Shamli Protests

A large number of farmers gathered at Shamli in Uttar Pradesh today for a farmers' panchayat or meeting that was denied permission by the state's BJP government on Thursday.

The administration in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, has denied permission to a farmers' "Mahapanchayat" or meeting scheduled tomorrow against three controversial farm laws, and large gatherings have also been banned in the district.

Former BJP minister Sham Lal Choudhary lost by a razor-thin margin of 11 votes in Suchetgarh constituency of Jammu district in the maiden District Development Council (DDC) election, officials said on Wednesday.

Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Protest: Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigners on Friday vowed to stage a major march at the weekend despite police ruling the rally illegal, setting the scene for possibly more unrest in the Chinese-ruled city, battered by months of violent protests.

A leading face of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement was rushed to hospital covered in blood late Wednesday after being attacked by unidentified thugs with hammers, his protest group said.

Angry protesters attacked Jammu and Kashmir minister Sham Lal Choudhary's cavalcade on the Jammu-Pathankot highway with stones today, demanding a CBI probe into the Kathua rape and murder case. The agitators tried to block the highway when the convoy was passing, but when it didn't stop, they hurled stones. Mr Choudhary is a BJP leader from Jammu.

BJP today accused Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh of doing a "cover up" of Shamli incident in which a young boy was shot dead and asked why the state police was unable to catch the culprits when they act with alacrity to find lost buffaloes of a state minister.

In a huge embarrassment to ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh, an eight-year-old boy was killed in celebratory firing by party workers in Shamli district that led Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today to order the immediate removal of some of the area's top officers.

Congress today accused the BJP-PDP coalition government of 'throttling the voice of opposition' in both the houses of the state legislature and termed the ruling alliance as a "total failure", as it protested outside the party office in Jammu.

After a tense weekend which saw the police clashing with thousands of residents, the Shamli district in western Uttar Pradesh is striving to reconfigure to normal. On Friday, a group of Muslim clerics who were travelling on a train to neighbouring Saharanpur were pushed around by a mob of men.

A large number of farmers gathered at Shamli in Uttar Pradesh today for a farmers' panchayat or meeting that was denied permission by the state's BJP government on Thursday.

The administration in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, has denied permission to a farmers' "Mahapanchayat" or meeting scheduled tomorrow against three controversial farm laws, and large gatherings have also been banned in the district.

Former BJP minister Sham Lal Choudhary lost by a razor-thin margin of 11 votes in Suchetgarh constituency of Jammu district in the maiden District Development Council (DDC) election, officials said on Wednesday.

Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Protest: Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigners on Friday vowed to stage a major march at the weekend despite police ruling the rally illegal, setting the scene for possibly more unrest in the Chinese-ruled city, battered by months of violent protests.

A leading face of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement was rushed to hospital covered in blood late Wednesday after being attacked by unidentified thugs with hammers, his protest group said.

Angry protesters attacked Jammu and Kashmir minister Sham Lal Choudhary's cavalcade on the Jammu-Pathankot highway with stones today, demanding a CBI probe into the Kathua rape and murder case. The agitators tried to block the highway when the convoy was passing, but when it didn't stop, they hurled stones. Mr Choudhary is a BJP leader from Jammu.

BJP today accused Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh of doing a "cover up" of Shamli incident in which a young boy was shot dead and asked why the state police was unable to catch the culprits when they act with alacrity to find lost buffaloes of a state minister.

In a huge embarrassment to ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh, an eight-year-old boy was killed in celebratory firing by party workers in Shamli district that led Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today to order the immediate removal of some of the area's top officers.

Congress today accused the BJP-PDP coalition government of 'throttling the voice of opposition' in both the houses of the state legislature and termed the ruling alliance as a "total failure", as it protested outside the party office in Jammu.

After a tense weekend which saw the police clashing with thousands of residents, the Shamli district in western Uttar Pradesh is striving to reconfigure to normal. On Friday, a group of Muslim clerics who were travelling on a train to neighbouring Saharanpur were pushed around by a mob of men.