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Anti-CAA protest: Northeast's students' body to observe Black Day on Dec 11

The North East Students' Organisation on Friday said it would observe December 11 as 'Black Day' across the region in protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA. On December 11, 2019, Rajya Sabha approved the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, completing the legislative procedure for giving Indian citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. "December 11 will always be remembered as a 'Black Day' for the entire Northeast," NESO chairman Samuel Jyrwa said here. Members of the NESO, the umbrella organisation of the influential students' bodies in the Northeastern states, will put up black flags and black banners in important places across the region, he said. "This demonstration is to give a message to the Government of India that we are against this Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019," he added. Urging the people of the region to unite against the "draconian law", Jyra said it was yet another "political injustice" that the indigenous people of

Traders' body supports Oppn's Pune bandh against remark on Shivaji Maharaj

A traders' body in Pune city of Maharashtra has decided to extend support to the December 13 'bandh' called given by the opposition parties as a mark of protest against Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari's remarks on Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. The Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), Sambhaji Brigade and some other outfits have given the bandh call. Fatehchand Ranka, president of the Federation of Traders Associations of Pune (FATP), said in a release on Thursday that the office-bearers of the three parties and Smabhaji Brigade had appealed to the traders' body to support the bandh called for condemning the governor's statements. "Following the appeal made by these parties, an internal meeting of all the members of the federation was organised and it was decided to support the bandh by keeping the shops closed till 3 pm on Tuesday," Ranka said. Last month, governor Koshyari kicked up a row as he termed Chhatrapati ..

Iran carries out first execution over anti-hijab protests, says report

The execution comes as other detainees also face possible death penalty for their involvement in the protests

The end of Covid Zero

The world, and India, must prepare for a possible China wave

Job aspirants threaten to launch protest during Bihar winter session

With the winter session of Bihar Vidhan Sabha starting from December 13, the aspirants for the teachers' posts have decided to begin a massive movement in Bihar for the seventh phase of recruitment

25 people detained in far-right raids across Germany, shows report

German news agency dpa reports that 25 people have been detained as part of a series of raids against suspected far-right extremists across the country early on Wednesday. Dpa cited federal prosecutors as saying officers conducted searches in 11 of Germany's 16 states against members of the so-called Reich Citizens movement. Some members of the grouping reject Germany's postwar constitution and have called for the overthrow of the government. Weekly Der Spiegel reported that locations searched include the barracks of Germany's special forces unit KSK in the southwestern town of Calw. The unit has in the past been scrutinized over alleged far-right involvement by some soldiers. Federal prosecutors didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

All India Kisan Cong to protest on Dec 9 on farmers' issue, seek resolution

'Centre has not taken any concrete step in the direction of fulfilling the promises made at the time of the withdrawal of three anti-farmer laws'

Vizhinjam protest against Adani port called off after 138 days

Govt has already told agitators that construction work won't be stopped, but is said to have accepted all their demands

Protest against Adani's Vizhinjam sea port in Kerala called off for now

The over 130-day-long protest by fisherfolk against the under-construction Vizhinjam sea port was on Tuesday called off for now. The calling off of the agitation was announced by Vicar General Eugene Pereira, who has been seen at the forefront of the protests. He, however, said the protest was not being called off because they were satisfied with the steps taken or promises made by the state government. It was being called off as the protest has reached a certain stage and if required, they will take it up again, Pereira told reporters here. A day ago, leaders of various religious groups in Kerala had met with the fisherfolk protesting against the under-construction Vizhinjam sea port here as part of the ongoing efforts to bring peace in the area which witnessed violent agitations recently. A large number of people have been staging demonstrations outside the main entrance of the multi-purpose seaport at nearby Mulloor for the last few months. They have been pressing their seven-

What we know about Iran's notorious 'morality police' and how it operates

This force has been patrolling the streets of Iran since 2006, arbitrarily enforcing its strict dress code

Traders stage protest after stone pelting incident on India-Nepal border

India has reportedly closed a suspension bridge connecting Nepal since early Monday morning, following Sunday's stone-pelting incident on the Indian workers by the Nepalese at the Indo-Nepal border

Iran accuses West of 'false human rights gestures', 'inciting riots'

'These officials, who are self-purported human rights defenders, work for the regimes that have "a history of coups, conspiracies, interference'

Iran to disband morality police amid ongoing protests: Attorney general

Iran's morality police, which is tasked with enforcing the country's Islamic dress code, is being disbanded, the country's attorney general said, according to a media report

Home buyers stage protest outside builder's office over delayed deliveries

Home buyers of a housing project of Raheja Developers on Saturday staged a protest outside the company's office here over delayed deliveries of their flats. Home buyers were demanding that the builder should either hand over the houses or refund the money. They alleged that buyers of the Raheja Revanta Project at Sector 78 are awaiting for the last five years for the delivery of their homes. The buyers alleged that even after taking 90 per cent of the money for the flat, they were being misled in the name of completing the project. The local police had also reached the spot. Arjun, the president of the association of Raheja Revanta Society, said the builder sold the flats in the name of the tallest project of Delhi NCR and Haryana. They bought flats for Rs 1 crore to Rs 5 crore. After discussions with builder Nayan Raheja, buyers and the developer agreed to hold a meeting every three months. A spokesperson of Raheja Developers in a statement said that they are aggressively taking

Kerala will proceed 'no matter what' with protest-hit Adani port: Minister

The protesters say the huge project causes coastal erosion that has undermined their livelihoods, calling for a complete halt on the construction

At Shanghai vigil, bold shout for change preceded crackdown amid covid woes

The mourners in Shanghai lit candles and placed flowers. Someone scrawled Urumqi, 11.24, Rest in Peace in red on cardboard referring to the deadly apartment fire in China's western city of Urumqi that sparked anger over perceptions the country's strict COVID-19 measures played a role in the disaster. What started as a small vigil last weekend by fewer than a dozen people grew into a rowdy crowd of hundreds hours later. One woman defiantly shouted for Chinese leader Xi Jinping to resign, emboldening others. Then, before dawn, police swept in and broke up the gathering, preventing more such gatherings from happening. The Nov. 26 protest in Shanghai wasn't the first or the largest. But it was notable for the bold calls for change in China's leadership the most public defiance of the ruling Communist Party in decades. Nationalist bloggers swiftly blamed foreign black hands, and the government vowed to crack down on hostile forces. But the protest emerged spontaneously, according to 11

JNU urges all centres to install CCTVs amid campus defacement row

A day after some walls on the JNU campus were defaced with anti-Brahmin slogans, the university on Friday asked all its centres to install CCTV cameras and instructed students and staff members to remain vigilant to prevent such incidents in future. Jawaharlal Nehru University Vice-Chancellor Santishree D. Pandit visited the building in the School of International Studies (SIS)- II, whose walls were spray-painted with slogans asking members of Brahmin and Baniya communities to leave the campus and the country, and took stock of the situation. She called an emergency meeting during which several measures were discussed to improve security on the campus, sources told PTI. It was decided to shift the reading rooms situated in the SIS-I building and on the second floor of the SIS-II building to the latter's ground floor from Monday to ensure better security on the campus, they said. V-C Pandit also interacted with the students, staff and faculty members and asked them to be vigilant so

China hints at relaxing zero-Covid norm; IMF chief urges targeted policy

Police leveraging powers of the country's surveillance apparatus against protesters

China uses cops, social media censors, quiet Covid easing to stem protests

While the concessions to strict Covid Zero policies are minor, changes over the past few days have given hope to market watchers

China's Covid zero strategy: Xi holds few cards to end historic protests

Beijing says it won't set up gates to block access to Covid-hit compounds anymore