Ghaziabad Violence

Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina - who resigned as Prime Minister this evening in the face of violent protests - landed at the Hindon Air Force base in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad Monday evening, en route to London.

Urging the protesters to shun violence and get organised so that the government hears them clearly, Rajya Sabha member Jayant Chaudhary said on Friday that the Agnipath scheme will have to be rolled back. "That's the only rational choice."

Senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot landed in Delhi this morning and set out for Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur by road straight from the airport, sources close to him said.

Delhi Police Thursday issued lookout notices against farmer leaders and registered a case under the stringent UAPA and sedition for the Republic Day violence and said its Special Cell will probe the "conspiracy" and "criminal designs" behind the incidents, even as the Ghaziabad administration gave an ultimatum to the protesters at UP Gate to vacate...

Sixty-five people were arrested and 350, including a former legislator, have been charged for allegedly spreading violence over the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), police said on Saturday.

Three policemen posted at the Kavi Nagar police station in Ghaziabad were suspended on Thursday for allegedly thrashing a couple, officials said.

Shriram Hiteshi, an 85-year-old Dalit social activist running a school, is one of the many from his community accused of rioting and attempt to murder, in two First Information Reports (FIRs) filed by the Ghaziabad police. These FIRs were filed after the violence that took place on April 2, the day Dalit groups had called a Bharat Bandh to protest ...

As many as 5,000 people have been booked for creating ruckus and damaging public and government properties here during protests against "dilution" of the provisions of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the SSP said.

About a dozen people, including policemen, were injured in Ghaziabad today when police used force to free a plot from encroachment, officials said.

An agitation by lawyers in Meerut demanding the setting up of a high court bench in western Uttar Pradesh turned violent on Wednesday when civil administration employees confronted them.

When Akhilesh Yadav took charge as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh six months ago, he promised to act tough against communal forces in the state. In these six months, the state saw six major riots. In Bareilly district, some localities were under curfew for days. In Ghaziabad, the most recent, six people died in police firing after a mob turned...

Irate community members set fire to a police station in Masuri town of Ghaziabad district tonight, after the Holy Quran, with its pages splashed with abusive graffiti, was discovered, police said.

In a ghastly incident, an eight-year-old girl died in Ghaziabad, after she was allegedly beaten with hot iron rods.Police have arrested the girl's sister and her husband and a case of murder and rape has been registered. The police says that neighbours have reported that the girl's uncle attacked her after Rs 2000 was stolen from his house.The gi...

A Dalit man was allegedly lynched by eight men in Ghaziabad, UP after they suspected he was taking an animal for slaughtering. Police said they were taking along a cow with them.The incident took place on late Sunday night when Surender was returning home with his wife and daughter. The men surrounded him and first questioned him but not being sati...

For years, they have been living in homes that the government now says have been illegally constructed.

Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina - who resigned as Prime Minister this evening in the face of violent protests - landed at the Hindon Air Force base in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad Monday evening, en route to London.

Urging the protesters to shun violence and get organised so that the government hears them clearly, Rajya Sabha member Jayant Chaudhary said on Friday that the Agnipath scheme will have to be rolled back. "That's the only rational choice."

Senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot landed in Delhi this morning and set out for Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur by road straight from the airport, sources close to him said.

Delhi Police Thursday issued lookout notices against farmer leaders and registered a case under the stringent UAPA and sedition for the Republic Day violence and said its Special Cell will probe the "conspiracy" and "criminal designs" behind the incidents, even as the Ghaziabad administration gave an ultimatum to the protesters at UP Gate to vacate...

Sixty-five people were arrested and 350, including a former legislator, have been charged for allegedly spreading violence over the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), police said on Saturday.

Three policemen posted at the Kavi Nagar police station in Ghaziabad were suspended on Thursday for allegedly thrashing a couple, officials said.

Shriram Hiteshi, an 85-year-old Dalit social activist running a school, is one of the many from his community accused of rioting and attempt to murder, in two First Information Reports (FIRs) filed by the Ghaziabad police. These FIRs were filed after the violence that took place on April 2, the day Dalit groups had called a Bharat Bandh to protest ...

As many as 5,000 people have been booked for creating ruckus and damaging public and government properties here during protests against "dilution" of the provisions of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the SSP said.

About a dozen people, including policemen, were injured in Ghaziabad today when police used force to free a plot from encroachment, officials said.

An agitation by lawyers in Meerut demanding the setting up of a high court bench in western Uttar Pradesh turned violent on Wednesday when civil administration employees confronted them.

When Akhilesh Yadav took charge as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh six months ago, he promised to act tough against communal forces in the state. In these six months, the state saw six major riots. In Bareilly district, some localities were under curfew for days. In Ghaziabad, the most recent, six people died in police firing after a mob turned...

Irate community members set fire to a police station in Masuri town of Ghaziabad district tonight, after the Holy Quran, with its pages splashed with abusive graffiti, was discovered, police said.

In a ghastly incident, an eight-year-old girl died in Ghaziabad, after she was allegedly beaten with hot iron rods.Police have arrested the girl's sister and her husband and a case of murder and rape has been registered. The police says that neighbours have reported that the girl's uncle attacked her after Rs 2000 was stolen from his house.The gi...

A Dalit man was allegedly lynched by eight men in Ghaziabad, UP after they suspected he was taking an animal for slaughtering. Police said they were taking along a cow with them.The incident took place on late Sunday night when Surender was returning home with his wife and daughter. The men surrounded him and first questioned him but not being sati...

For years, they have been living in homes that the government now says have been illegally constructed.