North India

As coronavirus cases continue to spiral in India and hospitals are stretched beyond breaking point, an alumni group of Darul Uloom Madrasa in Deoband in Uttar Pradesh has been working around the clock to help COVID-19 patients and fighting fake news and misinformation about the disease and its treatment.

The death toll of teachers who were on UP Panchayat election duty reached 2,046, according to the teacher unions yielding great animosity towards the UP government. Yogi's government dismissed the high toll due to mismanagement of COVID during the panchayat poll and declared only three staffers died during election duty.

Less than a week after demolition of Ghareeb Nawaz Mosque in Barabanki, the local administration in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh pulled down another religious place of Muslims on Sunday defying the High Court order of banning all demolition and eviction till 30 May.

On Wednesday, Farmers observed 'Resistance day' to mark six months of Farmers protest at Delhi borders. Indian farmers are protesting against the new farm laws that would undermine the autonomy of farmers. The new laws would create monopolies in the grain markets and trap farmers into contract farming arrangements with corporate buyers.

The students of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) raised a demand via an open letter and a Twitter storm on Tuesday to the varsity administration for cancelling the end semester...

The administration in Prayagraj has allegedly removed the customary saffron and yellow shrouds from bodies buried in the sand on the ghats of the Ganga river, reports The Hindu....

The health condition of senior Samajwadi Party leader and Lok Sabha member Azam Khan is critical yet under control, said a Lucknow hospital in a statement on Monday.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said vaccine manufacturers Pfizer and Moderna have refused to sell doses directly to his government.

An FIR has been registered against Bharatiya Janata Party’s National Vice President Raman Singh and party spokesperson Sambit Patra in Chhattisgarh for forging the letterhead of Congress's Research Department and printing false and fabricated content.

Mohammad Ishaq, the newly elected pradhan (head) of Pargawan village in Bareilly district in Uttar Pradesh was shot dead by the political rivals on Thursday.

Indian Union Muslim League Uttar Pradesh state unit president Dr. Mohammad Mateen Khan was arrested on Friday by the UP Police as he was on his way to Barabanki to visit the site of illegally demolished Gareeb Nawaz Al Maroof Mosque.

Two policemen in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao were charged with murder after a Muslim vegetable vendor Faisal Hussain (18) was allegedly killed in police custody.