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Time of India
4 days ago
- Time of India
2 helps drug jeweller family to rob, foiled as daughter arrives home
Haridwar: A case was registered against two women from Nepal for allegedly attempting to rob the residence of a local jeweller in Haridwar's Jwalapur by serving tea and food items laced with sedatives on Thursday evening, police said on Friday. According to police, Yashpal Malhotra, 58, had hired Anisha Rai, 25, and Pushpa, 28, just four days ago through a Delhi-based placement service named Suraj agency. Jawalapur SHO Amarjeet Singh said, "On Thursday evening, the two women served tea to Yashpal, his wife Jeet, and their two minor grandsons, Avyay and Harshit. Yashpal's daughter Lovely, 38, arrived shortly and found them unconscious. The two accused were unable to steal any valuable items from the house, and subsequently managed to escape, as seen on CCTV footage from the house." The SHO added that the victims were taken to a private hospital and later referred to a higher centre in Dehradun. "All of them are out of danger now. We have recorded their statements and have launched an investigation into the matter. A case has been registered against the two accused under section 123, 305(a), and 62 of BNS. Four teams have been formed to apprehend them." Meanwhile, police have advised local residents to verify tenants and domestic helps. Stay updated with the latest local news from your city on Times of India (TOI). Check upcoming bank holidays , public holidays , and current gold rates and silver prices in your area. Get the latest lifestyle updates on Times of India, along with Raksha Bandhan wishes , messages and quotes !
Indian Express
21-07-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
‘We taught each other': In Hapur, father and son crack UP Police constable exam together
Age is just a number — something a father and son from Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, have proven as they both qualified for the Uttar Pradesh Police constable exam. Yashpal Singh Nagar (41) and his 21-year-old son Shekhar Nagar are now undergoing 10 months of training in Bareilly and Shahjahanpur, respectively, after being selected in the UP Police constabulary exams. They hail from the village of Udai Rampur Nagla in Hapur, 80 km from Delhi. The duo was among 60,000 candidates who received their appointment letters from Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow last month. According to Shekhar, after 10 months, they will be posted as constables in the same district where they underwent training. 'I am a proud son because my father qualified for the exam along with me. We prepared together — he helped me with general knowledge, and I helped him train for the running (physical test),' he told The Indian Express over the phone. He said his father's general knowledge is very good, while he is a state-level athlete. Shekhar said he has participated in several state and national-level athletic competitions. 'We didn't take up tuition or attend coaching classes. Instead, we read, discussed, and studied together. We used to go to the library, but we never revealed our relationship to anyone there,' he added. Shekhar said they also relied on online videos and YouTube channels to prepare for the exam. Shekhar is a graduate, while Yashpal is a retired Havildar from the Indian Army. He opted for retirement in 2019 after serving in the Army for 15 years, as his family needed him at home. At the time of his retirement, he was posted in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan. Shekhar's mother is a homemaker. He has two siblings — a younger sister who is pursuing her graduation, and a younger brother who is in Class 12. The duo live with their mother in their village while Shekhar and his father undergo training. 'My father's love for khaki never faded. He had prepared for the Sub-Inspector recruitment in the UP Police but missed qualifying by just two marks,' Shekhar said. In the UP Police, the age limit for recruitment to the constable rank is between 18 and 25 years. Yashpal was eligible under the ex-serviceman quota. To qualify for the exam, a candidate must pass written, physical, and medical examinations. 'Several members of my family serve in the paramilitary forces, as well as in the UP and Delhi Police. Our family is very happy — in fact, the residents of our village gathered to congratulate us when they heard that we had cleared the exam together,' Shekhar said. 'Though we have qualified as constables, we will continue preparing for the Sub-Inspector rank. Besides, I am still preparing for the NDA,' he added.
Time of India
11-07-2025
- Time of India
Sub-inspector dies in hit and run while on patrol duty
New Delhi: A 58-year-old sub-inspector of Delhi Police died in a hit-and-run accident on Friday afternoon while on highway patrol duty in east Delhi. The driver of the offending vehicle has been apprehended. According to police, the officer, identified as SI Yashpal, was posted at Pandav Nagar police station and was deployed on patrolling duty from 8am to 8pm. "Around 2.30pm, while riding a govt motorcycle along NH-9 near the DCP office cut, he was struck by a speeding taxi while attempting to take an exit and U-turn towards Ghazipur," a senior police officer said. Police said he was immediately rushed to a hospital located Ghaziabad where doctors declared him brought dead. You Can Also Check: Delhi AQI | Weather in Delhi | Bank Holidays in Delhi | Public Holidays in Delhi Originally from Raj Nagar Extension in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad, Yashpal is survived by his only son, 28-year-old Tarun Pawadia, who is currently preparing for government service exams. "The driver identified as Vishnu Yadav(37) fled the scene after the incident, but was shortly traced and apprehended afterwards. The vehicle has also been seized," the senior officer added. Further probe is underway to ascertain the sequence of events that led to the fatal accident. Earlier in March, an on-duty assistant sub-inspector, who was inspecting the scene of an accident, died after being hit by a bike in North Delhi's Burari.
