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Topic: Kanpur

‘Spy’ charge haunts UP judge-in-waiting 11 yrs after acquittal as SC stays HC’s appointment order

Accused of spying, Pradeep Kumar was arrested in 2002 & acquitted in 2014. Though he cleared the 2016 judicial entrance, his appointment as an additional district judge remains stalled.

Kanpur Juna Akhada demands statues of Hindus killed in Pahalgam terror attack

A peace yagna was organised by the Juna Akhara for the victims of the Pahalgam terror attack, which included Shubham Dwivedi, a 31-year-old cement trader from Kanpur.

‘Khoon ka badla khoon’ at Shubham Dwivedi’s funeral. All you need is love, his last FB post

'We 11 people went on a trip to Pahalgam with great joy but have returned without our son,' said Shubham’s father Sanjay Dwivedi, at the cremation ground in Kanpur.

Hundreds in Kanpur paid to use ‘anti-ageing machine from Israel’. It turned out to be pyramid scheme

Gym owner stands accused of defrauding hundreds under guise of ‘anti-ageing’ treatment using chamber-sized machine ‘imported from Israel’ that can seat 10 people at one time.

Kanpur’s next-gen paan tycoons ditching frugality. They are flaunting Prada, Porsches, parties

Kanpur’s business heirs have travelled the world, studied abroad, partied with A-listers, and are now home to run family enterprises. But Kanpur is yet to catch up with their luxe lifestyle.

Porsche case triggers action, Kanpur minor who ‘ran over’ 2 apprehended after 7 month delay

Son of a top surgeon, minor was finally apprehended 21 May. After mowing down 2 kids last October, he injured 4 others this March. Families of the kids who died are fishermen.

UP perfume trader acquitted in gold bars case that sparked BJP-SP war of words 2 yrs ago. Here’s why

32 gold bars & Rs 196.57 cr cash were seized from Peeyush Jain's premises in 2021. In 2022, after Modi linked him to SP, the party called Jain a 'BJP businessman' mistakenly raided.

Week after bodies of 2 UP girls found hanging from tree after ‘gangrape’, father of one found dead

Family alleges he was being pressured to withdraw his police complaint against the accused. The 45-year-old's body was found hanging from a babul tree in Khair ka Dera village.

2 minors found hanging from tree in UP village. Family says they were ‘gangraped, beaten into silence’

3 held, including son of man who brought girls' family to work at kiln. Family claims incident took place after they confronted accused for taking illicit videos of one of the girls.

Kanpur student beaten, made to lick shoes, urinated on in ‘revenge plot by head constable’s son’

Head constable Dharmendra Yadav held, main accused Himanshu at large. Police say they wanted revenge for when victim had assaulted Himanshu, due to which he went deaf in one ear.

On Camera

Anything that weakens Iran’s proxies is a win for India. Even Israel’s Operation Rising Lion

India is deeply entwined with the Gulf. Its abstention from the latest UNGA vote on Gaza ceasefire speaks volumes: Neutrality, in this case, is not indecision, but the safest strategy.

Operation Sindoor: How Rafales, Pakistani J-10s & lots of propaganda moved global defence markets

New Delhi: The impact of Operation Sindoor extended far beyond the battlefield as aerial battles continued in the stock markets. After India carried out...

Air India crash: Army deploys more than 100 jawans to assist rescue ops in Ahmedabad

Military teams with engineers, paramedics and firefighting units lead humanitarian assistance and disaster relief response at crash site in Ahmedabad.

H-word, M-word & fading K-word. India-Pakistan alphabet soup, with a side of Trump

If ally Washington sees the region through an India-Pakistan prism, it’s unacceptable. Rather than endorse India’s sphere of influence, this undermines it.