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The Samajwadi Party alleged that Facebook suspended party chief Akhilesh Yadav’s account, accusing the BJP of suppressing opposition voices. Leaders Fakhrul Hasan Chaand, Rajeev Rai, Pooja Shukla, and Pawan Pandey condemned the move as an attack on democracy, urging Facebook to respect limits and restore the account, highlighting its significance as the voice of millions and calling the action “arrogant” and unacceptable.

The reunion of sorts took place at Lohia Park in Lucknow on Thursday where SP patriarch Mulayam and Akhilesh had gone to pay floral tributes to the socialist ideologue Ram Manohar Lohia on his death anniversary.

The high drama 'saas-bahu' woes involving Russian national Olga Efimenkova ended on a happy note after Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj intervened and asked CM Akhilesh Yadav to resolve the matter as it was "affecting the country’s image".

Several opposition leaders extended their support to UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav after the EC allotted the bicycle symbol to the Samajwadi Party (SP) group led by him. Some hoped that the development would bring "secular" parties together on a platform against BJP in UP polls.

Two days ahead of its official release, Aishwarya Rai Bachhan and Randeep Hooda-starrer 'Sarbjit' was declared tax-free in Uttar Pradesh by the state government, on Wednesday.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has announced that upcoming Bollywood film 'Nil Battey Sannata' has been made tax-free in the state.

Though Mulayam had announced at a press conference in Lucknow last week that he would not attend the event, if he does, it will be the first time that he will share the stage with Akhilesh after being toppled from the post of SP chief by his son on January 1.

Dr Kafeel Khan, a paediatrician who was one of the nine accused in 2017 BRD hospital cases in which over 60 kids lost their lives over a few days allegedly due to shortage of oxygen, is likely to be the Samajwadi Party candidate for the Deoria-Kushinagar seat in the forthcoming MLC elections.

Although there is no official confirmation, Kafeel Khan, confirmed to TOI that he had been assured from party president Akhilesh Yadav about his candidature.

A video has surfaced showing Shivpal Yadav singing and in remarkably good spirits at a private New Year's eve party on Saturday despite having been removed as the Samajwadi Party's (SP) Uttar Pradesh chief. The song? 'Kasme waade pyaar wafaa sab baatein hain'.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday to discuss the drought situation in the state's Bundelkhand region.

In continuation of Uttar Pradesh's attempt to roll out the red carpet for the film industry, Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar's 'Airlift' has been made tax-free in the state.

Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar-led 'Airlift' has been announced tax free in Uttar Pradesh.

Welcoming the EC decision, SP general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav, Akhilesh's uncle and the main strategist of his group, expressed hope that a grand secular alliance will be formed to fight the elections, an apparent reference to a tie-up with Congress and some other outfits.

When Nikita Patel, gram pradhan of Nagwasi village in Mirzapur district, replied to a tweet by UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on creating industries in villages, she had no idea it would lead to a windfall for Nagwasi.

Two days after TOI reported that Latika Bansal, a 15-year-old girl from Bulandshahr who witnessed her mother burn to death two months ago, wrote a letter to the Uttar Pradesh chief minister in her blood asking for justice, Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday met the teenager and said he would personally see to it that the family is taken care of