The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Bharatiya Janata Party staged a protest in Bengaluru on Monday against the police inaction post the killing of a sangh activist.
"We have decided to ban mobile internet service from 10 pm from Saturday night to 8 am on October 19," District Collector Manisha Chandra said.
Heavy police security had been deployed at various places following the large scale protests.
The children were stranded in the boarding school, Bharwada Ashramshala, for the last four days following heavy rains in Kheda district.
The youths, identified as Mohammed Harshad and Taufeeq Pathan, were moving about in a suspicious manner.
They were BJP corporator Maya Kodnani, Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi and others, the victim told the Nanavati Commission.
The temple authorities have organised 'mahapuja' and 'shradhanjali' programmes to mark the first anniversary of the terrorist attack.
Even though programmes have been held in Ahmedabad in a show of Hindu-Muslim unity, police are taking no chances.
It was a night of carnage in parts of Gujarat on Tuesday.
The total length of rath yatra procession stretches up to 1.5 km. It will return to the temple after almost 11 hours of journey.
The state police has also requested the government to deploy paramilitary forces around the jail premises for the underworld don's security.
Elaborate arrangements at the check points before one enters the actual venue have been put in place to check the baggage and identity of the general public and media entering the venue.
The two hotels have been turned into virtual fortresses with policemen and other security personnel outside and inside.
A large crowd gathered from different parts of the city at the graveyard for the burial of Yakub Memon.
Though the "eye of the storm" is away from land, the cyclone's outer periphery would leave its impact on the coast.
Tipu was a ruler of the erstwhile kingdom of Mysore and considered an implacable enemy of the British East India Company.
The protests were held after police detained Dalit leader and independent MLA Jignesh Mevani, and over 70 others, in Saraspur area of Ahmedabad on Sunday morning when they tried to stage demonstrations over Vanakar's death.
Protests raging in Assam against lynching of rape accused Farid Khan in Dimapur in Nagaland on March 5
Claiming that no untoward incident had taken place during the last 48 hours, Rupani said the situation has been brought under control by police.
In a surprise move, Gujarat government on Wednesday reinstated suspended IPS officer G L Singhal, an accused in Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case whose recording of phone conversations had brought to light the snooping scandal allegedly involving Narendra Modi aide Amit Shah.
The bandh has been called by pro-Kannada and farmers' organisations, protesting the Mahadayi Water Dispute Tribunal's interim order rejecting the state's petition seeking 7.56 tmcft for drinking water projects.
'Predictions are that numbers will continue to rise till May end and maybe in the first half of June will be our peak.'
According to a statement issued by the VHP in Delhi, Togadia, 62, who suffered from low blood sugar levels, was found in an unconscious state in Shahibaug and was taken to Chandramani Hospital located in the same area.
The city police commissioner has promulgated prohibitory orders under Section 144 of Code of Criminal Procedure in the limits of Bengaluru city till the midnight of April 22.
The Supreme Court on Friday acquitted all six convicts, including three condemned prisoners, in the 2002 Akshardham temple attack case and pulled up the Gujarat police for shoddy investigation in the case in which all the accused faced prosecution under the stringent anti-terror law, Prevention Of Terrorism Act
Devotees across India on Thursday welcomed their most beloved and venerated deity -- Lord Ganesh -- into their homes and community pandals, kickstarting the ten-day Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations with zeal and devotion.
Normal life in Karnataka is likely to be affected on Saturday as pro-Kannada outfits have called for a statewide dawn-to-dusk bandh to protest Tamil Nadu's opposition to Mekedatu drinking water project across the inter-state river Cauvery.
All the essential services, schools and colleges have been excluded from the bandh.
A woman was confirmed dead and another injured in an explosion triggered by an Improvised Explosive Device on Sunday night in front of a popular restaurant on a busy road in the heart of Bengaluru.
Thousands of men mobbed the revellers, and groped and trash talked the women in the streets on Saturday night even as a large number of policemen were deployed in the area.
Members of Patel community resorted to arson, stone-pelting and vandalism after brief detention of their 22-year-old leader Hardik Patel, following which curfew was on Tuesday night imposed in three towns of North Gujarat and some areas of Surat.
The ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi culminated on Sunday as thousands of devotees immersed idols of the elephant-headed deity.
After spending 10 days with his devotees, Lord Ganesha returns to his abode on Thursday marking the last day of Ganesha visarjan. Rediff.com captures the joy and processions on the last day of the Ganesha festival.
Amid tight security, the funeral of a 32-year-old man from Patel community, who allegedly died in custody after being caught by police during the quota violence, was held in Ahmedabad on Sunday.
The sea training also included 'how to fish', something that made Kasab think that 'he had got a job and he could earn a respectable living'.
CM Siddaramaiah has called legislature session on September 23 to discuss the SC's direction.
Army was called in on Wednesday to help control widespread violence sparked by quota agitation by Patel community in Gujarat which has claimed seven lives even as curfew was clamped in several areas.
In an unseemly friction in Bangalore police top brass, a senior IPS officer, accused of clicking "objectionable" pictures of a woman in a coffee shop, has filed a complaint against city police chief accusing him of atrocity under the SC/ST Act.
Modi will host dinner for Abe at a hotel in the old city area.
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