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60 Detained After Social Media Post Sparks Violence In Gujarat Village: Cops
A group of minority community members damaged several shops and vehicles and hurled stones at a village in Gandhinagar district following an objectionable social media post, police said on Thursday.
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"We Have To Take Manipur Forward On Path Of Peace": PM Modi In Imphal
Prime Minister Narendra Modi peppered his speech in Manipur's Imphal, his first visit to the violence-hit state in two years, with development, listing out his government's various initiatives in the state.
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Supreme Court Orders SIT With Hindu And Muslim Officers To Probe 2023 Maharashtra Clashes
The Supreme Court, while observing that a person after putting on the police uniform must rise above all kinds of biases, today asked for a Special Investigation Team (SIT) with both Hindu and Muslim officers to probe the May 2023 riots in Akola.
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Judicial Panel Flags 'Demographic Shift', 'Riot Plot' In Sambhal Violence Report
The panel members submitted the report on the violence that erupted near the Shahi Jama Masjid on November 24 during an ASI-monitored survey of the mosque, claiming four lives and injuring several others.
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Meitei Leaders Across Party Lines, Civil Body Allege Factual Errors In PUCL Report On Manipur Violence
Leaders cutting across party lines and civil society groups of the Meitei community in Manipur have asked a Delhi-based non-profit to apologise and withdraw what they called a "biased" report on the ethnic violence in the border state.
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How India's Choice Of August 15 As Independence Day Has A Japan Link
Amid rising communal violence and worsening law and order, the British Parliament decided that the colonial rule in India would end on August 15, 1947.
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Direct Action Day: Spark That Triggered Communal Violence During Partition
On August 16, 1946, a day now remembered as Direct Action Day or the Great Calcutta Killings, Bengal descended into days of brutal bloodshed, shattering hopes of unity and plunging the province into chaos.
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Why Pakistan's Independence Day Is Before India's: Story Behind The Dates
India is not the only country that celebrates its independence from British rule in August. While India commemorates independence on August 15, Pakistan, born out of the 1947 Partition, celebrates its Independence Day on August 14.
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Communal Violence In Pune Over WhatAapp Post: Case Against Over 500
Police have registered a total of five FIRs against more than 500 persons in connection with the communal violence in Yavat village of Pune district that broke out over an alleged objectionable post on a social messaging platform.
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President's Rule In Manipur To Be Extended, Amit Shah To Move Resolution In Rajya Sabha
Manipur has been witnessing ethnic conflict between the Meitei and Kuki-Zo communities since May 2023, in which over 250 people have been killed.
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Manipur's Kuki Body Asks Their MLAs Not To Be Part Of New Government
An influential body of Manipur's Kuki tribes has asked MLAs from their community not to be a part of the next state government whenever it is formed.
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Dalit Family Cultivating Field Beaten Up In Madhya Pradesh, Seeds Snatched
In an incident that has, once again, raised troubling questions about caste violence and land rights in rural India, a Dalit family has been brutally attacked with sticks while cultivating land they claim belongs to them.
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30 Arrested For Attempting To Spark Communal Violence In Assam's Dhubri
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said more than 30 people have been arrested in connection with the recent incident in Dhubri where a cow's head was found in a sensitive area, sparking communal tensions.
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"Primary Instigators Of Violence": Meitei Alliance Asks Centre To Scrap Ceasefire With Kuki Insurgents
A global umbrella body of civil society organisations of Manipur's Meitei community has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to scrap an agreement signed with insurgent groups of the Kuki tribes.
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Karnataka Sets Up Anti-Communal Task Force After 2 Murders In Mangaluru
The task force will be headed by a Deputy Inspector General (DIG)-level officer and will be activated in three districts - Mangaluru, Udupi, and Shivamogga.
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60 Detained After Social Media Post Sparks Violence In Gujarat Village: Cops
A group of minority community members damaged several shops and vehicles and hurled stones at a village in Gandhinagar district following an objectionable social media post, police said on Thursday.
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"We Have To Take Manipur Forward On Path Of Peace": PM Modi In Imphal
Prime Minister Narendra Modi peppered his speech in Manipur's Imphal, his first visit to the violence-hit state in two years, with development, listing out his government's various initiatives in the state.
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Supreme Court Orders SIT With Hindu And Muslim Officers To Probe 2023 Maharashtra Clashes
The Supreme Court, while observing that a person after putting on the police uniform must rise above all kinds of biases, today asked for a Special Investigation Team (SIT) with both Hindu and Muslim officers to probe the May 2023 riots in Akola.
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Judicial Panel Flags 'Demographic Shift', 'Riot Plot' In Sambhal Violence Report
The panel members submitted the report on the violence that erupted near the Shahi Jama Masjid on November 24 during an ASI-monitored survey of the mosque, claiming four lives and injuring several others.
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Meitei Leaders Across Party Lines, Civil Body Allege Factual Errors In PUCL Report On Manipur Violence
Leaders cutting across party lines and civil society groups of the Meitei community in Manipur have asked a Delhi-based non-profit to apologise and withdraw what they called a "biased" report on the ethnic violence in the border state.
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How India's Choice Of August 15 As Independence Day Has A Japan Link
Amid rising communal violence and worsening law and order, the British Parliament decided that the colonial rule in India would end on August 15, 1947.
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Direct Action Day: Spark That Triggered Communal Violence During Partition
On August 16, 1946, a day now remembered as Direct Action Day or the Great Calcutta Killings, Bengal descended into days of brutal bloodshed, shattering hopes of unity and plunging the province into chaos.
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Why Pakistan's Independence Day Is Before India's: Story Behind The Dates
India is not the only country that celebrates its independence from British rule in August. While India commemorates independence on August 15, Pakistan, born out of the 1947 Partition, celebrates its Independence Day on August 14.
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Communal Violence In Pune Over WhatAapp Post: Case Against Over 500
Police have registered a total of five FIRs against more than 500 persons in connection with the communal violence in Yavat village of Pune district that broke out over an alleged objectionable post on a social messaging platform.
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President's Rule In Manipur To Be Extended, Amit Shah To Move Resolution In Rajya Sabha
Manipur has been witnessing ethnic conflict between the Meitei and Kuki-Zo communities since May 2023, in which over 250 people have been killed.
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Manipur's Kuki Body Asks Their MLAs Not To Be Part Of New Government
An influential body of Manipur's Kuki tribes has asked MLAs from their community not to be a part of the next state government whenever it is formed.
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Dalit Family Cultivating Field Beaten Up In Madhya Pradesh, Seeds Snatched
In an incident that has, once again, raised troubling questions about caste violence and land rights in rural India, a Dalit family has been brutally attacked with sticks while cultivating land they claim belongs to them.
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30 Arrested For Attempting To Spark Communal Violence In Assam's Dhubri
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said more than 30 people have been arrested in connection with the recent incident in Dhubri where a cow's head was found in a sensitive area, sparking communal tensions.
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"Primary Instigators Of Violence": Meitei Alliance Asks Centre To Scrap Ceasefire With Kuki Insurgents
A global umbrella body of civil society organisations of Manipur's Meitei community has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to scrap an agreement signed with insurgent groups of the Kuki tribes.
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Karnataka Sets Up Anti-Communal Task Force After 2 Murders In Mangaluru
The task force will be headed by a Deputy Inspector General (DIG)-level officer and will be activated in three districts - Mangaluru, Udupi, and Shivamogga.
