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‘Odour, disease, black water’: Voters gasp for hope in shadow of Bhalswa landfill

29.01.2025 9

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Rahul Gandhi fails to go to Sambhal, UP police block border

At around 10 am, Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi, and a convoy of Congress leaders stood on one side of the...

04.12.2024 2

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Illegal vehicles, middlemen, the police: Delhi’s traffic is organised crime

Around 2 lakh surveillance cameras, 350 automatic number plate detection cameras, and over 500 checkpoints guarded by traffic police. And yet,...

30.11.2024 3

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‘Police shot my son’: What happened during UP’s Sambhal violence?

The roads of Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal are shrouded in silence after violent clashes over an archaeological survey of a Mughal-era mosque on November...

28.11.2024 6

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Voter suppression in UP? Police flash pistol, locals allege Muslims barred from voting

“You cannot vote. Muslims will not vote.”  Tayyaba, 55, claims this is what local police told her when they stopped her from voting in the...

21.11.2024 3

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‘They would’ve set my kids on fire’: Mapping the trail of destruction in Bahraich

Shops shut, vehicles and homes charred, and streets wearing a deserted look. That’s how areas affected by communal violence in UP’s Bahraich looked...

15.10.2024 1

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Disquiet among Ladakh students over padyatra halt, Wangchuk detention

Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, along with around 150 protesters from Ladakh, were detained by the Delhi police on Monday as they tried to enter...

02.10.2024 3

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Kanpur: 7 FIRs against ‘extortionist YouTubers’ after TV journalist’s Rs 1,000-cr ‘land grab bid’

Police in Kanpur have filed seven FIRs as part of a crackdown on an alleged network of “extortionist” YouTubers.  It began with two FIRs last month...

19.08.2024 2

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Muslim families in Ghaziabad slum labelled ‘Bangladeshi’, assaulted, homes set ablaze

Amid reports of violence against Hindu minorities in Bangladesh, volunteers of the Hindu Raksha Dal purportedly assaulted Muslim families and set...

14.08.2024 4

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No FIR, no diagnosis: Can a Rs 10 stamp paper absolve UP cops over death after ‘kanwar assault’?

About six days after he was allegedly “assaulted” and his e-rickshaw “damaged” by kanwariyas for brushing against a kanwar in...

05.08.2024 8

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‘We pleaded but they kept assaulting’: The full story of attacks during Kanwar Yatra in UP

A spate of violence has marked the Kanwar Yatra in Uttar Pradesh, with incidents of assault flaring up along the route, and no arrests in most...

27.07.2024 1

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‘Could be our last call’: 2 Indians lured to Bangkok with ‘Chinese’ offer, now trapped ‘in Myanmar’

Meem. Ye. Alif. Meem. Alif. Re.  Stitched together, these letters of the Urdu alphabet don’t mean anything. But to an anxious family who muttered...

25.07.2024 2

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