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Leh/New Delhi, Sep 28 (PTI) Jailed activist Sonam Wangchuk's wife Gitanjali Angmo has trashed allegations of "Pakistan link" and financial irregularities against him. Terming the charge that Wangchuk incited the violence in Leh as "misplaced", she claimed that he has been protesting in the "most Gandhian way possible" and the "situation escalated" on September 24 due to the actions of the CRPF. Police detained climate activist Wangchuk on Friday under the stringent National Security Act (NSA), ...Read More >
The Leh region - where the violence broke out - is sandwiched between India, China and Pakistan. It is dominated by the Buddhist community, who for decades have demanded a separate region for its people. Meanwhile, the Muslim-majority Kargil district wants to be integrated with Indian-administered Kashmir. Since 2019, both communities have joined together in demanding the restoration of statehood, along with greater autonomy which would give them job quotas. It's not clear what sparked Wednesd ...Read More >
New Delhi: After Friday prayers, a crowd gathered in support of "I Love Mohammad Saheb" in Bareilly, causing a massive uproar, after which the situation spiraled out of control. Police resorted to lathi-charge to control the crowd. Several people were injured. A case has been registered against Maulana Tauqeer Raza and 50 others have been detained under serious sections. CM Yogi Adityanath is personally monitoring the situation. The rioters vandalized the area and even clashed with the police. ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Protests over "I Love Muhammad" posters in Uttar Pradesh turned violent after Friday prayers, raising tensions ahead of the Dussehra festival. Religious and political leaders have appealed for calm following protests over "I Love Muhammad" posters.Here are 10 things to know: Violent protests in BareillyOver 1,000 people gathered near the Islamia Ground in Bareilly, carrying banners and placards with religious slogans. Protesters pelted stones at police and vandalised vehicles. Police ...Read More >
Admitting that the recent violence in Leh was caused by youngsters who went "out of control", Leh Apex Body co-chairman Chering Dorjay on Friday rejected the involvement of a "foreign hand" in the happenings and demanded a judicial probe into the incident that claimed four lives and left 90 people injured. IMAGE: Security personnel patrol as the curfew imposed after the protest over the statehood demand and the inclusion of Ladakh under the Sixth Schedule, in Leh, September 26, 2025. Photograph ...Read More >
New Delhi: After accusing Sonam Wangchuk of instigating Ladakh violence, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Thursday cancelled the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) licence of Students' Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL), an NGO founded by the climate activist. The decision comes two months after CBI initiated a preliminary inquiry into the alleged FCRA violations by Wangchuk and the institution. The order said that the organisation was served a show-cause notice ...Read More >
Leh: Admitting that the recent violence in Leh was caused by youngsters who went "out of control", Leh Apex Body (LAB) co-chairman Chering Dorjay on Friday rejected the involvement of a "foreign hand" in the happenings and demanded a judicial probe into the incident that claimed four lives and left 90 people injured. He alleged that police and CRPF personnel fired indiscriminately on the protesters on Wednesday, without making any attempt to control the unruly mob through other means like the u ...Read More >
Leh (Ladakh) [India], September 26 (ANI): The Apex Body Leh, which is leading the agitation for statehood for Ladakh, stated on Friday that their protest is peaceful and that the violence on September 24 was triggered when a section of the youth got out of control. Addressing a press conference here, the Apex Body denied activist Sonam Wangchuk's role in the violence in Leh during his ongoing hunger strike. In the statement, a member of the Apex Body Leh said, "Our movement will be peaceful an ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk said jailing him would create bigger problems for the government than his freedom, dismissing the home ministry's attempt to hold him responsible for the recent violent protests in Ladakh as a mere "scapegoat tactic."Responding to the MHA's statement accusing him of instigating Wednesday's mob violence, Wangchuk said he is ready to face arrest under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA). "I see they are building up a case to bring me under the Public Sa ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: EC on Thursday revised the rules relating to counting of postal ballots, making it mandatory for all postal ballot papers to be counted before the penultimate round of EVM/VVPATs counting is taken up.The new practice will be first implemented in Bihar where assembly polls are due in Nov.This restores the arrangement prior to May 2019, when EC had changed the guidelines to allow EVM counting to proceed regardless of postal ballot counting stage. The 2019 change did not rule out chances ...Read More >
