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- India
Factory workers’ protest over wage hike turns violent in Noida
Noida: Vehicles were torched, property was vandalised and stone pelting was reported from Phase 2 and Sector 60 areas in Noida on Monday, April 13, as protests by factory workers demanding a…
- Kolkata
Bengal: Anti-SIR protests rise, Mamata says BJP plotting unrest
Kolkata: Just three weeks ahead of the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly election, protests over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls spread across several districts of the state on…
- World
Former Nepal PM Oli remanded in judicial custody for 5 days
Kathmandu: Nepal’s former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli was remanded in judicial custody for five days by the Kathmandu District Court on Sunday, even as protests continue to erupt in various parts…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad’s Osmania University College of Engineering sees protests
Hyderabad: Hyderabad’s Osmania University College of Engineering witnessed protests on Wednesday, March 18, over scholarships. BRSV activists who staged the protest demanded immediate release of fee reimbursement and scholarship dues. They not…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad Musi activists write to AICC in-charge against Gandhi Sarovar Project
Hyderabad: Activists of the Musi Jan Andolan (MJA) on Thursday, March 5, wrote a letter to All India Congress Committee’s (AICC) in-charge of Telangana Meenakshi Natarajan, expressing serious objections and grave concerns…
- Hyderabad
Protests across Telangana on March 6 against US-Israel attacks on Iran
Hyderabad: The Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) will hold flash protests across Telangana on Friday, March 6, to condemn the US-Israel attacks on Iran and the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Mohd…
- Kashmir
Protests against Khamenei’s killing: Curbs remain in force in Kashmir
Srinagar: Strict restrictions remained imposed in many areas of Kashmir for the third consecutive day on Wednesday, March 4, following massive protests across the valley against the killing of Iran’s Supreme leader…
- India
The Kerala Story 2: Low ticket sales, cancellations, protests mark first day
Thiruvananthapuram: A day after the Kerala High Court paved the way for the release of ‘The Kerala Story 2: Goes Beyond’, ticket sales remained slow, though theatre owners on Saturday, February 28,…
- Middle East
‘Mass depression’ grips Iranians after violent protest crackdown
Tehran: Standing on her balcony in the Iranian capital, Tehran, the teacher shouted out into the darkness, “Death to the dictator!” and “Death to the murderer, Khamenei!” on a recent night, joining…
- Middle East
Widespread arrests roil Iran weeks after security forces crushed protests
Tehran: The Iranian security agents came at 2 am, pulling up in a half-dozen cars outside the home of the Nakhii family. They woke up the sleeping sisters, Nyusha and Mona, and…
- Middle East
Deaths in Iran’s crackdown on protests reach at least 7,000, activists say
Dubai: The death toll from a crackdown over Iran’s nationwide protests last month has reached at least 7,002 people killed with many more still feared dead, activists said Thursday. The US-based Human…
- World
Australia seeks criminal charges over 2024 Israeli airstrike on aid workers
Melbourne: Australia is demanding criminal charges over a 2024 Israeli airstrike on an aid convoy in Gaza that killed seven people, including an Australian aid worker, the country’s Prime Minister said Wednesday,…
- India
Kotdwar shop row: Trader thankful to Mohammed Deepak for standing by him
Kotdwar: Days after ‘Mohammed Deepak’ in Uttarakhand was hailed as a hero for standing up for a Muslim shopkeeper who was being pressured by Bajrang Dal members to remove ‘baba’ from his…
- Middle East
EU lists Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as terrorist organisation
Brussels: The European Union has listed Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organisation in the aftermath of Tehran’s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests, the bloc’s top diplomat said in a post…
- India
New UGC regulations explained: Why some students cry ‘reverse discrimination’
On January 13, the Union government notified new University Grants Commission (UGC) regulations mandating all higher education institutions to form equity committees, centres and squads to look into discrimination complaints and promote…
