The blueprint for the division of Uttar Pradesh under chief minister Mayawati's consideration is substantially different from the 30-year-old demand of people who have been spearheading the smaller state movement.

Chief Minister Mayawati proposed division of Uttar Pradesh into four smaller states and declared that the proposal would be sent to the Union Government for its consent thus pushing Congress into a tight corner.

Ahead of the elections in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Mayawati's Cabinet on Tuesday, cleared a proposal to divide the state into four states.

Chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati's proposal to divide Uttar Pradesh into four smaller states has put the Congress in a quandary.

Anti-Wall Street protesters trickled back late Tuesday into a park that had been their home for two months until police cleared the encampment, but they were barred from pitching new tents.

New York police on Tuesday demolished the Manhattan camp of the anti-Wall Street protests in a surprise raid which threw the two-month-old movement into crisis.

Crackdowns against the Occupy Wall Street encampments across the country reached the epicenter of the movement on Tuesday, when police rousted protesters from a Manhattan park and a judge ruled that their free speech rights do not extend to pitching a tent and setting up camp for months at a time.

Protester Brendt Schmidt is arrested near the Occupy Wall Street protest camp in New York on Tuesday.

The Mayawati government will bring an Assembly resolution next week to carve up Uttar Pradesh into four states with the chief minister saying the states large size made it difficult to administer.

administratively cumbersome Uttar Pradesh". Her Cabinet endorsed the decision to bring out a proposal in the winter session to split the state into four parts - Purvanchal, Paschim Pradesh, Bundelkhand and Awadh Pran: a move which will diminish the political heft that the mammoth province enjoyed by virtue of being home to 80 Lok Sabha seats and...

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati's decision to bring a resolution for dividing the state into four parts in the coming session of the assembly found her political rivals taking varied positions.

Pragyan Ojha took his 50th Test wicket when he trapped Kirk Edwards plumb in front of the wicket on the third day of the second Test at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Wednesday.

VVS Laxman and Mahendra Singh Dhoni hit contrasting centuries at Eden Gardens on Tuesday to leave the West Indies with a mountain to climb in the second Test.

On a murky Tuesday when the sun sat lazily behind the clouds all day, and lit up the with big hundreds as India achieved their first goal of putting up a mountain of runs in the second Test.

Failing to get any breakthrough in the Bhanwari Devi alleged abduction case, on Tuesday doubled the reward to Rs 10 lakh to anyone providing credible information on the missing nurse as it carried out searches at the farms of sacked Minister Mahipal Maderna, a key suspect, and others.

In its bid to find a substantive lead in the sensational Bhanwari Devi disappearance case, the CBI on Tuesday doubled the reward to `010 lakh to anyone providing credible information about the missing nurse and also searched eight locations in and around Jodhpur.

Rajasthan chief minister paid a surprise visit to MDM Hospital here on Tuesday to meet sacked minister , who is an accused in the case of missing nurse , sources said.

Inc said on Tuesday that it is investigating a rash of unsolicited graphic images that hit some users' accounts this week.

The Supreme Court today directed the government to provide information about all mercy petitions pending before the President and governors.

The on Tuesday decided to get abreast with the working of mercy jurisdiction vested by the Constitution in the President and governors and asked the Centre to file in four weeks details of clemency petitions pending with the constitutional authorities.

The Supreme Court trumped the Centre on Tuesday with its decision to examine each mercy petition filed in the country and ascertain whether delay on part of Governments could become a ground for death row convicts to be given a lease of life.

His latest gambit comes less than two weeks after the High Court in London ruled that the 40-year-old Australian could be sent to Sweden to face questioning over allegations of rape and sexual assault by two women.

LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange will ask senior British judges next month to refer his fight against extradition to Sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes to the country's highest court, a WikiLeaks spokesman said on Tuesday.

India’s missile scientists sprung a surprise on Tuesday, successfully testing an all-new, high-accuracy missile that the Defence Research and Development Organisation promptly called the Agni-IV.

Official sources said the surface-to-surface ballistic missile was launched from a “road mobile system” parked in one of the launch pads of the premier missile testing centre, also known as interim test range (ITR), at 9 am.

Noted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck was about to be detained over an alleged sexual assault on a Zimbabwean Facebook friend when he committed suicide at his hotel here, his colleague Jim Maxwell has said.

The Allahabad police on Tuesday registered an FIR against two Congress central ministers, its UP legislature party leader and a party MLC for assaulting a youth.

Piqued over the response of Uttar Pradesh government and the archaeological survey of India to its notice regarding the threat posed to ‘Taj Mahal’ due to drying up of the Yamuna, the Supreme Court on Monday wondered if it was duty of the court to ensure safety of the 17th century monument of love.

Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Tuesday refuted allegations of pressurising the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) to convert more than 10,000 square metres of plots from institutional to residential set-up for illegal allotment of plots in 2005.

In a state as politically charged as Jammu and Kashmir, everyone knows that one swallow doesn’t make a summer.

Opener Upul Tharanga made 77 and fast bowler Lasith Malinga claimed three wickets on Monday to lead Sri Lanka to a 25-run win over Pakistan to level the one-day international series at 1-1 with three matches left.

Anushree Kundra, a software professional who allegedly set her ex-lover and his fiance on fire on October 13 and has been on the run ever since, surrendered before the Pune district court on Tuesday after she ran out of four-day anticipatory bail granted to her by the Delhi High Court.