Rioting between Moslems and Hindus over plans to grant second-language status to Urdu in Uttar Pradesh state left 23 people dead and 148 injured, according to news reports.
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United News of India said violence broke out Thursday when about 300 Moslem students, supporting the move to give Urdu official status, attacked Hindus at a college in Badaun, a town 375 miles east of New Delhi. It reported 11 people were killed at the college and then rioting students attacked a train about a half-mile outside Badaun and 12 more people perished.