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UP: Youth attack man for objecting to rash driving in Meerut
Meerut: A case has been booked against a group of youth for allegedly assaulting a Muslim man who opposed their rash driving in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district. The incident took place on…
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Row erupts after HDFC Bank employee tells customer, ‘I am a Thakur’
Kanpur: A tense incident was reported from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, where an HDFC Bank employee was allegedly seen invoking her caste during an argument with a customer. A video of the heated…
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Brutal attack blinds Dalit man in Uttar Pradesh’s Bhadohi
Bhadohi: A Dalit youth was brutally assaulted here and lost eyesight in one eye after an attacker allegedly pierced a motorcycle key when an argument over the former defecating near a canal…
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UP SIR: Asked to remove 86 Muslim names from electoral roll, claims BLO
Amid the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process of the electoral rolls in Uttar Pradesh, a Booth Level Officer (BLO) claimed that a person named Dharmendra Maurya objected…
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UP: Bajrang Dal storms govt school over namaz claims, principal suspended
Sambhal: Several Bajrang Dal members forcibly entered a government school in Uttar Pradesh‘s Sambhal to question the Quranic verses framed on the walls, alleging that the students were being taught to wear…
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UP SIR: ECI extends period of filing claims, objections
New Delhi: The ECI has extended by one month or till March 6 the period of filing claims and objections to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Uttar…
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Ghaziabad sisters’ death: They hardly played outside, say neighbours
Ghaziabad: A day after three sisters jumped to their death from their ninth-floor home in the Sahibabad area here, residents of the residential complex were in shock, pondering how the girls’ prolonged…
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Suspended UP headmaster reinstated after students reject namaz claims
Mathura: Jan Mohammed, a headmaster in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura district, who was suspended following allegations by right-wing organisations that he forced students to offer namaz (prayer), was reinstated after students and teachers…
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Dalit student beaten for ‘damaging pipe’, FIR registered against accused
Agra: A Dalit student on Friday, January 30, was allegedly assaulted and abused with casteist slurs by a teacher and a school official in Uttar Pradesh‘s Manipuri district for a broken pipe.…
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HC takes suo motu note of over 1.08 lakh missing persons cases in UP
Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday took suo motu cognisance of the alarming number of missing persons in Uttar Pradesh and registered a PIL, noting that over…
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Unable to stay away from phone, 3 sisters fall to death in Ghaziabad
Social media addiction has claimed the lives of three sisters, all aged below 16 years, when they jumped off their balcony on the ninth floor, one by one, on an early Wednesday…
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EC teaming up with BJP to delete PDA voters through Form-7: Akhilesh
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday, February 3, accused the Election Commission of India of teaming up with the BJP in Uttar Pradesh to delete the names of PDA voters…
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UP woman calls police to find ‘missing’ child in drain to get it cleaned
In a bizarre incident, a woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut reportedly approached the police to find her “missing” child, who, she claimed, had fallen into an open drain. The authorities, however, were…
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No permission needed for holding prayer meets in private premises: Allahabad HC
Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has observed that no permission is needed for holding a religious prayer meeting within private premises in Uttar Pradesh. However, the court clarified that if any occasion…
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Mullah se azaadi doonga: UP gau rakshak gets bail in hate speech case
Self-proclaimed cow vigilante (gau rakshak) and Karni Sena leader Sachin Raghav was garlanded by his supporters after a local court granted him bail in an alleged hate speech against Indian Muslims, in…