An Indian court on Monday ordered the removal of scores of "name and shame" billboards after an outcry over their photos showing people accused of vandalism in deadly protests.

Muslims in India's capital held regular Friday prayers under the watch of riot police, capping a week which saw 42 killed and hundreds injured during the city's worst sectarian violence in decades. Scores of mosques in New Delhi's northeast held their first sermons since mobs armed with swords, guns and acid razed parts of the district on Monday.

Tensions remained high in India's capital Thursday, as thousands of riot police and paramilitaries patrolled streets littered with the debris from days of sectarian riots that have killed 38 people.

Ahmedabad and Agra may be 500 miles apart but the cities in two states ruled by BJP-led coalition seemed to be vying with each other last week to achieve just one goal — how to make their cities look immaculately beautiful during U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to India.

Indian police have launched a sedition investigation against a primary school over a play that allegedly criticized a contentious citizenship law, officials said Wednesday.

Defiant women who have been blocking a New Delhi highway for more than four weeks in protest against a bitterly disputed citizenship law have inspired thousands across India to copy their challenge to the Hindu nationalist government.

Indian police have sealed a private hospital and charged staff for manslaughter after a newborn baby was mauled to death by dogs inside an operating theater, an investigator said Tuesday.

Every night, 75-year-old Noornissa braves the freezing cold to help block one of the main roads into the capital of India, in a protest that is at the forefront of a rising challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.