Ahead of assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, the BJP government accorded minister of state status to five Hindu religious leaders, a move that was slammed by the opposition congress.<br /><br />Policemen fired several aerial shots after observing a suspicious movement around PS Keegam in Shopian South Kashmir.<br /><br />Madhya Pradesh: Internet services stalled indefinitely in Gwalior as a precautionary measure.<br /><br />Yet another time a Kerala professor makes a sexist remark. Prof Rajith Kumar teacher from a college in Kalady made derogatory and offensive remarks about transgender people and children with disabilities.<br /><br />Congress President Rahul Gandhi today met the lingayat seer in Karnataka. The BJP-congress are locked in a war of words ahead of the Karnataka elections.<br /><br />Fresh bouts of violence reported from Raiganj and Hoogly in West Bengal today.<br /><br />At a time when dalits are up in arms against dilution of the SC-ST act, a row has broken out over the Kasganj district police and administration directing a Dalit youth to take his "baraat" on a longer and circuitous route when he goes to marry later this month.
