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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Karhal candidate Satya Pal Singh Baghel has been provided 'Z' category security by Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) sources said on Wednesday.

A former top official with Uttar Pradesh's power department was arrested in Lucknow on Tuesday morning amid a political tussle over an alleged Rs 2,500-crore scam involving the Dewan Housing Finance Limited (DHFL), a private firm accused of money laundering and financial irregularities. Two other officials were taken into custody a few days ago.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is set to lose top security cover that only a dozen other political leaders have. He will no longer be protected by black cat commandos of the National Security Guard, the home ministry has decided, according to sources.

Samajwadi Party state president Shivpal Yadav today said he was dropped from the ministry as he had opposed those doing illegal work.

Akhilesh Yadav deftly avoided a diving Gayatri Prajapati as the controversial Samajwadi Party leader attempted to touch the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister's feet after being sworn in as a minister today. Thrice.

Hours after Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav appeared to have enforced a truce between his son Akhilesh Yadav and brother Shivpal Yadav, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister tweeted this evening to say his uncle Shivpal will get back the three important ministries that were taken away from him earlier this week.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav will expand his ministry on June 27 in perhaps the last reshuffle of his council of ministers ahead of the Assembly election in early 2017.

The BJP today accused the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh of doing a "cover up" of Shamli incident in which a young boy was shot dead and demanded that the state governor should send an independent report to the Union Home Ministry over the incident.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today inducted 12 new faces in his ministry and promoted eight ministers, the biggest revamp exercise as the ruling Samajwadi Party focuses on a massive image makeover with an eye on the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.

In the wake of the lynching case in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri, the home ministry said there will be "zero tolerance" for incidents that "attempt to weaken the secular fabric of the nation and exploit religious sentiments". Mentioning Dadri - where a 50-year-old man was killed last week after rumours that he consumed beef - the advisory said the states ...

Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today said that a 'Smart City' is what the citizens want their places to be and the city-level plans should be evolved based on extensive consultations with them.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said the Centre has approved construction of a 100-km long ring road, costing over Rs 3,000 crore, to decongest the expanding city of Lucknow.

In what is being seen as an outcome of a meeting held by Samajwadi Party Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav of all Uttar Pradesh ministers on Sunday, his son and chief minister Akhilesh Yadav stripped 15 other senior ministers of powerful portfolios and allocated less significant ministries to them. This includes nine cabinet ministers, one minister of stat...

On a day two Uttar Pradesh policemen were killed while chasing suspected robbers, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh expressed concern over the situation in the state.

An annual investors meet organised by the Commerce Ministry and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has been moved out of Kolkata to Agra. This is being seen as the UPA's retaliation against Mamata Banerjee after a bitter and public break up. For Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, this is a vote of confidence - and possibly a thank...

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Karhal candidate Satya Pal Singh Baghel has been provided 'Z' category security by Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) sources said on Wednesday.

A former top official with Uttar Pradesh's power department was arrested in Lucknow on Tuesday morning amid a political tussle over an alleged Rs 2,500-crore scam involving the Dewan Housing Finance Limited (DHFL), a private firm accused of money laundering and financial irregularities. Two other officials were taken into custody a few days ago.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is set to lose top security cover that only a dozen other political leaders have. He will no longer be protected by black cat commandos of the National Security Guard, the home ministry has decided, according to sources.

Samajwadi Party state president Shivpal Yadav today said he was dropped from the ministry as he had opposed those doing illegal work.

Akhilesh Yadav deftly avoided a diving Gayatri Prajapati as the controversial Samajwadi Party leader attempted to touch the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister's feet after being sworn in as a minister today. Thrice.

Hours after Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav appeared to have enforced a truce between his son Akhilesh Yadav and brother Shivpal Yadav, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister tweeted this evening to say his uncle Shivpal will get back the three important ministries that were taken away from him earlier this week.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav will expand his ministry on June 27 in perhaps the last reshuffle of his council of ministers ahead of the Assembly election in early 2017.

The BJP today accused the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh of doing a "cover up" of Shamli incident in which a young boy was shot dead and demanded that the state governor should send an independent report to the Union Home Ministry over the incident.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today inducted 12 new faces in his ministry and promoted eight ministers, the biggest revamp exercise as the ruling Samajwadi Party focuses on a massive image makeover with an eye on the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.

In the wake of the lynching case in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri, the home ministry said there will be "zero tolerance" for incidents that "attempt to weaken the secular fabric of the nation and exploit religious sentiments". Mentioning Dadri - where a 50-year-old man was killed last week after rumours that he consumed beef - the advisory said the states ...

Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today said that a 'Smart City' is what the citizens want their places to be and the city-level plans should be evolved based on extensive consultations with them.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said the Centre has approved construction of a 100-km long ring road, costing over Rs 3,000 crore, to decongest the expanding city of Lucknow.

In what is being seen as an outcome of a meeting held by Samajwadi Party Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav of all Uttar Pradesh ministers on Sunday, his son and chief minister Akhilesh Yadav stripped 15 other senior ministers of powerful portfolios and allocated less significant ministries to them. This includes nine cabinet ministers, one minister of stat...

On a day two Uttar Pradesh policemen were killed while chasing suspected robbers, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh expressed concern over the situation in the state.

An annual investors meet organised by the Commerce Ministry and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has been moved out of Kolkata to Agra. This is being seen as the UPA's retaliation against Mamata Banerjee after a bitter and public break up. For Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, this is a vote of confidence - and possibly a thank...