Reported By Alok Pandey Edited By Divyanshu Dutta Roy

Disquieting scenes from the Lucknow crematorium of endless funeral fires and reports of irregularities in the number of deaths have sparked a response from authorities in the Uttar Pradesh capital: Block the view with blue metal sheets.

Residents of a village in Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district were in for a shock on Wednesday morning when they spotted a man calmly walking down the road with the severed head of his 17-year-old daughter.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday met family members of Navreet Singh, a farmer who lost his life during the protest in New Delhi on Republic Day, and also attended a prayer ceremony for him in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur.

Days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah's triumphant parade in the town of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took on the BJP on Tuesday at a campaign rally for next year's elections in Bolpur. Attacking the party for "divisive politics", she said the BJP can "buy a few MLAs" but it cannot buy out the Tr...

A 32-year-old Muslim man, one of the first to be charged under Uttar Pradesh's controversial anti-conversion law, cannot be arrested yet, the Allahabad High Court has ruled, stepping into the spiralling debate over "Love Jihad".

Five policemen, including the Superintendent of Police, have been suspended in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district amid growing nationwide outrage over the death of a 20-year-old woman who was allegedly raped by a group of men from a so-called "upper caste" community.

A 13-year-old girl was raped and killed in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri district and her body found in a sugarcane field, the police said on Saturday, in yet another horrific case that has emerged from the state in recent days. Two men from her village have been arrested.

A man accused of raping a 6-year-old girl in western Uttar Pradesh's Hapur was shot in the leg after he grabbed a cop's gun and tried to flee on Friday, the police have said. Dalpat was arrested earlier in the day more than week after the girl was kidnapped and raped.

The Uttar Pradesh government is sending 200 buses from Agra to Rajasthan's Kota where thousands of students from across the country preparing for competitive exams have been stranded by the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown.

Former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer SR Darapuri on Sunday said the Uttar Pradesh government's move to name and shame protesters accused of inciting violence during demonstrations against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was a danger to the life and liberty of citizens not yet convicted by courts.

At least one person died in Lucknow on Thursday from what the police called "alleged firearm injury" during violent protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The police cracked down on protesters using tear gas and batons after vandalism, arson and stone-throwing erupted during a demonstration in the Uttar Pradesh capital against the conten...

Amid nationwide outrage over crimes against women, a minister in the Uttar Pradesh government has said that "not even Lord Ram" could assure complete security to people.

A day after a local court in Uttar Pradesh dismissed the bail application of the 23-year-old law student who had accused BJP leader and former union minister Chinmayanand of rape, her father said they would move the high court against the order.

Hours after the arrest of BJP leader Chinmayanand on Friday, the woman who has accused him of rape said the police are trying to weaken the case against him. "This has played out exactly as I feared... there is no justice," she told reporters, referring to the charge under which the former union minister has been arrested.

A Special Investigation Team asked by the Supreme Court to probe accusations of rape and blackmail against BJP leader and former union minister Chinmayanand on Wednesday said it will not be swayed by questions raised in the media or accusations of trying to shield the influential Uttar Pradesh politician.

Disquieting scenes from the Lucknow crematorium of endless funeral fires and reports of irregularities in the number of deaths have sparked a response from authorities in the Uttar Pradesh capital: Block the view with blue metal sheets.

Residents of a village in Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district were in for a shock on Wednesday morning when they spotted a man calmly walking down the road with the severed head of his 17-year-old daughter.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday met family members of Navreet Singh, a farmer who lost his life during the protest in New Delhi on Republic Day, and also attended a prayer ceremony for him in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur.

Days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah's triumphant parade in the town of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took on the BJP on Tuesday at a campaign rally for next year's elections in Bolpur. Attacking the party for "divisive politics", she said the BJP can "buy a few MLAs" but it cannot buy out the Tr...

A 32-year-old Muslim man, one of the first to be charged under Uttar Pradesh's controversial anti-conversion law, cannot be arrested yet, the Allahabad High Court has ruled, stepping into the spiralling debate over "Love Jihad".

Five policemen, including the Superintendent of Police, have been suspended in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district amid growing nationwide outrage over the death of a 20-year-old woman who was allegedly raped by a group of men from a so-called "upper caste" community.

A 13-year-old girl was raped and killed in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri district and her body found in a sugarcane field, the police said on Saturday, in yet another horrific case that has emerged from the state in recent days. Two men from her village have been arrested.

A man accused of raping a 6-year-old girl in western Uttar Pradesh's Hapur was shot in the leg after he grabbed a cop's gun and tried to flee on Friday, the police have said. Dalpat was arrested earlier in the day more than week after the girl was kidnapped and raped.

The Uttar Pradesh government is sending 200 buses from Agra to Rajasthan's Kota where thousands of students from across the country preparing for competitive exams have been stranded by the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown.

Former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer SR Darapuri on Sunday said the Uttar Pradesh government's move to name and shame protesters accused of inciting violence during demonstrations against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was a danger to the life and liberty of citizens not yet convicted by courts.

At least one person died in Lucknow on Thursday from what the police called "alleged firearm injury" during violent protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The police cracked down on protesters using tear gas and batons after vandalism, arson and stone-throwing erupted during a demonstration in the Uttar Pradesh capital against the conten...

Amid nationwide outrage over crimes against women, a minister in the Uttar Pradesh government has said that "not even Lord Ram" could assure complete security to people.

A day after a local court in Uttar Pradesh dismissed the bail application of the 23-year-old law student who had accused BJP leader and former union minister Chinmayanand of rape, her father said they would move the high court against the order.

Hours after the arrest of BJP leader Chinmayanand on Friday, the woman who has accused him of rape said the police are trying to weaken the case against him. "This has played out exactly as I feared... there is no justice," she told reporters, referring to the charge under which the former union minister has been arrested.

A Special Investigation Team asked by the Supreme Court to probe accusations of rape and blackmail against BJP leader and former union minister Chinmayanand on Wednesday said it will not be swayed by questions raised in the media or accusations of trying to shield the influential Uttar Pradesh politician.