After paying a visit to violence-hit Canning in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, Governor CV Ananda Bose on Saturday said that he was "deeply distressed" with the clashes which took place on the last day of filing nominations for the panchayat elections.
Curfew has been imposed under section 144 in Manipur after clashes broke out between Kuki and the Meitei communities on May 3. The violence that followed has claimed over 100 lives and displaced thousands.
The leaders of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Saturday marched towards the Kannur Collectorate in Kerala alleging that the police treated ABVP members harshly during a march organised on Friday.
A person was killed while 174 others have been detained after clashes erupted in Gujarat's Junagadh district on Friday night when a civic body served a notice to a Mosque to present documents, police said.
Clashes broke between Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) soon after the reports came out that PPP's Murtaza Wahab won the Karachi mayor elections, reported Dawn.
On the third anniversary of the Galwan Valley clashes, top military officers deployed along the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh held operational discussions to further strengthen the preparedness in the region.
Violence gripped Manipur on May 3, as clashes were witnessed during a rally organised by the All Tribals Students Union (ATSU) to protest the demand for the inclusion of the Meitei community in the Scheduled Tribe.
"A monument of Tipu Sultan was built here on the main road, there was no permission for it. We got information that it is an illegal monument. We had a meeting to remove it after which it was removed. There is peace in the area," said Sanjay Barkund, SP Dhule, Maharashtra on Friday.