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Uttar Pradesh

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Uttar Pradesh: BJP lawmakers urge CM Yogi Adityanath to rename Aligarh to ‘Harigarh’

OpIndia Staff - 20 November, 2019

It has been a long standing demand to change name of Aligarh to Harigarh.

Fact-Check

Watch: The ‘half-dead farmer brutally beaten by UP Police’ gets up and runs after filming video is over

OpIndia Staff - 19 November, 2019

A video clip of 'unconscious farmer' brutally beaten up by police in Unnao had gone viral on social media.

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Uttar Pradesh: Christian family keeps dead daughter’s body for days, believing bible and prayers will ‘bring her back’

OpIndia Staff - 18 November, 2019

The villagers had reportedly convinced the family to keep the body of the girl in a house and read the bible, claiming that it will bring back their daughter.

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Agravan when? UP govt asks historians to check if Agra city was ever known by any other name

OpIndia Staff - 18 November, 2019

Speculations are rife that the name of Agra may soon be changed to Agravan.

Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Uproar in Sambhal after police thwart attempt to illegally construct a mosque overnight, police deployed

OpIndia Staff - 16 November, 2019

In the Sambhal district of UP, the police stopped the overnight construction of an illegal mosque in the premises of a Madarsa.

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Uttar Pradesh: Former army personnel, Dr Ashfaq, amongst those arrested in the Kushinagar Masjid blast case

OpIndia Staff - 15 November, 2019

The police had earlier arrested Imam of the mosque including others for hiding explosives inside the Kushinagar mosque

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BHU: Students of Sanskrit department protest against appointment of Muslim professor, department refuses to budge

OpIndia Staff - 15 November, 2019

Banaras Hindu University has been lately embroiled in various controversies recently. The students of the Sanskrit Department have been protesting against the appointment of a Muslim professor.

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18 years after he took a vow not wear slippers, Dev Das to finally wear one after Ram Mandir is constructed in Ayodhya

OpIndia Staff - 14 November, 2019

Das, a resident of Bihar had taken a pledge 18 years back that he will not wear slippers till a Ram Temple is built and Lord Ram is finally at his rightful home.

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