WATCH: Rally against agriculture reforms in India turned violent on Tuesday, after protesting farmers broke through police barricades to storm Delhi's historic Red Fort complex.
On foot and in tractors, the protesters were part of a huge rally planned for India's Republic Day.
Many protesters diverted from agreed routes and clashes broke out with police. Some protesters even hoisted flags at the top of the dome on the Red Fort. One protester died and more than 80 police officers were injured.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's actual countdown for revoking Article 370 and bifurcation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir began during the third week of June, when he chose 1987 batch IAS officer of Chattisgarh cadre, B.V.R. Subramanyam as new Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir.
Making a historic announcement in the Rajya Sabha that triggered bedlam, Shah said: "I am presenting the resolution to revoke Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir except the first clause 370 (1)."
Senior Indian journalist Ravish Kumar on Friday was awarded this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Award, regarded as the Asian version of the Nobel Prize.
A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi noted that the report of the three-member mediation panel, headed by former apex court judge Justice F.M.I. Kalifulla, failed resolve the dispute amicably.
The forex kitty had increased by $1.579 billion to a new lifetime high of $430.376 billion in the previous week ended July 19.
Saravana Bhavan was charged with being "guilty of having served defective food," and prayed for a compensation of Rs. 60 lakh for "deficiency in service" and another Rs. 30 lakh for ill-health and mental agony.