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Monday, March 16, 2026
TopicUP Bahubalis

Topic: UP Bahubalis

Bahubali, seven-time MLA, ex-minister — why BJP, SP made beeline for Raja bhaiya’s Kunda mansion

Kunda strongman will be key to ensuring victory of BJP's eighth candidate. Similarly, SP needs outside support for its third nominee. RS polls to take place Tuesday.

‘Laws expire at UP border’: In the MP/MLA courts of the ganglands, cases come to crawl

Acting on SC's orders in 2018, such courts were set up across India. And while UP has MP/MLA courts in almost all districts, 1,377 cases are pending in these as of November 2022.

Atiq Ahmed was shipped out of UP. But this is how he ran his empire from Gujarat jail

Yogi kept sending Atiq Ahmed and Mukhtar Ansari—2 of UP’s most dreaded bahubalis—to jail in different states. But he couldn’t stop their mafia raj.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.