The situation in areas hit by violence during a protest against the citizenship bill is now improving under the heavy deployment of security forces, especially in Old Delhi and Seemapuri area.

BJP leader Shazia Ilmi on Friday confronted Pakistani supporters raising slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and India in South Korea's capital Seoul.

It was a blood-soaked Saturday in Kashmir in which 11 persons, including seven civilians, an Army soldier and three militants, were killed and over three dozen civilian protesters sustained injuries in clashes with the security forces.

At least 32 people were killed and 128 wounded on Tuesday in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province following a devastating suicide bomb attack on protesters who were calling for the dismissal of a police commander.

Iran's Foreign Ministry on Saturday summoned Iraq's ambassador in Tehran to protest the burning of the Iranian consulate in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.

A one-man commission of Punjab and Haryana High Court Justice Ranjit Singh (retd) -- which probed several sacrilege incidents and police firing on protesters -- on Thursday submitted its final report to the Punjab government.

The Madras High Court on Tuesday ordered a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the police firing in Tuticorin in which 13 people were killed on May 22. The victims were taking part in a protest against the Sterlite copper smelter plant.

Normal life was disrupted in Kerala on Tuesday as public and private buses and other vehicles went off the roads in response to a one-day strike called by All India Motor Transport Organisation.

Maharashtra BJP MP Heena Gavit on Monday demanded a probe into the attack on her vehicle by over 200 pro-Maratha reservation protesters outside the Dhule Collectors office.

A civilian was killed and two others injured in clashes between the security forces and protesters following an anti-terror operation that killed five militants in Jammu and Kashmir Shopian district on Saturday.