The Latest Breaking News from Uttar Pradesh

The bodies of two girls, aged 15 and 18, were found hanging from a tree outside a village in Uttar Pradesh's Fatehgarh on Tuesday. Read further on Dynamite News:

“It was a happy marriage for the initial few weeks, but eventually it turned into a nightmare,” says Shamita*. “I was waiting for my husband to return from work, when his elder brother entered my room and closed the door. He raped me,” says the 29-year-old who lives in Baghpat…

On August 11, locals of Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh met with a peculiar sight: about 200 journalists, with their shirts unbuttoned and torn, stood at traffic signals and roamed crowded markets holding out steel bowls, begging for money – and sloganeering “patrakaron ko dabana band karo” or “stop muzzling journalists”.  

Amid reports of violence against Hindu minorities in Bangladesh, volunteers of the Hindu Raksha Dal purportedly assaulted Muslim families and set their huts ablaze at a slum in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad on August 9. The attackers labelled the Muslim residents as “Bangladeshi”.      

On the fourth Monday of the holy month of Shravan, devotees across the various cities in Uttar Pradesh visited temples to offer prayers to Lord Shiva. Read further on Dynamite News:

Mau A miscreant was injured after an encounter broke out with police officials in the early morning of Thursday in the Mau district of Uttar Pradesh, said police

Unable to eat, and depending solely on oral rehydration solutions, Ahmed* (40) spent the last 15 days of his life hoping to get an endoscopic procedure at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, 350 km away from his hometown in Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh. He died on July…

Two years after the Yogi Adityanath-led government admitted to “irregularities” in the reservation process for 69,000 assistant teachers’ recruitment in Uttar Pradesh and selected an additional 6,800 reserved candidates as a “corrective measure”, the Chief Minister has purportedly reversed his stance.  

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said that ensuring women's safety is one of the main priorities of his government and assured that culprits behind the Gomtinagar harassment incident will be punished severely. Read further on Dynamite News: