Assam Protests In Mumbai

Held outside Mumbai for the first time, the Filmfare Awards this year saw several Bollywood stars fly into Guwahati on Saturday as fans came out in thousands at the airport to catch a glimpse of their favourite celebrities.

A Mumbai court has extended the police custody of all the 23 accused of violence last Saturday in Mumbai. They will remain in police custody till August 24.

Bodies bruised and battered, bones broken, but spirits undaunted. At least 62 police personnel - three of them women - were injured in the violence at Azad Maidan on Saturday. The protests, which were organised by several NGOs to draw attention to the plight of a minority community in Assam and Myanmar, turned ugly within minutes.

Were the riots that shook Mumbai on Saturday, spontaneous or were they part of a planned conspiracy? Top officials of the Mumbai Police have told NDTV that they are in possession of CCTV visuals that show a mob boarding a local train at the Kurla Station on the Central Line and alighting at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus which is right opposite A...

The politics over ethnic clashes in Assam has spilled over to Mumbai with violent clashes between the police on one side, and protesters on the other. Thousands of kilometres away, in Assam, there is politics over the identity of those from the Muslim community in relief camps, with a majority of them now accused of being illegal migrants from Bang...

24 people have been arrested in Mumbai for Saturday's violence near Azad Maidan. Two people were killed and 55 others were injured after a protest over ethnic clashes in Assam turned violent there. Investigation is now on to determine if the violence was planned and the protesters were armed.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has ordered the Mumbai Crime Branch to investigate last evening's violence near Azad Maidan in which two people killed. Another 50 were injured after a protest over ethnic violence in Assam turned violent.

Two people died at Mumbai's Azad Maidan after a protest over the ethnic violence in Assam turned violent. The police had to fire in the air and lathicharge the crowds after a section of them burnt vehicles, including media vans on Saturday evening. People started coming into Azad Maidan grounds by 12 noon. Within a few hours there were over 5000 p...

Held outside Mumbai for the first time, the Filmfare Awards this year saw several Bollywood stars fly into Guwahati on Saturday as fans came out in thousands at the airport to catch a glimpse of their favourite celebrities.

A Mumbai court has extended the police custody of all the 23 accused of violence last Saturday in Mumbai. They will remain in police custody till August 24.

Bodies bruised and battered, bones broken, but spirits undaunted. At least 62 police personnel - three of them women - were injured in the violence at Azad Maidan on Saturday. The protests, which were organised by several NGOs to draw attention to the plight of a minority community in Assam and Myanmar, turned ugly within minutes.

Were the riots that shook Mumbai on Saturday, spontaneous or were they part of a planned conspiracy? Top officials of the Mumbai Police have told NDTV that they are in possession of CCTV visuals that show a mob boarding a local train at the Kurla Station on the Central Line and alighting at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus which is right opposite A...

The politics over ethnic clashes in Assam has spilled over to Mumbai with violent clashes between the police on one side, and protesters on the other. Thousands of kilometres away, in Assam, there is politics over the identity of those from the Muslim community in relief camps, with a majority of them now accused of being illegal migrants from Bang...

24 people have been arrested in Mumbai for Saturday's violence near Azad Maidan. Two people were killed and 55 others were injured after a protest over ethnic clashes in Assam turned violent there. Investigation is now on to determine if the violence was planned and the protesters were armed.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has ordered the Mumbai Crime Branch to investigate last evening's violence near Azad Maidan in which two people killed. Another 50 were injured after a protest over ethnic violence in Assam turned violent.

Two people died at Mumbai's Azad Maidan after a protest over the ethnic violence in Assam turned violent. The police had to fire in the air and lathicharge the crowds after a section of them burnt vehicles, including media vans on Saturday evening. People started coming into Azad Maidan grounds by 12 noon. Within a few hours there were over 5000 p...