w...
Sun, Apr 18, 2004