Time of India
08-07-2025
- Time of India
Kidnapping case filed against illegal betting app accused
Lucknow: A case has been filed against a Mahadev betting app accused and his brother after a man from Lucknow was allegedly kidnapped over a monetary dispute. The victim was allegedly taken to Mau district, held hostage and brutally beaten until he signed a blank stamp paper. An FIR was lodged at the PGI police station late Monday night against seven individuals, including Chauhan. The victim, Naveen Chandra Yadav, a resident of Deoria district living in the PGI locality of Lucknow, alleged that he was lured into working with the accused, Yashpal Chauhan. Yadav claimed that Yashpal conducted online illegal betting operations in Lucknow and nearby districts through the app, and he got trapped in the scheme. Yadav took a loan of Rs 1 lakh from Yashpal, but their partnership soured, leading Yadav to quit. This led to a bitter dispute between the two. Last week, Yashpal's brother Guddu called Yadav and expressed his desire to buy land. On July 3, Guddu called him to meet at Vrindavan Sector 12 on the pretext of seeing the land. Yadav claimed that he met Guddu at a meeting venue on Monday around 12:15 pm, where he had arrived with his friend Rajkumar. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Villas For Sale in Dubai Might Surprise You Dubai villas | search ads Get Deals Undo Guddu allegedly forced Yadav into the car, accompanied by four others, and drove towards Mau district. When Yadav protested, he was allegedly beaten up by the accused. Yadav told the police that he was taken to the court in Mau and forced to sign a blank paper. Meanwhile, the family filed a kidnapping complaint at the PGI police station. The accused made him sit on a roadways bus to Lucknow the next day. According to inspector Dhirendra Kumar Singh, Yadav lost Yashpal's money in betting, which resulted in a dispute between the two. "An action will be taken on the basis of evidence," the inspector said.
Mint
06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
Why writer Yashpal's feminism provokes thought 50 years on
The plot of Dada Comrade, the Hindi communist writer Yashpal's (1903-76) debut novel (originally published in 1941), was informed by the events of his own tumultuous youth. As an idealistic young student in Punjab in the 1920s, Yashpal joined the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) alongside revolutionaries like Chandrashekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh. Some of his colleagues, however, did not appreciate the young Yashpal's romance with the 16-year-old Prakashvati Pal (later his wife) because they viewed marriage and domesticity as obstacles in the road to revolution. After a group of HSRA members unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Yashpal in 1930, the organisation was torn asunder and never really reunited, mirroring the rift between Yashpal and Azad. These events are fictionalised to varying degrees in the book, and the female lead Shailbala is based on aspects of Prakashvati. In the introduction to her 2022 English translation of Dada Comrade, scholar Simona Sawhney had written, 'Today, many readers may question the ways in which Yashpal conceived of equality, revolution and gender. Yashpal's feminism, for instance, is not the same as mine, but that does not prevent me from recognizing it as a feminism: a discourse that wrestled, in its own way, with questions of gender, sexuality, power and equality." Sawhney's introduction sought to contextualise Yashpal's unique and complex engagement with gender politics. This endeavour is more fully realised in the recently released essay collection, Yashpal: On Gender and Revolutionary Thought, published by Orient BlackSwan and edited by Sawhney alongside Kama McLean. The 17 essays collected here are based on some of Yashpal's best-known works: novels like Divya (1945), Gita (1946), Manushya Ke Roop (1949), short stories like Holi Ka Mazaak ('The Holi Joke') and Tumne Kyun Kaha Main Sundar Hoon? ('Why Did You Say I Am Beautiful?'), as well as landmark essays from the journal Viplav, which the writer founded in the 1940s. Three different essays, of course, are devoted to his magnum opus Jhootha Sach, a novel published in two parts in Hindi over 1958-60, and translated into English as a single, 1,100-page novel by his son Anand under the name This is Not That Dawn in 2010. What makes Yashpal such a compelling subject of study from both literary and the historiographic points of view? (Sawhney and McLean, after all, are professors of literature and history, respectively.) For one, he was one of the rare male Indian writers of his era—and this is doubly true for Hindi literature—who not only centred women's stories, but through dark humour and satirical techniques, exposed the collective complicity of Indian society in the oppression of women. Set in the 1st century BCE, Divya follows a high-born woman who decides to become a prostitute after realising that she is living in a gilded cage and that, in several meaningful ways, the courtesans and prostitutes of the era have more agency than her. This is Not That Dawn begins on the following tragicomic note, where a pair of daughters-in-law are trying their level best to 'perform" grief to the satisfaction of the men around them. 