Riots

Les Miserables, a French film about police brutality set in the banlieues, or suburbs, of Paris is up for an Oscar for the best international feature. Director Ladj Ly, who has made several documentaries, grew up where the film is set, in Montfermeil. The suburb features in Victor Hugo's famous 1862 novel and is where riots broke…

At the beginning of an election year, national news anchors and political journalists start talking about Iowa quite a bit more than they usually do. Thats because Iowa holds the very first caucus of the presidential nomination process, and its considered an …

Written by Parimal A Dabhi | Ahmedabad | Updated: February 7, 2020 7:48:12 am Defending the continuous imposition of Section 144 (prohibiting unlawful assembly) in the city, ACP Patel has in his affidavit stated, “Ahmedabad city is the biggest city in Gujarat and it is very active politically as well…

Few video games have a following as dedicated and engaged as League of Legends. League is an anomaly of endurance in the world of gaming, where newer and shinier releases are always a click away. At more than a decade old, the game still hosts almost eight million daily concurrent players…

Saying the matter had been adjourned many times and it will have to hear it someday, the Supreme Court on Tuesday fixed April 14 for hearing a plea by Zakia Jafri, wife of slain MP Ehsan Jafri, challenging the SIT's clean chit to then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in…

Written by Sourav Roy Barman | New Delhi | Published: February 3, 2020 3:15:55 am Adityanath at a rally in Karawal Nagar on Saturday. At Sunday’s rallies, he accused the AAP government of encouraging “anarchy”. (Express photo: Praveen Khanna)Late by over two hours for a rally in Badarpur, Uttar Pradesh…

Things were far worse in the “golden age” of the 1950s and ‘60s than they are today. We often think of midcentury as a time of civility and compromise in our politics, but it was also an era when lynchings were common, Freedom Riders were brutally beaten, urban riots ripped…

By: PTI | New Delhi | Updated: January 29, 2020 6:42:17 pm Protesters at the Jamia campus against the CAA bill and violence by police. (Express Photograph by Tashi Tobgyal)Delhi Police on Wednesday released photos of 70 people who were allegedly involved in violence during the anti-CAA protests near Jamia…

Tochi Onyebuchi’s short novel, Riot Baby, has two siblings as its foci—Ella, who acquires and then masters the power to change the world, and Kev, her younger brother whose formative years are spent in Rikers for attempted robbery. Though Riot Baby isn’t big, clocking in at 176 pages, the ideas…

After the National Investigation Agency (NIA) took over the Elgaar Parishad cases from the Maharashtra government, the Bhima-Koregaon Inquiry Commission on Monday admitted an application demanding the cross-examination of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader D…