New Delhi: The Minorities Commission has blamed the District Magistrate and police for the clashes in Bharatpur on September 14. The report said that the police should have immediately taken action against those who assaulted the Imam of a mosque. It also blamed the police for using excessive force. As many as 10 people had died in the violence. Congress president Sonia Gandhi had also summoned Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok...
08:05 AM, Oct 02, 2011
New Delhi: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot was summoned by the Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi to explain police high-handedness in the Bharatpur clashes. Two of Gehlot's ministers are mired in cases of mysterious death of two women. The Rajasthan Home secretary was transferred after he objected to the suspension of the SP and the Collector of Bharatpur district. They were transferred for failing in the duty to uphold law and...
02:28 PM, Sep 30, 2011
Jaipur: With one more person succumbing to injuries on Monday, the toll in last week's violence in Bharatpur has risen to 10, police said. "40-year-old Shabbir, a resident of Pathravli village of Gopalgarh, was admitted to Sawai Man Singh government hospital in Jaipur and died at around 1 am today," the police said. He was injured during the violent clashes between Mev Muslims and Gujjars following a land-related dispute on...
03:07 PM, Sep 26, 2011
New Delhi: An internal Congress inquiry report has indicted the Ashok Gehlot government for the Bharatpur riots. The report prepare by the Congress' inquiry committee set up by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, has confirmed police excesses during the riots. The report also said that State Home Minister Shanti Dhariwal mismanaged the situation, took sides and so he could be either removed or made to apologise. Dhariwal said that the state...
01:51 PM, Sep 21, 2011
New Delhi: There is an uneasy calm at the Gopalgarh village, a week after eight people were killed in violent clashes between the local Gujjar and Meo Muslim communities. Bullet marks on the walls of the masjid are a reminder of what happened last Wednesday. Shops are closed, with very few locals and a lot of policemen strictly imposing the curfew which is in place for almost 18 hours everyday....
07:59 AM, Sep 20, 2011
Jaipur: The Rajasthan government on Friday night announced a CBI probe into the community clash in Bharatpur's Gopalgarh village which left eight people dead. A high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot decided to hand over the case to the CBI. At the same time, a judicial inquiry by a retired high court judge will be conducted into the incident, officials said. Bharatpur district collector Krishna Kunal and SP...
07:44 AM, Sep 17, 2011
New Delhi: Bharatpur district in Rajasthan remains tense after clashes on Wednesday. Three more bodies were found in a well in Gopalgarh taking the toll to seven in 48 hours. Curfew was imposed in Pahadi, Jurera, Kaman, Sikri and Nagar areas on Thursday and will be lifted for three hours beginning at noon on Friday. The clash erupted on Wednesday morning when two communities confronted each other over a land-related...
11:28 AM, Sep 16, 2011
New Delhi: Five people were killed in clashes between two communities over a land dispute on Wednesday in Bharatpur in Rajasthan. Curfew was imposed on Wednesday and still remains in some sensitive areas. The clash erupted on Wednesday morning when two communities confronted each other over a land-related dispute. The situation was tense but under control on Thursday in the district which witnessed violent clashes between two communities over a...
10:09 AM, Sep 15, 2011
New Delhi: Five persons were on Sunday killed in police firing at Paramakudi, 40 km from here, when a mob of Dalits turned violent, setting ablaze vehicles and blocking traffic following the detention of their leader, John Pandian at Vallanadu in Tuticorin district. Violence broke out after news spread that Pandian had been detained at Tuticorin en route to Paramakudi to pay homage on the death anniversary of Dalit leader...
07:34 AM, Sep 12, 2011
New Delhi: With more people getting killed in clashes in Yemen, India on Tuesday renewed its appeal to its nationals and persons of Indian origin (PIOs) to leave the Arab country urgently and reminded them to avail of the Indian embassy's helplines which have been used by barely a dozen people so far. This was the third advisory issued by the Indian external affairs ministry in a fortnight. "All Indian...
05:06 PM, Jun 07, 2011
Cairo: An angry mob attacked a group of mainly Christian protesters demanding drastic measures to heal religious tension amid a spike in violence, leaving 65 people injured, officials said on Sunday. The Christian protesters have been holding their sit-in outside the state television building in Cairo for nearly a week following deadly Christian-Muslim clashes that left a church burned and 15 people dead. More than 100 people rushed into the...
07:25 AM, May 15, 2011
Cairo: Violence triggered by rumours of a Muslim-Christian interfaith romance has claimed 12 lives and over 220 injured in the Egyptian capital, with mobs setting fire two churches in one of the worst communal clashes rocking the country in recent times. Prime Minister Essam Sharaf cancelled his visit to Bahrain and UAE, calling for an emergency Cabinet meeting to discuss the Muslim-Christian violence, state news agency said. After the meeting...
07:15 AM, May 09, 2011
Cairo: Egypt's prime minister called an emergency cabinet meeting on Sunday after 10 people died in bloody clashes in a Cairo suburb over the conversion of a Christian woman to Islam. The sectarian violence on Saturday was Egypt's worst since 13 people died in clashes on March 9 sparked by a church burning, and throws down a new challenge for generals ruling the country since the overthrow of President Hosni...
04:29 PM, May 08, 2011
CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar with a special show on Libya, where pro-Gaddafi and anti-Gaddafi protesters have been clashing. ...
09:50 PM, Mar 15, 2011
Kolkata: Law and order situation has improved and political clashes have come down in poll-bound West Bengal in the last two months, a senior government official said on Saturday. "Political clashes have come down and law and order situation has improved in last two months," State Chief Secretary Samar Ghosh told reporters after a review meeting with top officials of the police and administration at Bhavani Bhavan here. "I have...
05:47 PM, Mar 12, 2011
Witnesses are reporting bloody clashes. However, journalists have been restricted access to the Libya. ...
01:43 PM, Feb 20, 2011
Bangkok: Thai and Cambodian soldiers exchanged fire in a two-hour border clash on Friday that killed two Cambodian soldiers and a Thai villager, the latest in an ancient feud over land surrounding a 900-year-old Hindu temple. The fatalities were the first in the militarized border area since a Thai soldier was shot dead a year ago and could rekindle diplomatic tensions between the Southeast Asian neighbors over the 11th-century Preah...
11:23 AM, Feb 05, 2011
Cairo: Firing from assault rifles targeted anti-government protesters in the Egyptian capital's Tahrir Square on Thursday apparently from supporters of the embattled President, killing at least six people as violence escalated just a day before the opposition's proposed massive rally on Friday to oust Hosni Mubarak. Still reeling from Thursday's attack in which Mubarak supporters charged into the square on horses and camels, the opposition protesters were fired upon from...
08:18 AM, Feb 03, 2011
Hundreds injured as pro and anti-Mubarak supporters clash at Tahrir Square. ...
12:06 AM, Feb 03, 2011
Cairo: Supporters of President Hosni Mubarak, throwing petrol bombs, wielding sticks and charging on horses and camels, fiercely attacked demonstrators in Cairo on Wednesday after the army told protesters to clear the streets. Anti-Mubarak protesters hurled stones back and said the attackers were police in plain clothes, a charge the Interior Ministry denied; the Egyptian government rejected international calls for the leader to end his 30-year-rule now. This apparent rebuff...
06:07 PM, Feb 02, 2011
