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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
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Topic: Gangsters

Gangs of New Delhi – featuring young guns, social media swag, & finance

Two ‘inactive’ gang members explain how Delhi’s deadly crime syndicates operate and why they like to recruit minors to do the dirty work. Gangsters’ ‘celebrity’ status draws youth too.

Homes razed, families angry, defiant — Haryana’s ‘economic crackdown’ on drug peddlers, gangsters

A number of 'illegal' financial assets of criminals have been demolished this year by the state’s civic authorities in coordination with the police, and 'according to the law’.

For gangsters of Porbandar, power is constant. It used to be guns, now its politics

The gang wars of Porbandar forever attached the coastal town to an irony that has become a cliche now– Mahatma Gandhi’s birthplace has a violent saga to tell.

Who is Lawrence Bishnoi? ‘Farmer’s son who threatened Salman now in news for Moose Wala killing’

Believed to be the leader of a 700-member gang, Lawrence Bishnoi's tryst with criminal world is said to have begun during his time at Panjab University.

Khalistan on the Pacific: How the gangs of Punjab were born in Canada

Sidhu Moose Wala's murder has cast grim light on the growing reach of transnational criminal groups, whose toxic tide is washing over the youth of Punjab.

‘Inspiration, immortal’ — Fans throng Moose Wala home with talk of revenge & a grim ‘premonition’

The police suspect ‘inter-gang rivalry’ as the motive for Moose Wala’s murder, but some of the singer’s grieving fans think he is a hero whose killing should be ‘avenged’.

Sidhu Moose Wala’s killing planned ‘6 months ago’ but ‘bodyguards came in the way’

Sidhu Moose Wala’s murder was result of ‘inter-gang rivalry’, police say. Canada-based Goldy Brar, an associate of Punjab’s Lawrence Bishnoi gang, has purportedly claimed responsibility.

Khan brothers — the new power that’s risen in Bihar from ashes of Shahabuddin’s criminal empire

Gangster-turned-politician’s widow says she feels threatened by Raees Khan & Ayub Khan, alleged ex-henchmen thought to be trying to claim Shahabuddin’s legacy in Siwan district.

Mixed results for UP’s bahubalis: Azam Khan leads, loss for Vijay Mishra, Dhananjay Singh

Azam Khan is leading from Rampur by a huge margin & his son Abdullah Azam wins from Suar. Mukhtar Ansari’s son Abbas leads from Mau.

The 7 criminal gangs of Delhi run from inside jail, use juveniles & apps such as Telegram

Police say encounter of criminal Fajja is the beginning of a systematic crackdown against gangs operating in Delhi. ThePrint tracks seven such gangs that are on police's radar.

On Camera

China will be more central to India now. Though an anti-US unity is premature

Even with the option of EU markets, China will have to be a significant part of India’s economic policy. But the difficult security relationship is an important complication.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.