Leh, Ladakh -- A sudden eruption of violence shook Leh on Tuesday as protesters demanding statehood and constitutional safeguards clashed with police, marking the first major breakdown of order in Ladakh's ongoing agitation, according to NDTV. What began as a hunger strike and a call for a peaceful shutdown escalated into pitched street battles. Hundreds of demonstrators poured into the streets, hurling stones at security forces and torching a police van. Anger spilled further when the BJP offi ...Read More >
The BJP office in Leh was set on fire during the violent clashes on Wednesday. Violent clashes broke out in Leh on Wednesday between demonstrators and police during a protest organized by the Leh Apex Body (LAB), alleging the Union government's and the administration's failure to acknowledge their demands. According to News18, the LAB youth wing had given a call for a protest and shutdown after two of the 15 people, who were on a 35-day hunger strike since September 10, were shifted to a hospi ...Read More >
Leh, Sep 24 (PTI) Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk on Wednesday called off his 15-day hunger strike as the movement for statehood for Ladakh and extension of the Sixth Schedule took a violent turn with the BJP office and several vehicles set on fire and hundreds of people taking to the streets. Flames and dark smoke clouds could be seen from afar amid a complete shutdown in the Ladakh capital. The administration imposed prohibitory orders under Section 163 of the BNSS to ban the assembly of fiv ...Read More >
Leh, Sep 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Clashes erupted on Wednesday between protesting youths and the police here as protestors called for hastening of talks between the Centre and the representatives of Ladakh region, pertaining to the demand for inclusion in the 6th Schedule, statehood and protecting the fragile ecosystem of the region. Wednesday's protests followed deterioration in the condition of two of the 15 people sitting on a hunger strike, who were admitted to hospital even as climate activist ...Read More >
Ladakh protest: In a matter of grave concern for one of the most beautiful regions of India, Ladakh has been witnessing a surge in protests demanding full statehood from the central government. The protesters led by renowned engineer and education reformer Sonam Wangchuk are seeking full statehood and constitutional safeguards. For a background, the central government separated Ladakh from Jammu and Kashmir and made it a Union Territory in 2019 as it abolished Article 370. Police fired teargas ...Read More >
Ladakh protest news: Youth-led protests in Ladakh's Leh turned violent on Wednesday as protesters pelted stones at authorities, forcing the police to resort to teargas shells and baton charges. Thousands of youth joined the shutdown in Leh to support the demand to advance the proposed talks with the central government on the extended Sixth Schedule protections and statehood to Ladakh. Follow Ladakh protest live updates Amid the clash, the protesting youth set fire to the Bharatiya Janata Party ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office in Leh was set on fire on Wednesday (Sept 24) as protests in support of demand for statehood for Ladakh turned violent. A massive cloud of smoke could be seen rising from the BJP office as people shouted slogans in support of their demand for statehood. During the protests, people clashed with police personnel who resorted to the firing of teargas shells and deployed baton charge to disperse the crowd. The police action followed after a group ...Read More >
Opposition leader, KSU State president deem the act as police vengeance; court questions the police A major controversy erupted after police in Wadakkanchery produced three Kerala Students Union (KSU) leaders in court on Friday with their heads wrapped in black cloth and their hands chained, drawing strong criticism from the judiciary and political leaders alike. The court took serious note of the incident and questioned the act of the police. It asked the Thrissur city police commissioner to ...Read More >
Thrissur(Kerala), Sep 13 (PTI) A protest march by the Congress party's student wing KSU on Saturday to the Wadakkanchery police station, over its activists being produced in court with masks and handcuffs, turned violent with the protestors clashing with police which used water cannons and tear gas to disperse them. Three KSU activists -- Thrissur district KSU vice president Ganesh Attur, district committee member Al Ameen, and Killi Mangalam Arts College unit president Aslam KK -- were brought ...Read More >
Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh): The man who shot a woman 4-5 times in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior on Friday also streamed the act live on Facebook while executing the crime reportedly. Notably, the accused, Arvind Thakur, fired five bullets from a country-made pistol of .315 bore, four of which hit his ex-wife Nandini Kevat. Even as she lay injured, he went live on Facebook and claimed that his wife had filed a false case against him at the insistence of her boyfriend Ankush Pathak and another man name ...Read More >
