Muzaffarnagar/Lucknow: Curfew was eased for nine hours on Thursday in riot-hit areas of Muzaffarnagar with no reports of fresh incidents even as 12 BJP MLAs were stopped from visiting the district.
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Muzaffarnagar: After three days, curfew was relaxed on Tuesday for two hours in violence-hit areas of the district where communal clashes have left 38 people dead.
Curfew relaxation for two hours has

Muzaffarnagar: At least 15 more people were killed in spiralling violence in Muzaffarnagar on Sunday, taking the toll to 26 in the western UP district where the army staged flag marches and thousands

Riots in China’s ethnically divided Xinjiang region on Wednesday left 27 people dead, according to state media which said police opened fire on “knife-wielding mobs”.

 
New Delhi: In a major bid to prevent the consolidation of the minority vote bank in the Congress’ favour, the BJP will shortly release a ‘Vision Document to Empower Minorities’, the first document

With the BJP being constantly targeted over Gujarat riots, party president Rajnath Singh today alleged it was being defamed and maligned continuously under a “planned conspiracy”.

I hail this verdict as historic. It is for the first time ever that a court has convicted the organizers of a communal riot, people like Babu Bajrangi and Maya Kodnani.

Till now, only the perpetrato

Former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani was sentenced to 28 years in jail on Friday for murder and conspiracy during one of the country's worst religious riots, when up to 2,500 people, most of them Muslim, were hunted down and hacked, beaten or burnt to death in 2002.

Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Monday admitted there was not enough police force to stem the ethnic violence in Assam when it was in its initial stages.

"There was not enough police force on

A blame-game began between the Centre and the Assam government on Friday, less than 24 hours before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to the strife-torn state, on allegations of delay in deploymen