Gun Laws In India

Alleging that the BJP was running the government in Uttar Pradesh by "rule by gun" and not rule of law, Mr Owaisi said this had been continuing ever since the BJP government was formed in 2017.

In the wake of the Texas school massacre, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday noted that American laws are too lenient on gun control and said India too needs to review and tighten laws relating to acquisition and possession of firearms.

Kapil Gujjar, who fired a gun at the demonstration against the centre's controversial citizenship law in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh earlier this year, has been expelled from the BJP hours after the party inducted him.

Slain Sikh police officer Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal, who was gunned down in the line of duty during a routine traffic stop in Houston a year ago, was a hero and a trailblazer whose commitment to his faith will inspire generations of Sikhs and other religious minorities to serve in law enforcement, a top US Senator has said.

The man who was seen pointing a gun at a policeman in Delhi last Monday during the clashes that took place in northeast Delhi has been arrested in Uttar Pradesh. 48 people were killed and hundreds injured in last week's unprecedented violence in multiple areas in northeast Delhi over the citizenship law or CAA.

Several criminals who were already under the police's scanner have been identified in northeast Delhi neighbourhoods for taking part in clashes over the controversial citizenship law, sources have told NDTV.

A teen opened fire at people protesting the citizenship law near the Jamia Millia Islamia university in Delhi this afternoon, injuring a student of the university. He shouted "yeh lo azaadi" (here's your freedom) as he walked down the heavily guarded road near the university flashing a gun at the protesters.

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra on Tuesday expressed serious concern over the law and order situation in the Delhi after a purported video a BSP leader's son brandishing a weapon at a five-star hotel went viral on social media.

A doctor was gunned down allegedly by three bike-borne assailants, including his brother-in law, over an old enmity in Kakod town of the district on Friday, police said.

The centre doesn't want India to become the refugee capital of the world, the government's senior law officer told the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The law officer Tushar Mehta's assertion was a response to the petitioners alleging that border guards in the eastern part of the country, armed with stun guns and chilly spray, were pushing back the ref...

Nearly 12,000 people have been killed in gun violence as 273 mass shootings have occurred so far in the US in 2017, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a not-for-profit corporation that tracks gun-related violence in America.

Indian-American lawmakers have called for changes in the gun control laws in the US, as they condemned the Las Vegas mass shooting, the deadliest in the country's modern history which claimed nearly 60 lives.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today asked security forces to restrain themselves from using pellet guns and differentiate between stone-pelters and their families, while noting that force was used to deal with law and order in the Valley during the recent unrest.

As mass shooting incidents in the United States rise, India has tightened its firearms regulations, making it even more difficult for common citizens to own a gun.

Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Saturday said the state government should discontinue use of pellet guns for crowd control during law and order situation in view of the statement made by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in parliament.

Alleging that the BJP was running the government in Uttar Pradesh by "rule by gun" and not rule of law, Mr Owaisi said this had been continuing ever since the BJP government was formed in 2017.

In the wake of the Texas school massacre, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday noted that American laws are too lenient on gun control and said India too needs to review and tighten laws relating to acquisition and possession of firearms.

Kapil Gujjar, who fired a gun at the demonstration against the centre's controversial citizenship law in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh earlier this year, has been expelled from the BJP hours after the party inducted him.

Slain Sikh police officer Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal, who was gunned down in the line of duty during a routine traffic stop in Houston a year ago, was a hero and a trailblazer whose commitment to his faith will inspire generations of Sikhs and other religious minorities to serve in law enforcement, a top US Senator has said.

The man who was seen pointing a gun at a policeman in Delhi last Monday during the clashes that took place in northeast Delhi has been arrested in Uttar Pradesh. 48 people were killed and hundreds injured in last week's unprecedented violence in multiple areas in northeast Delhi over the citizenship law or CAA.

Several criminals who were already under the police's scanner have been identified in northeast Delhi neighbourhoods for taking part in clashes over the controversial citizenship law, sources have told NDTV.

A teen opened fire at people protesting the citizenship law near the Jamia Millia Islamia university in Delhi this afternoon, injuring a student of the university. He shouted "yeh lo azaadi" (here's your freedom) as he walked down the heavily guarded road near the university flashing a gun at the protesters.

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra on Tuesday expressed serious concern over the law and order situation in the Delhi after a purported video a BSP leader's son brandishing a weapon at a five-star hotel went viral on social media.

A doctor was gunned down allegedly by three bike-borne assailants, including his brother-in law, over an old enmity in Kakod town of the district on Friday, police said.

The centre doesn't want India to become the refugee capital of the world, the government's senior law officer told the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The law officer Tushar Mehta's assertion was a response to the petitioners alleging that border guards in the eastern part of the country, armed with stun guns and chilly spray, were pushing back the ref...

Nearly 12,000 people have been killed in gun violence as 273 mass shootings have occurred so far in the US in 2017, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a not-for-profit corporation that tracks gun-related violence in America.

Indian-American lawmakers have called for changes in the gun control laws in the US, as they condemned the Las Vegas mass shooting, the deadliest in the country's modern history which claimed nearly 60 lives.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today asked security forces to restrain themselves from using pellet guns and differentiate between stone-pelters and their families, while noting that force was used to deal with law and order in the Valley during the recent unrest.

As mass shooting incidents in the United States rise, India has tightened its firearms regulations, making it even more difficult for common citizens to own a gun.

Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Saturday said the state government should discontinue use of pellet guns for crowd control during law and order situation in view of the statement made by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in parliament.