Lal Bihar Pandey

Bhojpuri actor and singer Dinesh Lal Yadav, popularly known as "Nirahua", will take on Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav in Azamgarh as a BJP candidate in the national election. Mr Yadav, extremely popular in eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, joined the BJP last month.

In an embarrassment to the Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh, the Allahabad High Court today declared as illegal the appointment of retired IAS officer Lal Bihari Pandey as the chairman of the UP Higher Education Services Commission.

''There were about 25 of them. They came with guns. My wife begged them to spare us, but they put a gun to my head and asked for our cell phones and money.'' Devendra Kumar Chaudhary was in an air-conditioned coach on a train headed from Howrah to Delhi when he was startled awake.Fifty armed dacoits had boarded the train which was passing through B...

Bhojpuri actor and singer Dinesh Lal Yadav, popularly known as "Nirahua", will take on Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav in Azamgarh as a BJP candidate in the national election. Mr Yadav, extremely popular in eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, joined the BJP last month.

In an embarrassment to the Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh, the Allahabad High Court today declared as illegal the appointment of retired IAS officer Lal Bihari Pandey as the chairman of the UP Higher Education Services Commission.

''There were about 25 of them. They came with guns. My wife begged them to spare us, but they put a gun to my head and asked for our cell phones and money.'' Devendra Kumar Chaudhary was in an air-conditioned coach on a train headed from Howrah to Delhi when he was startled awake.Fifty armed dacoits had boarded the train which was passing through B...