Bhopal Activists

A talk on LGBTQ issues by filmmaker and gay rights activist Onir Dhar at the ongoing Bhopal Lit Fest (BLF) was cancelled as a group threatened to stage a protest, a member of the organizing team said on Saturday.

A restaurant in Bhopal was vandalised when people were out eating on Valentine's Day on Sunday. Some people who identified themselves as Shiv Sena activists entered the restaurant in the city's Arera Colony and vandalised the property, the police said.

Dozens of workers of the ruling Congress were detained on Wednesday for trying to force their way into the offices of the BJP in Bhopal despite a ban on large gatherings in the Madhya Pradesh capital. The Congress activists clashed with their BJP counterparts forcing the police to use batons.

Narmada Bachao Andolan activist Medha Patkar has alleged a "deeper conspiracy" behind the show cause notice issued to her by the Regional Passport Office (RPO) in Mumbai for failing to disclose information on pending criminal cases.

Social activist Abdul Jabbar, who fought for justice to the 15,000 victims and thousands of survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, died on Thursday at a private hospital in the Madhya Pradesh capital.

BJP chief Amit Shah today defended the party's decision to field Pragya Thakur, an accused in the Malegaon blasts case, as a Lok Sabha candidate from Bhopal against Congress's Digvijaya Singh. The candidacy of the saffron-robed right-wing activist, who calls herself a Sadhvi (ascetic) has been challenged in court by the father of one of the six men...

A social media activist was arrested from Bhopal on Tuesday for allegedly posting messages that hurt religious sentiments on Internet platforms, a release from the Delhi Police said. The accused has been produced before a city court and placed in police custody, it added.

A woman fell 30 feet to the ground from a mobile tower in Bhopal today while protesting for regularisation of pay. The police were trying to bring down the woman - an Asha (Accredited Social Health Activist) worker - from the mobile tower, barely 200 metres from Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's home, when she fell. Two policewomen were also i...

A court in Bhopal has directed police to register an FIR against senior Congress leaders Digvijay Singh, Kamal Nath and Jyotiraditya Scindia and an RTI activist on charges of "fabricating evidence" in the Vyapam scam case.

A judicial commission appointed to probe the encounter of eight alleged SIMI activists after their escape from the highly-fortified Bhopal Central Jail on October 31, 2016, has termed the police action justified. The commission, headed by retired judge of Madhya Pradesh High Court SK Pandey, has also given a clean chit to the police.

A group of carol singers and two priests were detained for hours by the police in Satna in Madhya Pradesh last evening after they were accused by the rightwing group Bajrang Dal of forcing religious conversions. Later, a car used by some carolers who went to the police to find out about the detained priests was allegedly set on fire by activists of...

A judicial commission set up to investigate the alleged gunning down of eight suspected SIMI activists after their escape from the highly-fortified Bhopal Central Jail on October 31 last has submitted its report to the Madhya Pradesh government.

A local leader of the Bajrang Dal in Bhopal caught by the police for allegedly drinking in public and creating nuisance was released after his supporters raised a ruckus at the city's Habibganj police station on Friday night.

A special CBI court today pronounced its verdict in the murder case of environmentalist and Right to Information activist Shehla Masood who was shot outside her residence in Bhopal in 2011. The main conspirator Zahida Parvez, along with associates Saba Farooqi, Shaquib and Tabish have been given life sentence while the fifth accused, Irfan, was acq...

Survivors of 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy today staged a protest in front of the now-defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal on the 32nd anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster.

A talk on LGBTQ issues by filmmaker and gay rights activist Onir Dhar at the ongoing Bhopal Lit Fest (BLF) was cancelled as a group threatened to stage a protest, a member of the organizing team said on Saturday.

A restaurant in Bhopal was vandalised when people were out eating on Valentine's Day on Sunday. Some people who identified themselves as Shiv Sena activists entered the restaurant in the city's Arera Colony and vandalised the property, the police said.

Dozens of workers of the ruling Congress were detained on Wednesday for trying to force their way into the offices of the BJP in Bhopal despite a ban on large gatherings in the Madhya Pradesh capital. The Congress activists clashed with their BJP counterparts forcing the police to use batons.

Narmada Bachao Andolan activist Medha Patkar has alleged a "deeper conspiracy" behind the show cause notice issued to her by the Regional Passport Office (RPO) in Mumbai for failing to disclose information on pending criminal cases.

Social activist Abdul Jabbar, who fought for justice to the 15,000 victims and thousands of survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, died on Thursday at a private hospital in the Madhya Pradesh capital.

BJP chief Amit Shah today defended the party's decision to field Pragya Thakur, an accused in the Malegaon blasts case, as a Lok Sabha candidate from Bhopal against Congress's Digvijaya Singh. The candidacy of the saffron-robed right-wing activist, who calls herself a Sadhvi (ascetic) has been challenged in court by the father of one of the six men...

A social media activist was arrested from Bhopal on Tuesday for allegedly posting messages that hurt religious sentiments on Internet platforms, a release from the Delhi Police said. The accused has been produced before a city court and placed in police custody, it added.

A woman fell 30 feet to the ground from a mobile tower in Bhopal today while protesting for regularisation of pay. The police were trying to bring down the woman - an Asha (Accredited Social Health Activist) worker - from the mobile tower, barely 200 metres from Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's home, when she fell. Two policewomen were also i...

A court in Bhopal has directed police to register an FIR against senior Congress leaders Digvijay Singh, Kamal Nath and Jyotiraditya Scindia and an RTI activist on charges of "fabricating evidence" in the Vyapam scam case.

A judicial commission appointed to probe the encounter of eight alleged SIMI activists after their escape from the highly-fortified Bhopal Central Jail on October 31, 2016, has termed the police action justified. The commission, headed by retired judge of Madhya Pradesh High Court SK Pandey, has also given a clean chit to the police.

A group of carol singers and two priests were detained for hours by the police in Satna in Madhya Pradesh last evening after they were accused by the rightwing group Bajrang Dal of forcing religious conversions. Later, a car used by some carolers who went to the police to find out about the detained priests was allegedly set on fire by activists of...

A judicial commission set up to investigate the alleged gunning down of eight suspected SIMI activists after their escape from the highly-fortified Bhopal Central Jail on October 31 last has submitted its report to the Madhya Pradesh government.

A local leader of the Bajrang Dal in Bhopal caught by the police for allegedly drinking in public and creating nuisance was released after his supporters raised a ruckus at the city's Habibganj police station on Friday night.

A special CBI court today pronounced its verdict in the murder case of environmentalist and Right to Information activist Shehla Masood who was shot outside her residence in Bhopal in 2011. The main conspirator Zahida Parvez, along with associates Saba Farooqi, Shaquib and Tabish have been given life sentence while the fifth accused, Irfan, was acq...

Survivors of 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy today staged a protest in front of the now-defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal on the 32nd anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster.