An uneasy calm prevailed on Sunday in violence-hit Saharanpur where 38 people were arrested as a political blame game erupted with BJP accusing Samajwadi Party of indulging in "vote-bank politics" and Congress blasting the UP government for "lapses".
Maratha outfits have announced that a mega rally will be held in Mumbai on August 9 in support of their quota demand.
The National Human Rights Commission has issued notices to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Delhi government and police seeking detailed reports on the status of investigation into the alleged vandalisation of a south Delhi church.
An altercation in Parivartan Chowk in Lucknow on Friday over a trivial issue had led to clashes between lawyers and policemen.
A German newspaper in Hamburg was the target of an arson attack early on Sunday after it reprinted cartoons of Prophet Mohammed from the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. No one was hurt in the incident.
Arsonists set an Islamic school on fire in the latest in a string of attacks in the Netherlands in the wake of the killing of a Dutch filmmaker.
Kanchanbhai Mali, the 43rd witness in the case, went back on his deposition before the Vadodara court by telling the special court that he had not witnessed any incidents of arson on the ill-fated day.
Over 20 vehicles torched while several instances of stone pelting and clashes were reported on Tuesday from across Saharanpur,
He has been taken into preventive custody for violating section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code during the Ranchi bandh.
Police opened fire in Taroda area of Nanded town after miscreants set some shops afire.
The bandh had been called to protest against the 'high-handedness' of the district administration during Tuesday's agitation demanding opening of the disputed Bhojshala-Kamal Moula mosque complex.
Honeypreet is the only woman in the 'wanted' list.
Examinees and guardians insisted on using unfair means during the intermediate examination at C M Science College in Madhepura forcing cops to open fire.
Mobile internet services will remain suspended in 'sensitive' parts of Haryana till Wednesday to prevent any disturbance.
A Delhi Police head constable, Ratan Lal, was among the nine killed in the violence that erupted on Monday over the amended citizenship law.
Lawyers in UP went on flash strike to voice outrage over the killing of an advocate
The 44-year-old, whose family own New York hotels Night, Time and Dream, is accused of using a can of aerosol and a lighter to set a stranger's two dogs on fire outside his home in Manhattan on October 7.
Mobs took to streets, indulged in arson and stoned policemen after news of miscreants damaging two idols of gods.
As violence continued to rock parts of Assam in support of various demands for separate states, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday ruled out further division of his state, saying people there want to live like a joint family.
Two persons were killed on Wednesday in Kishanbagh area of Old City after communal clashes broke out over alleged burning of a religious flag leading police to open fire to quell the mob.
Criticising authorities over handling of commuter rage and breakdown of suburban train services last week, the Shiv Sena on Monday mocked the Centre's promise of 'acche din' and asked where are the good days assured to the people.
Several homes, businesses and mosques in the hilly Kandy district have been damaged in anti-Muslim riots.
Several protests -- some peaceful, some violent -- erupted across India on Monday against the police crackdown in Jamia Millia Islamia and the controversial citizenship law as students and political leaders took to the streets, even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi called these protests "deeply distressing" and appealed for peace.
Security personnel in large numbers were deployed in the hill district of West Bengal after widespread clashes between GJM activists and the police were witnessed on Saturday.
In 2014, young Muslims became Owaisi fans. But five years of BJP rule and a weakening Opposition have drawn older Muslims too towards the AIMIM chief. Not enough, though.
Under NSA, the government can detain a person for as long as it wishes and the authorities need not disclose the grounds of detention. A person booked under the provision of Gangsters Act becomes part of a gang listed in police records. It entitles the police to keep track of those booked under the Act and issue summons to them for attendance at the local police station for questioning even if no fresh case is lodged against them.
Mobile internet services have been banned in top towns of the state like Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot and Mehasana. The restriction will continue till midnight on Monday.
''You should never give the impression that the police force is malicious, vindictive and indulging in retribution,' says Dr Vikram Singh, former director general of police of Uttar Pradesh.
The court's order was based on the grounds that she has been evading arrest.
The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said the administration is responsible for protecting the education infrastructure in the state and it should take the "sternest possible action" against those found guilty of such incidents of arson.
Five persons were killed and eight injured when an auto rickshaw carrying students and a pick up van collided in Bihar's Siwan district, triggering violence in the area with locals ransacking a hospital and torching vehicles.
A Gorkha Janmukti Morcha supporter attempted self-immolation in Darjeeling as the indefinite bandh by the GJM for a separate Gorkhaland entered the sixth day on Thursday, even as the West Bengal government said it would follow court orders strictly to maintain normalcy.
'Some men and women did seek shelter in our dhaba but not one of them disclosed that they had been raped. They were in our dhaba for over two hours till such time as the cops arrived. If they had been stripped and raped, or had been lying the fields for a long period of time, they or the male members of their families should have spoken about it.'
11 companies of IIRB and three companies of CRPF have been deployed to maintain law and order.
Shops, schools and other commercial establishments were closed in parts of Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab but the shutdown call by anti-reservation bodies had little impact elsewhere in the country.
Referring to state BJP president Dilip Ghosh's allegation that its workers were provoked by the police, he said, "They had carried arms. Is it then a provocation if the police took action? Action will be taken if there is any violation of law."
With heavy security deployment in hyper-sensitive areas of Bastar region ahead of polls, Naxalites are apparently trying to change their course of action and mobilising cadres to town areas to attack "soft targets" outside their core hold, intelligence sources said.
Defying shoot-at-sight orders and a curfew, anti-bifurcation agitators on Sunday hit the streets in Vizianagaram town and other parts of the district and clashed with police.
Police arrested three persons who had allegedly vandalised a church in order to fulfil a bet they had agreed upon after having a few drinks in the wee hours of Wednesday in west Delhi's Vikaspuri area.
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