New Delhi: A total of 344 people have lost their lives in communal violence across the country in last three years, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Minister of State for Home Jitendra Singh said there were 2,300 incidents of communal violence in different parts of the country between 2009 and March this year in which 6,924 people were also injured. He said 68 people lost their lives and 385...
05:10 PM, May 22, 2012
Hyderabad: Communal violence broke out in Sangareddy town of Andhra Pradesh, forcing the police to clamp indefinite curfew. Twenty people were injured and several shops were set afire in the large scale violence late on Thursday night in Sangareddy town of Medak district, about 70 km from here. The violence broke out on Thursday night when a youth allegedly posted on Facebook a provocative photograph of a place of worship....
10:21 AM, Mar 30, 2012
Kochi: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) international president Ashok Singhal on Tuesday warned of a massive movement in the country if the Centre did not withdraw the proposed Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill 2011. "It is an unimaginable and unconstitutional Bill. The Centre has brought the Bill to annihilate the Hindu community," he told. Singhal is in Kochi in connection with the three-day VHP...
11:08 AM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday attacked the UPA government for "reducing states to glorified municipal corporations" by turning a deaf ear to their reasonable demands and described central proposals like the Communal Violence bill as "fascist". She also questioned the Approach Paper for 12th Plan in her speech tabled in National Development Council here, saying the lack of emphasis in the document on a direct attack...
02:40 PM, Oct 22, 2011
Bharatpur: Rahul Gandhi along with Union Minister of State for Home Jitendra Singh on Sunday paid a surprise visit to Gopalgarh and nearby areas, which witnessed bloody clashes between two communities last month. "The two visited two-three villages in Gopalgarh and nearby areas this morning. It was a sudden visit," Vijendra Yadav, SHO, Gopalgarh, told PTI. "They came by road and entered the district from Haryana border. After spending around...
01:02 PM, Oct 09, 2011
Jaipur: Rajasthan government has suspended Krishna Kunal and Hinglaj Dan, who were posted as District Magistrate and Superintendent of Police of Bharatpur when it witnessed communal violence recently, officials said. Kunal, Dan and then Additional SP of the district Om Prakash were suspended on Wednesday night, officials said. Kunal, Dan were removed from their positions on September 16 and were under Awaiting Posting Orders (APO) status. The decision has been...
07:48 AM, Sep 29, 2011
Bharatpur: Preliminary reports from the post mortem of the Bharatpur communal violence victims suggest that out of the nine victims, three had wounds from rifle bullets from police firing. The other six had pellets and stab injuries and are likely to be casualties of country-made weapons and knives used by the mob. Bharatpur witnessed clashes over a land dispute on September 14. The entire staff of the Gopalgarh police station...
09:32 AM, Sep 23, 2011
Gopalgarh: Nearly a week after communal clashes in Rajasthan's Bharatpur district left eight people dead, local Muslims have been refusing to bury the dead. They say the police was biased in the Congress ruled state and are worried that the violence could revive. There has been an uneasy calm at the Gopalgarh village a week after eight people were killed in violent clashes between the local Gujjar and Meo Muslim...
09:28 PM, Sep 20, 2011
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12:10 PM, Sep 10, 2011
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