According to media reports, three people were shot near Brashear High School in Pittsburgh on Thursday.
The protesters set ablaze the private residence of the deputy chief minister at Niti Vihar and ransacked the office of the deputy commissioner of Itanagar.
Cricket greats honoured Martin Crowe at an emotional funeral for New Zealand's greatest batsman, on Friday, with his cousin, Hollywood star Russell Crowe, acting as a pallbearer.
The four men, all lorry workers, aged between 20 and 24, were arrested on November 29 for allegedly raping and killing the woman by smothering her and later burning her body.
Police used mild force to disperse the protesters in which some of them received minor injuries.
Paramilitary force personnel and state police force will be deployed and drone cameras will be used to ensure security on Friday.
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A minister who was with Mamata Banerjee when she and state Finance Minister Amit Mitra were targeted in Delhi by the Students Federation of India activists, on Wednesday alleged that the attack was aimed at killing the West Bengal chief minister.
Aditi Jindal from Chandigarh was undergoing treatment in the Inlaks and Budhrani hospital, sources added.
Delhi Police on Monday drew flak as a video emerged in which male police constables can be seen purportedly assaulting protesters, including women, demonstrating over the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula near the RSS head office in New Delhi.
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The Aam Aadmi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday trained guns at each other as they engaged in vociferous protests on separate issues in the national capital inviting police action.
CM Manohar Lal Khattar made the announcement after meeting the family members of Pradyuman.
Father of the boy, Ramheet Meena had alleged that injury marks were seen on his body including on private parts.
The brother of Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja has been taken into custody by counter-terrorism police
Mobile services and internet remained suspended for the 16th consecutive day, while landline telephone services in many areas also remained affected.
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The Supreme Court lawyer Dayan Krishnan has been appointed as the special public prosecutor by the city police to conduct trial in the December 16 gangrape of a paramedical student who succumbed to injuries during the wee hours on Saturday at a Singapore hospital.
At least nine school students were killed and 20 injured when their bus collided with a truck in Hanumangarh district in Jaipur, Rajashthan on Tuesday morning.
No arrests have yet been made in Monday's BMW hit-and-run case, in which a 25-year-old student was killed, while his friend sustained critical injuries, police said.
A juvenile court on Monday ruled that a suspect in the fatal gang-rape of a young woman in New Delhi last month was a juvenile at the time of the attack, and may get off with a light sentence may have drawn sharp criticisms from all quarters, but child rights activists and defence counselors argue that the changing the law is not the answer. Priyanka reports.
Six states and UTs -- Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Tripura and Daman & Diu -- have not spent a single rupee from the fund allocated by the Centre, according to data shared by the minister in Parliament in response to a question.
Muslims across the country have joined the agitation, apprehending that the move could be a precursor to a country-wide NRC.
The national capital on Friday witnessed a wave of fresh protests with a car being set on fire during one of the several demonstrations by people in their thousands who took to the streets shouting anti-government slogans over the contentious citizenship law. The epicentre of the protest was the locality around the Jama Masjid where large number of people held a massive protest after the Friday prayers at the mosque defying prohibitory orders and police clampdown.
The 18-year-old attacker, identified as Abdul Razak Ali Artan injured 11 people before police fatally shot him.
Rahul Gandhi has asked the Karnataka Government to explain the incident and send the report immediately.
'To be good at the heptathlon takes at least seven years; to compete internationally and win medals takes 10 years.' 'Swapna became Asia's best heptathlete in just five years!' 'Nobody would have believed it. but she did it.'
Trouble broke out when over 5,000 activists of the All Adivasi Students' Association were marching towards the state assembly after holding a rally at Beltola demanding Scheduled Tribe status for the community.The students vandalised property, torched vehicles, attacked policemen and injured a magistrate after they were obstructed by the police. The locals retaliated and clashed with the protestors resulting in injuries to both sides.
'Mamata is an emotional person, she follows her heart.' 'We loved that Didi, we still love her, but she is a changed person.' 'Why and how the change happened, who is responsible, I can't say.'
While the BJP slammed CPI-M for Monday night's murder of RSS worker, Sujit, the Marxist party has denied it, saying it was the fallout of a local incident relating to insulting a girl.
Grant Moore, one of the attackers, was jailed for three years for stabbing 25-year old Balijinder Singh to death, The Age daily reported. Moore pleaded guilty to one charge of attempted armed robbery and one charge of reckless causing serious injury during the court hearing
At least 14 people were killed and more than 40 wounded today in a powerful Improvised Explosive Device bomb blast outside a seminary in Quetta, police said.
It was in January 1988 when Delhi Police arrested an advocate named Rajesh Agnihotri, after he was apprehended by the students of St Stephen's College for allegedly stealing from a ladies common room.
The incident took place at around 4 am on Monday when Nuruddin, an Ola cab driver, was thrashed by six people, including two women of African origin, after he refused to carry more than four passengers in his vehicle.
Family of Nido Tania, the 19-year-old youth from Arunachal Pradesh who was allegedly beaten to death by some shopkeepers in South Delhi's Lajpat Nagar area a few days ago, on Tuesday met Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi demanding speedy justice for their son and strict punishment for the perpetrators.
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The two allegedly detonated a fire extinguisher filled with explosives at the entrance of the Nanaksar Satsang Sabha Gurdwara on the evening of April 16.
A teenage boy, who was admitted to a hospital with serious injuries after being allegedly beaten by a teacher a fortnight ago, died in a New Delhi hospital on Tuesday. Fourteen-year-old Ajay Kumar, a student of Std VIII at Sarvodaya Vidyalya in Vinod Nagar, was allegedly beaten by his teacher Shyam Lal Rathuria on October 23 for forging his parents' signature, a senior police officer said. Kumar fell on the ground after he was beaten and suffered serious head injuries.
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