North India

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday ended its raid after 38-hours in independent media house NewsClick's office amid condemnation by journalists' bodies, opposition politicians and rights activists.

Raids were also conducted at the residences of the website’s Editor-in-Chief Prabir Purkayastha and Editor Pranjal.

Punjabi actor-turned-activist Deep Sidhu was arrested by Delhi Police Special Cell on Tuesday morning for taking part in protests against Narendra Modi government's new agri laws on Republic Day in capital city Delhi.

Taking suo moto notice of a news published in a section of media highlighting the matter of Dalit labour rights activist Nodeep Kaur, the Punjab State Commission for Scheduled Castes on Monday asked the Additional Chief Secretary (Home) to intervene in the matter to ensure relief of Kaur at the earliest.

Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Sunday said the Central Government's conspiracy against farmers has strengthened their protest against the newly-enacted farm laws.

Over 150 labourers working at a power project in Tapovan-Reni are feared dead, an Indo Tibetan Border Police spokesperson said while quoting the project-in charge.

A 52-year-old farmer Karamveer Singh from Haryana's Jind died by suicide on Sunday at Tikri border, one of the protest sites on Delhi borders where farmers have been protesting the Centre's farm laws for over 70 days, blaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the anti-farmer laws in his suicide note.

Farmers protesting against the Narendra Modi government’s three new farm laws have called for a nationwide three-hour ‘Chakka jam’, or road blockade, between noon and 3 PM on Saturday.

Despite prohibitory orders in place under section 144 of the CrPC, thousands of farmers turned up for a khap mahapanchayat in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli district Friday to protest against the Narendra Modi government's three new farm laws.

An FIR under several charges, including sedition, has been registered against Muslim student activist and Fraternity Movement national secretary Sharjeel Usmani in Lucknow’s Hazratganj police station in connection with his speech at the Elgaar Parishad conclave last month.

More than half of New Delhi's 20 million occupants may have been infected with the COVID-19, as per an administration serological study whose discoveries repeated before private-sector research.

The Shahdra district police on Monday had distributed 60 metal batons to police personal as an anti-riot equipment. The move was explained by the officials as an experiment, for the “protection from rioters armed with swords” after police personal were injured during clashes with protesters who carried swords during the Republic Day rally.