Riots

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…

By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: January 26, 2020 10:32:07 pm Defending the CAA, Shah accused Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of “misleading” the city (File/Express photo by Vishal Srivastav)Raking up the anti-CAA sit-in protest at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh area for the…

Ladj Ly’s racially charged feature debut, “Les Misérables,” which won the 2019 Jury Prize at Cannes, was selected by France’s Oscar committee as the country’s submission for the international feature film competition. It was a historical decision, as it marke…

More than a century ago, the great composer John Philip Sousa worried about the future of his profession. He feared that a new invention, the record player, would render obsolete “the ennobling discipline of learning music,” putting professional musicians out…

Police fired volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets in Lebanons capital Saturday to disperse thousands of protesters amid some of the worst rioting since demonstrations against the countrys ruling elite erupted three months ago. More than 150 people were inju…