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Topic: Atiq Ahmed

No ticket for Atiq Ahmed’s wife or family, says Mayawati, points to allegations of role in Umesh Pal murder

While she had not been declared a mayoral candidate for Prayagraj, Atiq Ahmed’s wife Shaista Parveen had claimed while joining BSP that Mayawati had asked her to contest the polls.

Colonies on Prayagraj’s floodplains are not just for poor. Here’s how rich & mighty ‘flout’ construction ban

Prayagraj Development Authority identified 30,715 illegal constructions, the highest in Uttar Pradesh. Demolition of constructions in floodplains practically not possible, says official.

Be a Vishwaguru, not a Netanyahu & ‘Call of Nature’, a hard-hitting documentary feat. Atiq Ahmed

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Stop! Or the media will ‘shoot’ & there ain’t no defamation for the wicked

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Atiq Ahmed gets life for 2006 abduction — former MP’s 1st conviction in 130 cases over 44 years

Ahmed was convicted by Prayagraj MP/MLA court for 2006 abduction of Umesh Pal, a witness in BSP MLA Raju Pal’s 2005 murder. Umesh was murdered last month.

Yogi striking at the heart of gangster Atiq Ahmed’s reign — one property at a time

Gangster-turned politician Atiq Ahmed is watching the Adityanath govt seize his legal and illegal benami properties across UP and hand them back to citizens.

Prayagraj court holds Atiq Ahmed, his brother guilty in 2007 Umesh Pal kidnapping case

Atiq Ahmed had allegedly abducted Umesh Pal from a Land Cruiser vehicle near Phansi Imli of the Dhumanganj police station area on 28 February, 2006.

Atiq Ahmed to be shifted to Prayagraj for 2007 abduction case verdict, UP cops reach Gujarat jail

Abduction case is based on a complaint by Umesh Pal, a key witness in BSP MLA Raju Pal’s killing who was himself murdered in February this year. Ahmed is an accused in both cases.

Atiq Ahmed’s missing children in Rajrooppur child protection home, Prayagraj police tell court  

In a petition, jailed gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed’s wife said her children had been ‘illegally detained’ on 24 Feb. She also filed a petition before Allahabad HC.  

Atiq Ahmed was shipped out of UP. But this is how he ran his empire from Gujarat jail

Yogi kept sending Atiq Ahmed and Mukhtar Ansari—2 of UP’s most dreaded bahubalis—to jail in different states. But he couldn’t stop their mafia raj.

On Camera

China is enjoying the strain in India-US ties and Trump cosying up to Pakistan

In Chinese discourse, India is portrayed as playing both sides, indecisive, and lacking strategic coherence, a “fence-sitter” unable to secure the confidence of either Washington or Beijing.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India’s air defence system foiled 1,000 Pakistani drone attacks on 9 May—Modi tells Parliament

New Delhi: India’s air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 1,000 drones and missiles launched by Pakistan on 9 May during Op Sindoor, Prime Minister...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.