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UP Bypolls Marred by Allegations of Police Misconduct, Discrimination Against Muslims

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Uttar Pradesh: Court-Appointed Commissioner Surveys Mughal-Era Mosque Amid Claims of Ancient Hindu Temple

New Delhi: A Mughal-era mosque in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district was on Tuesday (November 19) surveyed by an advocate commissioner on the orders...

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The Rise of Akhilesh Yadav as the Leader of the Bahujan Samaj

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Despite Stern Rebuke by Supreme Court, Adityanath Issues Bulldozer Threat in Jharkhand

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Adityanath Govt Buckles Under Pressure of Protesting Job Seekers Again as Bypoll Elections Approach

New Delhi: The Adityanath-led government in Uttar Pradesh has buckled under the pressure of protesting government job aspirants once again. This time,...

15.11.2024 9

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Arjak Sangh: a Band of Anti-caste Atheists Battling Brahmanism In the Hindi Heartland Since 1968

New Delhi: “They reacted as if a bomb had exploded,” said Shiv Kumar ‘Bharti’, recalling the public outrage he encountered on the day he got...

14.11.2024 20

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‘Nothing but Anarchy, Collective Punishment’: Supreme Court’s Searing Remarks on ‘Bulldozer Justice’

New Delhi: In a scathing indictment of the so-called ‘bulldozer justice’ prevailing in the country, the Supreme Court on Wednesday (November 13)...

13.11.2024 10

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'Bulldozer Justice is Unacceptable': SC Directs Action Against Yogi's Officials For Illegal Demolition

New Delhi: “Bulldozer justice is simply unacceptable under the rule of law,” the Supreme Court has stated, calling for punitive criminal action...

10.11.2024 10

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Yogi Uses AMU Minority Status Verdict to Pit Marginalided Castes Against Muslims in Bypoll

New Delhi: Seeking votes in a by-poll election in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath on November 9 tried to pitch the Supreme Court’s...

09.11.2024 10

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In Jharkhand and Maharashtra, Yogi Unleashes Rhetoric of Hatred to Mobilise Hindus Behind BJP

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath’s campaign trail in Jharkhand and Maharashtra has all been about consolidating the Hindu vote...

09.11.2024 10

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'Throwing the Baby Out With the Bathwater': What the SC Said on the HC's Verdict on the UP Madarsa Act

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today, November 5, upheld the constitutional validity of the Uttar Pradesh Madarsa Act, 2004, the legislation through...

05.11.2024 10

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UP Bypolls: SP vs BJP Contest is More About Political Messaging and Consolidation Than The Outcome

New Delhi: Within the grand battle of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) attempts to consolidate Hindus versus the Samajwadi Party’s strategy...

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‘Offensive to the Community’: Dalit Leaders, Scholars Slam Adityanath for Saying ‘Harijan’

New Delhi: Dalit leaders and scholars have condemned Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath for referring to the Dalit community as...

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UP Cop Booked For Murder Amid Protests After Man Dies in Police Custody in Lucknow

New Delhi: Two weeks after being accused of causing the death of a young Dalit man in Lucknow, the police in the Uttar Pradesh capital are under fire...

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UP Bypolls: SP and Congress Put Up a United Front, Build on PDA Strategy

New Delhi: The result on the nine seats holding by-poll election in Uttar Pradesh will do little to change the topography of the state’s Assembly....

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With no Bypoll in Ayodhya's Milkipur For Now, BJP Gets a Chance to Redeem Itself

New Delhi: “Nobody saw it coming,’ says Gorakh Nath, the former Bharatiya Janata Party MLA whose petition in the Allahabad High Court became the...

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Wave of Communal Flare-Ups Sweeps Uttar Pradesh Ahead of Bypolls

New Delhi: Mohammad Rafique is a relieved man. Things could have turned ugly, like in Bahraich, but due to the restraint shown by local Muslims, a...

