Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has asked Delhi Police to register a first information report after students allegedly shouted slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah during a campus protest, The Indian Express reported. The protest on Monday, organised by the JNU Students’ Union (JNUSU), marked six years since a mob stormed...
Clashes broke out on Wednesday as the Municipal Corporation of Delhi began demolishing structures beyond 0.19 acres near Turkman Gate mosque, following a High Court directive At least five police officers were injured after violence erupted during an anti-encroachment operation near a mosque in central Delhi on Wednesday, news agency PTI reported. The incident took...
Around 80 to 90 people forced their way inside the premises, intimidating staff as they “threatened us…shouted at us” and “indulged in violence,” an employee said. A group of Hindutva activists vandalised Christmas decorations at a shopping mall in the city of Raipur in Chhattisgarh on Wednesday, according to media reports, amid heightened tensions ahead...
Bangladesh’s Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain said he had been informed of death threats made against High Commissioner Riaz Hamidullah during the demonstration. Bangladesh has suspended consular and visa services at its High Commission in New Delhi and its Assistant High Commission in Agartala until further notice, citing heightened diplomatic tensions linked to recent unrest in...
The court allowed the move with safeguards, barring Navlakha from leaving Delhi without trial court permission, ordering him to surrender his passport, and directing him to report weekly at the Kalkaji police station. The Bombay High Court on Wednesday allowed human rights activist Gautam Navlakha, who is on bail in the Bhima Koregaon case, to...
The protest on Sunday at India Gate and Kartavya Path led to the detention of 23 students, who were later taken outside the Parliament Street police station Delhi Police on Friday re-arrested eight students shortly after they were granted bail in connection with a protest against air pollution in the national capital, The Indian Express...
Water sprayers sprinkle mist in New Delhi for pollution control
The colonial usage of ‘riots’ denoted two religious groups indulging in bloody violence. The British, who thought themselves as morally superior to every other group in India, sought to distance themselves from these warring factions in trying to impose order. The British have long gone, but the usage of this colonial word continues and is...