Jaipur Violence

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday said his Haryana counterpart was trying to divert attention from communal clashes taking place there by offering to give Rajasthan Police a free hand in acting against Monu Manesar.

A group of lawyers of the Alwar district court near Jaipur on Wednesday allegedly thrashed four police personnel, including a woman constable and another from Haryana Police, days after violence broke out between policemen and lawyers in Delhi.

The Union home ministry has advised all states to strengthen security and check any possible violence after certain groups called for a Bharat Bandh today against caste-based reservation in jobs and education. While calls for the bandh are being circulated on social media, no group has yet come forward to make it official. The Home Ministry's advis...

Curfew was temporarily relaxed today three days after clashes broke out between a mob and the cops in Rajasthan's capital Jaipur that killed two and injured 11, including six policemen on Friday night. The district administration had relaxed the curfew for two hours this evening till 5 pm reviewing the law and order situation in violence-hit areas ...

The district administration today lifted the ban on mobile internet services from 50 out of 64 police stations in Jaipur.

The situation today remained tense but under control even as curfew was extended till Monday 4 am in the areas here that were affected by violence on Friday night.

A man has died and 12 people are injured after a mob clashed with policemen in Rajasthan capital Jaipur late last night. There is curfew in some parts of the city and mobile internet services have been suspended in the walled city.

At a cattle fair just 40 kilometres outside Jaipur, there is a sense of fear and insecurity. This is the same place from where 55-year-old Pehlu Khan, who was one among the men assaulted and beaten by a group of cow vigilantes on April 1, had bought his cows. Mr Khan died three days later of his injuries.

On August 26, Neha Goyal suddenly screamed that her baby girl was missing, plunging the household of 13 in Jaipur into a state of panic.

The army has been allowed access to Jaipur civil airport to conduct its services in view of the road and rail blockades in neighbouring Haryana by Jat agitators demanding quota in government jobs.

With public transport system in Haryana severely hit by the Jat stir for quota, the Civil Aviation Ministry has asked airlines to operate additional flights from Delhi to Chandigarh, Amritsar and Jaipur to enable stranded people reach their destinations.

Police on Tuesday decided to completely lift the curfew imposed in Sanganer town in Jaipur following violence between members of two communities on April 5.

Curfew, clamped in some parts of the Rajasthan capital city two days ago following communal violence, was relaxed for one and a half hours on Sunday with police indicating that the situation is gradually returning to normalcy in the area.

Curfew on Saturday continued in Sanganer town in Jaipur which was imposed after violence broke out between members of two communities over a trivial issue of parking a motorbike, police said.

Violence broke out between members of two communities in Sanganer town in Jaipur with mobs going on a rampage torching a religious school, vandalising properties and attacking policemen prompting authorities to clamp curfew in the area on Friday.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday said his Haryana counterpart was trying to divert attention from communal clashes taking place there by offering to give Rajasthan Police a free hand in acting against Monu Manesar.

A group of lawyers of the Alwar district court near Jaipur on Wednesday allegedly thrashed four police personnel, including a woman constable and another from Haryana Police, days after violence broke out between policemen and lawyers in Delhi.

The Union home ministry has advised all states to strengthen security and check any possible violence after certain groups called for a Bharat Bandh today against caste-based reservation in jobs and education. While calls for the bandh are being circulated on social media, no group has yet come forward to make it official. The Home Ministry's advis...

Curfew was temporarily relaxed today three days after clashes broke out between a mob and the cops in Rajasthan's capital Jaipur that killed two and injured 11, including six policemen on Friday night. The district administration had relaxed the curfew for two hours this evening till 5 pm reviewing the law and order situation in violence-hit areas ...

The district administration today lifted the ban on mobile internet services from 50 out of 64 police stations in Jaipur.

The situation today remained tense but under control even as curfew was extended till Monday 4 am in the areas here that were affected by violence on Friday night.

A man has died and 12 people are injured after a mob clashed with policemen in Rajasthan capital Jaipur late last night. There is curfew in some parts of the city and mobile internet services have been suspended in the walled city.

At a cattle fair just 40 kilometres outside Jaipur, there is a sense of fear and insecurity. This is the same place from where 55-year-old Pehlu Khan, who was one among the men assaulted and beaten by a group of cow vigilantes on April 1, had bought his cows. Mr Khan died three days later of his injuries.

On August 26, Neha Goyal suddenly screamed that her baby girl was missing, plunging the household of 13 in Jaipur into a state of panic.

The army has been allowed access to Jaipur civil airport to conduct its services in view of the road and rail blockades in neighbouring Haryana by Jat agitators demanding quota in government jobs.

With public transport system in Haryana severely hit by the Jat stir for quota, the Civil Aviation Ministry has asked airlines to operate additional flights from Delhi to Chandigarh, Amritsar and Jaipur to enable stranded people reach their destinations.

Police on Tuesday decided to completely lift the curfew imposed in Sanganer town in Jaipur following violence between members of two communities on April 5.

Curfew, clamped in some parts of the Rajasthan capital city two days ago following communal violence, was relaxed for one and a half hours on Sunday with police indicating that the situation is gradually returning to normalcy in the area.

Curfew on Saturday continued in Sanganer town in Jaipur which was imposed after violence broke out between members of two communities over a trivial issue of parking a motorbike, police said.

Violence broke out between members of two communities in Sanganer town in Jaipur with mobs going on a rampage torching a religious school, vandalising properties and attacking policemen prompting authorities to clamp curfew in the area on Friday.