Several ministers in the Omar Abdullah-led Jammu and Kashmir government, MLAs and top leaders of the ruling party and the Opposition were put under house arrest or detained to prevent them from observing Kashmir Martyrs’ Day today.

A migrant auto-rickshaw driver in Maharashtra’s Palghar district was assaulted in full public view by supporters of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) and Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) after a prior confrontation over Marathi

A video showing Shiv Sena (UBT) workers assaulting an auto-rickshaw driver in Palghar for allegedly insulting the Marathi language and icons has gone viral. The driver was forced to apologize publicly. The incident follows a similar action by MNS workers against a food stall owner for not speaking Marathi, highlighting tensions over language use in Maharashtra.