Uttar Pradesh
Project Syndicate / Crime and Punishment in Uttar Pradesh
The shortcomings of India’s criminal justice system extend far beyond Uttar Pradesh. Just last month, the 69 defendants accused of perpetrating the 2002 Naroda Gam massacre in Ahmedabad were all acquitted.
AYODHYA SITE DISPUTE IN INDIA / Top court orders mediation
India's Supreme Court has appointed an arbitration panel to mediate in a decades-long dispute over a religious site in northern Uttar Pradesh state's Ayodhya city.
33 infected with HIV in Uttar Pradesh after "quack" uses tainted syringe
At least 33 people have tested positive for HIV in Bangarmau town of Uttar Pradesh after an unqualified medical practitioner injected some of them with an infected syringe, a government official says.
21 including 2 cops killed in India clashes
At least 21 people, including two policemen, are killed in clashes between police and around 3,000 encroachers at a park of Mathura in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
5,000 people attend doggy wedding in India
Over 5,000 joined in the celebration of two dogs tying the knot according to traditional Hindu rituals, in the Pawara village in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
India woman arrested after mother-in-law assault video goes viral
Police in India arrest a woman for beating her mother-in-the law after CCTV footage of the assault goes viral.
Indian hanged girls: Court rejects probe ruling out rape
An Indian court has rejected a federal police report which had ruled that two teenage girls found hanging from a tree in India last year took their own lives and were not gang-raped and murdered.
India BJP leader says Muslims should stop eating beef
A senior leader of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said that Muslims living in the country should give up consuming beef.
India police charge toddler for 'theft and trespassing'
Police in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh are left red-faced after charging a toddler with theft.
Crime and Punishment in Uttar Pradesh
The shortcomings of India’s criminal justice system extend far beyond Uttar Pradesh. Just last month, the 69 defendants accused of perpetrating the 2002 Naroda Gam massacre in Ahmedabad were all acquitted.
Top court orders mediation
India's Supreme Court has appointed an arbitration panel to mediate in a decades-long dispute over a religious site in northern Uttar Pradesh state's Ayodhya city.
33 infected with HIV in Uttar Pradesh after "quack" uses tainted syringe
At least 33 people have tested positive for HIV in Bangarmau town of Uttar Pradesh after an unqualified medical practitioner injected some of them with an infected syringe, a government official says.
21 including 2 cops killed in India clashes
At least 21 people, including two policemen, are killed in clashes between police and around 3,000 encroachers at a park of Mathura in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
5,000 people attend doggy wedding in India
Over 5,000 joined in the celebration of two dogs tying the knot according to traditional Hindu rituals, in the Pawara village in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
India woman arrested after mother-in-law assault video goes viral
Police in India arrest a woman for beating her mother-in-the law after CCTV footage of the assault goes viral.
Indian hanged girls: Court rejects probe ruling out rape
An Indian court has rejected a federal police report which had ruled that two teenage girls found hanging from a tree in India last year took their own lives and were not gang-raped and murdered.
India BJP leader says Muslims should stop eating beef
A senior leader of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said that Muslims living in the country should give up consuming beef.
India police charge toddler for 'theft and trespassing'
Police in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh are left red-faced after charging a toddler with theft.
India man lynched over beef rumours
A 50-year-old man in northern India is killed in a mob lynching allegedly over rumours that his family had been storing and consuming beef at home.
