India

Kolkata, Mar 2 (PTI) The communal conflagration in Delhi was "state-sponsored planned genocide", West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged on Monday and claimed an attempt was being made by the BJP to replicate the "Gujarat model of riots" across the country.

Banerjee, while addressing a TMC event, insisted it was due to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) that "so many people were killed" in the Delhi violence. "Amit Shah should keep this in mind".

Muzaffarnagar, Mar 2 (PTI) A special court here held a man guilty of abducting and raping a minor.

The quantum of punishment will be pronounced on March 3.

Judge Sanjive Kumar Tiwari held Monu, alias Ajay, guilty under Sections 363, 366 and 376 of the IPC and the POCSO Act.

According to special lawyer Dinesh Kumar Sharma, a 13-year-old girl was abducted and raped by the convict at Kanhahedi village in the district on May 15, 2016.

The victim's father had lodged a complaint in this connection.

Lucknow, Mar 2 (PTI) Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Aazad will join an Opposition front led by Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party president O P Rajbhar, a party leader claimed, amid a meeting between the Dalit outfit leader and the former Uttar Pradesh minister in Lucknow on Monday.

Aazad, who is popularly known as Ravan, will become a part of the Bhagidaari Sankalp Morcha, a front of eight political parties, SBSP general secretary Arvind Rajbhar told PTI.

New Delhi, Mar 2 (PTI) Delhi minister Gopal Rai visited a relief camp in violence-hit northeast Delhi on Monday and assured people that more such facilities would be opened if needed.

The labour and employment minister visited the relief camp at Mustafabad which has a capacity to accommodate 1,000 people.

NEW DELHI, Mar 2 (NNN-PTI) – The death toll during the four-day communal violence in the Indian capital city rose to 46 on Sunday, officials said.

“Today (yesterday), three more bodies were recovered from the violence-hit northeast part of the city,” a police official said. “One of the bodies was found in a canal in Gokalpuri and two were recovered from the Bhagirathi Vihar canal.”

According to officials, the death toll by now stands at 46. Over 350 people were also injured in the violence.

KANPUR: As we most frequently find the women and children asking for one, three more coins from the people turning up at the mall on Bada Chauraha, so we encounter with similar sort of beggars imploring for money in a very humble manner around the shops in Jajmau area.

These self-styled beggars have developed a habit of posing themselves as destitute. The little children appearing so apt in the practice that the soft-hearted persons cannot restraint themselves in paying some amount of money to them.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Reporting in India has never been without its risks, but journalists say attacks on the media during last week’s deadly communal riots between Hindus and Muslims in New Delhi show the situation is deteriorating.

One reporter was shot and survived, another had his teeth knocked out, and many more said Hindu mobs demanded proof of religion and tried to keep them from documenting vandalism and violence that included people attacking one another with axes, swords, metal pipes and guns.

New Delhi, Mar 1 (PTI) India's crude steel production registered a decline of 3.26 per cent to 9.288 million tonnes (MT) in January this year, according to World Steel Association (worldsteel).

The country had produced 9.591 MT of crude steel during the corresponding month last year, the global industry body said in its latest report.

Hyderabad, March 1 (PTI) Calling the Delhi riots as "targeted structural violence," AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday said the responsibility lies at the doorstep of the BJP government and appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the affected areas.

Addressing a public meeting on AIMIM's 62nd foundation day here, the Hyderabad MP reiterated his charge that the violence happened due to the speeches made by BJP leaders.

New Delhi, Feb 29 (PTI) The Congress on Saturday accused the government of "ruining" the economy by its "monumental mismanagement" and advised the Centre to immediately give money in the hands of the poor by making rural job scheme MGNREGA "need based".

Congress' senior spokesperson Anand Sharma also demanded that the government "honestly" release the numbers of jobs lost and not "mislead" the people.