Midnight Crackdown

The police crackdown was against a group of farmers who had been on protest for the last two months, demanding better rates for their land being acquired by a state-run power company.

Protests swept campuses across the country against the police crackdown at Jamia Millia Islamia after Sunday evening's violence over the new citizenship law. Students at the Aligarh Muslim University clashed with the police after their solidarity march was stopped. By midnight, Hyderabad's Maulana Azad Urdu University and the Banaras Hindu Universi...

Police detained 90 protesters after violence erupted on the Manipur University campus in Imphal today, indicating that the three-month-long tussle between Vice Chancellor AP Pandey and the central institution's student-teacher combine was still a long way from being resolved.

Cooling off with a midnight dip in Rome's famous Trevi Fountain may sound like a dream "Roman Holiday", but an Italian police crackdown has landed a series of splash-happy tourists with fat fines.

Five students of Pune's prestigious Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) were arrested from campus after midnight on Tuesday and a dozen more were charged in an escalation of a two-month long row over the Centre's choice of the institute's chief.

In a post-midnight crackdown at the Pune film institute FTII, five students were arrested and taken to a police station after the institute's director, Prashant Pathrabe lodged a complaint against them for detaining him on campus on Monday.

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev has been once again told by the Supreme Court that he has to take responsibility along with the government for the chaos that erupted at his camp in Delhi in June last year.

Rinku Singh Rahi, the provincial civil services officer in Uttar Pradesh, who was whisked away by the police in a midnight crackdown in Lucknow, has now sat on his protest fast in Aligarh. The Uttar Pradesh officer has been trying to expose corruption in welfare schemes.

A provincial civil services officer in Uttar Pradesh, who had launched a hunger strike in Lucknow on Monday, was allegedly whisked away by the police from his dharna site at midnight and taken to the psychiatric ward of a medical college in the city. Doctors there, however, refused to admit him. He was then sent off to his hometown Aligarh.

Coming down heavily on the government and Delhi Police, the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered prosecution of police personnel involved in the midnight crackdown on yoga guru Baba Ramdev and his supporters in June last year.

The Supreme Court has sternly pulled up the government and Delhi Police for the midnight crackdown in June last year at yoga teacher Baba Ramdev's Ramlila ground rally, saying the incident could have been avoided by more patient handling by the state. The court has also found Baba Ramdev guilty of negligence.

The Supreme Court has pulled up both the police and Baba Ramdev for the midnight chaos in June last year at the Yoga teacher's rally at Delhi's Ramlila grounds, which ended in a police crackdown on his followers and the death of one.

Against the backdrop of the Supreme Court slamming the Delhi Police for its midnight crackdown against supporters of Ramdev, the BJP has held Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union ministers P Chidambaram and Kapil Sibal "accountable" for the incident.

Pronouncing its order on Delhi Police's midnight crackdown on yoga guru Baba Ramdev's camp in New Delhi, the Supreme Court today rapped the State and the Delhi Police on its knuckles in what it termed as a case of "police excess". The court also held the yoga guru guilty of negligence.

Coming down heavily on the State and Delhi Police, the Supreme Court today ordered prosecution of police personnel involved in the midnight crackdown on yoga guru Ramdev and his supporters in June last year, saying it was a strike at the foundation of democracy.

The police crackdown was against a group of farmers who had been on protest for the last two months, demanding better rates for their land being acquired by a state-run power company.

Protests swept campuses across the country against the police crackdown at Jamia Millia Islamia after Sunday evening's violence over the new citizenship law. Students at the Aligarh Muslim University clashed with the police after their solidarity march was stopped. By midnight, Hyderabad's Maulana Azad Urdu University and the Banaras Hindu Universi...

Police detained 90 protesters after violence erupted on the Manipur University campus in Imphal today, indicating that the three-month-long tussle between Vice Chancellor AP Pandey and the central institution's student-teacher combine was still a long way from being resolved.

Cooling off with a midnight dip in Rome's famous Trevi Fountain may sound like a dream "Roman Holiday", but an Italian police crackdown has landed a series of splash-happy tourists with fat fines.

Five students of Pune's prestigious Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) were arrested from campus after midnight on Tuesday and a dozen more were charged in an escalation of a two-month long row over the Centre's choice of the institute's chief.

In a post-midnight crackdown at the Pune film institute FTII, five students were arrested and taken to a police station after the institute's director, Prashant Pathrabe lodged a complaint against them for detaining him on campus on Monday.

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev has been once again told by the Supreme Court that he has to take responsibility along with the government for the chaos that erupted at his camp in Delhi in June last year.

Rinku Singh Rahi, the provincial civil services officer in Uttar Pradesh, who was whisked away by the police in a midnight crackdown in Lucknow, has now sat on his protest fast in Aligarh. The Uttar Pradesh officer has been trying to expose corruption in welfare schemes.

A provincial civil services officer in Uttar Pradesh, who had launched a hunger strike in Lucknow on Monday, was allegedly whisked away by the police from his dharna site at midnight and taken to the psychiatric ward of a medical college in the city. Doctors there, however, refused to admit him. He was then sent off to his hometown Aligarh.

Coming down heavily on the government and Delhi Police, the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered prosecution of police personnel involved in the midnight crackdown on yoga guru Baba Ramdev and his supporters in June last year.

The Supreme Court has sternly pulled up the government and Delhi Police for the midnight crackdown in June last year at yoga teacher Baba Ramdev's Ramlila ground rally, saying the incident could have been avoided by more patient handling by the state. The court has also found Baba Ramdev guilty of negligence.

The Supreme Court has pulled up both the police and Baba Ramdev for the midnight chaos in June last year at the Yoga teacher's rally at Delhi's Ramlila grounds, which ended in a police crackdown on his followers and the death of one.

Against the backdrop of the Supreme Court slamming the Delhi Police for its midnight crackdown against supporters of Ramdev, the BJP has held Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union ministers P Chidambaram and Kapil Sibal "accountable" for the incident.

Pronouncing its order on Delhi Police's midnight crackdown on yoga guru Baba Ramdev's camp in New Delhi, the Supreme Court today rapped the State and the Delhi Police on its knuckles in what it termed as a case of "police excess". The court also held the yoga guru guilty of negligence.

Coming down heavily on the State and Delhi Police, the Supreme Court today ordered prosecution of police personnel involved in the midnight crackdown on yoga guru Ramdev and his supporters in June last year, saying it was a strike at the foundation of democracy.