Wednesday, April 17, 2024

North India

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.

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.”

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.

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.

“Disqualify him from elections”: Plea in Delhi HC against PM Modi for violating model code of conduct

A plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking action against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for violating the model code of conduct by allegedly seeking votes in the name of "God and place of worship.”

Uttarakhand announce members on panel for Uniform Civil Code

The BJP-led Uttarakhand government has formed a five-member expert committee, headed by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai, for the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code. The UCC is referred to...

Canada-based gangster behind Moose Wala’s killing, say Punjab cops

Hours after Sidhu Moose Wala, Congress leader and Punjabi singer, was shot dead in Mansa district today, Punjab police said that the attack seemed to be due to a gang-war.
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Punjabi singer and Congress leader Moose Wala shot dead day after cops withdrew security

Punjabi singer and Congress leader Shubdeep Singh Sidhu Moose Wala was shot dead near Mansa on Sunday.

BJP’s Nupur Sharma booked for derogatory comments about Prophet Mohammad

The Mumbai Police on Saturday filed a case against Bharatiya Janata Party’s national spokesperson Nupur Sharma for her derogatory comments about Prophet Muhammad.
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UP budget anti-farmer, anti-people: Opposition

Leaders of opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh termed Yogi Adityanath government’s maiden Budget of its second term as 'anti-farmer' and 'anti-people'.

NHRC issues notice to UP govt over suicide by three women during police raid

National Human Rights Commission India has taken a suo motu cognizance of the media report that a woman and her two consumed poison during a police raid at their...
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At 87, 5-time Haryana CM Chautala is now Tihar’s oldest prisoner

At 87, Chautala is the oldest of the 19,584 inmates lodged in the different jails of Tihar, Hindustan Times reported.

Sharjeel Imam moves Delhi Court for bail, seeks benefit of SC’s sedition order

Student leader Sharjeel Imam has moved Delhi's Karkardooma Court seeking interim bail in an FIR against him involving the offence of Sedition in view of recent Supreme Court order wherein the sedition law has been kept in abeyance till the Union Government reconsiders the provision, Live Law reported.
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UP: 4 Muslims including parents, daughter, Imam arrested for “forcible conversion of teen boy”

Uttar Pradesh police Tuesday arrested four Muslims, including a 22-year-old woman, her parents, and a cleric, for alleged "forcible conversion of a 16-year-old boy and solemnising his nikah with the woman."

Kapil Sibal says he quit Congress, is Samajwadi’s Rajya Sabha candidate

Former Union Minister Kapil Sibal today revealed that he has resigned from the Congress, after filing his nomination as the Samajwadi Party's candidate for Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh.
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Demolition, resettlement: Tale of two colonies in Delhi

In Madanpur-Khadar, a suburb in New Delhi where South Delhi Municipal Corporation(SDMC) recently launched a demolition drive, a Jhuggi-Jhopdi cluster belongs to dozens of families resettled from Kalkaji two...

Anti-CAA protest was against ‘unjust law’: Umar Khalid tells Delhi HC

Jailed human rights activist activist Umar Khalid on Monday told the Delhi High Court that the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) did not instil fear and insecurity among the people and the court should not "fall into the trap of interpreting everything as terror."
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