Alok Pandey

Lucknow Cops Stall Magsaysay Award Winner's Kashmir Protest Plan, Second Time In A Week

India News | Written by Alok Pandey | Friday August 16, 2019

A Magsaysay Award-winning social activist has been confined to his house in Lucknow this evening by the city police, over a planned demonstration to protest against the scrapping of Jammu and Kashmir's special status under Article 370.

Unnao Rape Accused Kuldeep Sengar Seen In Independence Day Poster With PM

India News | Reported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Friday August 16, 2019

A poster featuring Unnao rape accused Kuldeep Sengar alongside Prime Minister Narendra Modi was released in a local daily to commemorate Independence Day and Raksha Bandhan

Muzaffarnagar Riots Cases Against MLA To Go? State Writes To Officials

India News | Written by Alok Pandey, Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Tuesday August 13, 2019

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh government has initiated steps that could lead to the withdrawal of court cases against its controversial lawmaker Sangeet Som, related to the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots.

Magsaysay Winner Plans "Stand For Kashmir" Protest, Briefly Confined To House

India News | Reported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Monday August 12, 2019

A Magsaysay Award-winning social activist was briefly confined to their house in Lucknow Sunday over a planned demonstration to protest against the scrapping of Jammu and Kashmir's special status under Article 370 a week ago, news agency IANS reported.

Toxic Ash Leak At Madhya Pradesh Power Plant, Essar Alleges "Sabotage"

India News | Written by Alok Pandey, Anurag Dwary, Edited by Debanish Achom | Friday August 9, 2019

A breach in an artificial pond that stored toxic residue from a coal power plant run by Essar Power MP Ltd has contaminated farmland in a 4-km area in Madhya Pradesh's Singrauli, villagers living in the area have alleged.

"Now Marry Fair Kashmiri Women": BJP Lawmaker's Article 370 Shocker

India News | Reported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Wednesday August 7, 2019

A BJP lawmaker explaining the merits of the centre's move to end special status to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 offered this appalling point - that party workers could now marry fair women from Kashmir.

Yogi Adityanath Government Looks To Cows For New Employment Opportunities

India News | Written by Alok Pandey | Tuesday August 6, 2019

Uttar Pradesh's Yogi Adityanath-led government, grappling with a serious problem of stray cattle destroying standing crops in fields across the state leading to a backlash from farmers, has now come up with a new scheme for stray cattle that it says will generate employment opportunities too.

How Unnao Rape Survivor And Lawyer Were Shifted To Delhi In Record Time

India News | Written by Alok Pandey | Tuesday August 6, 2019

On Monday evening, one side of the six-laned Lohia Path in Uttar Pradesh's capital Lucknow, a road that passes very close to the residence of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, was emptied out by the Lucknow Police for a full hour between 6 and 7 pm.

Unnao Rape Survivor Taken Off Ventilator, Airlifted To AIIMS

India News | Reported by Alok Pandey, A Vaidyanathan, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Tuesday August 6, 2019

The Unnao rape survivor, who has accused expelled BJP lawmaker Kuldeep Singh Sengar of raping her at his residence in 2017, was travelling with her advocate and two aunts on July 28 when their car was hit by a speeding truck in Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli district

"Pray To God For Her Recovery": Kuldeep Singh Sengar On Unnao Survivor

India News | Reported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Sunday August 4, 2019

Kuldeep Sengar, the politician accused of raping a teen from Unnao and then attempting to eliminate her through a road accident, has said the accusations are politically motivated.

Cops Delayed Reaching UP Shootout Location Finds Probe, Officials Removed

India News | Reported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Anuj Pant | Sunday August 4, 2019

Over two weeks after 10 people, including three women, were shot dead over a land dispute in Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra, the state government today removed top administrative and police officials from their posts.

"Missed 2 Instalments, Have Proof": Unnao Truck Owner Counters Lender

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Alok Pandey, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Sunday August 4, 2019

The mystery behind the blackened number plate of the truck that mowed into the Unnao rape survivor's car deepened with the truck owner insisting he missed two instalments and had proof of that

Unnao Rape Survivor Still Critical, Suffering From Pneumonia: Doctors

India News | Reported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Saturday August 3, 2019

The Unnao rape survivor has contracted pneumonia days after being admitted to Lucknow's King George's Medical University in a critical condition, hospital authorities said in a press release issued today. Her condition is "critical but stable" and blood pressure medicines are being administered to prevent any further deterioration in health, it add...

On Unnao Truck's Blackened Number Plate, A Loan Agent's Twist

India News | Written by Alok Pandey, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Saturday August 3, 2019

The owner of the truck that rammed into the car carrying the Unnao rape survivor and her family had earlier claimed the number plates were blackened so he could avoid recovery agents

"Brother Kuldeep Going Through Hard Times...": BJP Lawmaker On Rape Accused

India News | Reported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Debanish Achom | Saturday August 3, 2019

A BJP lawmaker in Uttar Pradesh has come out in support of his expelled colleague and rape accused Kuldeep Sengar, who is in jail for over a year for allegedly raping a teenage girl two years ago.