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Elections 2024
SOAS graduate, SP’s Iqra Hasan takes on BJP, poised to win Kairana Lok Sabha seat in UP
“Iqra Hasan is winning the Kairana seat of western Uttar Pradesh in this Lok Sabha polls,” said Ahsan (40), Pradhan of Bhura village in Kairana’s Shamli.
Elections 2024
Why is Rajput community revolting against Bharatiya Janata Party in Western UP?
With only a few days left until voting begins for the first phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh, it has become a huge hurdle for the Bharatiya Janata Party as the Rajput community, a significant and loyal vote bank of the party, has expressed its resentment over being ignored in ticket distribution.
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Photos: Modi’s outreach to Pakistani Hindu refugee camp through CAA
A 50-year-old woman at the Pakistani Hindu refugee camp who chooses to remain anonymous says, “We get to live in the Hindu Rashtra that Modi ji has made for us. Water, food, and electricity problems would persist even after getting citizenship, but what matters to us is living in our Hindu Rashtra.”
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UP: Muslim trader assaulted in train, stripped, and beard shaved
Nadim Malik, a 27-year-old Muslim textile dealer, was attacked by some unidentified men on Friday while traveling from Mumbai to the Bulandshahar district of Uttar Pradesh. They also shaved his head and beard and left him half naked.
Elections 2024
Will take steps to make West UP a separate state: Mayawati
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Sunday said her party would take concrete steps to make western Uttar Pradesh a separate State if voted to power at the Centre.
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Another contractual sewer worker succumbs to his gruesome profession in Delhi
Bijender, aka Bobby aged 47 lost his life doing a doleful job of cleaning the sewers in Narela in Delhi on Friday (19 March, 2021); who had been in the profession for almost 10 years. He was the lone bread earner in his family and an only parent to his three minor daughters; after the death of his wife, approximately five years ago.
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Vaccinate protesters, prisoners: Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait
Rakesh Tikait, one of the faces of ongoing farmers’ agitation against Narendra Modi government’s new farm laws, has demanded that all protesters who have been camping at the borders of the capital should be vaccinated.
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Delhi pogrom: Why Shahrukh Pathan is still in jail?
Delhi High Court to hear regular bail plea of Shahrukh Pathan on 18 March, a Muslim youth and resident of northeast Delhi whose picture showing him pointing a gun at an unarmed Delhi Police Head Constable during the anti-Muslim pogrom in northeast Delhi, went viral on social media.
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UP court rejects Campus Front leader Rauf Shareef’s bail plea
The Uttar Pradesh court in Mathura on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of Campus Front of India (CFI) national secretary Rauf Shareef, who has been arrested by UP Police in connection with a case of funding and stirring up protests after the rape and murder of the Dalit woman by upper-caste Hindu men in Hathras.
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PFI says its member arrested by UP ATS on fabricated charges
The Popular Front of India national committee has strongly condemned the arrest of Rashid Ahmed, a member of the organisation by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Sunday.
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BAPSA leader attacked by ABVP in JNU
The Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students' Association (BAPSA) in Jawaharlal Nehru University has alleged that its president Omprakash Mahato and members were attacked by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists inside the campus on Sunday.
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Features
Natasha Narwal’s father sends revolutionary greetings to jailed daughter on her birthday
On 5 March, research scholar, Natasha Narwal from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi turned 32. Narwal spent the day behind bars in the capital city of Delhi.
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Court stays operation of search warrants against Delhi pogrom victms’ lawyer Mehmood Pracha
A Delhi court on Wednesday passed an interim order staying the operation of search warrants against lawyer Mehmood Pracha in connection with the alleged use of forged documents in judicial records in a Northeast Delhi pogrom case.
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“Because I support farmers, oppose UAPA,” Punjab leader responds to ED raids
Punjab legislators on Tuesday condemned Enforcement Directorate raids on the premises of rebel Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA and former Leader of the Opposition of Punjab Assembly, Sukhpal Singh Khaira.
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“I need a gun for my survival,” Hathras woman whose father killed by molester seeks license
Apprehending threat to life, the woman whose father was shot dead in Hathras in Uttar Pradesh by a man accused of molesting her, demanded a license to purchase and keep a gun.
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How a Kisan School in Tikri border became a hope for children of nearby slum?
Their new classroom is The Kisan School, started by The Kisan Social Army in February, 2021. It aims to educate the children from a nearby slum. The Kisan School is a 15X15 tent erected by the protesting farmers at Tikri border. The flaps of the tent were decorated with colourful displays and charts that read alphabets and numbers. A few girls in the corner completed their homework while boys in the front revised the previous day’s classwork. One thing was in common- their bright smiles and will to learn.
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They took my son; Rohingyas in Jammu cry for help
India is not a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol and does not have a national refugee protection framework.
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