Authorities in Sambhal denied permission for the annual Neja Mela, traditionally held in memory of Syed Salar Masud Ghazi, over historical concerns. Security forces were deployed to maintain peace and ...

ASP (Sambhal) Shrish Chandra conducting a meeting with the Neja Mela Committee members at Kotwali Sadar police station on Monday. (Sourced) “Following the controversy in Sambhal, Hindu outfits ...

The decision has drawn attention in the wake of the district administration being denied permission for annual Neja Mela in Sambhal ...

Local leaders and activists demand a ban on the Satrikh fair celebrating Syed Salar Sahu Gazi, citing historical controversy over his association with Mahmud of Ghazni. The fair, linked to an ...

For in the “New India” that leaders like Yogi Adityanath are remaking in the image of whatever mythical kingdom catches their ...

Not to be missed in all this concatenation of emotionally fuelled eruptions is the place of a humble local mela — the Neja Mela of Sambhal. The bureaucracy, or rather the state’s law and order ...

Bareilly: The head of Sambhal's Shahi Jama Masjid committee is allegedly being "mistreated in jail and not even being given ...

Sambhal authorities had earlier denied permission for the 'Neja Mela', traditionally held in memory of invader Mahmud ...

DAYS AFTER the Sambhal police denied permission for the Neja (Javelin) Mela after “public objections” over its association with Syed Salar Masood Ghazi, the nephew of Turkish invader Mahmud Ghazni, ...