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UP father-son duo beat up Dalit woman for drawing water from borewell. ‘Held her by the neck,’ says husband

Police in UP's Banda say FIR delayed due to 'preliminary inquiry'. Husband alleges Dalit woman was told by borewell owner she could not drink from container 'owing to her caste'.

Security tightened, prohibitory orders imposed in several parts of UP after Mukhtar Ansari’s death

The gangster-turned-politician was brought to Rani Durgavati Medical College in Banda from district jail in 'unconscious state' Thursday. He died at the hospital following cardiac arrest.

Woman dies after her scooty hit by speeding truck, ‘body dragged for 3 km’ in UP

The thirty-five-year-old woman's body was dragged for 3 km by the truck, according to the police. Later the truck caught fire colliding with the divider.

‘Jhola-yukt, plastic-mukt’ — How Banda’s DM went plastic-free, from govt meetings to markets

In ‘Dynamic DM’, Heera Lal writes how the Banda DM’s bungalow only had earthenware utensils and in government meetings, tea was served in kulhads.

Who is behind Madhya Pradesh’s ‘Bulldozer baba’? Not BJP or RSS, it’s the Congress

Dhirendra Krishna Shastri is a 25-yr-old man who went from an auto driver to a godman. Last week, he told Hindus to ‘wake up’ and level ‘stone-pelters’ houses with bulldozers’.

On Camera

Shah Rukh Khan’s India is about love, not hate. Chak De! India to My Name Is Khan

This year, Jawan and The Kerala Story both won National Awards. The irony was impossible to miss. One critiqued the system, the other endorsed its narratives. The dichotomy says more about India’s cultural schizophrenia than any film review ever could.

Consumer Price Index gets up to date. Airfare, OTT plans, e-commerce prices in new basket—MoSPI secy

New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.

Joint production, closer ties, emerging tech: The foundation of new defence pact between India & US

The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.