May Day: Asia's workers demand pay hikes

May Day: Asia's workers demand pay hikes Manila: May Day moved beyond its roots as an international workers' holiday to a day of international protest Tuesday, with rallies throughout Asia demanding wage increases and marches planned across Europe over government-imposed austerity measures. Europeans will take to the streets to protest against the measures that are being blamed for a big increase in the number of unemployed, particularly in Spain where one in four people is out of...
02:47 PM, May 01, 2012
Students hold protest to demand justice for Manipur boy

Students hold protest to demand justice for Manipur boy

Hundreds rallied to demand justice for Richard Loitam, the student who died in a Bangalore college hostel after a brawl over watching an IPL match on television. ...
09:58 PM, Apr 29, 2012

Protests over Manipur boy's death in B'lore college

Protests over Manipur boy's death in B'lore college New Delhi/Bangalore: The death of a 19-year-old Manipuri boy under suspicious circumstances in his college hostel in Bangalore has sparked protests demanding justice for the student with his friends and family alleging that that he suffered fatal injuries in an assault by his seniors. In Delhi, Richard Loitam's family and friends assembled at Jantar Mantar, seeking justice for the architecture student. Richard died in a Banglaore college hostel after a...
08:01 PM, Apr 29, 2012

Killed for a remote: North East students to protest

Killed for a remote: North East students to protest Guwahati/Bangalore: The students from the North East are planning to hold silent protests across the country on Sunday to demand justice for Richard Loitam, a student of an architectural institute in Bangalore, who died after a bitter fight with his friends over a TV remote while an IPL match was on. Loitam reportedly died of a cerebral haemorrhage in his sleep. The haemorrhage was allegedly so massive that his pillow...
07:46 AM, Apr 29, 2012

Examination special train from Assam for students

Examination special train from Assam for students Guwahati: North Eastern Frontier Railway will run a special train from Dibrugarh in upper Assam to Yesvantpur for students of the region and north Bengal to appear for medical and engineering entrance tests in Bangalore. One examination special train will ply on May one, NF Railway chief public relation officer SS Hajong said on Saturday. The rain will leave Yesvantpur on May four while the return 02509 special train will...
04:45 PM, Apr 28, 2012
India @ 9 with Rajdeep Sardesai

India @ 9 with Rajdeep Sardesai

Watch top stories of the day with CNN-IBN's Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai. ...
11:27 PM, Apr 25, 2012
News 360: The ghost of Bofors returns to haunt Congress

News 360: The ghost of Bofors returns to haunt Congress

Former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstrom said in a tell-all interview on Wednesday that Rajiv Gandhi shielded Italian businessman Quattrochi. ...
09:53 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Protests still continue in Maldives

Protests still continue in Maldives

President Waheed is still facing daily protests from Nasheed's MDP party members in Parliament, and on the streets, Nasheed's followers are out on at least five of the eleven islands in Maldives. ...
04:12 PM, Apr 23, 2012
We respect all the agreements with India: Maldives Prez

We respect all the agreements with India: Maldives Prez

Maldives President Waheed Hassan said in the last 2-3 years more business is coming to Maldives from India, but there are some agreements which did not go according to the plan. ...
04:03 PM, Apr 23, 2012

Kudankulam protestors to fast from May 1

Kudankulam protestors to fast from May 1 Chennai: Upset with the Tamil Nadu government for going back on its assurances, the People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) on Monday announced that it would resume an indefinite hunger strike from May 1 against the two 1,000 MW plants at Kudankulam. "We have decided to go on hunger protest once again from May 1 onwards as the state government has gone against its assurances given to us. A large...
12:00 PM, Apr 23, 2012

'Race can help healing process in Bahrain'

'Race can help healing process in Bahrain' Sakhir: Force India deputy team principal Robert Fernley believes Sundays race will prove to be a catalyst for the healing process in Bahrain. Fernley spoke exclusively to IBNlive.com just before the start of Saturday's qualifying session. What is your assessment of the situation in Bahrain now, especially considering the problems some of your team members faced on Wednesday? What we encountered was an unfortunate but isolated incident. Overall, the situation...
12:14 PM, Apr 22, 2012

Syrian troops on offensive on deadline day

Syrian troops on offensive on deadline day Beirut: Syrian troops shelled villages, fired across frontiers and were accused of massacres in the hours before a deadline on Tuesday that many doubt can usher in a UN-brokered ceasefire and halt a 13-month slide into all-out civil war. Diplomats trying to contain a crisis that has inflamed the Middle East and pitched old Cold War rivals into opposing camps will not wish to abandon their most comprehensive peace plan...
11:54 AM, Apr 10, 2012

F1 governing body monitoring events in Bahrain

F1 governing body monitoring events in Bahrain London: Formula One's governing body kept a close eye on the situation in Bahrain on Friday as calls for this month's Grand Prix to be postponed gathered pace due to continuing violence. On a day when protestors clashed with police while more than 5,000 people demonstrated in the north of the capital Manama to demand the release of a jailed activist on hunger strike, the International Automobile Federation (FIA) made...
07:52 PM, Apr 09, 2012

Spanish strike tests tolerance for austerity

Spanish strike tests tolerance for austerity Madrid: Spanish unions said a high turnout for a general strike to protest government budget cuts and reforms on Thursday had almost brought heavy industry to a halt while the government said the day was proceeding normally. Spaniards have been tolerant of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's efforts to meet strict European deficit goals but he has promised an austere 2012 budget on Friday and the strike shows that patience may...
01:37 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Syria plants landmines along border as thousands flee

Syria plants landmines along border as thousands flee

Damascus is reportedly trying to stop its nationals from fleeing to southern Turkey by planting landmines along its border. ...
10:35 AM, Mar 30, 2012
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