Army Chief General Bipin Rawat's criticism for recent violent protests against the new citizenship law has set tongues wagging in the political circles. General Rawat on Thursday said that instigating large crowds to turn violent and carry out carson doesn't amount to leadership. His remarks evoked strong reactions from Opposition leaders.
The Popular Front of India, an extremist Islamic fundamentalist organisation which started in Kerala in 2006 as a successor to the National Development Front, has spread its base in Uttar Pradesh and played a major role in anti-CAA violent protests in the state as well as other places, catching security agencies off guard.
More than 1,100 people are under arrest and 5,558 kept in preventive detention following violence related to the anti-citizenship amendment act protests, officials said on Thursday, putting the death toll in police clashes across the state at 19.
The baby's grandmother said that Arya was not eating in the absence of her mother. There has been a controversy over the arrests in Varanasi last week over the protests against the citizenship law.
The Ghaziabad administration has been examining CCTV footage to identify not merely trouble-makers but also peacemakers who tried to pacify violent mobs during the anti-CAA stir last week in the district and has decided to honour 57 such good samaritans, said district magistrate on Tuesday.
Kangana Ranaut says indulging in violence over Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAA) is not a very reasonable thing to do.
Terming as "disturbing" reports of police allegedly entering hospitals in violence-hit areas during agitations against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) said such actions are "unacceptable" and demanded that hospitals be declared "safe zones".
Actress Sonakshi Sinha claims at this point of time, discussions about the new citizenship law CAA and the ensuing nationwide protests are more important than any talk of opening-day collections of 'Dabangg 3', this week's new Bollywood release featuring Bollywood superstar Salman Khan with her.
Clashes broke out between anti-CAA protesters and police in which several people, including policemen, were injured in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur on Saturday, officials said.
Clashes broke out between anti-CAA protesters and police in which several people, including policemen, were injured in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur on Saturday, officials said.
Director General of Police OP Singh, however, confirmed Nine deaths during the violence in about 20 districts. Singh told that two people lost their lives in Bijnor and one each in Meerut, Sambhal and Firozabad. But officials reported a death in
More than a dozen protesters who stopped the express train at Jehanabad station resorted to sloganeering. The agitators appeared to be affiliated to Lalu Yadav's Rashtriya Jananta Dal (RJD) as they were heard raising slogans, "Lalu Yadav jindabad.
Eleven people were killed and scores of others injured as protests against the new citizenship law turned violent in Uttar Pradesh for the second consecutive day on Friday, taking the death toll in the state in the last 48 hours to 11.
Violent anti-Citizenship Act protests continued to hit headlines on Friday as the epicentre of the protests widened to take Uttar Pradesh in its hold alongside Delhi. For almost the entire day, people agitated against Citizenship (Amendment) Act and National Register of Citizens (NRC) across UP in protests that took violent turn.
Large demonstrations against the Citizenship Amendment Act were held in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr on Friday with protesters pelting stones at police personnel and burning a vehicle at one place.
The official website of Jamia Millia Islamia University has been hacked. The message appearing on the varsity's website reads: "Hacked by Dark Knight to support jamia students.. Jai Hind!"
Police fired teargas shells and carried out a baton charge to disperse 100 anti-CAA protesters who allegedly turning violent, setting a few motor bikes on fire and pelting stones on the security forces in Karnataka's Mangaluru, a police official said on Thursday.
Hundreds of activists of Democratic Youth Federation of India took out a protest march to Raj Bhavan, the official residence of the Governor on Thursday after senior Left leaders were detained during an anti-Citizenship Act protest in Delhi.
The AIIMS administration warned its students, resident doctors, faculty and staff on Thursday against holding any protest or strike within the premises of the institute.
Scores of protestors were detained by the Delhi Police near Red Fort when they tried to take out a march in defiance of the prohibitory orders imposed there to protest the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. Swarajya Abhiyan chief Yogendra Yadav was among those detained, officials said.
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