
Bhopal: Demanding immediate release of the Bhopal gas tragedy victims arrested by the police for allegedly indulging in violence here on December 3, the organisations fighting for the rights of the gas victims on Monday alleged that even the old and those not present on the spot had been arrested. "Old and innocent persons and even those who were not present where violent incidents took place on the 27th anniversary...

10:05 AM, Jan 17, 2012

Cairo: Soldiers stormed an anti-military protest camp outside Egypt's Cabinet building on Friday, beating women with sticks and hurling chunks of concrete and glass onto protesters from the roof of the parliament in a resurgence of turmoil only a day after millions voted in parliamentary elections. At least seven protesters were shot to death in the clashes, including a prominent Muslim cleric, activists said. The heavy-handed assault was apparently an...

11:32 AM, Dec 17, 2011

New Delhi: BJP on Sunday lashed out at the UPA government for the "steepest" hike in petrol prices and announced that the party would organise blockades at prominent places in the national capital on Monday. "Today, BJP took out rallies at five important places of Delhi to protest unprecedented increase in the price of petrol and registered it's opposition to it. Tomorrow, at 14 prominent places 'Chakka Jam' will be...

06:54 PM, May 15, 2011

London: Several hundred people in Britain took part in a demonstration in front of the Libyan Embassy in London on Sunday, as a crackdown by authorities in Tripoli reportedly resulted in a major death toll. With foreign media barred from the Libyan coastal city of Benghazi, and severe restrictions on internet and communications, witness accounts from there spoke of around 200 dead and many more injured over the weekend in...

11:44 PM, Feb 20, 2011

Cairo: Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is reportedly "ailing and bedridden" and cannot walk without help, local media reports confirming that the toppled leader was still in a holiday villa in the Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Sheikh. Egyptian daily 'Al-Masry Al-Youm' reported that soon after moving to the resort, the 82-year-old Mubarak who ruled Egypt for 30 years was gravely ill and slipped into a coma. But an pro-government...

06:21 PM, Feb 15, 2011

Cairo: A day after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military today banned top officials from traveling outside the country to ensure that former presidential loyalists don't flee. The ban comes into force immediately, an official announcement from the new regime said, as army removed barricades and barbed wires from around the Tahrir Square and the Egyptian capital limped back to normalcy after 18-days of turmoil. An official statement...

09:11 PM, Feb 12, 2011

Cairo: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced on Thursday he would hand over his powers over to his vice president, Omar Suleiman, and ordered constitutional amendments. But the move means he retains his title of president and ensures regime control over the reform process, falling short of protester demands. Protesters in Cairo's central Tahrir Square, hoping he would announce his resignation outright, watched in stunned silence to his speech, slapping their...

03:07 AM, Feb 11, 2011

Washington: Supporters of Binayak Sen, the jailed human rights activists, over the weekend held peaceful demonstrations in about a dozen cities in US, Canada and Britain, demanding the Indian Government to release him immediately. The Free Binayak Sen Coalition - a broad coalition of 55 civil society groups from the United States, Britain and Canada - in a statement said demonstrations were held in front of the Indian consulates in...

08:03 AM, Feb 02, 2011

Cairo: Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians, from students and doctors to the jobless poor, swamped Cairo on Tuesday in the biggest demonstration so far in an uprising against an increasingly isolated President Hosni Mubarak. Waving Egyptian flags and banners saying "Bye-Bye Mubarak," the protesters rejected promises of reform to his authoritarian rule and demanded that he quit. Huge rallies also took place in the cities of Alexandria and Suez, where...

08:38 PM, Feb 01, 2011

Farmers protested against sugarcane pricing policy of the state government. ...

04:23 PM, Dec 01, 2009

Gandhi drove to Amethi in Sultanpur district without answering any queries. ...

12:02 PM, Jul 17, 2009

The Iran government says courts will teach a lesson to the protestors. ...

10:41 PM, Jun 23, 2009

Demonstrators protested against attacks, wanted better police response. ...

10:43 AM, Jun 09, 2009

Video footage showed the sergeant lashing out at a woman. ...

04:39 PM, Apr 15, 2009

Dubai: Rivals players Azhar Ali of Pakistan and Graeme Swann of England on Sunday showed confidence their teams can pull off a win in the third and final Test which was set for an interesting finish. England, set to chase 324 runs on an eased out Dubai Stadium pitch, were 36-0 but face an uphill task against Pakistan's threatening spin duo of Saeed Ajmal and Abdul Rehman, who orchestrated their...

03:07 AM, Apr 20, 2008