In Old Lucknow, echoes of Shaheen Bagh, Prayagraj: ‘So cold and foggy… still we are here’ TAKING A cue from the anti-citizenship law protest at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh and the sit-in in Prayagraj, hundreds of women and children from the […]
LUCKNOW: A 12-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour in Kushinagar district late on Wednesday night. The 30-year-old accused was detained following a complaint by the girl’s mother, who said he had raped her daughter. Police are interrogating […]
FIROZABAD: A glance out of Firozabad district hospital’s window sent shivers down the spine of Surya (name changed) who was firmly holding her newborn she can’t call her own outside. Staring at an uncertain future and an “unsparing” society, the […]
Ambedkar said he was brutalised because his name was a giveaway of the community he belongs to — the Dalits Lucknow-based activists S.R. Darapuri, Sadaf Jafar, Deepak Kabir and Pawan Rao Ambedkar — arrested by Uttar Pradesh police after the […]
The activist who was released on bail last week, wasn’t even a part of the protest but was brutally attacked by the Lucknow cops “There was a lady constable who hit me on the head many times with her helmet. […]
Various fact-finding reports by activists had accused the Yogi Adityanath-led government of perpetrating police atrocities on anti-CAA ‘Why don’t you go to Pakistan?’ If this was the question actress-activist Sadaf Jafar, who acted in Mira Nair’s new film ‘A Suitable […]
Uttar Pradesh, the first state to implement the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 , has identified over 32,000 refugees in 21 districts of the state. The process to identify refugees was initiated soon after the passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill […]
Deepa Mohanan was recently arrested when the governor had visited the university. She says that she’s been facing bias since 2011 An MPhil degree, a PhD and then a good academic career — Deepa P Mohanan tells us that these […]
A tale of grit and fight for justice Twenty-seven days have passed since the detention and arrest of lawyer Mohammad Shoaib by Uttar Pradesh police for allegedly participating in protests in Lucknow. The 76-year-old rights lawyer was put under house […]
NEW DELHI: Delhi’s Tis Hazari Court on Tuesday pulled up Delhi Police and said people can carry out peaceful protest anywhere, including outside religious places. While hearing the bail plea of Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad, the court said “Jama […]
