Protesters
- Business
Closed down Coke factory property to be given to Kerala govt, protesters up in arms
Thiruvananthapuram: The Plachimada Struggle Solidarity Committee, which through its long drawn struggle saw to the closure of the Coca-Cola factory in Palakkad district in 2004, is getting ready for another battle with…
- Middle East
Protesters attack government building in Syria
Damascus: A group of Syrian protesters carried out sabotage acts and attacked a government building in the southern city of Sweida, the Interior Ministry said. The group, “some of whom with guns”,…
- World
US to impose costs on Iran for crackdown against protesters: Biden
Washington: US President Joe Biden has said they will impose costs on perpetrators of violence against peaceful protesters in Iran, the country witnessing protests over the death of a woman in the custody…
- India
Lawyers boycott Ankita murder accused; Protesters demand CBI probe
Kotdwar: The main accused in Ankita Bhandari case on Wednesday could not file their bail application in a court here after a local body of lawyers decided to boycott them, even as…
- India
Fact check: Did PFI protesters raise ‘pro-Pakistan slogans’ in Pune?
Pune: Many media reports on Saturday claimed that ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans were heard outside the District Collector’s office in Maharashtra’s Pune City on Friday where Popular Front of India (PFI) cadres had…
- World
Sri Lankan protesters to hand back President’s house, other occupied buildings
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s anti-government protesters have decided to hand back the President’s house and other public buildings which they have been occupying. The protesters, who had occupied the entrance to the President’s…
- Andhra Pradesh
Violence in Andhra town over renaming district after Ambedkar
Hyderabad: Protesters set fire to Andhra Pradesh Minister Pinipe Viswarup’s residence at Amalapuram on Tuesday during the ‘Chalo Konaseema’ march against the proposal to rename Konaseema district as Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Konaseema…
- Middle East
Israel upholds use of surveillance technology on protesters
Jerusalem: Israel’s attorney general has upheld the Shin Bet security agency’s use of mobile-phone tracking technology to monitor and threaten Palestinian protesters at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site last year. The decision,…