'Both daughters-in-law were present when the old woman breathed her last. The elder told the younger to announce the death of their mother-in-law with a scream of unbearable pain, mindful of the ritual at the hour of terrible grief. The younger one was at such a loss that she could not do this right. To observe the tradition properly, the elder went to the window herself and cried out in the required loud, heart-rending voice, as an eagle might cry in agony when pierced with an arrow." Second, as some of the essays in On Gender and Revolutionary Thought prove, Yashpal's engagement with gender issues was also reflective of the way his overall politics evolved with time. Xiaoke Ren, in his essay Narrative Critique of the Congress Rule in Yashpal's 'Jhootha Sach', shows us how the writer's caricatures of self-centered, predatory politicians use gender relations to underline Yashpal's views on power and its corrupting influence. In Jhootha Sach, the protagonist Tara Puri, a Partition refugee and rape survivor from Lahore now building a new life in Delhi, is crudely propositioned by a politician who promises her that he can get her a job working in the movies—suggesting, additionally, that Punjabi women ('free with their bodies") like herself have done very well in that industry. The implications about both Tara, in particular, and Punjabi women, in general, are painfully clear. A bittersweet and touching portrayal of Yashpal and Prakashvati's marriage is provided by their son Anand in Yashpal, My Father, which is the last entry in the book. Francesca Orsini, in her essay On Her Own Terms: Viplav, Women and Prakashvati Pal, describes how Prakashvati charted her own intellectual path through essays in the journal Viplav. Orsini's entry is particularly interesting because Dada Comrade, the female lead Shailbala isn't really allowed by Yashpal to develop revolutionary strands of thought by herself—both her romantic and political awakenings follow the lead of her beloved, Harish (based on Yashpal himself). My favourite essay in the collection, however, is Punjabi Refugee Women in Urban Spaces in 'Jhootha Sach' by Ritu Madan, because it looks at the bigger picture presented by Yashpal's portrayals of Punjabi female refugees in 1950s Delhi. We see how they are viewed with suspicion initially. Many of them are unfamiliar with the gendered social mores of Delhi, especially in terms of what to wear at which place, which lanes are to be avoided after dark, et cetera. But once a section of educated, driven refugees manage to place themselves in 'respectable", often English-speaking jobs, their 'foreign" bodies (alluring and a-threat-to-the-social-fabric in equal measure) acquire the blunting, assimilatory edge of the white collar. These women, then, have a hand in shaping the very foundation of Delhi's modernity, a modernity that gives them a place in society, but under strictly demarcated terms. Madan writes, 'As Delhi is transformed in the novel from refugee city to capital city by the labour of the Partition migrants who settle into new homes and occupations, Punjabi migrant women become increasingly invisible in the city. By discipling their bodies into 'normative femininity', they forfeit unconditional access to public space, and inhabit it purposefully, for education, employment or shopping. As they occupy the city with their disciplined bodies, waiting at bus stops in their clean and starched saris to reach places of work where they labour honestly (…), these Punjabi women redefine the city as the modern and developing capital of a new country." The emphasis on educated, upper-caste characters in Yashpal's corpus, however, is also the key to understanding the limitations of his feminism. As Sawhney explains in her own essay (which opens the book), upper-caste protagonists like Tara from Jhootha Sach encounter two kinds of supporting characters quite often—the oppressed lower-caste woman who is usually a peer, and the bitter, long-suffering woman who's usually from a generation above. Both these recurring 'types" in Yashpal's fiction are flat, unconvincing portrayals because they seem to exist only to further the education of the young, educated, idealistic upper-caste protagonist. 'If education is the single most important factor shared by the women protagonists of Yashpal's novels, it is also what sets them apart from other women, including their own mothers and aunts who are never able to provide guidance or support to these young women," as she argues. Aditya Mani Jha is a writer based in Delhi.
