Ahmedabad Violence

Migrant labourers working at a construction site at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad have sent a legal notice to the top B-school's administration for allegedly not paying them for two months amid the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. IIM-Ahmedabad has denied the charges.

The Shiv Sena today questioned the absence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah from Delhi while violence, which claimed 39 lives, engulfed parts of the national capital.

Indian Institute of Ahmedabad Director Errol D'Souza has condemned the violence in JNU, dubbing it as a "very low point" in the country's post Independence history.

Congress legislator Alpesh Thakor, who is facing the heat over the violence against Hindi-speaking migrants in Gujarat, observed a day-long fast in Ahmedabad today for "peace and harmony" and asserted that "no one is a migrant".

The man who led the army in tackling the 2002 Gujarat riots says at a time the state was engulfed in communal violence, his soldiers lost a crucial day waiting at an airfield for a ride, and supplies. In a new book, retired Lieutenant General Zameer Uddin Shah, a former vice chief of army staff, says after about 3,000 troops landed at an Ahmedabad ...

Tension gripped Gujarat city with mobs setting ablaze a BRTS bus and vandalising a bus stand tonight, apparently in protest against the arrest of Patidar quota agitation leader Alpesh Kathiriya, a close aide of Hardik Patel, by the Ahmedabad Crime Branch in an old sedition case.

A policeman who was critically injured during Monday's protests by Dalit groups in Jodhpur has died. Sub-inspector Mahendra Chaudhary died today afternoon when he was being taken to Ahmedabad for further treatment.

A court today rejected Patidar leader Hardik Patel's discharge application in a sedition case filed against him by the Ahmedabad crime branch in connection with the violence during an agitation by his outfit in August 2015.

Congress leader P Chidambaram today took a swipe at Narendra Modi for his attempts to woo investors at Davos, saying that on the day the Prime Minister invited world business to India, Ahmedabad was hit by mob violence and moral policing was witnessed in Uttar Pradesh.

Theatre owners in Gujarat today said "Padmaavat" will not be screened in any of the multiplexes or single screens in the state till the row over the film is resolved, even as police arrested 50 people in connection with the violence outside malls here last night.

Sanjeeda Shaikh's sister-in-law Zakerabanu Zakir Hussain Bagban alleged that she was beaten up by the actress' family on May 27 while she was on talking to her father over the phone

Veteran actor and BJP lawmaker Paresh Rawal alleged that he was "coerced by Twitter" into deleting a controversial tweet that targeted author Arundhati Roy. He also strongly defended his tweet, not flinching at the immense criticism it drew.

Hardik Patel, leader of the Patel quota agitation in Gujarat, today said he will start meeting legislators of his community soon to know where they stand on the reservation issue, which sparked violence across the state claiming ten lives last week.

The Gujarat CID is expected to submit a progress report to the High Court today on the death of 32-year-old Shwetang Patel, whose family alleges he died in police custody last Tuesday in Ahmedabad, as violence gripped the city after the brief detention of politician Hardik Patel.

Amid tight security, the funeral of a 32-year-old man from Patel community, who allegedly died in police custody after being caught during the quota violence, was held today.

Migrant labourers working at a construction site at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad have sent a legal notice to the top B-school's administration for allegedly not paying them for two months amid the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. IIM-Ahmedabad has denied the charges.

The Shiv Sena today questioned the absence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah from Delhi while violence, which claimed 39 lives, engulfed parts of the national capital.

Indian Institute of Ahmedabad Director Errol D'Souza has condemned the violence in JNU, dubbing it as a "very low point" in the country's post Independence history.

Congress legislator Alpesh Thakor, who is facing the heat over the violence against Hindi-speaking migrants in Gujarat, observed a day-long fast in Ahmedabad today for "peace and harmony" and asserted that "no one is a migrant".

The man who led the army in tackling the 2002 Gujarat riots says at a time the state was engulfed in communal violence, his soldiers lost a crucial day waiting at an airfield for a ride, and supplies. In a new book, retired Lieutenant General Zameer Uddin Shah, a former vice chief of army staff, says after about 3,000 troops landed at an Ahmedabad ...

Tension gripped Gujarat city with mobs setting ablaze a BRTS bus and vandalising a bus stand tonight, apparently in protest against the arrest of Patidar quota agitation leader Alpesh Kathiriya, a close aide of Hardik Patel, by the Ahmedabad Crime Branch in an old sedition case.

A policeman who was critically injured during Monday's protests by Dalit groups in Jodhpur has died. Sub-inspector Mahendra Chaudhary died today afternoon when he was being taken to Ahmedabad for further treatment.

A court today rejected Patidar leader Hardik Patel's discharge application in a sedition case filed against him by the Ahmedabad crime branch in connection with the violence during an agitation by his outfit in August 2015.

Congress leader P Chidambaram today took a swipe at Narendra Modi for his attempts to woo investors at Davos, saying that on the day the Prime Minister invited world business to India, Ahmedabad was hit by mob violence and moral policing was witnessed in Uttar Pradesh.

Theatre owners in Gujarat today said "Padmaavat" will not be screened in any of the multiplexes or single screens in the state till the row over the film is resolved, even as police arrested 50 people in connection with the violence outside malls here last night.

Sanjeeda Shaikh's sister-in-law Zakerabanu Zakir Hussain Bagban alleged that she was beaten up by the actress' family on May 27 while she was on talking to her father over the phone

Veteran actor and BJP lawmaker Paresh Rawal alleged that he was "coerced by Twitter" into deleting a controversial tweet that targeted author Arundhati Roy. He also strongly defended his tweet, not flinching at the immense criticism it drew.

Hardik Patel, leader of the Patel quota agitation in Gujarat, today said he will start meeting legislators of his community soon to know where they stand on the reservation issue, which sparked violence across the state claiming ten lives last week.

The Gujarat CID is expected to submit a progress report to the High Court today on the death of 32-year-old Shwetang Patel, whose family alleges he died in police custody last Tuesday in Ahmedabad, as violence gripped the city after the brief detention of politician Hardik Patel.

Amid tight security, the funeral of a 32-year-old man from Patel community, who allegedly died in police custody after being caught during the quota violence, was held today.