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Topic: Unnao

Meet Aishwarya Sengar, Unnao rape convict’s daughter & defender. ‘I’m a feminist’

From a philosophy student at Miranda House to the public face of Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s appeal, how Aishwarya Sengar built a legal and media campaign after her father’s conviction in the Unnao rape case.

SC stays Delhi HC order suspending Unnao rape convict Sengar’s life term—‘judges too prone to error’

CJI-led bench questioned HC’s interpretation of the definition of a 'public servant' under POCSO Act. It noted that the ex-BJP MLA continues to be in jail in another case.

CBI to move SC challenging suspension of Kuldeep Sengar’s life term in 2017 Unnao rape case

Agency to file Special Leave Petition at the earliest against the Delhi High Court order granting relief to the accused, says a spokesperson.

Unnao school headmaster arrested for ‘sexual abuse of 18 minor students’, booked under POCSO

According to FIR, girls — aged 7 to 14 yrs — accused the headmaster of sexually harassing them, while talking to school staff and National Commission for Protection of Child Rights members.

Unnao teen watched her rapist celebrate bail. Then he burnt her home, threw her son in flames

A 13-year-old in Unnao was gang raped and her parents attacked by her rapists. Now she is fighting angry villagers who have turned against the family.

UP man rapes 18-year-old after taking ‘sex pill’, leaves her bleeding to death

The accused confessed to have taken pills before meeting the girl & said he could not 'control himself'. The victim's postmortem report states she died of 'shock and haemorrhage'.

Photos shared by Salman Khurshid aren’t from Yogi govt’s ‘Buldozerland’. They are from 2016

Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid Tuesday shared pictures of bulldozed houses on social media, claiming they were from Uttar Pradesh's Unnao and Farrukhabad districts.

Unnao woman’s 2nd autopsy shows few more injuries, family says ‘cops shielding ex-minister’s son’

Dalit woman, 22, was allegedly killed by the late SP minister’s son. Both autopsy reports suggest she was strangled to death 6 weeks before she was found, do not mention rape.

BJP, SP play blame game after missing Dalit woman’s body found near ex-minister’s ashram

The 22-year-old Dalit woman's decomposed body was found in a septic tank near an ashram built by former Samajwadi Party leader Fateh Bahadur Singh.

Unnao residents say over 50 bodies seen floating at Buxar Ghat in 2 days, officials deny claim

The incident comes days after over 100 bodies were found buried by the Ganga at Unnao. Residents say this is only the beginning of ‘something terrible’. 

On Camera

Life in Delhi isn’t easy for Northeast Indians. Racism is always round the corner

Racism is a problem for privileged mainlanders only when it's meted out to them abroad. In their own backyard, it's normalised as 'I was just kidding. Chill yaar'.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Post-elections, Bangladesh Army shuffles top military & intel posts, defence adviser in India recalled

Orders issued by Army Headquarters reassign key operational commanders and senior intelligence officials, including the head of DGFI, the country’s premier military intelligence agency.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.