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Topic: Mafia

UP mafia politician Atiq Ahmed gets life for Umesh Pal’s abduction, his 1st conviction in 44 yrs

ThePrint Team -
Prayagraj court convicts 62-year-old for kidnapping Pal in 2006; Pal was prime witness in murder of BSP MLA, a crime of which Atiq is charged.

SP gets its 1st Gujarat MLA — ‘Godmother’ Santokben’s son Kandhalbhai scores hattrick in Kutiyana

Moushumi Das Gupta -
Kandhalbhai Jadeja won on Samajwadi Party ticket after being denied one by Nationalist Congress Party. He secured 60,744 votes against BJP’s Dheliben Odedara's 34,032 votes.

Gang wars to battle of ballots — in Porbandar, mafia descendants seek votes, promise development

+TFP Moushumi Das Gupta -
Between late 1960s & mid 1990s Mahatma Gandhi's birthplace became 'Chicago of Gujarat'. Now, relatives of former gangsters have forayed into politics, in a bid to retain their clout.

With wife’s MLC win on Modi turf, UP ‘bahubali’ shows he’s still powerful under ‘anti-mafia’ Yogi

Shikha Salaria -
Jailed gangster Brijesh Singh’s wife Annapurna won Varanasi-Bhadohi-Chandauli MLC seat this week as an Independent candidate, says she will support BJP if ‘blessings continue’.

The Godfather at 50: The mob saga that raised the bar for gangster films

Gill Jamieson -
The film revolutionised the portrayal of organised crime by conflating it with something all audiences can relate to: family.

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

Shanker Arnimesh -
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 6ft wrestler who made a scrawny Dawood Ibrahim India’s biggest don

S. Hussain Zaidi -
Crime writer Hussain Zaidi notes how Khalid Khan Bachcha protected Dawood and moulded him into a cunning mafia boss.

Degree, naukri, textbooks and fees: How India’s education mafia works

Anil Swarup -
It would be an understatement to say that India's education sector is in a bad shape.

Aspiration and desperation in UP’s East

Shekhar Gupta -
Eastern UP's people want out of their sub-Saharan trap. Politicians, including the PM, don't get it.

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Opinion

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

Phiroze J Shroff -
If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Dharali floods a wake-up call for IMD, NDMA to buck up—the Himalayan region is vulnerable

Buying Russian oil, misreading Trump—3 points will define India’s next energy strategy

Economy

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

Neelam Pandey -
New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Defence

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

Snehesh Alex Philip -
New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

National Interest

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Shekhar Gupta -
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.

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