Agitated Shiv Sena activists ransack Manohar Joshi's houseSeptember 20th, 2009 MUMBAI - Senior Shiv Sena leader and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Manohar Joshi's house was ransacked here on Sunday by some party workers who were agitated over the neglect of their favourite local leader during ticket allocation for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections. According to sources the outrage was over demand of ticket to dadar constituencies sitting MLA for upcoming assembly polls.
RPI activists ransack Congress office in MumbaiSeptember 18th, 2009 MUMBAI - Activists of Republican Party of India (RPI), a regional party in Maharashtra, on Friday ransacked the Congress office in Mumbai. The activists were protesting against eviction of their senior leader and former Lok Sabha Member of Parliament, Ramdas Athawale from his official bungalow in New Delhi.
MNS women activists protest against rising prices in MumbaiAugust 3rd, 2009 MUMBAI - Over a hundred of women activists of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) took to the streets in Mumbai on Monday to protest against rising prices of basic commodities. The protesters carried an effigy of a demon signifying price rise, beat utensils and raised slogans against the Maharashtra government for failing to curtail the rising prices.
Hindu activists protest conversion of a woman to Christianity in BhopalJuly 26th, 2009 BHOPAL - Activists of Hindu radical groups on Sunday protested outside a church against the conversion of a Hindu woman to Christianity in Bhopal city. Protestors demanded a case should be filed into the incident, as it was described to be an attack on the Hindu culture and fraternity.
Maharashtra police intensifies hunt for SIMIJuly 24th, 2009 Mumbai, July (ANI): Maharashtra police intensified the hunt for more activists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) in Vidarbha region on Friday. The extensive search has picked up pace after the police arrested eight out of the 30 members who had gathered for a meeting at a village named Mana in Akola district on Sunday.
100 Bajrang Dal activists held during Surat shutdownJune 15th, 2009 SURAT - Police arrested nearly 100 activists of the right wing Bajrang Dal as they went around this Gujarat city trying to enforce a day-long shutdown protesting the gang rape of a teenager by three men. All business establishments remained open despite the shutdown call, police said Monday.
VHP, Bajrang Dal call for shutdown in JammuMay 8th, 2009 JAMMU - The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bajrang Dal on Friday called for a shutdown in protest against atrocities being committed on Hindus and Sikhs by the Taliban in Pakistan. Appealing to the Indian Government to exert pressure on Pakistan against the Taliban, the activists blocked the Jammu-Pathankot Highway.
Congress, NCP strike seat deal in MaharashtraMarch 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - After its failure to cobble a poll alliance with the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in Bihar, the Congress party Monday stuck a deal over sharing of seats with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Maharashtra. 'We will fight unitedly as alliance partners in Maharashtra.
Caravan of Hindu seers reaches AgraMarch 18th, 2009 AGRA - A religious caravan of around 200 Hindu seers on their way to Ayodhya received a warm welcome in Agra on Tuesday. Organised under the aegis of the newly formed 'Hindu Raksha Manch', this procession began its journey from Haridwar.
Karnataka clash over moral policingMarch 18th, 2009 PUTTUR - Violent clashes erupted between two groups in Puttur region, about 55 kilometres from Mangalore over moral policing by Bajrang Dal activists. A group of students from a training institute in Mangalore were in Puttur on a project work while they were questioned by suspected activists of Bajrang Dal, and forcibly taken off the bus.
Women vandalise illicit liquor shops in PuneMarch 17th, 2009 PUNE - Armed with sticks, women took to the streets in Pune and destroyed illicit liquor shops. Scores of women attacked two shops and set fire to barrels of illicit liquor.
Armed forces out in Bihar town after clashMarch 13th, 2009 PATNA - Bihar's Sasaram town was tense Friday with the armed forces marching through troubled areas following a communal clash that injured more than 13 people and resulted in the arrest of an activist of the radical Hindu Bajrang Dal group. Nine shops were looted in the clash between two communities Thursday night, police in Sasaram, 200 km from the state capital Patna, said.
V-Day couple happily oblige Bajrang Dal, get married!February 13th, 2009 HYDERABAD - You could call it a masterstroke by two lovebirds here. Well aware of the threat by Hindu rightwing groups to marry off couples found celebrating Valentine's Day, they did exactly that -- and to their delight were pronounced man and wife Saturday!
Vijay Anand and Kriti of Koti area were among two couples who were married off by Bajrang Dal activists in Andhra Pradesh.
V-Day violence: Youth beaten up by Bajrang Dal activists in Madhya PradeshFebruary 13th, 2009 BHOPAL - A youth accompanying his sister was brutally beaten up by Bajrang Dal activists in Ujjain, while over 50 activists of right-wing Hindu organisations were detained in Gwalior and Bhopal on Valentine's Day Saturday, Madhya Pradesh police said. Elsewhere in the state, Valentine's Day passed off peacefully with no untoward incident being reported from anywhere.
Bajrang Dal activists protesting V-Day arrested in ChhattisgarhFebruary 13th, 2009 RAIPUR - Twenty Bajrang Dal activists were arrested from this Chhattisgarh capital Saturday for terrorising youngsters on Valentine's Day. Raipur superintendent of police Lal Umed Singh said that 20 Bajrang Dal activists were arrested from Jai Stambh Chowk area of the city for taking out a rally against Valentine's Day and terrorising youngsters.
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