Ankita Dwivedi Johri
Articles By Ankita Dwivedi Johri
Agra girl killed: ‘Someone was jealous, burnt her school bag and books too’
The incident has had one fallout in the village — the girls have stopped going to school. “At least 40 girls went to the same school as the girl, they are all scared to step out now."
1984 anti-Sikh riots: ‘The bodies were here, everywhere… in the dark, all I could see were fires’
Block 32, Trilokpuri. This east Delhi neighbourhood was Ground Zero of the 1984 carnage in the Capital where 350 Sikh residents were killed in 30 hours. The first reporters to reach the spot were Joseph Maliakan and his colleagues at The Indian Express.
Ram on track: Aboard the Ramayana Express
Amid delays and discomfort, faith keeps passengers on the fully booked maiden Shri Ramayana Express from Ayodhya to Rameswaram going. Plus election talk that veers around to PM Modi and the temple. ANKITA DWIVEDI JOHRI on board the Ramayana train.
‘We are all #MeToo’: The several battles of the women from Agra
One of the many women who accused M J Akbar of sexual harassment said she had ‘fought several battles’ in home town Agra to become the first woman in her family to step out to work. The Indian Express goes back to Agra to see what #MeToo means for the women starting out there.
90 per cent of the comments on my video are positive: UP policeman heard mimicking gun sound
In a six-second viral clip, a policeman, identified as Manoj Kumar, was heard mimicking the sound of gunshot after his revolver got jammed during an encounter, saying “Arre maaro, ghero ghero, thain thain”.
Masira & Rizwan
She loved dance, he dreamt of Indian Idol. Their love was the talk of Nizamuddin basti — till he ‘killed’ her.
World’s largest recruitment drive: 2.37 crore applicants for 1.2 lakh Railway jobs
They arrive 12 hours before exam, and take over footpaths, roads, even traffic police stalls. The Indian Express spends a day at the largest exam centre where, as chances appear bleaker, hope must shine brighter
Meerut video: Police scramble for cover, woman gets quiet support
The clip is from September 23, when the Hindu woman was with her friend, a 22-year-old Muslim man, at his apartment when it was “raided” by a mob. The police team arrived and took the woman away in their jeep when the video was taken.
Still in hospital, Rewari rape victim misses job exam she spent months preparing for
For months, the 19-year-old from a village in Haryana’s Rewari district who was gangraped on September 12 had been preparing for the government job exam.
Task cut out: Unrolling 1.7 lakh square metres carpet at Delhi Airport
The installation of the carpets at T3, which was done using environment-friendly “ultra low VOC adhesive”, involved between 500-800 labourers spread across four-five teams working together for months.
Dirtiest station: Mathura- One lakh footfall, pilgrims who make it home for night
Mathura station’s battle against filth and grime is perhaps no different from any other in India — with cups strewn across the tracks, dirty toilets, and the ubiquitous paan stains.
Muzaffarpur shelter home case: Brajesh Thakur- under his care 34 girls were ‘sexually assaulted’
The story of Brajesh Thakur, newspaper owner, local power broker and the man who ran the shelter where 34 girls, most of them children, were allegedly sexually assaulted. The Indian Express investigates the man and his networks.
Muzaffarpur shelter home abuse: How the system failed them
Over the four years of its existence, the shelter home in Bihar, like most government-run shelters in the state, was inspected by multiple bodies, but none flagged the “highly questionable manner” in which it was being run or that “several girls (had) reported about violence and being abused sexually”.
Muzaffarpur shelter home victim counsellors: ‘We take each day as it comes… to help the girls fight trauma’
Muzaffarpur shelter home rapes: While the CBI is investigating the case, the Bihar Social Welfare Department is in charge of the recovery and rehabilitation of the girls.
‘Even Gandhari had 101 children’
At 20.42 cr, UP has more numbers than Pakistan (19.32 cr) and Bangladesh (16.3 cr). Of world’s most populous countries, only Nigeria is growing faster.
Out on bail, WhatsApp ‘group admin’ says he was framed
Three days after Ansar (20) and Rashid (22), both residents of Alhkala locality in Kairana in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, were arrested for posting 'provocative' messages on the WhatsApp group '4G Kairana', the two men have been released on bail.
WhatsApp arrest: Out on bail, ‘group admin’ says he was framed
“I got a 3G connection only two months ago and that was to take pictures of our orchard. Some people had been cutting our trees and I would take pictures and send them to the police,” said Rashid who, the police claimed, along with Ansar, was the administrator of the WhatsApp group.
‘Stone-pelting on bulls’ in Shamli: Farmers deny incident, blame stray cattle for ruining crops
On Wednesday, 25 “unidentified persons” from the village were named in an FIR for allegedly dragging 16 bulls into a canal and pelting them with stones for damaging their crops.
A WhatsApp group, a threatening picture and the murder of a 28-year-old in Haryana’s Sonepat
He was allegedly bludgeoned to death with a log by a group led by Dinesh Johar aka Bunty (40) in Sonepat’s Delhi Camp locality, who saw the WhatsApp image as a “challenge”. Luv’s four cousins were injured in the “fight”.
The bricks in the wall: In system that reduces children to mere percentages, a look at what it is to not make the cut
According to data for 2018, the Delhi-National Capital Region has the highest concentration of CBSE schools, with the states of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana accounting for nearly half of the 11,510 CBSE-affiliated schools across the country.
