Uttar Pradesh
- Hate Crime
UP: Muslim man, accused of priest’s murder, killed in encounter
Unnao: A Muslim man, carrying the reward of Rs 1 lakh, was killed in a police encounter on Monday, June 15, in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh. He was booked for fatally stabbing…
- Hate Crime
UP: Man stabs daughter at police station over marriage to Dalit
Banda: In a shocking incident, a man allegedly stabbed his 19-year-old daughter to death during a counselling session inside a police station over her inter-caste marriage in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district on…
- Hate Crime
UP Dalit beaten to death over refusal to massage feet at party
Banda: A 33-year-old Dalit man was allegedly beaten to death by three men in Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh after he refused to massage their feet while they were consuming alcohol together,…
- Hyderabad
Nearly 40 pc of Hyderabad voters may receive SIR notices
Hyderabad: The pre-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Hyderabad and other districts of Telangana came to an end on Friday, June 12. According to a report published in Deccan Chronicle, 43.3 percent of…
- India
Meerut mosque on police land? Imam served 7-day notice
Meerut: A dispute has emerged over a mosque here, with authorities alleging the shrine was constructed on a police station land while the mosque management maintains the structure was built on a…
- News
Ram Temple chief welcomes SIT formation amid donation row
Ayodhya: Ram Temple Construction Committee Chairman Nripendra Mishra on Sunday, June 14, welcomed the Uttar Pradesh government’s decision to constitute a SIT to probe alleged irregularities in the Ram temple trust donation…
- India
Third arrest made in Uttar Pradesh conversion case
Muzaffarnagar: Another arrest has been made in connection with an alleged unlawful religious conversion case in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli district, and the police recovered a ‘nikahnama’ (marriage certificate) from the accused’s possession,…
- India
Ram Mandir donation row: UP govt forms 3-member SIT
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday constituted a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe allegations regarding donations and financial management of the Ram Mandir trust in Ayodhya, officials said. According…
- India
Akhilesh’s daughter targeted online over Ram Mandir donation row
Azamgarh: Far-right-wing extremists targeted the daughter of Samajwadi Party leader and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav after he raised concerns regarding the allegations that crores of rupees offered to the…
- Hate Crime
No police help, Dalit woman approaches court over casteist abuse
Lucknow: A Dalit woman from Uttar Pradesh’s Maharajganj approached a court alleging that a village head representative assaulted her, used casteist slurs, and threatened her life after local police reportedly failed to…
- Hate Crime
BJP leader chants Jai Shri Ram at Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh: Uttar Pradesh Minister of Horticulture Dinesh Pratap Singh raised religious slogans, including “Jai Shri Ram,” at Aligarh Muslim University during an event on Friday, June 12. It marked the first time…
- Offbeat
UP: Circling cow starts a cult, vet ends it with an injection
Lucknow: In an Uttar Pradesh village, when a cow started circling a field repeatedly, the villagers immediately considered it nothing short of a miracle and began worshipping it by circling the fields…
- India
Man gets life imprisonment for killing wife in UP’s Kushinagar
Kushinagar: A court here on Friday, June 12, sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing his wife with a spade in 2023, a prosecution official said. Additional Sessions Judge/FTC-I Satyapal Singh…
- India
Universities in Uttar Pradesh to set up ‘anti-conversion’ cells
All universities and higher education institutions in Uttar Pradesh, including medical and dental colleges, have been directed to set up anti-conversion and anti-radicalisation cells following an order from state governor Anandiben Patel,…
- India
UP: After DM issues notice, madrasa authorities demolish structure
Uttar Pradesh: A madrasa in Uttar Pradesh‘s Sitapur district was demolished on June 10 after authorities deemed it was built on government land. On a complaint filed by Vikas Chaturvedi, the president…