News Muncher - category nighasan

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Floods batter 10 U.P. districts, 17 more dead

The flood fury in Uttar Pradesh killed 17 more people after swollen rivers took 10 Uttar Pradesh districts under their spate. In Lakhimpur Kheri, 41 villages were affected and 221 people were evacuated from the Nighasan area of the district, Kumar said, adding 82 villages in Shravasti and 16 in Kushinagar were also flooded. In Nighasan tehsil, flood fury caused …

Floods Uttar Pradesh Water Flood Villages Village Dudhwa

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Flood fury in these Kheri schools puts teachers in ‘deep water’

Hindustan Times

Amid widespread protest against the move to make teachers’ attendance digital, flood fury in nearly two dozen schools located in rural areas of Lakhimpur Kheri has made it quite hard for teachers posted there to reach schools let alone following government order regarding online attendance. “Due to heavy rain, the Mohana and the Kaudiyala rivers in my vicinity have inundated …

School Flood Schools Kheri Online Attendance Nighasan Teachers Attendance

2 years, 3 months ago

Lakhimpur Kheri sisters’ rape, murder: Opposition flays U.P. govt

Hindustan Times

Opposition leaders have attacked the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party over the alleged rape and murder of two Dalit teenage sisters whose bodies of were found hanging from a tree under Nighasan police station limits of Lakhimpur Kheri district on Wednesday evening. The bodies of two Dalit teenage sisters were found hanging from a tree under Nighasan police station limits of …

Murder Dalit Opposition Incident Hindi Sisters Kheri

2 years, 3 months ago

Abducted, raped, murdered, says mother after Dalit teens found hanging from tree in Lakhimpur Kheri

India Today

The mother of two Dalit teenage girls, who were found hanging on a tree in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri, alleged that her daughters were raped and murdered. Two Dalit teenage sisters were found hanging from a tree in a sugarcane field located about a kilometre away from their house in Nighasan police station limits here on Wednesday. OPPOSITION REACTS Opposition …

Uttar Pradesh Dalit Accused Fir Tree Sisters Hathras

2 years, 9 months ago

The Nighasan enigma of India’s democracy

The Hindu

In the recently concluded Assembly elections, 116 million Indians spanning 690 electoral constituencies in five States exercised their voting rights. Does India’s much vaunted electoral democracy truly represent the ‘free will’ of the people? Killings and votes On October 3, 2021, in Tikonia village in the electoral Assembly constituency of Nighasan in Lakhimpur Kheri district of India’s largest State Uttar …

India Elections Democracy Indian Fear State Voters

2 years, 11 months ago

UP Assembly elections: From a Miss Bikini India contestant to poll violence victim, Congress presents medley of characters in candidates

Firstpost

The Congress has released its first list of 125 candidates for the Uttar Pradesh polls of which 50 are women in line with the party’s poll promise After naming the mother of the Unnao rape incident, ASHA worker Poonam Pandey and anti-Citizenship Amendment Act activist Sadaf Jafar as their candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress …

Uttar Pradesh Congress Party Bjp Candidate Shastri Lakhimpur

3 years, 1 month ago

Ground Report: In Lakhimpur, BJP Unease Grows Over Ashish Mishra; Gulf Widens Between Sikhs, Brahmins

News 18

“He was not present at the incident spot and he had not sent the party workers in the vehicles to receive the VIP. He is just paying the price for being the Union Minister’s son.” Sitting under a peepal tree in the Lakhimpur District Court complex, so proclaims advocate Awadhesh Singh about his jailed client Ashish Mishra, the son of …

Farmers Sikh Bjp Singh Fir Mishra Sikhs

3 years, 2 months ago

Has Lakhimpur violence dented Ashish Misra's image in UP's Nighasan seat?

India Today

From a poll campaign manager, and activist to murder accused — Ashish Misra's image has definitely taken a hit in the Nighasan Assembly constituency, from where he had hoped to contest the state elections next year. Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Misra Teni's son Ashish Misra, alias Monu Misra, is being blamed for the death of four farmers. …

India Union Son Father His Father Lakhimpur Lakhimpur Kheri

4 years, 3 months ago

Man Accused of Raping and Killing 3-year-old Arrested after Police Encounter in UP's Lakhimpur Kheri