It took Union minister Beni Prasad Verma full one year to come out of his hibernation, induced soon after the 2012 assembly elections in the state. We all know why. Read more

Who could have ever imagined that the biggest bulk order for computers across the globe would be made by one among the BIMARU states in the country? Read more

What’s going on in the country? A cop gets killed in Kunda, cops bash up a woman in Punjab even as a tiny girl gets raped in Delhi. The law and order situation has nose-dived and some states, including Uttar Pradesh, are notoriously in the lead. Read more

Of late the national president of the Samajwadi Party Mulayam Singh Yadav has been hobnobbing with Congress patriarch Narain Dutt Tiwari, whose immense wisdom and wit have got overshadowed by all the bad things in the recent past. Read more

When former UP chief minister Mayawati had gone berserk building parks and statutes, Khushwant Singh had written in his column that she would not have invited wrath had she built schools and hospitals and named them after Dalit icons. Read more

Chief minister designate Akhilesh Yadav was bang on when he had said the youth in the state were with him. “The crowds queuing outside the employment exchanges in the state tell us that youth is supporting us and not Rahul,” he said. Read more

Can you guess the dilemma of the Congress candidates in Uttar Pradesh nowadays? Not Anna Hazare. Not his campaign against corruption. Read more

Here comes some good news. The BJP is now planning to embrace the Bihar model for UP polls to counter BSP chief Mayawati’s caste card with its slogan of ’state pride and development,’ something on the lines of Nitish Kumar’s ‘aam janata’ slogan that had cut into Lalu Prasad’s caste base in the neighboring state in the recent assembly elections. Read more

Corruption is the catchword in the country today. Many in the intelligentsia attribute heavy turnout in the ongoing polls to Anna Hazare, who turned corruption into a potent electoral issue. The mood is no different in the North of India. Read more

After all the hugs and honeymoons in full public glare, has come the objection on a poster that shows them simply smiling with their hands locked in a handshake. Read more