Uttar Pradesh
- India
Rahul Gandhi’s Prayagraj event loses venue
Prayagraj: The Kayastha Pathshala Trust has revoked permission for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ programme, scheduled to be held at KP Ground here on August 8, citing an Allahabad High…
- Hate Crime
5 juveniles held for gang-raping 9-year-old Dalit girl in UP
Lucknow: Five minors have been booked for allegedly gang-raping a nine-year-old Dalit girl in a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur, police said on Saturday, August 1. Circle Officer (Tilhar) Vidush Saxena told…
- Hate Crime
Kanwar yatra turns violent as children, cops, devotees attacked
Lucknow: With Kanwar Yatra in full swing and multiple camps across Northern India fully set up, the streets of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Delhi are ready to be filled with devotees…
- India
Interim stay extended on demolition of Jauhar University in UP
Moradabad/Rampur: The Moradabad Divisional Commissioner’s court on Monday, August 3, extended till August 10 the interim stay on the proposed demolition of 38 of 40 buildings at Mohammad Ali Jauhar University in…
- India
Ram temple donation theft: Slipper hurled at Pappu Yadav
New Delhi: A man threw a slipper at Independent MP Pappu Yadav during a press conference at his house on Sunday, August 2, after the lawmaker defended his skit inside the Parliament…
- India
Women above 18 are free to chose religion, marry by choice: HC
Prayagraj: As long as women voluntarily convert to Islam and marry based on their choice of person, no individual, including the father, can interfere in that decision, stated the Allahabad High Court.…
- Bangalore
Concern for UP farmers over 25 pc monsoon rain deficit
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh has received 25 per cent less rainfall than normal so far this monsoon, raising concerns about soil moisture and sowing conditions in parts of the state’s rain-fed agricultural belt.…
- Sports
An ailing father’s note: How Saransh Jain became a fighter
New Delhi: In 2014, a 21-year-old Saransh Jain was touring Australia with an Indore club side, chasing his cricket dream in white-ball matches. Every time he called home and asked for his…
- Offbeat
UP: Hindu-Muslim friends spread harmony with 251-litre Kanwar
Meerut: A Muslim youth from Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district is undertaking the annual Kanwar Yatra with his Hindu friend, carrying a 251-litre Kanwar from Haridwar. “Through our pilgrimage, we are appealing to…
- India
Pleader an outsider: Allahabad HC quashes Jauhar University plea
Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has refused to entertain a petition filed by a businessman on behalf of Mohammad Ali Jauhar University against the demolition of its buildings, observing that the pleader…
- India
Varanasi teacher burns 5-year-old’s private parts with hot knife
Varanasi: A first information report (FIR) has been registered against a teacher, the principal and the management of a private school in Varanasi after a five-year-old student was allegedly branded with a…
- India
‘Mohammad Deepak’ raises voice against Jauhar Univ demolition
Deepak Kumar, popularly known as ‘Mohammed Deepak,’ has raised his voice against the demolition of Mohammad Ali Jauhar University in Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur district. In a video released on Sunday, July 26,…
- India
Jauhar University students’ future hangs in the balance
Bhopal: Ms Razia Masood, a Bhopal-based Social Activist, has asserted that the move of the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government to demolish 38 of the 40 buildings on the campus of Mohammad…
- Opinions
Keep the bulldozers away from Jauhar University
While attending the first Round Table Conference in London in 1930, writer-poet and freedom fighter Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar boldly told the British Raj, “If you do not give us freedom in…
- News
Woman, father accused of Ayush Malik’s conversion granted bail
Shamli: A district court in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli has granted bail to a woman named Chandni Qureshi and her father, Islam Qureshi, who were arrested for the alleged forced religious conversion of…