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Muslim Cleric Allegedly Assaulted, Thrown Off Train in UP; Post-Mortem Shows Fractures in All Ribs

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Shortly before he died, Imam Tousif Raza called his wife and pleaded for help, saying fellow passengers were...

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Akanksha Kumar

Government School Teachers Directed to Join BJP's 'Jan Akrosh' Rally Over Defeated Women's Bill in Lucknow

New Delhi: A list of government school teachers assigned to attend the BJP’s Jan Aakrosh Mahila Padyatra in Lucknow, accessed by The Wire, along...

29.04.2026 10

The Wire

Akanksha Kumar

Explained | The Controversy Over Akhilesh Yadav's Backing of a Fatehpur Chaiwala

New Delhi: A dispute at a tea stall in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur has spiralled into a political flashpoint, with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh...

27.04.2026 10

The Wire

Akanksha Kumar

Inside the pro-UGC protest: Caste faultlines at Allahabad University

The Supreme Court has stayed the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) latest equity promotion regulations. Following the court’s directive,...

13.04.2026 20

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Women Voters Decline, Significant Net Addition: Five Points Emerge From the Uttar Pradesh SIR's Final Figures

Prayagraj: More than five months after Uttar Pradesh’s special intensive revision (SIR) exercise began, the state’s chief electoral officer on...

11.04.2026 10

The Wire

Akanksha Kumar

IAS Officer Rinku Singh Rahi's Dilemma: No Work Assigned, But Doesn't Want Salary Without Duties

Listen to this article: Prayagraj: A former Provincial Civil Services officer who went on to clear the All-India Service exam and joined the IAS,...

10.04.2026 20

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Akanksha Kumar

Massive Losses, Labourers Hungry: Despite Govt Claims Otherwise, the West Asia Conflict Is Hitting UP’s Export Clusters

Listen to this article: Prayagraj: Even as the Union government claims that industrial LPG supplies remain largely unaffected by the US-Israel war in...

07.04.2026 20

The Wire

Akanksha Kumar

Shravasti Iftar Party Case: BJP Yuva Morcha President Pushed Police to Arrest Muslim Men

Listen to this article: Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh): On March 24, days after the arrest followed by bail of four Muslim men in Uttar Pradesh’s...

03.04.2026 20

The Wire

Akanksha Kumar

UP journalist booked over LPG queue video, cops say ‘visuals old, misleading’

A journalist in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad has been booked over visuals of people queuing outside a gas agency – uploaded the same day that a...

17.03.2026 50

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UGC norms row leaves Allahabad University campus divided

31.01.2026 20

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‘How can you remove names without checking?’: Inside Prayagraj’s battle over voter lists

22.01.2026 20

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‘Should I kill myself?’: How a woman’s birthday party became a free pass for a Hindutva mob

29.12.2025 30

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From school skit to viral church protest: How a Christmas event was recast as ‘anti-Hindu’

26.12.2025 20

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How YouTubers and media outlets drive Rajasthan’s anti-conversion hysteria

08.11.2025 20

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In Rajasthan’s anti-conversion campaign: Third-party complaints, police ‘bias’, Hindutva link

05.11.2025 10

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In Prayagraj, a mother’s battle against UP cops for man’s death after ‘staged encounter’

17.06.2025 10

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Cut, copy, charge: Inside Haryana police’s flawed case on Nuh violence

18.04.2025 9

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Mahakumbh: A confluence of faith and Hindutva politics?

26.02.2025 20

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Kumbh: The ground reality of digital lost and found centres

24.02.2025 20

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Kumbh stampede: Multiple deaths, massive traffic jams, swelling crowd, but does faith trump ‘chaos’?

18.02.2025 10

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