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- India
Delhi Congress protests outside BJP HQ over anti-encroachment drives
New Delhi: Delhi Congress leaders and workers on Sunday staged protests outside the BJP headquarters against anti-encroachment drives in the national capital. The agitating Congress workers, however, were stopped at a barricade…
- Photos
Kashmiri Pandit community protest in Sheikhpora
Sheikhpora: Security personnel stand guard outside a transit camp of the Kashmiri Pandit community, after police stopped their protest march against the killing of government employee Rahul Bhat towards Srinagar, at Sheikhpora…
- India
Bulldozers again roll in Delhi, left protests
New Delhi: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Wednesday continued its drive to demolish illegal encroachments in several parts of the national capital, while left parties protested against the government accusing…
- Telangana
Telangana: SSCL protest against the privatization of coal mines
Hyderabad: The workers of the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) protested against the central government’s decision to privatize the public sector company and alleged that they are corrupting the company. The protests…
- Chennai
Chennai man set himself ablaze in protest against evictions, critical
Chennai: A 60-year-old man set himself ablaze on Sunday to protest the evictions being carried out in Chennai’s Govindswamy Nagar, despite the matter slated to be heard by the Supreme Court on…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: ABVP stages sit-in against interfaith marriage murder case
Hyderabad: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Saturday staged a sit-in to protest the murder of Nagaraju for marrying a Muslim woman in Hyderabad. To demand justice for the family of…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Ahead of Rahul Gandhi’s visit, NSUI activists arrested
Hyderabad: Protests staged by student groups in Osmania University continued on Monday against authorities denying permission for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the campus on May 7. Police arrested leaders of…
- Andhra Pradesh
Andhra employees tonsure heads beat themselves with footwear
Amaravati: Government employees in Andhra Prades’s Vizianagaram district on Sunday staged a novel protest by tonsuring their heads and beating themselves with ‘chappals’ to press their demand for scrapping Contributory Pension Scheme…
- World
PPP to hold protest against insult of Shehbaz Sharif at Masjid-e-Nabawi by ‘PTI workers’
Islamabad: After Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was insulted at the Masjid-e-Nabawi, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Sindh announced a protest across the province on Saturday and accused former PM Imran Khan’s Pakistan…
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- Entertainment
Ajay Devgn’s comments on Hindi trigger protests by Kannada organizations
Bengaluru: Kannada organizations on Thursday staged a protest here against Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn for his comments on Hindi being the national language of the country. Karnataka Rakshana Vedike Praveen Shetty faction…
- Middle East
20-year-old Palestinian killed by Israeli forces during a raid
A young Palestinian man was killed in the wee hours of Tuesday by Israeli forces on the Aqabet Jaber refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho. A predawn raid was…
- India
New Delhi: Piyush Goyal cuts short speech at fair’s inaugural ceremony amid exhibitors’ protests
New Delhi: A section of exhibitors protesting against poor amenities at the renovated Pragati Maidan in the national capital stalled the inaugural ceremony of AAHAR food and hospitality fair on Tuesday, forcing…