In Keragodu, villagers say hoisting religious flags has been a tradition dating back over 3 decades. But a controversy over it led to a rare spate of tensions — and stone-pelting — last week.
Police persuaded the young men to climb down from rooftops of shops & deployed additional personnel in Chowk Bazar, near the Jama Masjid area. No FIR registered.
HC granted permission to RSS to hold a route march Sunday in the poll-bound state's communally-sensitive Bhainsa town. State authorities had earlier denied them permission.
Sarpanch Indravadan Patel, who organised the garba event that was allegedly disrupted by stone throwing, says his political views are among reasons village's Muslims are accusing him.
On 4 October, 10 men were caned for stone pelting that allegedly happened a day before. Muslim villagers claim trouble started when the sarpanch decided to organise ‘garba’.
10 men were held against an electrical pillar and caned in the incident Tuesday. Villagers allege that the men indulged in violence and disrupted a garba event the previous night.
Since Kanhaiya Lal Teli’s murder by two Muslim men, many Hindus have changed how they do business in the Old City. It has hurt both communities, but there are glimmers of hope.
The rise of Hindutva and Islamist forces, coupled with socioeconomic tensions, have turned Dakshina Kannada into an arena of what experts have called ‘competitive communalism’.
Police claim 'mastermind', who runs NGO in Amravati, saw message & plotted killing of Umesh Kolhe with 5 aides. NIA took over investigation Saturday after police arrested 7 people.
While main elements behind terror module have been nabbed, more arrests will take place, including some professors & academicians who were part of the ring, it is learnt.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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