Bhadohi

Man beaten to death over financial dispute

7:58 pm May 11, 2020

Bhadohi (UP): A 40-year-old man was killed in a clash in Uttar Pradesh’s Bhadohi district, police said on Monday. Nanhku Harijan had a financial dispute with his uncle and cousins at Khamaria area on Sunday night, and he was brutally beaten up, the police said. He was rushed to a hospital in Varanasi in a […]

Over 200 journalists condemn FIR against Varadarajan

11:35 pm April 13, 2020

New Delhi: Over 200 journalists on Monday came out strongly against the Uttar Pradesh government and its police for filling an FIR against Siddharth Varadarajan, the Founding Editor of the Wire, calling it a “brazen” attempt to “muzzle” the media. The Uttar Pradesh police this month booked Varadarajan over comments on Twitter claiming that the […]

UP police book journalist over `fake news’

11:07 pm April 13, 2020

Bhadohi (UP): Police on Monday registered an FIR against four journalists and two others, saying they spread fake news about an incident in which a woman hurled her five children into a river. The editors of news agency IANS and Business Insider and the concerned reporters are mentioned in the FIR, though it does not […]

UP BJP MLA among 7 booked for raping woman

9:28 pm February 19, 2020

Bhadohi (UP): An FIR was lodged against local BJP MLA Ravindra Nath Tripathi and six others here on Wednesday for allegedly raping a woman repeatedly for a month in 2017, police said. The 40-year-old woman, who is a widow, had lodged a complaint on February 10, they said. The woman alleged that she was first […]

Anti-CAA stir: Death toll in UP violence rises to 11

1:44 pm December 21, 2019

Lucknow: At least 11 people, including an 8-year-old boy, have lost their lives in Uttar Pradesh as the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act turned violent in the state, officials said on Saturday. After Friday prayers, protesters clashed with police at several places in the state and hurled stones and torched vehicles, they said. While […]