North India

Lawyer Bahadur Abbas Naqvi, an aide of advocate Mehmood Pracha, said lawyers plan to take out a march from the the High Court to Supreme Court on January 22 to hand over a petition by over 1200 lawyers to Chief Justice of India S A Bobde against Delhi Police searches at Pracha’s office,

"It is God's grace. May God give him strength. He helped us in Bihar and will help in Uttar Pradesh and later in West Bengal too."

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) supremo and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday visited Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh and Jaunpur.

Protesting farmer unions Tuesday disapproved of the committee appointed by the Supreme Court to break the deadlock over the acts and said they will continue their protest against the three farm laws, PTI reported.

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.