As political parties compete to woo Brahmins through outreach programmes ahead of the 2022 assembly polls, supporters of the Samajwadi Party have gone a step further. In Ballia on Monday, they held a “Shiv Sevak Sammelan” aimed at a section among the Brahmins — the influential Goswami community. The event was held under the banner … Read more
A team of doctors is observing Mulayam Singh Yadav’s health condition. (Reuters photo) Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav has tested positive for coronavirus. The information was tweeted by the party’s official Twitter handle on Wednesday. According to the post on the micro-blogging site, the Samajwadi Party patriarch remains asymptomatic. A team of doctors is … Read more
On November 27, 2014, after a five-month probe, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) closed a case of alleged rape and murder of two teenage girls reported on May 27, 2014, in Katra, a village in western Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district. The searing image of the two bodies hanging from a mango tree with villagers … Read more