Bharat Bandh Today Over Demand For Caste-Based Census
The All India Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation (BAMCEF) has called for a Bharat Bandh today demanding a caste-based census. | Read more|
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Sri Lankan Army Denies Reports Troops Ordered To Shoot At Protesters
Sri Lankan Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army, General Shavendra Silva on Tuesday refuted allegations that the armed forces are poised to shoot at the general public to provoke them. | Read more|
Clashes On New Zealand's $500,000 Parliament Ground Shocks Internet
The anti-vaccine demonstrators in New Zealand's capital Wellington set several tents and a slide on Parliament's lawn on fire during violent skirmish with police officers on Wednesday. | Read more|
Over 3,000 Protesters Detained In Russia For Anti-War Protests: Report
Over 3,000 protesters have been detained in Russia over the last three days for participating in anti-war protests, a monitoring group has claimed. | Read more|
Long Standoffs, Choked Capital: Canada's Anti-Vaccine Protesters Dawdle
Police in Canada moved Friday to dislodge the final truckers and protesters from downtown Ottawa, in a mostly peaceful operation aimed at bringing an end to three weeks of demonstrations over Covid-19 health rules. | Read more|
Huge Karnataka Protests Ahead Of Court Hearing On Hijab
A massive crowd of students, one group in the hijab and another wearing saffron scarves, protested at a college in Karnataka this morning in a snowballing confrontation just before a High Court hearing on hijab restrictions on campus. | Read more|
State of emergency declared in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has declared a state of emergency in Almaty, as well as the Mangystau region of the country. | Read more|
At least 15 people shot dead in anti-coup protests in Sudan, medics say
Security forces shot dead at least 15 people and wounded dozens as thousands of Sudanese took to the streets on Wednesday on the deadliest day in a month of demonstrations against military rule, medics said. | Read more|
Former Maharashtra minister Anil Bonde arrested for inciting violence in Amravati
The Amravati police on Monday arrested former Maharashtra minister and BJP leader Dr Anil Bonde along with a few other party members in connection with the violence over the weekend. The police are also on the lookout for another BJP leader Praveen Pote, who has been missing from Amravati. | Read more|
Another Attack At Farmers' Protest Site, 1 'Nihang' Member Arrested
Days after a group of Nihang Sikhs brutally killed a daily wage labourer at the farmers' protest site near the Delhi-Haryana border for allegedly desecrating the Sikh holy book, another man has been attacked at the Singhu protest site. A man from the Nihang community has been arrested. | Read more|
Beirut port blast: Day of mourning in Lebanon after bloodshed at protest
Lebanon is holding a day of mourning after six people died and dozens were hurt in some of the worst violence for years in the capital, Beirut. | Read more|
One year of promulgation of farm ordinances: Farmers mark day as Kranti Diwas
To mark one year of tabling of farm ordinances before the Union Cabinet on June 5 and the first protest being held against them on June 6, farmer outfits burnt copies of the farm laws at 250 places in Punjab. | Read more|
"Right To Protest Cannot Be Anytime, Everywhere": Supreme Court
The right to protest and express dissent comes with certain duties and cannot be held "anytime and everywhere", the Supreme Court said in an order, dismissing a review petition on the anti-citizenship law protests held in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh in 2019. Twelve activists had filed a review petition on the last year ruling | Read more|
Day after, Trudeau office says he spoke to Modi on ‘recent protests’
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that he held a “good discussion” with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on many important issues, including on the “two nations’ commitment to democratic principles, recent protests, and the importance of resolving issues through dialogue”, a statement from t | Read more|
Peaceful Protests, Internet Access Democracy's Hallmark: US On Farm Row
Unhindered access to information, including the Internet, and peaceful protests are a hallmark of a thriving democracy, the US said on Wednesday in comments on the farmer protests that also backed "steps that can improve the efficiency of India's markets". The US State Department made the remarks to questions on the fa | Read more|