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CITU rejects govt's wage notification

LUCKNOW, April 20 -- The Uttar Pradesh State Committee of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) has rejected the minimum wage notification issued by the Uttar Pradesh government on April 17, termin... Read More


Woman tehsildar attached to revenue council headquarters

AGRA, April 20 -- A woman tehsildar in Firozabad district has been attached to the state headquarters of the Revenue Council in Lucknow as a disciplinary measure, stated a press note issued by the dis... Read More


Ex-min's son among 2 held on harassment charges, granted bail

MEERUT, April 20 -- Police on Saturday arrested two men, including the son of a former UP minister, for allegedly harassing a woman and her mother in Muzaffarnagar late Friday night, officials said. T... Read More


Akhilesh: Defeat of delimitation bill 'victory for democracy'

LUCKNOW, April 20 -- Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government over the failure of the women's quota-linked delimitation bill to pass in t... Read More


Nehru opposed efforts to rebuild Somnath temple but Patel prevailed, says Adityanath

Lucknow, April 20 -- Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday claimed that India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru opposed efforts to rebuild the Somnath temple in Gujarat but Sardar Vallabhbhai... Read More


Women's aspirations hurt: Union minister

Lucknow, April 20 -- Union minister for women and child development Annapurna Devi on Sunday accused the Congress, Samajwadi Party (SP), Trinamool Congress (TMC), and the DMK of hurting women's aspira... Read More


MP Brittas seeks edu minister's intervention on suicides at NiT

New Delhi, April 20 -- CPI(M) MP John Brittas on Sunday wrote to Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan seeking urgent intervention on the issue of 'alarming series' of suicides at the National I... Read More


Women-centric green policies need of hour

New Delhi, April 20 -- The 131th Amendment, understood widely as women's reservation in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies, has been discussed, debated and defeated. Yet, we know most women hovering a... Read More


Trivedi to be India's next envoy to B'desh

New Delhi, April 20 -- In a significant move, the NDA government has decided to send former Union minister and BJP leader Dinesh Trivedi as India's High Commissioner to Bangladesh. As the first politi... Read More


UGC flags institutional failures in Dharamshala student suicide

New Delhi, April 20 -- A University Grants Commission (UGC) fact-finding committee probing the death of a 19-year-old student at a government college in Himachal Pradesh's Dharamshala has flagged "ser... Read More