Man after shooting his partner dead on a busy road in Gwalior A man shot his 32-year-old live-in partner on a busy road in Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh on Friday evening, said the police. Nandini Parihar was shot multiple times near Captain Roop Singh Stadium by Arvind Parihar (35), said Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Dharmveer Singh, adding that both were living together for nearly two years in Sirrol area without getting divorced from their respective partners. The accused continued to ...Read More >
BHOPAL: A 32-year-old woman, who had earlier spent four-and-a-half years in jail on charges of killing her former live-in partner but was later acquitted, was shot dead by her current partner in full public view in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior on Friday. The victim, identified as Nandini Kewat, was allegedly fired at multiple times by her live-in partner Arvind Parihar (33) outside the Roop Singh Stadium in Gwalior city, triggering panic in the area. Eyewitnesses said the accused remained seated by ...Read More >
Maharashtra Congress President Harshwardhan Sapkal on Friday criticised the state government over the law and order situation in the wake of tensions in Pune's Yavat village following an alleged objectionable social media post. Sapkal alleged that the police are failing to maintain law and order and are instead engaged in other activities, leading to repeated incidents of unrest in the state. "The law and order in Maharashtra is in a really bad condition. There is no Police here. Police are bu ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday asked BJP leader Rajiv Babbar to consider closing the defamation case against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor over his statement comparing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a scorpion. A division bench of justices MM Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh verbally remarked "let us close all these things. Why get so touchy about all this? This way, administrators and judges come in the same group and have thick skin". The development took place during the resumed hearing of a ...Read More >
Pune, Aug 1 (PTI) An irate mob vandalised properties and indulged in arson in Yavat in Pune's Daund tehsil on Friday afternoon over an objectionable post allegedly uploaded on social media by a youth from a different community, police officials said. IMAGE: Kindly note that this image has been posted for representational purposes only. Photograph: / Rediff.com A motorcycle was set ablaze and a bakery was damaged, the officials said, adding teargas shells had to be lobbed to bring the situation ...Read More >
New Delhi/Imphal, Aug 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has made a second consecutive arrest in the 2024 killings in Manipur's Jiribam, central probe agency sources said on Friday. The NIA in a statement said that the national probe agency caught Lalrosang Hmar alias Rosang, a resident of Moinathol Village in southern Assam's Cachar district, from the Mizoram capital Aizawl on Thursday. The arrest came after the arrest of another key accused, Thanglienlal Hmar, by a jo ...Read More >
Mumbai: Violence broke out in Yavat village of Daund taluka in Pune district on Friday over an objectionable post about Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj on social media. The situation turned volatile after both sides clashed, leading to heavy stone pelting, torching of two-wheelers and attacks on shops, homes and religious places. Police responded with lathicharge and tear gas to disperse the mob and control the situation. Officials confirmed no injuries or casualties, and said the situation is now ...Read More >
Patna, Aug 1 (PTI) Healthcare services were affected at AIIMS-Patna on Friday as resident doctors went on an "indefinite strike" in protest against the alleged high-handedness of Sheohar MLA Chetan Anand. According to a press statement issued by the Resident Doctors' Association (RDA), AIIMS-Patna, on Friday, "The RDA expresses deep disappointment and anguish over the lack of action by the administration following the violent and traumatic incident that occurred on Wednesday, when MLA Chetan An ...Read More >
Pune, Aug 1 (PTI) An irate mob vandalised properties and indulged in arson in Yavat in Pune's Daund tehsil on Friday afternoon over an objectionable post allegedly uploaded on social media by a youth from a different community, police officials said. A motorcycle was set ablaze and a bakery was damaged, the officials said, adding teargas shells had to be lobbed to bring the situation under control amid large mobs taking to the streets to vent their ire. There is heavy police presence in the vi ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: BJD announced on Friday that it will gherao all three revenue divisional commissioner (RDC) offices in Berhampur, Cuttack and Sambalpur on July 21 protesting alleged systemic failure which led to self-immolation by the 20-year-old student in Balasore.BJD senior vice-president Debi Prasad Mishra said, "This unfortunate incident has deeply saddened the state, and BJD is determined to fight for justice for the girl and her family."BJD, its student and youth wings, began state-wide prot ...Read More >
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