Cairo: Masked gunmen attacked opposition protesters camped out at Cairo's Tahrir Square early on Tuesday, firing birdshot at them and wounding nine people, security officials said. The attack stoked tensions just hours ahead of rival mass rallies in the Egyptian capital by supporters and opponents of the country's Islamist president over a disputed draft constitution. The charter has vastly polarized the nation and triggered some of the worst violence since...
07:20 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Kudankulam: Anti-corruption activist and member of disbanded Team Anna, Arvind Kejriwal, on Tuesday said his team fully backed the agitation against Kudankulam Nuclear Power plant. "I am part of the Anna Hazare movement, part of the movement against corruption. We are fully with you. We stand by you...we are willing to do whatever you want us to do for you," he said. Kejriwal said there was no basis to the...
12:49 AM, Sep 12, 2012
Cairo: Hosni Mubarak is slipping in and out of consciousness eight days after the ousted Egyptian leader was sent to prison to begin serving a life sentence, a security official said on Sunday. With rumors of the former president's death spreading rapidly, authorities granted his wife, former first lady Suzanne Mubarak, and the couple's two daughters-in-law special permission to visit him in Cairo's Torah prison early that morning. "The former...
03:23 AM, Jun 11, 2012
Tiruchy: A total of 127 anti-Kudankulam protesters, including 41 women, who were lodged in the Central Prison and the Special Prison for Women, were released on Tuesday after 15 days. The protesters, who were granted bail by the Valliyur court on Friday, fulfilled the bail conditions on Monday and were released on Tuesday. Since 29 other persons, including a woman, are facing other cases, they were taken to the Valliyur...
10:49 AM, Apr 04, 2012
New Delhi: A group of protesting Tibetans on Wednesday attempted to storm a five-star hotel where Chinese President Hu Jintao is staying but were detained by police who also picked up several other activists from the capital. Eleven activists were picked up from near Oberoi Hotel on Wednesday afternoon while eight girls were prevented from proceeding towards the facility where Hu Jintao, who is in Delhi to attend BRICS summit,...
06:57 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Bayonne: Several hundred angry protesters have booed President Nicolas Sarkozy, forcing him to take refuge in a cafe protected by riot police as he campaigned in France's southwest Basque country. Riot police surrounded the Bar du Palais where Sarkozy took refuge Thursday from the protesters who booed him throughout his visit to Bayonne. Sarkozy claimed the protesters were organized by the rival Socialist Party. Inside the cafe, Sarkozy denounced "the...
11:30 AM, Mar 02, 2012
Chennai: A civil group spearheading the protest against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) called off talks with the central government-appointed experts panel after the former's members were assaulted in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu on Tuesday, an activist said. "We have no faith in the talks. None of the questions we had asked were answered and the documents we had asked were not presented to us. Meanwhile, our members have...
03:21 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Davos: Three topless Ukrainian protesters were detained on Saturday while trying to break into an invitation-only gathering of international CEOs and political leaders to call attention to the needs of the world's poor. Separately, demonstrators from the Occupy movement marched to the edge of the gathering. After a complicated journey to reach the heavily guarded Swiss resort town of Davos, the Ukrainians arrived at the entrance to the complex where...
09:00 AM, Jan 29, 2012
India is experiencing, for the first time, what many other countries have experienced for years - a demonstration of how easy it is for anti-nuclear activists to rouse public opinion to fever pitch by playing on the mysteries of the atom and the nature of radiation. Nothing has actually occurred in India to justify such public concern. But Fukushima has created just enough confusion for agitators to persuade people in...
11:29 AM, Dec 31, 2011
Cairo: The Muslim Brotherhood, whose party is leading Egypt's parliamentary election, came out on Thursday against bringing forward a presidential vote to end military rule, saying changing the timetable would wreak chaos. Protesters who fought troops in Cairo for five days before calm was restored this week want the military council to cede power more swiftly. The Health Ministry said on Thursday the death toll had risen to 17 after...
