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Topic: encounter killings

Major havoc, destruction thwarted, says PM Modi after killing of 4 JeM terrorists

Four Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists were killed and 2 policemen injured in a gun battle in J&K's Nagrota Thursday, after a truck carrying newly infiltrated militants was intercepted.

How Mayawati, Priyanka or Akhilesh could defeat Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh in 2022

The challenge before the three opposition leaders in UP is to convert a four-cornered contest into a two-cornered one.

The case against dividing Uttar Pradesh into smaller states

It’s easy to blame UP’s problems on its size, but what ails the state isn’t as simple as that.

Vikas Dubey put Kanpur on the map, but many in city hadn’t even heard of him until shootout

Vikas Dubey only controlled Chaubeypur, a tiny kasba with a population of just 4,000. And yet, he will now be remembered as 'Kanpur don'.

Brahmin pride and pain flood Facebook after Vikas Dubey’s encounter killing

For many social media users, gangster Vikas Dubey was first and foremost a Brahmin — a ‘tiger’ whose killing is just another ‘atrocity’ on the community under 'Thakur' CM Yogi Adityanath.

Veerappan, Ishrat Jahan, Batla House — India’s 10 most controversial ‘encounters’ since 2003

The killing of UP gangster Vikas Dubey Friday is the latest in a long line of alleged encounters across the country in less than 20 years.

Stop cheering police brutality. Citizens like Jayaraj and Bennix pay the price

Most Indians’ concept of justice involves violence. The common desire for the police to teach criminals a lesson feeds into acts of brutality seen in Tamil Nadu.

J&K Police verifying claim that 2 militants killed in Handwara are residents of Valley

The claim was made by Kashmir’s new militant group, TRF. The outfit released a video, claiming the 2 slain militants were part of their cadre.

Justice can never be instant, says CJI Bobde day after Hyderabad ‘encounter’

CJI S.A. Bobde also said that there is no doubt that the criminal justice system must reconsider its position and attitude towards the time it takes to dispose of a case.

UP’s ‘Singham’ IPS officer says there’s nothing to like about an encounter-specialist tag

IPS officer Ajay Pal Sharma, who won fame and notoriety from encounter killings, has 9 such deaths to his credit, and claims to have injured around 190 ‘criminals’.

On Camera

BJP has a problem of plenty in Phase 2. It can only go down from that

BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in 2019 but faces a stiff competition now.

Kotak Mahindra Bank shares drop 10% after RBI bans it from taking new customers via digital channels

The private lender's shares tumbled to be top Nifty 50 loser after India's central bank barred it from taking on new customers through online and mobile banking channels.

Rafale to Exercise Garuda, a look at Indo-French defence ties as Chief of Defence Staff visits France

Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.