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- Mumbai
Mumbai anti-encroachment drive: 57 held, over 200 booked for stone-pelting
Mumbai: The Mumbai police have registered a case against more than 200 persons and apprehended 57 of them in connection with the incident of stone-pelting that occurred during the civic body’s anti-encroachment…
- India
Indore civic body drops ‘military-like’ uniform of its anti-encroachment squad
Indore: The Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) has said that it would withdraw the new uniform of its anti-encroachment squad after the opposition Congress alleged that it resembled military fatigues and amounted to…
- India
Stones pelted on police during demolition drive in Lucknow
Lucknow: Residents of Lucknow’s Akbar Nagar on Sunday allegedly clashed with police and administration officials and pelted them with stones during an anti-encroachment drive in the locality, officials said. The alleged incident…
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Haldwani violence a template for erasing Muslim history: Harsh Mander
Human rights activist Harsh Mander, who started the Karwan-e-Mohabbat campaign in solidarity with the victims of communal violence, has described the recent Haldwani violence, between February 8 and 9, as “a template…
- India
Haldwani locals flee to evade crackdown; ‘burqa-clad women’ under lens
Following the violence in Uttarkhand’s Haldwani over demolition of an Islamic seminary, the police have claimed that burqa-clad women were pelting stones on officers on-duty. The women, who allegedly created a ruckus…
- India
10 cops injured in stone pelting during anti-encroachment drive in Agra
Agra: Tension gripped Agra as a standoff between members of the Radhasoami Satsang Sabha and the local administration led to stone pelting by satsangis, in which at least 10 policemen sustained injuries.…
- India
1 dead, 174 held after violent protest in Gujarat over eviction notice to mosque
Junagadh: One person was killed and 174 others were detained after a violent protest broke out between a mob and police in Gujarat’s Junagadh over an anti-encroachment operation. The protest on Friday…
- India
Haridwar: Mazar, temple demolished in anti-encroachment drive
Haridwar: In an anti-encroachment drive, the Haridwar district administration in Uttarakhand on Saturday demolished a ‘mazar’ and a temple allegedly built illegally on roads here, officials said. The mazar at Aryanagar was…
- Kashmir
AAP on hunger strike in Srinagar to demand order sparing poor from anti-encroachment drive
Srinagar: The Aam Aadmi Party on Friday said it is on hunger strike here to demand a formal order from the Jammu and Kashmir administration to spare poor residents and shopkeepers from…
- India
UP: Kanpur victims cremated amid tight security
Kanpur: Bodies of Pramila Dixit and her daughter Neha, the two women who died in a fire during an anti-encroachment drive here two days ago, were cremated on Wednesday at the Valmiki…
- India
Kanpur Dehat family says no to cremation till accused are arrested
Kanpur Dehat: The family of the two women who died in a fire during an anti-encroachment drive on Monday evening, have refused to cremate the bodies unless the accused officials are arrested.…
- Kashmir
45 shops sealed, 2 demolished during anti-encroachment drive in J&K’s Ramban
Banihal: At least 45 shops were sealed and two others demolished during the ongoing anti-encroachment drive in Banihal township of Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district on Sunday, officials said. Two political activists…
- Delhi
DDA’s anti-encroachment drive continues in Mehrauli for 2nd day
Delhi: For a second consecutive day, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Saturday continued an anti-encroachment drive in the Mehrauli area amid protests by locals. A large number of security personnel have…
- India
Kashmir’s anti-encroachment drive poses threat of return of ‘stone-pelting’ culture: Azad
Jammu: Democratic Azad Party chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday cautioned the Jammu and Kashmir administration against its ongoing anti-encroachment drive, saying the ‘hartal and stone-pelting’ culture is likely to return if…
- India
Protest against anti-encroachment drive in Jammu locality continues
Jammu: Thousands of people, including women and children, hit the streets in Sunjwan-Bathindi on the city’s outskirts against the Jammu and Kashmir administration’s ongoing anti-encroachment drive to retrieve “illegally occupied” state land.…
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