Central India

The rampant damaging of public property, and the pelting of stones by the Hindu mob returning from the Hindu Jangarjna Rally, prompted the registration of seven FIRs including rioting and damage to public property act against the saffron men late on Sunday.

The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has congratulated the farmers of Maharashtra on Saturday for their successful Kisan Long March, which began on March 12, 2023, from Nashik to Mumbai.

On Sunday, a rally was held on Mira Road near Mumbai, where speakers who addressed the Hindutva crowd raised calls to boycott the Muslim community economically.

In a shocking incident, four Kerala students were brutally beaten up by security staff at the Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (IGNTU) in Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh.

Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh minister Raja Pateria came out of jail after spending 80 days for a remark made regarding Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The Koregaon Bhima Commission of Inquiry has passed an order to issue a ‘letter of request’ to Prakash Ambedkar, the prominent Dalit leader in Maharashtra, asking him to appear before it during a hearing in Pune on 27 March.

A magistrate court in Maharashtra's Malegaon convicted a Muslim man in a road accident brawl case and ordered him to offer namaz five times a day and plant two trees as conditions for his release on admonition, instead of undergoing imprisonment, Bar and Bench reported.

In Bhopal, the Sambhavna Trust clinic recently released their community health survey data which shows that cancer is 2.5 times more prevalent in Bhopal gas tragedy victims compared to an unexposed population in other parts of the city.

“From the balcony of my apartment, I witnessed a distressing sight: thousands of men, women, and even children shouting genocidal slogans. The faces of everyone present were filled with hate, and it was a truly harrowing experience to behold,” she said.

At the first national convention of All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Sunday, the party adopted resolutions on various issues, violence against Dalits and minorities, reservation for Muslims, Uniform Civil Code, anti-conversion laws, encroachment of Waqf properties, bulldozer justice, draconian laws, educational schemes for minorities, long term Muslim prisoners, instruation of china into Indian territory and Muslim groups's talk to Sangh Parivar leadership.

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Maharashtra unit president and Aurangabad MP Imtiaz Jaleel slammed the Union and state governments criticising the renaming of two Maharashtra cities — Aurangabad and Osmanabad — which have been changed to Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar and Dharashiv, respectively.

In a 58-second public appeal video, Ramesh Solanki, father of the first-year B Tech Dalit student at IIT Bombay, who died by suicide on 12 February, asked people to participate in a candle march on 19 February so that “Darshan gets justice."