Migrants from Bihar, UP and Jharkhand in Ludhiana to have their own community hall Ludhiana: in what seems to be a first instance, the over 20 lakh migrants from Bihar, UP and Jharkhand will have their own community hall at Tajpur Road in Ludhiana. The foundation stone was laid on Sunday for a community hall. Being set up by head of Purvanchal Vikas Parishad (PVP), migrants from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Jharkhand will have their own haven in distant Ludhiana. According to V P Singh, president of PVP, it was a long-awaited dream of people from Purvanchal who are settled in the city to have... 

Oh, the rough and tough politics of Uttar Pradesh! But why so? Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh is on the boil these days. In western UP, a Jat agitation has been demanding reservation for the community in government jobs, and the rest of UP has turned into a rough battle between the state government and Mulayam Singh Yadav’s SP. The SP supremo said that the party had launched a peaceful protest against “corruption and atrocities” of the state government. Days before SP’s three-day agitation started on 7th march, the state government spared no effort to crush it by arresting 15,000...