West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is in the middle of a controversy yet again. She lost her cool yet again and went to the extent of saying that the Barasat gangrape and murder accused are CPM workers and those protesting are CPM cadre. ...
11:58 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Mamata Banerjee met the Barasat victim's family only for 5 minutes after protesters shouted slogans against her. ...
11:39 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Barasat: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is in the middle of a controversy yet again. She lost her cool yet again and went to the extent of saying that the Barasat gangrape and murder accused are CPM workers and those protesting are CPM cadre. "Why should I be sorry? They are CPI(M) workers. The people who have been apprehended are from CPI(M)," Mamata said. Shouting at a protester in...
03:45 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Kolkata: Days after the brutal gangrape and murder of a 20-year-old girl in West Bengal's Barasat district, a group of women protestors on Monday shouted anti-government slogans and forced Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to leave the grieving family's house within five minutes of her arrival there. Sources say, she felt it was a deliberate ploy to insult her. The deceased girl's family had earlier refused any kind of help from...
03:08 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Hyderabad: Apparently frustrated by the delay in the formation of a separate Telangana state, a student of Osmania University in Andhra Pradesh committed suicide early Saturday, police said. The body of Bandaru Srinivas, an engineering student, was found hanging from a tree opposite the library on the Osmania University campus. He hailed from Mahabubnagar district of Telangana region. Srinivas' friends said he was depressed over the delay in granting statehood...
06:28 PM, Jun 15, 2013
The Telangana protests intensify after a brief lull as pro-Telangana activists clash with police in Hyderabad. With the 2014 elections drawing nearer, parties have started promising statehood, something that has alluded the region ever since Independence. CNN-IBN's consulting editor Veeraraghav TM joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the Telangana protests. Q. Do you think Congress will bow down to these protests and give statehood so that its seats do...
04:54 PM, Jun 14, 2013
Hyderabad: The Telangana protests have flare up yet again in Hyderabad as the police fired teargas shells to disperse the protesters. No injuries were reported in the teargas firing. Meanwhile, two rebel Telangana Congress MPs G Viveka and Manda Jagannath have courted arrest even as hundreds of pro-Telangana activists have been taken into protective custody. A group of protesters tried to force their way to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly but...
02:16 PM, Jun 14, 2013
Hyderabad: The action is hotting up in Hyderabad, where two rebel Telangana Congress MPs G Viveka and Manda Jagannath have courted arrest even as hundreds of pro-Telangana activists have been taken into protective custody. A group of protesters tried to force their way to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly but were stopped by the police. The members of the Telangana Joint Action Commitee were marching towards the state assembly with the...
11:09 AM, Jun 14, 2013
Kolkata: The crime against women continues unabated in the country. In Bidhannagar, the IT hub of Kolkata, a 24-year-old differently-abled girl was raped allegedly by her neighbour on Thursday. The girl's mother has filed an FIR at the New Town Police Station. However, no arrests have been made yet. The suspect is absconding, the police say. The incident comes just hours after hundreds of women protesters were detained outside Chief...
08:58 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Hundreds of women protested outside West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's residence against the recent rape and murder of a girl in Barasat. ...
07:59 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Hundreds of women protested outside West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's residence against the recent rape and murder of a girl in Barasat. ...
07:19 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Istanbul: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party ordered protesters out of an Istanbul park on Wednesday, while making a limited concession in the form of an offer to hold a referendum on redevelopment plans that caused nearly two weeks of riots. Huseyin Celik, deputy chairman of the Justice and Development (AK) Party, said hundreds of demonstrators still camped in Gezi Park, which adjoins Taksim Square in the heart of...
02:05 AM, Jun 13, 2013
Ankara: Police and protesters retrenched on Wednesday after punishing overnight clashes in Istanbul's Taksim Square - an uncertain hiatus before officials were to hold talks aimed to end Turkey's biggest anti-government protests in decades. Nearly two weeks of protests across the nation have shaped up as perhaps the biggest test in the 10-year rule of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan - who protesters say is increasingly authoritarian, a charge that...
01:03 PM, Jun 12, 2013
Istanbul: Turkish riot police using tear gas and water cannon battled protesters for control of Istanbul's Taksim Square on Tuesday night, hours after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan demanded an immediate end to 10 days of demonstrations. The governor of Istanbul went on television to declare that police operations would continue day and night until the square, focus of demonstrations against Erdogan, was cleared. Police fired volleys of tear gas canisters...
06:09 AM, Jun 12, 2013
Istanbul: Hundreds of Turkish riot police entered Istanbul's Taksim Square on Tuesday, firing teargas to scatter small numbers of protesters who have been staging demonstrations against plans to redevelop an adjoining park, a Reuters witness said. Backed by armoured vehicles, police wearing white helmets and carrying shields massed in areas around the square, but there were no clashes between them and protesters in the nearby park. The development come even...
11:01 AM, Jun 11, 2013
Ankara: Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to meet on Wednesday with leaders of the movement whose peaceful protests in Istanbul spiralled into a wave of anti-government demonstrations across Turkey. Erdogan has repeatedly dismissed the protesters as "capulcular", or riff-raff. But Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said on Monday leaders of the Gezi Park Platform group had asked to meet him in an effort to end unrest in which police...
06:49 AM, Jun 11, 2013
Istanbul: Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan warned protesters who have taken to the streets across Turkey demanding his resignation that his patience has its limits and compared the unrest with an army attempt six years ago to curb his power. Riot police used teargas and water cannon to disperse anti-government protesters from a square in the capital, Ankara, just a few kilometers from where Erdogan spoke. He held six rallies on...
08:42 AM, Jun 10, 2013
Beirut: Lebanese troops blocked streets in Beirut with tanks and barbed wire for several hours on Sunday after the killing of a protester outside the Iranian embassy raised factional tensions already inflamed by the war in Syria. The man died during a clash between rival groups of Shi'ite Muslims after militiamen from the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement opened fire when protesters drew up at the embassy. The Lebanese army, which has...
06:34 AM, Jun 10, 2013
Puri: A 13-year-old visually impaired girl on Wednesday was brutally raped and murdered in a forest near Puri district. The accused, Banamali Barik, a driver, has been arrested. The horrific crime has led to protests by opposition political parties and several people in Bhubaneswar. Physically challenged persons along with women workers of BJP, Congress and Samata Kranti Dal set up a blockade near Sri Ram Temple in Bhubaneswar demanding action...
08:30 PM, Jun 09, 2013
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal on Monday will join auto drivers in their protest against the Delhi government's plan to ban advertisements on three-wheelers. The protest will be held at Jantar Mantar. An AAP spokesperson said Kejriwal would join the protest of the auto drivers as their demands were "genuine". Last week, Arvind Kejriwal had announced his decision to take on Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in the...
06:40 PM, Jun 09, 2013
