Perpetrators of communal riots in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district will be given the strictest punishment, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday.
Investigators were on Sunday looking into what caused one of the deadliest train accidents in recent times as rescue operations continued
Delhi's overall air quality index (AQI) stood at 463 at 11.30 am, according to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR).
The youth took the woman at gunpoint to a nearby field when she was returning from the market and raped her, police said.
A 26-year-old woman was allegedly drugged and gangraped in Muzaffarnagar by five youths, including son of a Sub-inspector, police said on Sunday.
Proceedings in Parliament were paralysed for the third day running over a number of issues, including Telangana and death of 40 children in Muzaffarnagar relief camps, preventing the notices for a no-confidence motion from being taken up on Wednesday.
Wasim, UP PFI head, was arrested for masterminding the violence, police said. 33 FIRs have been filed in Lucknow and 150 people have been arrested so far.
'Charging that some main political parties are trying to "dangerously" disturb the communal harmony in Uttar Pradesh ahead of Lok Sabha polls, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday warned such forces of stringent action.
Shahzad Ali, a sales and marketing manager at a mobile phone company, was among the group of Muslims from Delhi's Shaheen Bagh area who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on August 16, 2020.
Amid raging controversy over Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's claim -- that those living in relief camps in Muzaffarnagar were political activists and not riot victims -- his party went into fire fighting mode on Wednesday, saying his statement had been twisted.
Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com gives the lowdown on the constituencies going to polls in the first phase on April 11.
Controlled communal tension is useful in ensuring continued Muslim support. Fear of the BJP is a requirement for both, the Congress and the Samajwadi Party, to keep their Muslim vote bank in line, says Saeed Naqvi.
The terrorists wanted to target Fateh, a Canadian national who often visits India, to create a sensation across the world.
The body of farmer leader and Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Mahendra Singh Tikait, who died after prolonged battle with bone cancer, was on Monday cremated at his birth place Sisauli in Muzaffarnagar.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday replied to the Election Commission notice over alleged model code violation with controversial remarks that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence was in touch with Muzaffarnagar riot victims, denying the charge.
A young girl was brutally beaten to death, while her boyfriend is struggling for survival after being attacked in the name of 'family honour' in Soran village of Muzaffarnagar district near Lucknow.
As abattoirs in Uttar Pradesh are on indefinite strike under the Yogi Adityanath government, meat shop owners are now forced to sell tea.
In a seeming bid to preempt any move by yoga guru Baba Ram Dev to stage a demonstration in Uttar Pradesh, the UP administration clamped Section 144 of CrPC in all districts falling under the national capital region late Monday evening. Under this section, assembly of four or more persons at any public place is banned.
Men and women, young, old all came together to save lives where they could and provide succour -- some by providing food, while others provided medicines and a shoulder to cry on.
Tikait (76), who was president of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, had been suffering from bone cancer since last year and breathed his last at the residence of his son and BKU general secretary Rakesh Tikait in Muzaffarnagar, family sources said
The Congress on Saturday complained to the Election Commission against Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah over his "provocative hate speech", demanding that he be arrested and banned from campaigning for "creating animosity between communities" in riot-hit western UP.
The state government decides to take over the management of all shelter homes after incidents of sexual abuse surfaced in Muzaffarnagar, reports M I Khan.
India's Muslims need to assert their educational and economic upliftment and political empowerment rather than be provoked by communal remarks, says Mohammad Sajjad, reflecting on the Malda riot.
A Bharatiya Janata Party legislator in Uttar Pradesh assembly on Tuesday demanded 'Y' security cover for legislator Suresh Rana, accused of inciting Muzaffarnagar riots, citing security threat to him.
The Khap Council heads in this meeting, that began on Saturday in Soran village, opposed same gotra marriages and said such relations "will not be tolerated by the caste councils".
Popular farmers' leader and founder president of Bhartiya Kisan Union Mahendra Sigh Tikait, who died of bone cancer on Sunday morning in Muzaffarnagar, had led over a dozen major movements in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, fighting for the cause of farmers.
The National Human Rights Commission is adopting a tough posture against illegal police actions as outlined in three cases in which big amount of monetary relief has been recommended by the panel and paid by the state governments concerned.
The encounters took place in Bulandshahr, Shamli, Kanpur, Saharanpur, Lucknow, Baghpat, Muzaffarnagar, Gorkahpur, Hapur and Meerut.
A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a youth in Navla village in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh the police said on Monday.
More than 200 villages have been inundated in Bareilly and Moradabad divisions due to floods even as seven trains have been cancelled in the region.
'Am I wrong in presuming that UP is being seen as a new laboratory of communal politics like one has seen in Gujarat,' asks Ashutosh.
Paramilitary force personnel and state police force will be deployed and drone cameras will be used to ensure security on Friday.
Madhya Pradesh police said violence in Bhind and Morena districts was 'sponsored'.
The April 11 polling will decide the fate of several political bigwigs.
Chief Minister Mayawati conducted an aerial survey of the flood-affected areas after which western Uttar Pradesh was declared a disaster-hit zone. The chief minister also sought a flood relief package of Rs 2000 crore from the Centre.
Kumar was convicted and sentenced to life for the remainder of his life by the high court on December 17 in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Raj Nagar area.
The former Congress leader had sought more time, till January 30, to surrender saying he has to settle family affairs related to children and property and also needs time to file appeal in the Supreme Court against the high court verdict.
A village panchayat in Muzaffarnagar has banned the use of mobile phones by unmarried girls; a move they feel would prevent them from eloping with their lovers. The all caste and community panchayat met at Lank village of the district on Monday and discussed the 'bad effects' of mobile phones. The panchayat subsequently passed the order.
The Election Commission on Wednesday censured Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah and Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan for making controversial remarks during campaigning.
Hukum Singh said the 'migration' of Hindus from Kairana in western Uttar Pradesh was 'not communal' in nature but had more to do with the law and order situation.
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