Two police constables in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, have been suspended after a theft suspect escaped from their custody while being taken for a medical examination. The suspect, arrested with stolen goods, fled in an auto-rickshaw, prompting a city-wide search.
Wearing white caps with a red cross on the words 'SIR' and "vote chori", the protesting MPs started their march from Parliament's Makar Dwar raising slogans against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Bihar and "vote chori" while carrying placards and banners.
The Thakurs opposed the wedding procession by Dalits .
'Of course, there is fear, but if we want change, then we must be ready to face the consequences.'
Jatav youth ask tough questions about surgical strikes, expenditure on statues and organising of the Kumbh festival.
The four doctors are on the run and police have fanned out teams to nab them, a senior police officer said.
For the post of deputy chief minister, the names of Swatantra Dev Singh, Baby Rani Maurya, Brijesh Pathak and Keshav Prasad Maurya are in talks.
'If the Opposition does make a dent, it could encourage the efforts of regional parties to come together for the larger battle in 2024 and mark the beginning of a new anti-BJP politics.'
The second list has named 16 candidates from Uttar Pradesh and five from Maharashtra.
Dalit votes could play a decisive role in 28-30 constituencies in the 230-member assembly.
cution' of the Brahmins in the regime of Adityanath, a Rajput, accused of pandering to his caste's interests. Radhika Ramaseshan reports.
While a nine-year-old girl was raped and murdered in Uttar Pradesh's Etah, an 11-year-old girl was allegedly raped and killed by a guest at a wedding in Chhattisgarh.
'We don't know where he will go from here and how he will conduct his government.'
'Mr Modi's next challenger/s will need to invent a new politics,' says Shekhar Gupta.
In a season of political deal-making, it would seem the BJP is not only keener to win new friends but is ahead of rival Congress in the game. Its only competition, if at all, has come from regional satraps and the Left parties, which on Tuesday resolved to fight the elections together against both the Congress and BJP.
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