At Prempura Ghat in the city, the immersion of Bappa has been going on smoothly since yesterday night and the idols gathered here are being immersed one by one. Four big cranes have been placed for immersion of big idols while a separate space (Kund) has been prepared for small idols.
Following the intensifying protests that have surrounded the city of Shimla for the past few days, the Himachal Pradesh Police tightened security and placed barricades in the Jail Road area in Mandi on Friday.
Protesters raised slogans against the Left Democratic Front government in the State and the actor. The police used water cannons to disperse the protesters as they attempted to climb the barricades.
Protestors gathered at the Howrah Bridge, climbing atop police barricades and clashed with police personnel during during the 'Nabanna Abhijan' protest march.
Ahead of the protest, called amid the ongoing row over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, police had thrown a ring of security around the West Bengal state secretariat.
The rally began from the College Square in the capital of West Bengal. As per the initial information, the protestors have reached till the barricades.
In the wake of the Nabanna Abhijan Rally over RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder case, the West Bengal police has tightened security around the West Bengal state secretariat "Nabanna".
As a precaution, the district administration has installed barricades on the roads leading to the river ghats so that there shouldn't be any incidents.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday directed the Haryana government to remove the barricades from Shambhu border after a PIL was filed challenging the unlawful barricading by the Haryana government.
Protesters broke through the barricades and police had to use water cannon to disperse the crowd. Later, the protesters were allowed to conduct a peaceful march.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav were forced to cut short the public meeting in Prayagraj's Phulpur constituency as the crowd broke the barricades and reached the dais, creating a stampede-like situation.
Demonstrators calling for universities to boycott and divest their holdings in Israel have set up tent camps and barricades at numerous American campuses.