Overview
- Following Sunday’s factory-area violence in Noida and Greater Noida, Gautam Buddh Nagar police said Tuesday the unrest was organised online and reported about 400 arrests with seven FIRs as order returned.
- Investigators said fake social media accounts, WhatsApp groups, and QR-code links were used to rapidly add workers to closed groups, and they are tracing funding and any outside or cross-border ties.
- The Uttar Pradesh government announced an interim minimum-wage hike backdated to April 1, raising monthly pay in Gautam Buddh Nagar and Ghaziabad to ₹13,690 for unskilled, ₹15,059 for semi-skilled, and ₹16,868 for skilled workers.
- Separately, the central government circulated draft bills on April 14 to raise Lok Sabha seats to 850 to enable 33% reservation for women from the 2029 elections, with a special Parliament session set for April 16–18.
- Leaders from southern states, including Tamil Nadu’s M.K. Stalin and Telangana’s Revanth Reddy, warned of protests and sought wider consultation, arguing that using newer census data shifts seats toward faster-growing northern states after decades of a 1971-based freeze.