Category: India News

Solving traffic congestion among agenda for next 5 years: Kejriwal

New Delhi, Dec 27: Addressing traffic congestion would be a focus area of the AAP government in next five years if it is reelected, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Friday. Kejriwal, addressing people in a town-hall meeting in Pitampura, said the AAP manifesto will be released around […]

Fury grows after protest deaths in Meerut

MEERUT, India – Zaheer Ahmed had just returned home from work in Meerut last Friday afternoon and stepped out for a smoke before lunch. Minutes later, he was dead, shot in the head. His death, and the killing by gunfire of four other Muslim men the same afternoon […]

India tightens security for protests after Friday prayers

MEERUT, India – Indian authorities stepped up security in major cities on Friday and suspended mobile data services in some places in an effort to maintain order ahead of protests planned against a new citizenship law. At least 25 people have been killed in protests across the country […]

Mamata to attend swearing-in ceremony of Hemant Soren: TMC

Kolkata, Dec 27: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Hemant Soren as Jharkhand chief minister in Ranchi on December 29, TMC sources said. With top opposition leaders of the country scheduled to attend the programme, Soren’s swearing-in ceremony is likely to […]

Blindspot to backlash: Modi and BJP misread the mood

MUMBAI – Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government did not anticipate the protests against a new citizenship law that have raged across the country and is now scrambling to control the damage, members of his ruling party said. In Modi’s biggest challenge since taking office in 2014, hundreds of […]

Uttar Pradesh government demands damages, threatens to confiscate property over protests

LUCKNOW, India – India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state is demanding millions of rupees from over 200 people and threatening to confiscate their property as a penalty for damage done to public property during protests against the country’s new citizenship law. Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, has suffered […]

4 children in Karnataka buried neck-deep in mud to cure

Bengaluru, Dec 26: Four children were buried neck- deep in the mud in a village in Kalaburagi district on Thursday as part of a superstitious belief to cure their disabilities on the day of eclipse. As most parts of the country witnessed the annular solar eclipse, the children […]

Akhil Gogoi remanded to judicial custody for 10 days

Guwahati, Dec 26: A special NIA court here Thursday remanded peasant leader Akhil Gogoi, who had been arrested by the agency, to judicial custody for 14 days. The special court also turned down NIA’s plea to extend his custody for 10 days. He was arrested by the National Investigation […]

BJP govt afraid of Hindu-Muslim unity: Akhilesh

Lucknow, Dec 26: Alleging that the BJP government was afraid of Hindu-Muslim unity, Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday sought to know when a probe into “police brutality” during widespread protest in the state against Citizenship Amendment Act will be ordered. “The government is afraid of Hindu-Muslim unity. […]

Peaceful protests to continue till CAA is revoked: Mamata

Kolkata, Dec 26: Asserting that peaceful protests will continue as long as the new citizenship law is not withdrawn, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday warned the BJP against “playing with fire”. Speaking at a protest rally in the city, the Trinamool Congress supremo accused the […]

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