23.10.2024 7

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Arson, Loot and 'Unidentified' Vandals: How Muslims Were Targeted in Bahraich

New Delhi: Enraged by the death of a Hindu youth Ram Gopal Mishra in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich, rioting mobs unleashed a wave of violence against...

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As UP Admin Threatens to Bulldoze Primarily Muslim Property in Bahraich, HC Offers Temporary Relief

New Delhi: The Allahabad high court on Sunday, October 20, provided temporary relief to almost two dozen residents of Bahraich, most or almost all of...

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UP Police Shoot Two Muslims For Murder of Hindu Youth in Bahraich Communal Incident

New Delhi: Two Muslim men accused in the murder of a Hindu youth during the recent communal incident in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich were on Thursday...

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The Communal Violence at Bahraich Is a Blot on Yogi's Claims of 'Danga-Mukt' Uttar Pradesh

New Delhi: The communal flare-up during a procession for the immersion of a Durga idol and the subsequent rioting and arson in Uttar Pradesh’s...

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BJP MLA Adds to Communal Tensions in Bahraich, Targets Muslim Journalists Over Their Reporting

New Delhi: Even as the Uttar Pradesh police and administration tried to contain communally-targeted mob violence that broke out in Bahraich during...

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UP: Dalit Man Dies of ‘Heart Attack’ in Police Custody; 4 Cops Booked Amid Assault Allegations

New Delhi: The Lucknow police have come under fire after the sudden death of a Dalit man, in his mid-twenties, who was picked up by policemen in an...

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The Unfinished Convention Centre Dedicated to JP Narayan That Became a Political Battleground

New Delhi: When Akhilesh Yadav as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh had sanctioned the construction of a museum-cum-multi-purpose convention centre...

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Does the Samajwadi Party's 'PDA' Formula for Dalit, OBC and Muslims Violate Election Rules?

New Delhi: The slogan of PDA (Pichda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak) has revitalised the political messaging of the Samajwadi Party under Akhilesh Yadav. A call...

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Courting Controversy: With Use of Legally-Undefined 'Love Jihad', Bareilly Judge Reproduced BJP's Views

New Delhi: While sentencing a Muslim boy to life imprisonment recently, a judge in Bareilly made several unverified claims about systematic attempts...

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'Encounter', 'Taste of Israel': BJP MLAs Threaten Muslims Protesting Against Narsinghanand's Remarks on Prophet

New Delhi: In the wake of protests against extremist Hindutva leader Yati Narsinghanand’s provocative remarks against Islamic prophet Muhammad, at...

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UP Court Convicts Three For 'Mass Conversion' Based on Testimonies of BJP Man, Friend and Two Cops

New Delhi: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker, his friend and two policemen – based on the testimonies of these four men, a court in Uttar...

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UP Judge Who Hailed Yogi Now Says ‘Foreign Funding, Population War’ Behind Love Jihad

New Delhi: “Love jihad,” the conspiracy theory manufactured by the extremist Hindutva ecosystem to demonise Muslim men in interfaith...

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Key Questions to Be Answered After Manipur Govt’s U-Turn on '900 Kuki Militants' Claim

New Delhi: The Manipur government has retracted its alarming assertion that 900 militants crossed into the state from Myanmar – a claim that had...

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SC Bars Citation of Allahabad HC Judge's Remarks on Hindus Becoming a Minority Due to Conversions

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has barred the usage or citation of controversial remarks of an Allahabad high court judge who had commented that if...

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UP: DM Transferred After HC Rebuke Over FIRs Against Nine Muslims under Gangsters Act in Violation of Rules

New Delhi: A district magistrate (DM) in Uttar Pradesh was shunted out after being pulled up by the Allahabad high court for approving action under...

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To Address Food Adulteration, Adityanath Renews Push for Eatery Owners' Names to Be Displayed

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath has instructed officials to ensure that the names and addresses of the operators, proprietors and...

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After Criticism Over Targeting of Yadavs, UP Police Shoots Thakur Accused in 'Encounter'

New Delhi: Facing accusations of targeting backward caste Yadavs and going easy on dominant caste Thakurs, the Uttar Pradesh police on Monday,...

