As several places of Barrackpore are communally sensitive, paramilitary forces have been deployed in Baranagar, Kamarhati and Titagarh of Barrckpore for the time being, police said.
The MHA has also advised through its advisory for peaceful observance of the festival, and monitoring of factors that could disturb communal harmony in society.
The Delhi Police has denied permission to two groups, who had sought to carry out processions on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti from the Jahangirpuri area.
A person was arrested for allegedly tearing and dumping saffron-coloured religious flags, put up on the occasion of Ram Navami, in a drain at Shastri Park in the national capital, police said on Wednesday.
In response to media queries on the statement issued by OIC Secretariat regarding India, the Official Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, Arindam Bagchi said, "We strongly condemn the statement issued by OIC Secretariat today regarding India. This is one more example of their c
Condemning the communal flare up in Bihar during the Ram Navami festivities, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday came down heavily on the Nitish Kumar government and said the Chief Minister still has no remorse.
"We repeatedly said that the BJP and their allied organizations try to vitiate the communal atmosphere. You may remember a year ago when Nitish Kumar was running the NDA government in Bihar. Even at that time, the son of a Union minister had tried to spoil the communal atmosphere in Bhagalpu
At a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been urging world peace, saying it is not an era of war, two Opposition-ruled states in the country are suffering violence and chaos during festivities, Union Minister Anurag Thakur said on Tuesday, hitting out at the Bihar and Bengal govern
The accused identified as Sumit Shaw, who was seen in a video that is now viral on social media was arrested from Bihar's Munger last night, Howrah police said today.
Training his guns at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the violence in the state during Ram Navami celebrations, senior advocate and BJP MP Mahesh Jethmalani on Tuesday said of all the 'pseudo-secular' parties, the "most dangerously communal" is was the Banerjee led Trinamoo
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday termed the communal violence in Sasaram as "unfortunate" and said he could not visit the city due to the clash between the two groups.
Of these 10 companies (carrying approximately 1,000 personnel) includes four from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) one from Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and the rest from Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), the sources said.