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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicKairana

Topic: Kairana

RLD-BJP pact creates Muslim-Jat rift in UP’s Kairana, but SP’s Iqra Hasan is wooing all votes

With RLD joining BJP-led NDA, cohesion between Jats and Muslims is eroding in communally sensitive Kairana, where SP’s Iqra Hasan will go against BJP’s Pradeep Chaudhary on 19 April.

Muslims say law and order has improved in western UP. ‘But voting for BJP against our imaan’

Muslims under the Yogi Adityanath govt 'feel secure' when stepping out of the home at night, and acknowledge that incidents of snatching, looting, and molestation have reduced. But voting is a different issue.

Tractor ride, midnight fear: Muzaffarnagar victims recall riots but unmoved by rape verdict

Ten years after the 2013 UP riots, a court convicted two men of gangraping a Muslim woman fleeing with her 3-month-old child. But for many families, life is stuck between ‘before riots’ and ‘after riots’.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.