North India

For an evening, Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh trembled as it witnessed a brush of violence that reminded the bloodied days from 2013. Chaos, gun shots, stampedes and arson made Muslims flee into the corners of the city. After a long night with police raids in Muslim localities, many were relieved to know only one life was taken.

Amrinder Singh, a 39-year-old farmer died by suicide at Singhu border on Saturday — the fifth person to take his own life at protests against the new farm laws.

"Nobody should interfere in the peaceful life of two adults residing together by their own free will," the Allahabad high court observed in a fresh order asked Bijnor police to provide protection to a Muslim youth and his wife who converted to Islam from Hinduism.

"After several rounds of meetings if ministers are unable to resolve the farmers’ issues then Prime Minister Narendra Modi should directly talk to protesting farmers," former Union Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Thursday said.

“He saw a stampede and tried to escape. He was shot in his stomach,” Mohammed Raees's brother Mohammad Saeed told Maktoob.

2021 January 5th marks the first anniversary of the brutal attack on students of Jawaharlal Nehru University, hardly a month after the attacks that took place in Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University. The motive of the attack was to instill fear and vandalise a safe space. Numerous students, including the President of JNUSU Aishe Ghosh and Professor Sucharita Sen, were viciously attacked by the ABVP goons and their allies.

The roof of a shelter at a cremation ground in Uttar Pradesh's Muradnagar collapsed, killing atleast 21 people and injuring 20 others on Sunday.

Responding to Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar’s statement that 50 per cent of the farmers’ demands had been met, farmers' union leaders said Centre agreed to only 10 per cent of their demands but 90 per cent still remain.

On Tuesday evening, a group of Hindu men barged into a 56-year-old Muslim man’s house, falsely accused him of harassing a woman and dragged him out, smeared his face with black paint, hoisted him on a donkey and paraded him through the public roads of Bisauli in Uttar Pradesh.

In a reply to the Centre's letter on Monday, inviting them for another round of talks on December 30, the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) accused the Narendra Modi government of finding reasons to blame farmers in order to cover up its ‘consistent, adamant’ stand of continuing with the three agri laws.

Amarjeet Singh Rai, a Jalalabad-based lawyer, died by suicide at Tikri Border by consuming poisonous substance Sunday morning.

After the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), the BJP-led NDA lost yet another ally, the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) owing to differences over the farm laws.