
Beit Hanoun (Gaza Strip): Dozens of Palestinians on Thursday tried to block UN chief Ban Ki-moon from entering the Gaza Strip and pelted his armoured convoy with shoes and sticks, accusing him of being unfairly biased toward Israel. The incident cast a shadow over Ban's visit to Gaza, which was meant to draw attention to humanitarian issues in the crowded seaside strip. Ban was in Gaza on the second day...

08:57 AM, Feb 03, 2012

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, himself a victim of shoe-throwing incident, on Monday said he liked the response of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to a similar attack on him. "I like Rahul's reaction to the shoe throwing 'phenko, phenko, ek aur phenko' (throw, throw one more)," Omar wrote on micro-blogging site Twitter. A shoe was hurled towards Rahul Gandhi by a youth while he was addressing an...

08:12 PM, Jan 23, 2012

New Delhi: A person on Saturday hurled a shoe at Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal at a public meeting in Dehradun. The shoe was hurled when Kejriwal was on his way to the stage, but before the team could realise anything, the attacker was whisked away by the police. The man, identified as Kishan Lal, has been arrested. Lal said, allegedly this was in response or a reaction to Anna...

06:35 PM, Jan 21, 2012

New Delhi: A person on Saturday hurled a shoe at Team Anna at a public meeting in Dehradun. A man has been arrested for hurling a shoe at them in Dehradun. Anna Hazare's team faced some protests at an event in Haridwar as well. Earlier, the returning officer denied permission for a rally in Haridwar and asked Team Anna to organise their event in a hall. Reacting on not getting...

05:11 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Mahendergarh (Haryana): A 21-year-old youth, frustrated at the Haryana government's delay in giving him a promised job, hurled a shoe at Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda during a rally in this Haryana town on Sunday, eyewitnesses said, but police denied the incident. The shoe fell quite some distance away from Hooda. The youth, who was identified as Shakti Singh, a resident of Baniani village here, was overpowered by villages and...

07:20 AM, Aug 23, 2010
Jammu: A police officer allegedly hurled a shoe at Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah during Independence Day celebration on Sunday in Srinagar. The Chief Minister welcomed the incident saying it is better if people hurl shoes instead of stones. Abdullah was just about to take the salute after unfurling the tricolour when someone from behind flung a shoe at him, which missed hitting the Chief Minister. The 'police...

11:41 AM, Aug 15, 2010

Naveen Jindal faced the ire of a school teacher in Kurukshetra. ...

01:10 PM, Apr 10, 2009

Jarnail Singh has since apologised for his act. ...

02:36 AM, Apr 09, 2009

Wednesday saw protests across Punjab and shoes for Sonia Gandhi. ...

02:27 AM, Apr 09, 2009

Sukhbir Singh Badal says lakhs are feeling the same way as Jarnail Singh. ...

01:12 AM, Apr 09, 2009

Jarnail Singh is getting full support from netizens, Rati Chaudhary reports. ...

10:39 AM, Apr 08, 2009

The Congress may rethink on the tickets to Tytler and Sajjan Kumar. ...

09:50 PM, Apr 07, 2009

A journalist threw a shoe at P Chidambaram on Tuesday. ...

09:45 PM, Apr 07, 2009

Wen Jiabao was attacked by a Western-looking man at Cambridge. ...

11:42 PM, Feb 02, 2009