-The Telegraph Police action on ‘encroachers’ after custody death protest turns violent Guwahati: Police and the civil administration demolished the homes of five people with bulldozers in a minority-dominated locality of Assam’s Nagaon district on Sunday, a day after a local police station had been burnt down by people protesting an alleged custody death. Among the houses razed in Chalnabori was that of Safiqul Islam, 39, who allegedly died in police custody. The...
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Communal Clashes During Ram Navami Rallies In 4 States, 2 Killed: 10 Points -Anurag Dwary
-NDTV.com An unidentified body was recovered from Gujarat's Khambhat following clashes over a Ram Navami procession New Delhi: Communal clashes broke out in four states - Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and West Bengal - during processions yesterday to mark Ram Navami - the festival celebrating the birth of Hindu God Ram. Here are the top 10 points of this big story: * Parts of Madhya Pradesh's Khargone were placed under curfew after violence and...
More »Trinamul leader's killing in Birbhum sparks violence, arson; Governor seeks report from chief secy -Arnab Ganguly
-The Telegraph Panchayat office-bearer dies after bomb attack, but DGP denies political motive, state government forms SIT; 10 charred bodies recovered in Baktui in Rampurhat; Dhankhar says law and order in Bengal has ‘capsized’ Calcutta: Murder of a Trinamul panchayat office-bearer in a Birbhum village on Monday night sparked an orgy of violence that has claimed the lives of at least 10 more people with seven charred bodies found by the fire...
More »arson? Demystifying the Midnight Fires in India's Rohingya Refugee Camps -Riya Singh Rathore
-TheWire.in As Rohingyas in India face rising Islamophobia, a strong tide of Hindu nationalism and anti-immigrant sentiment, the view that fires in refugees camps are due to accidents is rather unconvincing. Rohingya refugee camps in India witnessed four fires in 2021 alone, higher than any other year prior. Between 2016 and 2021, 12 mysterious fires broke out in Rohingya camps alone. Most of these conflagrations demonstrated a peculiar trend – they catalyse...
More »Delhi violence: In first conviction, court finds man guilty of setting house on fire
-Scroll.in The judge will announce the sentence on December 22. A Delhi court on Monday convicted a man for being part of a mob that set a house on fire during the riots in the national capital in February 2020, reported PTI. This is the first conviction in the Delhi riots cases. Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat found Dinesh Yadav guilty under sections 143 (member of an unlawful assembly), 147 (punishment for rioting),...
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