Chowdhary call jails as rehabilitation centre

In a statement released here, Prisons Minister and party spokesman Rajendra Chowdhary said that the chief minister has done the right thing and taught a lesson to "arrogant America who has prejudice towards Muslims". UP Chief Minister Akhilesh ...

Lucknow: Ram Kali, 107, Uttar Pradesh's oldest prisoner, died late Sunday at the Bulandshahr jail, 403 km from here, police said. Prison officials said the aged inmate was rushed to Meerut Medical College for treatment after she complained of ...

Prison officials said the aged inmate was rushed to Meerut Medical College for treatment after she complained of breathlessness. She passed away there, of complications related to advanced age. Representational pic. Originally a resident of Khanpur ...

Are fast-tracked preparations by political parties in Uttar Pradesh a signal that the Lok Sabha elections may be held earlier than scheduled? Even as the Congress-led UPA says that the elections will be held "on schedule" in 2014, hectic spadework ...

Lucknow, May 1 (IANS): Uttar Pradesh's top brass seems to have flown the coop, or at least the state! Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, senior ministers like Azam Khan and Shivpal Singh Yadav and even Chief Secretary Jawed Usmani, everybody it seems is ...

Concerned that its appeal among Muslim voters was dimming, Uttar Pradesh's ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) is on an overdrive to hardsell its boycott of a Harvard lecture after minister Azam Khan was detained at Boston airport as "standing up to ...

Harvard Business School in protest of party leader Azam Khan's 'extended frisking' at Boston airport. In a statement released by party spokesperson and minister for Prisons, Rajendra Chowdhary, the party has said the CM's move has "taught America a ...

Lucknow: JAYPEE Group has hands deep into numerous illicit doings in the Uttar Pradesh state. We have published reports about how the infrastructural and industrial group along with the UP power corporation has gulped Rs 30,000 crore in power scam.

Defending its government's decision to release Muslim youth arrested on terror charges, the Samajwadi Party said the previous Bahujan Samaj Party regime of UP and the United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre had arrested several innocent ...