Uttar Pradesh
- Hate Crime
Meerut SSP defends action after video shows him slapping detainee
Meerut: Meerut Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Avinash Pandey on Friday, July 10, defended the police action in connection with the death of a Scheduled Caste college student, saying every step taken…
- India
SC to hear Ram temple donation case pleas on July 13
New Delhi: The Supreme Court would hear a batch of pleas seeking a fair and time-bound probe into the alleged embezzlement of donations at the Ram temple in Ayodhya on July 13.…
- India
Ayodhya’s Bhadarsa renamed Bharat Nagar after Lord Ram’s brother
Ayodhya: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday, July 10, announced that the newly constituted Khiloni-Suchitaganj nagar panchayat in Ayodhya district would be renamed after Maa Jwala Ji, while the municipal…
- India
Akhilesh Yadav dares UP CM to reveal recovered land data
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav challenged Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday to release the district-wise details of the “64,000 acres” of land that he has claimed has…
- India
Meerut SSP caught slapping detainee during Dalit protest
Meerut: Several protesters from the Dalit community reportedly clashed with the police on Wednesday, July 8, in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut, with a video allegedly showing an IPS officer assaulting one of the…
- News
One killed in fire at steel factory in Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur
Hapur: One worker was killed and another injured after a massive fire broke out at a steel manufacturing unit in the UPSIDC Phase-III industrial area in Hapur early Thursday, July 9, officials…
- India
SP, Congress shut about Waqf issues but attack Sanatan: UP CM
Pratapgarh: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday, July 7, slammed the Congress and Samajwadi Party for “attacking” Sanatan and asked why their mouths were “glued shut” when it came to…
- India
Ram Temple donation fraud: Bajrang Bangara replaces Champat Rai
Ayodhya: The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust on Monday, July 6, accepted the resignation of general secretary Champat Rai. Bajrang Bangara replaces him. The Ram temple trust met to decide on…
- India
Eight-year-old girl raped by two minors in UP’s Shamli
Shamli: An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped by two minor boys here, police said on Monday, July 6. According to the complaint lodged by the girl’s family, she was playing near her…
- India
Driver says he faced Islamophobia from Kanpur Traffic Police
Kanpur: An e-auto rickshaw driver faced Islamophobia allegedly at the hands of Kanpur Traffic police personnel, claiming he was called ‘katua’ and a pig. Auto driver Mohammed Danish said in a video,…
- India
The temple, the trust and the theft: Ram Mandir ‘scam’ explained
Ram Mandir, the Sangh Parivar’s most totemic project in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya, one that received the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) direct and sustained public endorsement, is now under major scrutiny over allegations…
- Hate Crime
UP hate crime: Hindutva workers force man to kneel before calf
Barabanki: A Muslim man in Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki district was allegedly forced by self-proclaimed cow vigilantes to kneel before a calf as an act of religious devotion, after they accused him of…
- India
Agra: Wife kills husband, buries body under bathroom tiles, held
Agra: Uttar Pradesh police on Friday, July 3, arrested a 40-year-old woman for the murder of her husband after an investigation led to his body being found buried under the bathroom tiles…
- Bangalore
Hoax bomb threat to ISRO HQ in Bengaluru traced to UP man
Bengaluru: The Bengaluru City Police have traced the sender of a hoax bomb threat email sent to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) headquarters in the city and identified the accused in…
- India
Places of Worship Act doesn’t bar land acquisition of mosques: HC
Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court on Thursday, July 2, held that the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, protects the religious character of places of worship but does not bar the state…