India, April 12 -- A BJP leader said that a father and son duo, Hargobind Das and Chandan Das, were hacked to death in Dhulian, Shamsher Ganj, Jafrabad.

KOLKATA: In an emergency session in the evening today, the Calcutta High Court ordered the deployment of Central forces to contain communal violence in Bengal's Murshidabad district following protests by the majority Muslim community against the Waqf Amendment Act. In the afternoon, Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari appealed to Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam for immediate deployment of Central forces following the incidents of arson and violence in which at least three lives have been lost. The Chief Justice nominated the Bench of Justice Soumen Sen to hear the plea even though it...