Guwahati: Hundreds of people, mostly women, on Sunday took out a protest rally through the streets of Guwahati demanding exemplary punishment to the culprits of the July 9 incident of molestation of a teenage girl on the streets of Guwahati. The rally mainly called by Assam's farmers' body Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS), was also supported by Nirjatan Birodhi Oikya Mancha and several other women and human rights groups. The...
11:38 PM, Jul 15, 2012
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir separatist leaders were placed under house arrest and authorities on Friday imposed restrictions in old city areas of summer capital Srinagar to prevent proposed rallies in connection with martyrs' day. Senior separatist leaders, Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, Shabir Ahmad Shah and Muhammad Nayeem Khan were placed under house arrest to prevent their participation in the proposed separatist rallies. The separatists had asked people to...
10:02 AM, Jul 13, 2012
Mumbai: Barely 500 people gathered for Tuesday's anti-corruption rally organised by activist Anna Hazare at the Kamgar Maidan, which has a capacity of 5,000. That's a telling testimony, given the generous outpouring of support the Gandhian had witnessed in the initial phase of his Lokpal Bill movement. "We don't call them; people arrive of their own accord. Whatever the strength of the crowd, it has gathered on its own," said...
01:31 PM, Jun 06, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday launched her protest rally in Kolkata demanding a rollback on the petrol price hike. The rally began in Jadavpore and stopped at Hazra, covering a distance of 5 km. Mamata had earlier expressed her displeasure at the petrol price hike but had clarified that her party would not pull out of the UPA. The Trinamool Congress is the second largest ally...
07:42 PM, May 26, 2012
Nagpur: Around 15 people demonstrating outside the venue of Anna Hazare's public meeting in Nagpur were detained on Wednesday night by police, even as the Maharashtra state Youth Congress president Vishwajeet Kadam reportedly "justified" the protest. They were demonstrating against circulation of a booklet allegedly containing some remarks against Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi, though it is not clear whether the youths were Congress workers,...
11:04 PM, May 16, 2012
Nagpur: A few miscreants on Wednesday pelted stones at one of the vehicles in the convoy of anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare. The veteran Gandhian was holding a rally in Nagpur when the incident occurred. Stones were pelted at a Scorpio car which was part of the convoy. Though Hazare's aide Suresh Pathare claimed one of the vehicles of the convoy parked near the stadium was pelted with stones, police denied...
08:24 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: Students on Sunday held an anti-Maoist rally in Sukma for safe return of District Collector Alex Paul Menon. The anti-Maoist rally was also held in Dantewada. The Naxals in Chhattisgarh have submitted a list of demands for the safe release of Collector Alex Paul Menon including the cancellation of Operation Greenhunt, and the release of eight jailed cadres. The Naxals have set a deadline of May 25 for...
09:58 PM, Apr 22, 2012
Samajwadi Party workers were on Sunday seen brandishing guns at MLA Mehboob Ali's victory rally on the Lucknow-Delhi road. ...
11:42 AM, Mar 19, 2012
Panaji: Congress leaders in Goa on Friday apologised to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for a snag in the sound system that disrupted his speech at an election rally three days ago. Talking to reporters, Goa Congress Working President Fracisco Sardinha blamed the contractor assigned the job to set up sound system for the audio glitch during the public meeting at Sankhalim on February 29. "We are sorry to the Prime...
04:52 AM, Mar 03, 2012
Panaji: The Congress party in Goa on Thursday launched a probe into the sound system failure during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's election rally the day before. State Congress President Subhash Shirodkar told reporters that the audio mixer used by the sound contractor had failed. "We have launched an enquiry. The mixer used in the sound equipment had failed. The back up was also not working," Shirodkar said, refuting allegations of...
11:57 AM, Mar 02, 2012
Sanquelim (Goa): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh suffered acute embarrassment after the failure of the public address system at an election rally at Sanquelim, 40 kms from state capital Panaji. The public address system failed just after Singh had risen to speak and had introduced other speakers on the dais. Thousands of people left the site of the election meeting at Sanquelim, leaving the prime minister and his entourage befuddled. The...
05:48 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Panaji: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will address a public meeting in north Goa on Wednesday as part of election campaign for the March 3 Assembly Polls following clearance from the Election Commission (EC). On Monday, the poll panel officials in Goa had said that permission had not been granted to Prime Minister's rally as it was being held on the government-run college's ground at Sankhalim village, 40 km from the...
08:19 AM, Feb 29, 2012
India's special envoy Madhusudhan Ganpathi has taken up the matter with the Norwegian Foreign Minister in Oslo. ...
10:36 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's largest grouping of hardline organisations held a protest in Islamabad on Monday despite a ban on some of its leaders, including Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, entering the federal capital. Members of groups that are part of the Defa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) gathered at Aabpara in the heart of Islamabad for the protest. Authorities recently imposed a ban on the entry of three DPC leaders into Islamabad - Hafiz...
02:27 PM, Feb 20, 2012
Kanpur: The local administration is scurrying to put up the paraphernalia for two high profile election rallies by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati in Kanpur on Friday. Officials hope that the events on Friday would go on smoothly without any hiccups. Top leaders like SP's Mulayam Singh Yadav, BJP's Sushma Swaraj, Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit and several other local leaders visited the city for campaigning...
03:56 PM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Empowered Committee is all set to file its report in the Karnataka illegal mining scam on Friday. Sources say that the Supreme Court appointed Committee has reportedly recommended that 45 lessees be allowed to resume their mining operations. The Congress had on Wednesday reiterated its demand for a CBI probe into the scam which caused a whopping Rs 17085 crore loss to the states exchequer, and...
09:50 AM, Feb 10, 2012
Lucknow: Priyanka Gandhi's husband Robert Vadra's debut campaign has run into controversy. First his motorcycle cavalcade was stopped by the Election Commission for flouting the rules and then the EC officer who stopped Vadra's cavalcade Pawan Kumar Sen was transferred to Goa. However, the EC maintained that this had nothing to do with the Gandhis and Vadra. It's a bike ride that has landed Vadra into trouble and the Election...
10:06 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Kushinagar: Film actress Jaya Prada, campaigning for Lok Manch led by former SP leader Amar Singh, on Tuesday slipped while climbing the dais at an election rally in Kushinagar. Prada was moving on to the dais to address the meeting at Sakhopar village along with Amar Singh when she accidentally slipped. She later got back on her feet, smiled and took to the dais to address the meeting. The cine...
09:24 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Election Commissioner HS Brahma said that the order for the poll officer's transfer was prepared before Robert Vadra's rally. ...
04:44 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: An election officer who stopped Priyanka Gandhi's husband Robert Vadra from taking out a bike rally in Uttar Pradesh on Monday, has been transferred. The officer has been transferred to Goa. The Election Commission, however, said that the transfer is routine and based on promotion. It said that the transfer is withheld till the elections are over in UP. The officer had reportedly stopped Vadra's motorbike rally in...
11:26 PM, Feb 06, 2012
