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In at least four Muslim-dominated villages in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal, state police allegedly “lathi-charged” voters, injuring hundreds of people at polling booths during the third phase of polling on May 7. While the locals alleged that the police action was “unprovoked” and to “prohibit” them from voting for the Samajwadi…

In March 2022, a Ram Navami rally passed peacefully through the Muslim-dominated area of Kiradpura in Aurangabad, now Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, where a Ram temple is located. Some Muslim shopkeepers and associations distributed sharbat to the hundreds of people walking by in the heat. 

Forest fires have refused to die down in Uttarakhand for the past 10 days, with four people reportedly dead so far and the Supreme Court set to hear petitions linked to the state government’s role on Wednesday. 

Zee founder Subhash Chandra has said that “it’s unfortunate that India ranks 159 among 180 countries in press freedom” and that he feels similar to how he did 33 years ago when a central bureaucrat told him that he could surrender his network to the government over his “dead body”.

With a total of 40 seats, Bihar is one of the crucial Hindi heartland states in the Lok Sabha election. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar have emerged as a twin challenge from the BJP-led NDA front, while the INDIA bloc’s lone soldier is Tejashwi Yadav.  

This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, and Anand Vardhan are joined by in-house reporter Tanishka Sodhi and The News Minute’s Anisha Sheth. 

Gujarat’s Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat is a crucial BJP stronghold.

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Delhi-based National Dastak editor Shambhu Kumar Singh is set to enter electoral politics in Bihar’s Vaishali. The BSP contestant spoke to Newslaundry before the announcement of his candidature, when the journalist had expressed his intention to fight the Lok Sabha election.