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Bengal, Tamil Nadu record highest-ever turnout since Independence in Phase 1 of polling, says Gyanesh KumarVoter turnout in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu reached historic highs on Thursday. Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar announced the rec...
States, UTs told not to segregate prisoners on caste, class or religionThe Union Home Ministry has urged states and Union Territories to stop segregating prisoners based on caste and religion and stop assigning...
Panel set up to prepare plan for Koregaon Bhima memorial's development, beautification: Maharashtra govtSocial Justice Minister Dhananjay Munde made this announcement. More than five lakh people visit the Vijay Stambh at Koregaon Bhima on Janu...
Shiv Sena Bhavan symbol of Maharashtra's identity; nobody should dare to cast evil eye on it: Sanjay RautThe statement comes a day after Shiv Sena and BJP workers clashed outside the Shiv Sena Bhavan at Dadar in central Mumbai on Wednesday afte...
Bhima Koregaon violence: RPI workers take out morcha in SangliLocal RPI leaders demanded that the judicial inquiry ordered by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis into the violence be completed...
How the land of a thousand clashes conjures social stabilityThe Indian state looks weak and helpless, unable to check any vociferous group, and often happy to cave in to woo any and every possible vo...
Bhima-Koregaon violence: Mayawati terms Centre, Maharashtra government casteistThe BSP supremo also claimed that despite an FIR registered against the two leaders, no arrests have been made so far.
Maharashtra moving towards "chaos" due to caste conflict: Shiv SenaThe party bemoaned large-scale damage to property by protesters during the January 3 bandh in Maharashtra called by Dalit outfits.
Bhima Koregaon violence: Criminal case filed against Jignesh Mevani, Umar KhalidBoth were charged for allegedly creating a rift and spreading disharmony between the Maratha and Dalit communities.
Mumbai protests: Over 30 cops injured, 300 persons detainedDeputy Commissioner of Police Sahaji Umap of Zone VI said that 11 personnel were injured in Govandi and adjoining areas.
Bhima Koregaon violence: Jignesh Mevani-Umar Khalid event denied permission; 16 FIRs lodgedProtesters jumped on the rail tracks of harbour line at Govandi, Mankhurd and Kurla, due to which suburban services towards Panvel, Belapur...
Maharashtra bandh called off, says Prakash AmbedkarBBM leader & Babasaheb Ambedkar’s grandson Prakash Ambedkar said that nearly 50 per cent of the state's population took part in the shut-do...
Aspirations, as Dalits martial memoriesAn East Indian Company force comprising, among others, ‘untouchable’ Mahars, who had forced a division of the Peshwa’s army to retreat.
Perpetrators of Pune violence will be punished: Maharashtra CM Devendra FadnavisHe said his government will soon approach the Bombay High Court, asking it to name a sitting judge to probe the January 1 violence at Bhima...
Caste violence in Maharashtra rocks Parliament, RSS rejects Congress chargeAs a political war of words erupted over the simmering caste tensions in Maharashtra, the BJP hit back at Congress, accusing it of politici...
Congress accuses Hindutva outfits of triggering Maharashtra clashesCongress leader Mallikarjun Kharge also trained his guns on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, wondering why he was maintaining a studied silenc...
Buses stoned, schools, shops shut during Pune bandhThe shutdown received a mixed response in the city since morning with some shops doing business with their shutters partially up.
Maharashtra caste violence: Left or right, who stoked violence?Ambedkar, who is a grandson of Babasaheb Ambedkar, said the violence was engineered by Shivraj Pratishthan activists, who provoked villager...
Rahul working on incitement model for political gains: BJPCongress chief had accused the Centre-ruling party of having a 'fasicst vision' after violence broke out in Pune yesterday.
Over 50% turnout in Haryana, 40% in MaharashtraThe highest voter turnout was witnessed in Kagal constituency of Kolhapur district while the lowest was at Bramhapuri constituency in Chand...