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Topic: Kanpur

In Kanpur this week: Protest with amputated hand in thermocol box, 50 jawans & an ITBP denial of ‘gherao’

50 ITBP personnel gathered at Kanpur police commissioner's office after a jawan's mother lost her hand to alleged negligence at a private hospital; a fresh probe has been ordered

Fake CBI, sirens, ‘blackmail’: Kanpur gang’s Rs 2 cr scam targeted women with fake porn case threats

Police say a Kanpur gang operated from remote rural pockets, impersonating crime branch and CBI officials to scare victims into paying money over fabricated child pornography allegations. 8 held.

‘Torture your kids only so much that…’—in UP lawyer’s tragic suicide note, a message for ‘all parents’

Accusing his father of humiliating him all his life, 23-year-old Kanpur lawyer ends it all by saying such a 'shameful life not worth living'. His last wish—his father should not even touch his body.

‘Crimes against humanity’ override delay—Allahabad HC refuses to close 1984 Kanpur anti-Sikh riot cases

10 applicants, many elderly, had argued that fair trial was impossible without original records and amid delay, but judge said prima facie case was made out via surviving witnesses.

‘Brat’, bouncers, or Lamborghini? What made TV channels angriest about Kanpur car crash

Once it was established that Shivam Mishra was a tobacco tycoon’s ‘rich, arrogant, shameless brat’ who drove a Lamborghini, news channels went after the Kanpur police.

Who was at the wheel? Where are the injured? Kanpur Lamborghini case is tied up in knots

Kanpur Police Commissioner Raghubir Lal says Shivam Mishra, son of tobacco supplier KK Mishra, was at the wheel of Lamborghini at the time of the incident. Lawyer denies claim.

Kanpur Lamborghini crash: Pan masala baron’s son booked, day after FIR against ‘unidentified person’

Shivam Mishra is the son of K.K. Mishra, director of the tobacco company Banshidhar Group and well-known face in the Kanpur region.

How Kanpur declined. A story of short-sighted protests, politics & policy

Not everyone agrees on who is to blame for Kanpur’s decline. Even RSS-backed trade unions don’t rush to blame the striking workers of the 1970s and the 1980s.

6 injured in explosion at bustling Kanpur market; parked scooter focus of preliminary probe

Additional Commissioner of Police Ashutosh Kumar said a preliminary lab test has indicated the use of low grade explosives, like those used in firecrackers.

Kanpur is the new Wasseypur in Anurag Kashyap’s Nishaanchi

Anurag Kashyap’s Nishaanchi could be a promotional video for Kanpur tourism—if the droll gaalis could make it past censors.

On Camera

The thrill of ‘down low’ wears off fast. Why do gay men even fall for it?

Being DL is not the same as being closeted, though there’s some overlap. A closeted man knows he is queer, but a DL one does his best to not acknowledge the Grindr logo on his phone.

Despite PM Modi’s appeal to cut fertiliser use, farmers show no sign of scaling back—Parliament data

Combined sales of urea, DAP, MOP and complex fertilisers rose 25 percent in April even as Modi asked farmers to cut chemical fertiliser use by up to half to save soil and foreign exchange

In Delhi, an emotional farewell to former Army chief Gen VN Sharma with full state honours

The three service chiefs paid tributes, along with several former Army chiefs. Friends & fellow soldiers remember him as a 'natural charmer'.

India’s Gen Z has opened a breach, for BJP to fill or Opposition to widen

The young people broke the self-imposed silence among the elite not to speak a word critical of the Modi government, except to whisper on the sidelines, looking left, right and behind.