The death of a youth injured in an alleged firing incident triggered fresh tension and clashes between protesters and the security forces in areas around city centre Lal Chowk Saturday.
Police said Mohammad Inayat Khan, 18, a resident of Dalgate area, succumbed to his injuries in the Soura medical institute aftere battling for life the whole [...]
Medak (Andhra Pradesh), Nov 29 (ANI): The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president, K Chandrashekhar Rao, will begin a fast unto death on Sunday at Siddipet in Medak district of Andhra Pradesh, pressing for statehood to Telangana region.
The TRS described this as a do-or-die battle to achieve the long pending demand for the creation of separate [...]
Hyderabad, Nov 17 (IANS) In a do-or-die battle for separate statehood to the Telangana region, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K. Chandrasekhara Rao has decided to go on a fast-unto-death from Nov 29.
The Mahabubnagar MP has vowed a fight to the finish by sitting on a fast-unto-death from 11 a.m. near the Martyrs Memorial at [...]
Faizabad/Muzaffarnagar, Nov 11 (ANI): Unhappy with the Central government’s stipulated pricing of sugarcane, farmers of Faizabad district in Uttar Pradesh staged a protest on Tuesday.
Sugarcane farmers of the region are caught in the crossfire between the Centre’s Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) and the Uttar Pradesh government’s State Advised Price (SAP) mechanism.
Agitated farmers of [...]
Ranchi, Oct 7 (IANS) Thousands of people Wednesday bid a tearful adieu to Jharkhand police inspector Francis Induwar, whose mutilated body was found on the Ranchi-Jamshedpur highway six days after he had been abducted by Maoist guerrillas.
Thousands of people accompanied the funeral procession to Ranchi’s Roman Catholic Church, where the archbishop offered special prayers.
Induwar was [...]
Srinagar, Oct.3 (ANI): The Jammu and Kashmir Government has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the death of a twelve-year-old boy during a clash between police and protesters in Baramulla on Friday.
Baramulla Deputy Commissioner Latif-u-Zama Deva told a television channel that a thorough inquiry has [...]
Srinagar, Oct 3 (ANI): Curfew was imposed in Baramulla town in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday following the death of a 13-year-old boy in clashes that erupted after Friday prayers.
According to police, a tense situation prevailed in the town even on Saturday morning.
A 13-year-old boy was injured when police fired a teargas shell to control [...]
Shopian (J-K), Sep 10 (ANI): Hundreds of residents on Wednesday took to the streets in Shopian town, 60 km from Srinagar, after a missing local was found dead.
Frenzied locals raised anti-India slogans during the funeral procession of Mohammad Hussain Zargar, a prominent member of the local ‘Majlis-e-Mushawarat’ (council for discussion), the organisation that [...]
London, Aug 27 (ANI): Sir Paul McCartney has disclosed that people often checked him over to make sure he wasn’t an impostor after the circulation of a conspiracy theory which claimed he had died in the 1960s.
About 40 years ago rumours about the former Beatle’s death in a 1966 accident had gained currency and conspiracy [...]