10:55 PM, Dec 22, 2011
Police and army used tear gas and rubber bullets to keep the protesters from storming the Interior Ministry. ...
09:18 PM, Nov 23, 2011
New York: Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway has became the latest celebrity to join the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators after she was pictured marching with protesters. The 'Devil Wears Prada' star, a resident of the Big Apple, followed in the footsteps of fellow celebrities Penn Badgley, Russell Brand, Russell Simmons and Kanye West who have all taken part in the demonstrations since the movement began in September, reported E! online. Activists...
01:07 PM, Nov 19, 2011
New York: Police wearing helmets and carrying shields evicted protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement early on Tuesday from the park in New York City's financial district where they have camped since September. Police spokesman Paul Browne said that about 70 protesters were arrested in Zuccotti Park during the nighttime operation for defying orders to leave and several more were arrested nearby, although most left voluntarily. Authorities declared that...
04:41 PM, Nov 15, 2011
Beirut: Syrian security forces opened fire on Friday on protesters and hunted them down in house-to-house raids, killing about 30 people in the deadliest day in weeks in the country's 7-month-old uprising, activists said. The popular revolt against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime has proved remarkably resilient, with protests erupting every week despite the near-certainty the government will respond with bullets and tear gas. The UN estimates the regime crackdown...
10:24 AM, Oct 29, 2011
Oakland: Police in riot gear cleared anti-Wall Street protesters on Tuesday morning from the plaza in front of Oakland's City Hall where they had been camping for about two weeks, prompting health and safety concerns among city officials. Seventy-five people were arrested, mostly on suspicion of misdemeanour illegal lodging, as hundreds of officers and sheriff's deputies from more than a dozen agencies went into the encampment with tear gas and...
02:40 AM, Oct 26, 2011
Sanaa (Yemen): Thousands of protesters backed by military defectors seized a base of the elite Republican Guards, weakening the control of Yemen's embattled president over this poor, fractured Arab nation. His forces fired on unarmed demonstrators elsewhere in the capital, killing scores, wounding hundreds and sparking international condemnation. The protesters, joined by soldiers from the renegade 1st Armored Division, stormed the base without firing a single shot, according to witnesses...
03:30 PM, Sep 20, 2011
New Delhi: Around 100 people were on Wednesday detained as Anna Hazare supporters staged protests at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence demanding a strong Lokpal while he was closeted with top political leaders discussing the issue. Throughout the three-hour meeting, protesters gathered outside 7 Race Course Road residence of Singh in small groups, dodging the high security there, and then re-grouped shouting slogans against the government and demanding that a...
08:18 PM, Aug 24, 2011
New Delhi: Scores of people were on Sunday detained when they were protesting near the Prime Minister's official residence here demanding that a strong Lokpal Bill be passed in Parliament. Around 80 people were taken into custody near 7, Race Course Road residence of the Prime Minister this afternoon, sources said. They were protesting against the Government's Lokpal Bill and demanded that the Jan Lokpal Bill formulated by Team Anna...
04:56 PM, Aug 21, 2011
Beirut: Armed men killed 120 Syrian security forces and torched government buildings on Monday in a northern region where troops have unleashed deadly assaults on protesters for days, Syria said. The government vowed to respond "decisively," hinting at an even more brutal crackdown by a regime known for ruthlessly crushing dissent. If confirmed, the attack in the north would be a turning point in what so far has largely been...
03:18 AM, Jun 07, 2011
Manama: Helicopters flew overhead and riot police fired teargas as they moved into Bahrain's Pearl roundabout early on Wednesday to clear protesters camped out there for weeks, a Reuters witness said. Protesters threw petrol bombs at police who advanced in thick lines from the Bahrain Financial Harbour, the main financial district of the capital Manama, firing dozens of rounds of teargas. Helicopters buzzed overhead as youths ran towards police in...
11:30 AM, Mar 16, 2011