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Weeks After Killing a Yadav Youth, UP Cops Shoot and Injure Another Accused in Dacoity Case

New Delhi: At a time when the Uttar Pradesh government is under fire for allegedly targeting Yadavs, police in Sultanpur shot in the leg of another...

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Yogi Govt Defends Cops' Right to Lodge FIRs Under 'Anti-Conversion' Law – Which Allows Only Victims, Kin to File Plaints

New Delhi: The Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Party government in Uttar Pradesh has strongly defended the right of its police force to lodge first...

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Ayodhya Police Under Fire for 'Gangrape' of Dalit Sanitation Worker at Ram Janmabhoomi Complex

New Delhi: Weeks after it demolished a shopping complex and a bakery owned by a Samajwadi Party (SP) leader over allegations of rape in Ayodhya, the...

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UP District Magistrate Calls Rahul Gandhi 'Pappu' on X, Claims Account Was Hacked

New Delhi: “Are[y] tum apni aur apne pappu ke bare mein sochu (sic).” This comment posted from the official X handle of the Gautam Buddha Nagar...

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‘Weapon’ of ‘Unconventional Warfare’: UP Court While Convicting 16 in Mass Conversion Case

New Delhi: While convicting 16 persons in a mass conversion case and sentencing 12 of them to life in prison, a local court in Uttar Pradesh referred...

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Snatching Phones, Stealing Bikes: The Crimes of UP Police-Designated 'Gangster' Mangesh Yadav

New Delhi: The criminal record of Mangesh Yadav – whose killing by the police in a controversial “encounter” has triggered a political storm in...

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In First Major Conviction Under UP Conversion Law, Prominent Islamic Scholar and 11 Others Sentenced to Life

New Delhi: A court in Lucknow on Wednesday (September 11) sentenced to life 12 persons, including a prominent Islamic scholar from West Uttar Pradesh,...

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Allahabad HC Grants Protection From Arrest to Brother of Muslim Man Lynched in Aligarh

New Delhi: The Allahabad high court has provided protection from arrest to a Muslim man in Aligarh who was booked under charges of dacoity and...

10.09.2024 5

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Adityanath Backs Police After Controversial 'Encounter' Killing of a Yadav Youth Amid Outrage

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath has come out in defence of his police for shooting dead a Yadav youth in a controversial...

09.09.2024 10

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'Killed Because of His Caste': Opposition Erupts as UP Police Kills Yadav Man in an 'Encounter'

New Delhi: The family of a young man from the Yadav community who was shot dead by police in an alleged “encounter” in Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur...

07.09.2024 20

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Use of Bulldozers Is a Good Thing, Will Continue: UP Minister and Former Modi Officer AK Sharma

New Delhi: Days after the Supreme Court proposed issuing pan-India guidelines for the demolition of property by governments, a senior minister in...

05.09.2024 7

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Dalit, OBC Candidates Turn Up the Heat on Adityanath Over 69,000 Assistant Teacher Recruitment Fiasco

New Delhi: Reserved category candidates who felt undone by the faulty recruitment process of 69,000 assistant teachers in Uttar Pradesh have...

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'Not Everyone's Hands Can Fit on a Bulldozer': Adityanath Says Days After SC Decries House Demolitions

New Delhi: Two days after the Supreme Court came down heavily against the demolition of property of people accused of crime, Uttar Pradesh chief...

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Yogi Government Pats Its Own Back After Conducting Constable Recruitment Exam – in Second Attempt

New Delhi: “Fool-proof plan of technology and manpower…this is how the police and the board passed the constable recruitment exam.” The...

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Student Activist's Room Raided in Prayagraj by NIA Over Alleged Naxal Links

New Delhi: The human rights group People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has condemned the raid conducted by the National Investigation Agency...

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MP Court Convicts Publisher, Journalists for Publishing Photo of Minor Rape-Murder Victim

New Delhi: A court in Madhya Pradesh has convicted four persons associated with a Hindi newspaper, including three working journalists, for the...

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