The Latest Breaking News from Uttar Pradesh

From school skit to viral church protest: How a Christmas event was recast as ‘anti-Hindu’

What began as an annual Christmas programme featuring schoolchildren, skits and a science exhibition in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly ended with slogans outside a church and demands for an FIR. 

Newslaundry · Dec 26, 2025

How India’s most populous state cancelled Christmas this year

Critics say Uttar Pradesh’s move reflects mounting pressure on religious minorities, with Christian organisations warning of rising hostility and violence

The Independent UK · Dec 26, 2025

Dispatch from Dadri: The lynching that shook India, and govt U-turn stirring it again

The Uttar Pradesh government has moved a Greater Noida court seeking to withdraw all charges against the accused in the 2015 Mohammad Akhlaq lynching case, bringing the case back into national focus.

Newslaundry · Dec 4, 2025

Near-empty theatres, viewers split: Yogi biopic finds few takers in UP

A biopic on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has hit theatres.

Newslaundry · Sep 25, 2025

Operation Langda: Three districts, three encounters, same story

In Newslaundry’s ongoing investigation into Uttar Pradesh police’s alleged ‘half encounters’, also known as ‘Operation Langda’, we chart three such incidents – all with similar stories.   

Newslaundry · Sep 19, 2025

Why wetlands need dry days

 It was May and the Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh was blooming with pink lotus. The wetland had water pumped into it from Sharda Canal – one of the oldest and largest irrigation systems in the state – to ease the nesting of open-billed stork and black-necked ibis.

Newslaundry · Sep 15, 2025

The challenges in UP’s wetland conservation

Sanjaya Singh knew that most bureaucratic decisions last only until a transfer order is issued, or a new official takes charge. So, when it came to the conservation of Uttar Pradesh’s 1.24 million hectares of wetlands, Singh – then principal chief conservator of forest and chief wildlife warden – led with an…

Newslaundry · Sep 1, 2025

The swagger’s gone: What the last two decades taught me about India’s fading growth dream

Because something is happening here but you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones?– Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man, Highway 61 Revisited, 1965. I was offered my first job in Mumbai on a very rainy day in September 2005, a few weeks after we had celebrated the…

Newslaundry · Aug 14, 2025

Mathura CCTV footage blows holes in UP’s ‘Operation Langda’

“Half encounter” – or what the Uttar Pradesh Police call “Operation Langda” – is a practice in which police shoot suspects in the leg to capture them alive. Once hit, the accused collapses, and the police make the arrest.

Newslaundry · Aug 12, 2025

India unveils plans to use cow dung as fuel for vehicles. But is it really a green alternative?

India’s most populous state says it will process millions of kilos of cow dung from stray cattle to create biogas

The Independent UK · Aug 12, 2025