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UP: Principal, teacher booked for reciting ‘madrassa-type prayer’
Bareilly: Police have booked the principal and a teacher after the local unit of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) alleged that “madrassa-type prayers” were being recited in a government school here. The incident…
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Uttar Pradesh: Six-yr-old chokes on pencil shavings, dies
Hamirpur: In a tragic incident, a six-year-old girl died after pencil shavings got stuck in her throat. A Class 1 student, Artika was studying with her siblings on the terrace of her…
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Mayawati appoints Vishwanath Pal as BSP’s UP chief
Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party President Mayawati on Tuesday announced the appointment of Vishwanath Pal as the party’s Uttar Pradesh President. Pal is a resident of Ayodhya. Also ReadMayawati accuses BJP, RSS of…
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UP: Woman kills husband, sleeps next to his body
Rae Bareli: In a shocking incident, a woman allegedly killed her husband after the couple had a fight and then slept next to his body. The following morning, she asked the children…
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Non-Bailable Warrant issued against ex-UP minister
Ballia: A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district has issued non-bailable warrants against four accused, including former state Minister and BJP leader Anand Swaroop Shukla, after they failed to appear before it…
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Couple in UP booked for forced conversion to Christianity
Sitapur: A couple, visiting Sitapur along with tourists from Brazil, has been booked under the UP Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act for allegedly forcing people to convert to Christianity. The…
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Foreign couple who adopted abandoned baby in UP, charged with conversion
Bareilly: An FIR has been filed against a Malta-based couple and an orphanage official here for ‘wrongful conversion’ of an abandoned baby girl who was adopted by the foreigners. Three years ago,…
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Man sentenced to 20 years in jail for raping minor in UP
Lucknow: A local court in Lucknow has sentenced a 30-year-old man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for the rape of a 15-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district that took place…
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Strong ‘atmosphere of development and trust’ created in UP: Naqvi
Lucknow: Former Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, after addressing Minority Rights Day programme here on Sunday, met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and discussed various issues. After meeting, Naqvi tweeted: “Today…
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Modi-Yogi era made Amar, Abdul, and Antony equal partners of prosperity: Naqvi
Lucknow: Former Union cabinet minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday said that India today has become the flagbearer of inclusive empowerment having crushed the “curse of communalism.” “The Modi-Yogi era has made…
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Bangladeshi man held without passport in UP
Firozabad: The Firozabad police have arrested an 80-year-old Bangladeshi national, identified as Afsar Ali, who was living illegally in the city. Superintendent of Police (SP) city Sarvesh Kumar Mishra said the man,…
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Oppn in UP slams BJP controversy over ‘Pathan’
Lucknow: Even as the controversy over Shah Rukh Khan starrer ‘Pathan’ rages on, the opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh have slammed the right-wing outfits and the ruling BJP on the issue. The…
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Four UP women cops suspended for dancing in video
Ayodhya: Four women police constables deployed as part of security at the ‘Ram Janmabhoomi’ site here, have been suspended after a video purportedly showing them dancing to Bhojpuri song ‘Patli Kamariya Mori’…
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‘Ban Pathaan’: After MP and UP, now Maha BJP MLA calls movie insulting to Hindutva
After the reaction of Madhya Pradesh home minister Narottam Mishra calling for ‘corrections’ in the newly released song ‘Besharam Rang’ from the movie Pathaan, a leader of the ruling BJP, MLA Ram…
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Uttar Pradesh man kills child, gets lynched by villgers
Bulandshahr: A one-and-a-half-year-old child was hacked to death in Saujhana Jhaya village of this district by an alcoholic. The accused, identified as Kaju, alais Kishanpal, took the child, who was playing outside…