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Bareilly (UP), Mar 13 (ANI): A large part of Uttar Pradesh’’s Bareilly district is under curfew for the 13th day running today.
On Friday, at least 15 people, including a senior police officer, were injured when members of a community clashed with police to protest the release of a Muslim cleric.
The community members indulged in vandalism [...]

WASHINGTON: Al-Qaida in Iraq today declared a country-wide “curfew” in a bid to stop Sunday’s elections from going ahead, the SITE monitoring agency said.
“The Islamic state declares for the time a curfew on election day… from six in the morning until six pm, throughout Iraq and especially in Sunni areas,” the group said in a [...]

Sangli (Maharashtra), Sep 9(ANI): Curfew in the riot-hit towns of Sangli, Miraj and Ichalkaranji in Maharashtra was relaxed on Wednesday, as the situation was gradually improving.

Communal clashes had broken out at in Miraj town and Sangli city last week.

Trouble started on September 3 (Anant Chaturdashi Day), when some pro-Hindutva organisations tried to raise an [...]

Washington, September 8 (ANI): Fallen pop star Boy George has reportedly turned to a strict diet of uncooked food to shed weight he gained as he served his sentence in jail.

The former Culture Club frontman, real name George O’Dowd, was also said to have resorted to a gruelling exercise routine to get back in shape.

“He’s [...]

Washington, September 8 (ANI): Former Culture Club frontman Boy George is drawing plans to head back to the studio and resurrect his career just fourth months after he walked free from jail.

The fallen pop star, real name George O’Dowd, was jailed in January for falsely imprisoning a male escort in his flat and beating the [...]

Imphal (Manipur), Sep 7(ANI): People in Manipur are getting tired of protests against an alleged fake encounter in which a former militant and a pregnant woman were killed by police commandos on July 23.

The strike, called by civil [...]

Washington, September 2 (ANI): Shamed pop star Boy George has declared himself a “free” man after jail authorities removed his electronic tag.

The 47-year-old star was jailed in January for falsely imprisoning a male escort in his flat and beating the [...]

Islamabad, Aug.30 (ANI): At least 15 security personnel were killed and several others injured in a suicide attack on a police station in Mingora on Sunday.

The attack took place when a suicide attacker blew himself up on the training ground near the police station where the security personnel had gathered for a training session.

The attacker [...]

Peshawar, Aug.26 (ANI): Monday’s incident in which an Afghan journalist, Janullah Hashimzada, was brutally murdered in Jamrud sub-division of Khyber Agency has once again highlighted that the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and the Federally Administered Tribal [...]

Dhanoye Kalan, Attari Sector (Indo-Pak Border) Aug. 25 (ANI): The restrictions over movement along the Indo-Pak border have been causing problems to the local farmers.

Farmers living in border areas in Punjab have their land spread across the fence, and [...]

Islamabad, Aug.21 (ANI): At least twelve people were killed in a suspected US drone strike in the Danday Darpa Khel area of Miranshah early morning today (Friday).

According to sources, US drones fired several missiles targeting a house in the region killing all the 12 people on the spot besides wounding many others.

Eyewitnesses said casualties may [...]

Peshawar, July 14 (ANI): Amidst fear and confusion, the repatriation of internally displaced persons (IDPs) belonging to Swat and other parts of Malakand division started from Jalozai Camp, Nowshera, and two other camps in Charsadda.

However, according to other reports, the volume [...]

Peshawar, July 11 (ANI): The North Western Frontier Government has charted out a three-phased rehabilitation plan for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) of the Swat Valley.

Under the first phase beginning Monday, the IDPs from 11 camps will return to the valley, the Dawn quoted NWFP Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain, as saying.

This would be [...]

Beijing, July 6 (ANI): At least four persons, including three civilians and a policeman, were killed, and 20 were injured in clashes on Sunday in a regional capital in western China after days of rising tensions between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese.

The rioting broke out Sunday [...]

Srinagar, July 2 (ANI): At least seven persons, including a policeman were injured during fresh clashes across the Kashmir Valley on Thursday.

The police vehicle was set ablaze by a mob in Pulwama town. Two protesters — Nazir Ahmad Bhat [...]

Srinagar, July 02 (ANI): The towns of Baramullah and Sopore in North Kashmir continued to be remain under indefinite curfew on Thursday.

Curfew was imposed in Baramullah on Monday following a violent protest after CRPF men allegedly misbehaved with a Muslim woman.

Curfew was temporarily relaxed on Wednesday evening to enable people to purchase necessary items.

Life across [...]

Srinagar, July 1 (ANI): The Jammu and Kashmir Government has decided to withdraw the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) from law and order duties in Baramullah district, following protests by local residents over the deaths of some of them.

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, in a late night development, [...]

Baramulla, June 29(ANI): At least two people were killed and 10 others injured, including policemen, in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir after police resorted to firing to quell protests over an alleged misbehaviour with a local woman here on Monday.
Hundreds of protestors took to streets to protest and demand action against the guilty persons.

The [...]

Baramulla, June 29(ANI): At least one person died and 10 other wounded, including police personnel, during a protest by local people in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Monday.

The police had to resort to firing to quell violent protestors.

The dead has been identified as Saleem Rashid Wani. Injured were [...]

Baramulla (Jammu and Kashmir), June 30 (ANI): Curfew was imposed in Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday following clashes between residents of the area and the police.

Reports said that at least ten people were injured, one critically, in the clashes that broke out after residents accused the police of eve-teasing a woman.

The person who [...]