Hindu Mahasabha Protests

Days before a T20I cricket match between India and Bangladesh in Gwalior, the district magistrate has clamped prohibitory orders, banning protests and circulation of inflammatory material, especially on social media.

The orders will be in force till October 7 and come in the wake of a Gwalior bandh' call given by the Hindu Mahasabha on the match day (Oct 6) and protests by other organisations.

A group called Akhil Bharatiya OBC Mahasabha on Sunday in Vrindavan burned photocopies of pages allegedly carrying "objectionable comments on women and Dalits" in Ramcharitmanas, supporting SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya.

A Magsaysay Award-winning social activist was arrested by the Lucknow police on Monday, while he was about to take out a protest march against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens in the Uttar Pradesh capital.The activist, Sandeep Pandey, was released on bailafter being produced in the District Magistrate's court.

The entire country is enraged at the insult of Mahatma Gandhi under the BJP-led government at the centre, Delhi Congress president Sheila Dikshit said on Monday after staging a silent protest at Raj Ghat in Delhi along with her party leaders and workers.

Sporadic protests were witnessed and markets remained closed in Rajasthan's Bundi district on Wednesday as the situation remained tense with the Hindu Mahasabha issuing a warning to the administration to resolve a row over performing 'puja' at Mandhata Balaji cenotaph on Tiger Hill by January 5.

After the right-wing group Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha on Wednesday installed a bust of Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse at its Gwalior office, the Congress has demanded that the group should be booked for sedition

Days after protesters, most of them Muslim, went on a rampage in Malda, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has declared that "there is no communal tension" in her state.

Days before a T20I cricket match between India and Bangladesh in Gwalior, the district magistrate has clamped prohibitory orders, banning protests and circulation of inflammatory material, especially on social media.

The orders will be in force till October 7 and come in the wake of a Gwalior bandh' call given by the Hindu Mahasabha on the match day (Oct 6) and protests by other organisations.

A group called Akhil Bharatiya OBC Mahasabha on Sunday in Vrindavan burned photocopies of pages allegedly carrying "objectionable comments on women and Dalits" in Ramcharitmanas, supporting SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya.

A Magsaysay Award-winning social activist was arrested by the Lucknow police on Monday, while he was about to take out a protest march against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens in the Uttar Pradesh capital.The activist, Sandeep Pandey, was released on bailafter being produced in the District Magistrate's court.

The entire country is enraged at the insult of Mahatma Gandhi under the BJP-led government at the centre, Delhi Congress president Sheila Dikshit said on Monday after staging a silent protest at Raj Ghat in Delhi along with her party leaders and workers.

Sporadic protests were witnessed and markets remained closed in Rajasthan's Bundi district on Wednesday as the situation remained tense with the Hindu Mahasabha issuing a warning to the administration to resolve a row over performing 'puja' at Mandhata Balaji cenotaph on Tiger Hill by January 5.

After the right-wing group Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha on Wednesday installed a bust of Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse at its Gwalior office, the Congress has demanded that the group should be booked for sedition

Days after protesters, most of them Muslim, went on a rampage in Malda, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has declared that "there is no communal tension" in her state.