The Maharashtra government has framed rules to prevent honour killings, 'khap panchayat' diktats, mob lynching as well as violence, and asked the director general of police to apprise personnel across the state force of their implementation, an official said on Friday.
Old City areas on Saturday morning wore a deserted look due to a day-long `Hyderabad Bandh' called by Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen to protest against the blast.
Highest level of anti-terror measures, with deployment of over 5,000 personnel, including 300 commandos, will be in place to provide watertight security to England and India teams in Chennai for the first cricket Test, beginning Thursday.
Thousands of farmers from around 100 villages of Noida and Greater Noida on Thursday took to the streets seeking hiked compensation, bringing traffic to a standstill in several parts of Delhi-NCR as they made an unsuccessful bid to march towards Parliament.
Violence erupted on the campus around last midnight, following a clash between two student groups leading to the death of Mahtab, DIG (AligarhRange) Govind Agarwal, who led the police operation, said.
People stood in long queues since early morning on the road leading to 'Chaityabhoomi' where Ambedkar was cremated.
In Kanpur, that witnessed stone pelting and violence on June 3, people from the Muslim community participated in the prayers in all major mosques while the police personnel remained on alert.
Life in the north-eastern state of Manipur continued to limp back to normal as curfew was relaxed in 11 districts, including Imphal West, Bishnupur, Churachandpur and Jiribam, for six hours from 5 am, as no fresh incident of violence was reported, officials said on Wednesday.
Saturday marks the 11th anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid.
The situation in the entire Jammu city and adjoining towns continued to be tense, even as the authorities extended curfew to Kathua district on the Pathankote Jammu national highway following largescale violence in the town. Contingents of Rapid Action Force were airlifted from outside the state and reached winter capital Jammu on Thursday.
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has demonstrated the integration of multiple forces in domains of air, land, sea, cyber, information and space, and how they are "united" to achieve the goal, Vice Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal A P Singh, said on Friday.
Most parts of Hyderabad remained shut on Saturday after several Muslim organisations, including the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, called for a strike to mark the 16th anniversary of the demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. Shops remained closed and roads wore a deserted look in the old city, where thousands of policemen, along with two companies of the Rapid Action Force, maintained a tight vigil. All educational institutions, business establishments remained shut.
"India is not a country to lose courage. We will fight and win," he said.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray, who was arrested early Tuesday morning, has been sent to two-week judicial custody by a court in suburban Bandra in Mumbai where he was produced around 2.50 pm. Two truckloads of Rapid Action Force personnel were stationed outside the court for security.
A high level meeting held at the behest of the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister T K A Nair, has decided to provide more companies of the Rapid Action Force to Sabarimala during the ensuing temple season.
Curfew was clamped again in Jammu and the army was deployed on Wednesday after violence erupted late on Tuesday night leaving 40 people, including nine policemen, injured.However, the curfew was relaxed for varying periods in Samba, Udhampur and Kishtwar districts.National Security Advisor M K Narayanan today met Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra and other top officials of the state administration to discuss the present security situation.
For over two months the Kashmir valley has simmered with discontent against the government as youth have thronged the streets demanding azaadi. Some human images from the conflict zone.
Gujarat continued to reel under the onslaught of torrential rains on Friday with the death toll mounting to 90.
'Hindus and Muslims live here peacefully. People who were in the procession must be outsiders and not Jahangirpuri locals.'
The operation mounted by security personnel, against the terrorists holed up inside Nariman House in south Mumbai, finally came to an end on Friday night.The operation, involving personnel from the National Security Guard, the Rapid Action Force, the Black Cats and the Mumbai Police, had started on Thursday night.Addressing the media after the Nariman House operation, NSG Director General J K Dutt said that they have secured the building.
Fresh violence erupted in Indore on Friday, leading to the imposition of curfew in the entire city, a day after four persons were killed in clashes during the Bharatiya Janata Party Vishwa Hindu Parishad sponsored bandh against the revocation of land to Amarnath shrine board.
According to Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation officials, city buses are plying as usual.
Three persons were killed in Wednesday in protests against the sealing drive.
'Given China's past behaviour and their territorial claims, should we be sceptical regarding China's willingness to adhere to these agreements fully? The answer is yes.' 'As Ronald Reagan famously said in the context of the SALT talks, 'Trust, but verify!' India should also do the same.' 'This has already begun with foot patrolling, drones, satellite imagery and so on. India's military deployment did mirror China's and will continue to do so in the future.'
One Bharatiya Kisan Union activist was killed while 22 others, including 13 policemen, were injured in the clash.
Aligarh Muslim University on Monday closed sine die following student violence after the killing of an death of an engineering student.
More than 35 hours after the terrorists struck, there was a lull in Mumbai on Friday as National Security Guard commandos and security personnel closed in on Nariman House for a final assault and most of the residents chose to stay indoors.
Former West Bengal chief minister and a front-ranking Marxist leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will go down in the country's history as a pragmatic communist who kept aside his ideological convictions to woo capital for the industrialisation of his state.
The situation in the riot-hit town of Bhainsa in Adilabad district bordering Maharashtra is limping back to normalcy, but with the re-imposition of curfew after a three-and-a-half hour relaxation on Tuesday, the town is wrapped in graveyard like silence.
'I was posted in different states of the country. We are also the son of a farmer. I come here as a farmer'
1 killed, 12 injured in communal clashes in UP
Meanwhile, DIG, CRPF Alok Raj took charge of additional three companies for the polls as flag marches were staged in villages including Gokulnagar, Takapara, Sonachura and Aamgachia. At some places, the paramilitary force faced allegations of not being neutral, Raj said.
Himmatnagar town witnessed communal clashes and arson during Ram Navami celebrations.
Security at all sensitive places, including the makeshift Ram Lalla structure on the acquired land, has been stepped up.
Apart from that, there were two live bombs recovered from the spot and defused, he said after he spoke to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhhara Reddy.
The Union home ministry is in constant touch with the state government officials, an MHA source said in New Delhi. The situation was being closely monitored.
The West Bengal government has taken a serious note of the situation in certain areas under the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate, including Bhatpara, which has witnessed a series of clashes since May 19, when the bypoll was held in the assembly constituency.
'Bangladesh has become unstable and this instability will impact India.'
'The odds were stacked against us.' 'Through it all, we were determined to overcome and prevail we did!' Wing Commander Shailesh Singh on the high-risk flying mission for which he was awarded the Shaurya Chakra.
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