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‘Theft In the House of Ram Lalla Means Ravana Has Already Reached’: Nirmohi Akhada Chief Mahant Dinendra Das

Listen to this article: Ayodhya (Uttar Pradesh): “Theft took place in the house of Ram Lalla, such a thing should not have happened”, said Nirmohi...

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Akanksha Kumar

Faizabad Bar Association Files Fourth Complaint Against Ram Temple Funds Theft

Listen to this article: Ayodhya: The fourth complaint against the alleged theft of funds from the Ram temple in Ayodhya was submitted today, July 2,...

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Ram Mandir Funds Theft: Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Sewa Samiti Presser Cancelled; Not Allowed in Alternate Venue

Listen to this article: Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh: On June 30, 2026, a press conference that had been called upon by Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Sewa Samiti in...

30.06.2026 20

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Ram Mandir Funds Theft: Daily Footfall to Temple ‘Reduces by 50%,’ Devotees Have Faith in Justice for 'Thieves'

Listen to this article: Ayodhya (Uttar Pradesh): There is something unusual about Rampath, the road leading up to the Ram Temple in Ayodhya now. In...

29.06.2026 10

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'Show Us Evidence of Money in Cow Dung': Ram Temple Scam Accused Lavkush Mishra's Family Is Defiant

Listen to this article: Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh: “Oh, is it that person from whose house money was recovered, hidden in cow dung? I like to keep my...

26.06.2026 50

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‘Ayodhya May Remain in the Hands of Thieves’: Former Kar Sevak Who Filed Complaint Over Alleged Theft of Ram Temple Funds

Prayagraj: It has been three days since Santosh Dubey, a former kar sevak who joined the Ram Janmbhoomi movement in the late 1980s, submitted a...

21.06.2026 20

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'Bear in Mind Bharatiya Sanskriti': Jaipur Police Places Conditions on CJP Meet After Initially Denying Permission

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Cockroach Janta Party, a youth-led group which has been holding meetings across India, initially received a...

15.06.2026 20

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Coaching Centres Who Backed Students Protesting Alleged Paper Leaks Find Themselves on Yogi Govt Radar

Prayagraj: A narrow dusty road in the bustling market of Teliyarganj Colony in the central part of Prayagraj city in Uttar Pradesh was unusually...

09.06.2026 20

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‘I Don’t Think This Was the Work of One Individual’: Tousif Raza’s Wife Questions Police’s Sole Arrest

Listen to this article: Prayagraj: On June 8, the Government Railway Police (GRP) at Bareilly Junction told reporters that one person had been...

09.06.2026 20

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‘Poori Raat Body Dabi Hui Thi’: Kin of Labourer Killed in UP's Hamirpur Bridge Collapse Recounts Ordeal

Listen to this article: Prayagraj: “Hamare yahan koi media wala nahi aaya… ghar pe bhi koi recording nahi hui (neither did anyone from the media...

01.06.2026 20

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UP Police Arrests Three a Day after Ghaziabad Mayor Posts Video Chastising Muslim Kids for ‘Trying to Throw Meat into River’

Listen to this article: Prayagraj: On May 24, Sunita Dayal, mayor of Ghaziabad and former Uttar Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party vice-president, posted...

26.05.2026 20

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Akanksha Kumar

Varanasi Iftar-on-Boat Case: Eight Get Bail, Complainant BJP Yuva Morcha Leader Says 'Muslim Youth Will Learn a Lesson'

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Allahabad high court, on May 15, granted bail to eight Muslim men from Varanasi, who were arrested earlier in...

16.05.2026 20

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Akanksha Kumar

UP Police Invokes NSA Against Student Activist, Journalist Over Noida Workers' Protests

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh police have invoked provisions of the National Security Act (NSA), 1980 against two persons –...

14.05.2026 30

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UP Police Invokes NSA Against Student Activist, Journalist Over Noida Workers' Protests

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh police have invoked provisions of the National Security Act (NSA), 1980 against two persons –...

14.05.2026 30

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Prateek Yadav, Second Son of Former UP CM Mulayam Singh Yadav, Passes Away at 38

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Prateek Yadav, the second son of former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mulayam Singh Yadav, passed away in...

13.05.2026 30

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Days After Imam Tousif Raza’s Body Was Found in Bareilly, Wife Files Complaint With Railway Police

Listen to this article: New Delhi: A week after Imam Tousif Raza’s body was found near railway tracks in Bareilly, his wife Tabassum Khatoon on...

04.05.2026 30

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Muslim Cleric Allegedly Assaulted, Thrown Off Train in UP; Post-Mortem Shows Fractures in All Ribs

02.05.2026 50

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Government School Teachers Directed to Join BJP's 'Jan Akrosh' Rally Over Defeated Women's Bill in Lucknow

New Delhi: A list of government school teachers assigned to attend the BJP’s Jan Aakrosh Mahila Padyatra in Lucknow, accessed by The Wire, along...

29.04.2026 30

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Explained | The Controversy Over Akhilesh Yadav's Backing of a Fatehpur Chaiwala

New Delhi: A dispute at a tea stall in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur has spiralled into a political flashpoint, with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh...

27.04.2026 30

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Inside the pro-UGC protest: Caste faultlines at Allahabad University

The Supreme Court has stayed the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) latest equity promotion regulations. Following the court’s directive,...

13.04.2026 40

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Women Voters Decline, Significant Net Addition: Five Points Emerge From the Uttar Pradesh SIR's Final Figures

Prayagraj: More than five months after Uttar Pradesh’s special intensive revision (SIR) exercise began, the state’s chief electoral officer on...

11.04.2026 30

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IAS Officer Rinku Singh Rahi's Dilemma: No Work Assigned, But Doesn't Want Salary Without Duties

Listen to this article: Prayagraj: A former Provincial Civil Services officer who went on to clear the All-India Service exam and joined the IAS,...

10.04.2026 30

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Akanksha Kumar

Massive Losses, Labourers Hungry: Despite Govt Claims Otherwise, the West Asia Conflict Is Hitting UP’s Export Clusters

Listen to this article: Prayagraj: Even as the Union government claims that industrial LPG supplies remain largely unaffected by the US-Israel war in...

07.04.2026 30

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Akanksha Kumar

Shravasti Iftar Party Case: BJP Yuva Morcha President Pushed Police to Arrest Muslim Men

Listen to this article: Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh): On March 24, days after the arrest followed by bail of four Muslim men in Uttar Pradesh’s...

03.04.2026 40

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Akanksha Kumar

UP journalist booked over LPG queue video, cops say ‘visuals old, misleading’

A journalist in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad has been booked over visuals of people queuing outside a gas agency – uploaded the same day that a...

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UGC norms row leaves Allahabad University campus divided

31.01.2026 30

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‘How can you remove names without checking?’: Inside Prayagraj’s battle over voter lists

22.01.2026 30

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‘Should I kill myself?’: How a woman’s birthday party became a free pass for a Hindutva mob

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From school skit to viral church protest: How a Christmas event was recast as ‘anti-Hindu’

26.12.2025 30

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How YouTubers and media outlets drive Rajasthan’s anti-conversion hysteria

08.11.2025 30

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In Rajasthan’s anti-conversion campaign: Third-party complaints, police ‘bias’, Hindutva link

05.11.2025 20

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In Prayagraj, a mother’s battle against UP cops for man’s death after ‘staged encounter’

17.06.2025 20

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Cut, copy, charge: Inside Haryana police’s flawed case on Nuh violence

18.04.2025 20

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