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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...

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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...

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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...

17.03.2026 30

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UGC norms row leaves Allahabad University campus divided

31.01.2026 10

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

22.01.2026 10

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

29.12.2025 20

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

26.12.2025 10

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

08.11.2025 10

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

05.11.2025 8

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

17.06.2025 10

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

18.04.2025 5

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Mahakumbh: A confluence of faith and Hindutva politics?

26.02.2025 10

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Kumbh: The ground reality of digital lost and found centres

24.02.2025 10

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Kumbh stampede: Multiple deaths, massive traffic jams, swelling crowd, but does faith trump ‘chaos’?

18.02.2025 10

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Kumbh tragedy exposes ‘poor management’ by administration

01.02.2025 10

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Search for missing relatives leads families of Kumbh stampede victims to mortuary

01.02.2025 10

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Hours after Kumbh stampede, devotees frantically search for missing family members

30.01.2025 20

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