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Thursday, November 7, 2024
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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

India-China border can’t be changed. Formalising LAC as the redline is the answer

The India-China crisis has led to a de facto delineation of the 1959 Claim Line in Ladakh. Why can’t this delineation be extended to the rest of the LAC and the McMahon Line?

US President-elect Trump vows to slash trade deficit with India. How trade fared under him vs Biden

India-US trade in first 3 yrs under Biden was $122 bn, while it was $83 bn in Trump’s first term. Average trade surplus in India’s favour grew from $18 bn under Trump to $31 bn under Biden.

India, Bangladesh Army chiefs discuss issues of ‘mutual interest’

Video call between two Army heads is their first interaction after political upheaval in Bangladesh forced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to India in August.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.