Karni Sena Attack

Shri Rashtriya Rajput Karni Sena president Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi's security guard, who was injured in the attack on the Rajput leader, died at a hospital here on Tuesday, police said.

The Rajasthan chief of the Karni Sena, a right-wing Rajput organization, was shot at during an event of the outfit in Udaipur.

Denying again its involvement in the incidents of violence, the Shree Rajput Karni Sena on Saturday said it would intensify its agitation and continue it till the film "Padmaavat" is banned.

The Gurgaon Police on Saturday detained Karni Sena chief Thakur Kushalpal in connection with the attack on a school bus and torching of a state roadways bus here during anti-"Padmaavat" protests earlier this week.

Union Minister Gen (retd) VK Singh and Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Thursday appeared to stand on the same side of the unending row over "Padmaavat'. The union minister said freedom of expression did not give anyone the right to distort history while Digvijaya Singh went a step further to assert that films that hurt anybody's sentiments shoul...

Trapped with a busload of children, Parvesh Kumar, the driver of the school bus attacked by a stone-throwing mob in Gurgaon on Wednesday, told himself - don't stop. He looked at the attackers and gestured with his hands that he had little children in the bus.

Some little children on the school bus that was attacked by a mob in Gurgaon yesterday were hurt when they had to crouch on a floor littered with broken glass, a bus employee said today.

One million people watched "Padmaavat" on its opening day, the film's maker Viacom 18 Motion said on Friday as it released across the country amid tight security at cinema halls. Fringe groups like the Karni Sena continued protests in parts of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, blocking roads and holding rallies and union Minister VK Singh has suggested ...

Hundreds of supporters of fringe groups like the Karni Sena ran amok across several states on Wednesday protesting violently against the release of Bollywood film Padmaavat, slated for today. In Gurgaon, adjacent to national capital Delhi, they stoned a school bus carrying petrified children who cowered in fear. Protesters also burnt a bus and bloc...

After the top court's unequivocal order yesterday rejecting the final attempts by Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh to ban the film 'Padmaavat'', protests against the release of the movie turned violent. Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra stressed "People can't come and say law and order problems, ban the movie. Let us not come to a state where the exhi...

A group of college students claiming to be members of the Rajput Karni Sena yesterday stormed a school in Madhya Pradesh and vandalised the campus. A student of Saint Paul's Convent School in Ratlam district's Jaora was reportedly performing to the song from the film Padmaavat, which is supposed to have triggered the attack. The fringe group, howev...

Karni Sena threatened to cut off Deepika Padukone's nose and a BJP leader put a price on her head. All this because Deepika starred in Padmavati

The 13th century Chittorgarh Fort in Rajasthan was vandalized last evening by activists of fringe group Karni Sena, who shattered mirrors in the Padmini Mahal, the palace of the legendary Rajput queen. The attackers pretended to be tourists to get past the lone security guard posted outside the palace, which stands within the fort complex, surround...

A minister said Padmavati will not be released in Rajasthan unless it is shown to the Rajput community leaders first

Rani Padmini, also known as Padmavati, is believed to be a 13th century Indian queen and is the subject of filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali's upcoming film starring Deepika Padukone, Shahid Kapoor and Ranveer Singh. Accusing Mr Bhansali of twisting historical facts by romantically linking Queen Padmini with Sultan Alauddin Khilji, members of a fring...

Shri Rashtriya Rajput Karni Sena president Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi's security guard, who was injured in the attack on the Rajput leader, died at a hospital here on Tuesday, police said.

The Rajasthan chief of the Karni Sena, a right-wing Rajput organization, was shot at during an event of the outfit in Udaipur.

Denying again its involvement in the incidents of violence, the Shree Rajput Karni Sena on Saturday said it would intensify its agitation and continue it till the film "Padmaavat" is banned.

The Gurgaon Police on Saturday detained Karni Sena chief Thakur Kushalpal in connection with the attack on a school bus and torching of a state roadways bus here during anti-"Padmaavat" protests earlier this week.

Union Minister Gen (retd) VK Singh and Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Thursday appeared to stand on the same side of the unending row over "Padmaavat'. The union minister said freedom of expression did not give anyone the right to distort history while Digvijaya Singh went a step further to assert that films that hurt anybody's sentiments shoul...

Trapped with a busload of children, Parvesh Kumar, the driver of the school bus attacked by a stone-throwing mob in Gurgaon on Wednesday, told himself - don't stop. He looked at the attackers and gestured with his hands that he had little children in the bus.

Some little children on the school bus that was attacked by a mob in Gurgaon yesterday were hurt when they had to crouch on a floor littered with broken glass, a bus employee said today.

One million people watched "Padmaavat" on its opening day, the film's maker Viacom 18 Motion said on Friday as it released across the country amid tight security at cinema halls. Fringe groups like the Karni Sena continued protests in parts of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, blocking roads and holding rallies and union Minister VK Singh has suggested ...

Hundreds of supporters of fringe groups like the Karni Sena ran amok across several states on Wednesday protesting violently against the release of Bollywood film Padmaavat, slated for today. In Gurgaon, adjacent to national capital Delhi, they stoned a school bus carrying petrified children who cowered in fear. Protesters also burnt a bus and bloc...

After the top court's unequivocal order yesterday rejecting the final attempts by Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh to ban the film 'Padmaavat'', protests against the release of the movie turned violent. Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra stressed "People can't come and say law and order problems, ban the movie. Let us not come to a state where the exhi...

A group of college students claiming to be members of the Rajput Karni Sena yesterday stormed a school in Madhya Pradesh and vandalised the campus. A student of Saint Paul's Convent School in Ratlam district's Jaora was reportedly performing to the song from the film Padmaavat, which is supposed to have triggered the attack. The fringe group, howev...

Karni Sena threatened to cut off Deepika Padukone's nose and a BJP leader put a price on her head. All this because Deepika starred in Padmavati

The 13th century Chittorgarh Fort in Rajasthan was vandalized last evening by activists of fringe group Karni Sena, who shattered mirrors in the Padmini Mahal, the palace of the legendary Rajput queen. The attackers pretended to be tourists to get past the lone security guard posted outside the palace, which stands within the fort complex, surround...

A minister said Padmavati will not be released in Rajasthan unless it is shown to the Rajput community leaders first

Rani Padmini, also known as Padmavati, is believed to be a 13th century Indian queen and is the subject of filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali's upcoming film starring Deepika Padukone, Shahid Kapoor and Ranveer Singh. Accusing Mr Bhansali of twisting historical facts by romantically linking Queen Padmini with Sultan Alauddin Khilji, members of a fring...