Thursday, April 25, 2024

North India

JDU youth leader shot dead in Patna

Leader of the Janata Dal (United), Saurabh Kumar, was shot and killed on Wednesday, at night in Patna by unknown gunmen who came on bikes.

BJP Minority Morcha leader gets expelled for condemning Modi’s hate speech

BJP Minority Morcha leader Usman Ghani, who expressed disappointment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent Islamophobic remarks in Rajasthan, was today removed from the party positions.

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav to contest from UP’s Kannauj

Samajwadi Party chief and former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav will contest the Lok Sabha elections from Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj seat, the party said in a post on X (formerly Twitter), adding that he will file the nomination papers on Thursday.

Interview: Will work for social justice, says Danish Ali MP amidst hate campaigns against him led by PM Modi

As campaigning for the second phase of Lok Sabha polls gains momentum, Kunwar Danish Ali, the sitting MP...

PM Modi reiterates ‘redistribution of wealth’ claim, justifies anti-Muslim rhetoric: “I put truth before country”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday reiterated his anti-Muslim rhetorics and accused that the Congress tried to extend reservation on the basis of religion and give it to Muslims and hatched a "deep conspiracy" to snatch people's wealth and distribute it among "select" people.

Massive protests at Lovely Professional University after student dies by suicide

Students at Lovely Professional University (LPU) near Jalandhar held a massive protest Tuesday afternoon on the campus after a first-year student allegedly died by suicide.

Akhilesh Yadav’s foot march to UP assembly stopped midway in Lucknow

Soon after it started, Akhilesh Yadav’s mega march to the Uttar Pradesh state assembly in Lucknow on Monday was stopped midway amid heavy police deployment and barricading.
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Chandigarh University students continue protest, police says rumours of leaked videos ‘false’

Students of Chandigarh University campus have been continuing a protest over “rumours” that some objectionable videos of several women students were recorded.

UP rain: Three-year-old dead, elderly woman die in wall collapse

A three-year-old boy died and his mother was seriously injured on Saturday evening when a wall of their kutcha house collapsed following rains in Deoria district.
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“Being targeted, many others will be held,” Kejriwal on Amanatullah Khan’s arrest

The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday came out in support of its Okhla MLA, a day after he was arrested.

Lucknow rain: Nine including 3 kids, killed as wall of Army enclave collapses

At least nine people, including three kids died when an under-construction wall of an Army enclave collapsed, following heavy rain, in the Dilkusha area of Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow late Thursday night.
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“Arrest me by Monday,” Manish Sisodia’s 4 day dare after BJP’s sting video

Hours after the BJP Thursday released a video of yet another “sting operation” against the Aam Aadmi Party, alleging that an accused in the liquor scam can be heard saying that the now-scrapped excise policy was formulated in a way that a select few got benefits, Deputy CM Manish Sisodia threw a challenge in response.

Dalit sister’s murder: UP Police arrest six men, file case of murder, rape

The two minor Dalit sisters, who were found hanging from a tree in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district, were allegedly raped and strangulated before being hanged, police said a day after the incident.
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Two minor Dalit sisters found hanging in UP, mother alleges murder

The bodies of two minor sisters, aged around 15 and 17 years, belonging to the Dalit community were found hanging from a tree in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district on Wednesday evening.

“My son will walk out of jail very soon,” Umar Khalid’s mother as he marks 2 years in jail

Khanum was at a solidarity meet for Umar Khalid at Delhi's Press Club of India on Tuesday.
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Gyanvapi: Court says Hindu women’s plea for worship maintainable, rejects Masjid committee’s plea

Varanasi Court today dismissed Anjuman Islamia Masjid committee's plea challenging the maintainability of the suit filed by Hindu women seeking worshipping rights in the Gyanvapi Mosque compound.

No alliance with BSP, Congress for 2024 polls, will fight with existing partners: SP

The Samajwadi Party (SP) said it will fight the 2024 Lok Sabha elections with its existing alliance partners and is capable enough to defeat the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
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