UP law minister Brajesh Pathak, who was once part of Bahujan Samaj Party as a Member Parliament from Unnao, before he was handpicked by then party president Amit Shah ahead of 2017 Utttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha elections. Pathak was in 2021, ahead of 2022 polls, was inducted into the prestigious national executive body of the […]
Jalesar (Etah): Overlooking heavy blocks of coal that will be fired up to alloy copper and zinc into glistening bronze, craftsmen Daudayal and Iqbal sit together, with five dozen such workers, inside a factory-cum-residence to prepare priceless bells. Much like the towering gate at the entry of Jalesar that welcomes visitors with a message — Ghungroo Town […]
The memories of Bollywood cine stars gyrating to their own hip-shaking numbers in the rural settings of Saifai, the home turf of Mulayam Singh Yadav’s family, are thing of a past when Samajwadi Party’s Man Friday Amar Singh or Azam Khan and Abu Azmi would help them connect with the Mumbai film industry. This time […]
Minister of state (MoS) for law and justice S P Singh Baghel, who is a sitting Lok Sabha MP from Agra, surprised many in Uttar Pradesh when he decided to take on former Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav from Karhal Vidhan Sabha, in the family backyard of Mulayam Yadav family, but as he builds his campaign […]
HATHRAS: Mobbed by a group of demure women, Anjula Singh Mahor, turns mateteral as she grabs the microphone to speak on the essence of Yogi government’s much-talked about Anti-Romeo force. Anti Romeo force is a special police unit that was raised in 2017 by the BJP government to restore faith in civil society after a […]
MADAULI (ATRAULI, ALIGARH): Clad in a cheap cotton saree, diminutive Ramwati Devi looks content as she snuggles up on a cot, overlooked by a towering obituary poster remembering her husband and former UP CM Kalyan Singh who had refused to fire at Kar Sewaks over demolition of Babri mosque in 1992. Devi, who stays at […]
Thana Bhawan (SHAMLI): Walking briskly on Delhi-Shamli highway, amid a shower of marigold by his supporters, BJP’s poster boy for Hindutva and Yogi government’s sugarcane development minister Suresh Rana doesn’t mince his words on religious appeasement of his party’s principal opponent. This, as he staunchly defends his role in 2013-14 Muzaffarnagar riots during Akhilesh regime […]
THANA BHAWAN (SHAMLI, UP): At a roundabout near Hedgewar Chowk in Thana Bhawan — the constituency of Yogi Adityanath government’s sugarcane development minister and two-time MLA Suresh Rana in Uttar Pradesh’s notorious Shamli region — Manoj Kucchal, a retail shop owner, shudders as he recalls frequent distasteful innudendoes made on women by hawkers, real estate […]
In the middle of election campaigning, and at a time, when he has locked horns with his bete noire within Congress — in another sign of growing fissures and internal wrangling in the party leadership in Punjab, The New Indian’s Executive Editor Rohan Dua caught up with CM Charanjit Channi at his maternal home Makrauna […]
Would it be the end of political road for Navjot Singh Sidhu and namesake wife if he is not chosen to lead Congress this assembly elections after being wooed by the Gandhi family in 2017 ,20 days before then polls? The mercurial ex cricketer has had a bumpy ride on a tough wicket with bouncers […]