The two have been identified as Ravindra alias Kallu, a native of Rohtak, and Arun, a resident of Sonipat, Haryana, both 'active members of the Rohit Godara–Goldy Brar gang'.
The gunning down of 'Seizing' Raja—third encounter in two months—is not just a one-off episode. Police had faced flak after BSP state president was brutually hacked in July.
Family of Mir Mahfuzur Rahman Mugdho who Bangladesh Police allegedly shot during the student protests that led to Sheikh Hasina's fall is yet to come to terms with his death.
Victims' family denies that there was 'personal rivalry', says main accused Sajid paid them a visit asking for money for wife's delivery. But Sajid's family says his wife isn't pregnant.
Vinod Kumar Upadhyay enjoyed patronage of Hari Shankar Tiwari & had at least 35 criminal cases lodged against him in police stations across UP between 1999 and November 2023.
Dujana’s lawyer Jitendra Nagar claimed he was picked up by the STF from outside Delhi’s Karkardooma court and later shown to have been killed in an encounter.
Exceptions that might be justified in the small wars of Punjab, Kashmir have become part of the normal fabric of policing. The emergency has become the everyday.
The encounters in UP and Telangana, which are more than 28 years apart, show the regularity of police confrontation and celebrations of ‘instant justice’.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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