Page 9 - Protests

Belarus police crush protests as ruler claims landslide win in polls

About 3,000 people were held by law enforcement including 1,000 in the capital, Minsk, the Interior Ministry said Monday

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Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the year 2020 has not been easy for anyone. YouTube Originals' global documentary will record your day and make you part of the meory of this historic year

Fuel prices: After 22 hikes, petrol now costs Rs 80.43, diesel Rs 80.53

Petrol price in the national capital was increased for the 22nd day by 5 paise to Rs 80.43 and diesel price by 13 paise to Rs 80.53.

The trouble with cities

With an election looming in November, President Donald Trump's response is of a leader cornered by cascading public anger

The Black Lives Matter protests and the swift change they are triggering

Remarkably, the protests have had an impact across borders. In the United Kingdom, the statue of a slave trader was uprooted and dumped in the river

Anti-racism protests in UK 'subverted by thuggery': Boris Johnson

"People have a right to protest peacefully and while observing social distancing but they have no right to attack the police," said Johnson

World marches for George Floyd as outrage grows; EU 'shocked, appalled'

Chanting Black Lives Matter and I can't breathe," about 3,000 protesters held an impassioned but peaceful march through central Sydney on Tuesday demanding fundamental change in race relations.

Anger over police killings shatters landscapes in dozens of US cities

People set fire to police cars, threw bottles at police officers and busted windows of storefronts, carrying away TVs and other items even as some protesters urged them to stop

Petrol bombs hurled near Jamia and Shaheen Bagh protest site, says police

The incident took place at around 9.30 am. A police team has found five-six petrol-filled bottles at the site

Young lawyers are taking up the cudgels for detainees and riot victims

A group of young lawyers is educating protesters about their rights, assisting detainees, and now helping Delhi's riot victims rebuild their lives, all services pro bono

Anti-CAA protests: Heavy police deployment in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh

The police deployment has come after a fringe right-wing group, Hindu Sena, gave a call to clear the Shaheen Bagh road on March 1

Delhi's riot-hit areas: Provoked, poor, young, and significantly Muslim

Northeast Delhi's socio-economic profile shows it was a communally sensitive area where sparks lit by some irresponsible statements led to one of the worst riots in the city's post-1950 history

Shaheen Bagh protests: Interlocutors file report in sealed cover in SC

The bench made it clear that the report will not be shared with the petitioners or the lawyers representing the Centre and Delhi Police at this stage

Pro and anti-CAA groups clash in northeast Delhi, two houses torched

Tension escalated in northeast Delhi with protesters torching at least two houses and a fire tender in the Jaffrabad and Maujpur areas, where pro and anti-CAA groups clashed for the second consecutive day on Monday and hurled stones at each other. Violence was also reported from the Chandbagh area in Jaffrabad. Police fired tear gas shells and also resorted to lathicharge to disperse the protesters. According to officials, a fire tender was damaged by the protesters after it responded to a fire call in the area. The Delhi Metro closed entry and exit at the Jaffrabad and Maujpur-Babarpur stations as an uneasy calm prevailed in the area. "Entry & exit of Jaffrabad and Maujpur-Babarpur are closed. Trains will not be halting at these stations," the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) said in a tweet. Entry and exit were closed at the Jaffrabad metro station for over 24 hours. Clashes broke out on Sunday evening between pro and anti-CAA groups near Jaffrabad after a large number of .

Fresh anti-CAA protest site emerges as hundreds gather at Delhi's Jaffrabad

An anti-CAA protest by around 500 people, mostly women, near the Jaffrabad metro station in northeast Delhi continued on Sunday, prompting the Delhi Metro authorities to close the entry and exit gates of the station. The protest began on Saturday night, blocking a road which connects Seelampur with Maujpur and Yamuna Vihar. The women, carrying the tricolour and raising slogans of 'aazadi', said they would not move from the site till the Centre revokes the CAA. Heavy security deployment, including women police personnel, has been made in the area. In view of the protest, entry and exit gates of the Jaffrabad metro station were closed. "Entry & exit of Jaffrabad have been closed. Trains will not be halting at this station," the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation tweeted. A woman, who identified herself as Bushra, had said that till the time the CAA was not revoked, the protesters would not leave the site. Social activist Faheem Baig had said that there was resentment among the people ..

Govt will at least talk to us now: Shaheen Bagh protesters on interlocutors

The famous grandmothers or 'dadis' of Shaheen Bagh welcomed the decision saying they now expect genuine mediation with the government

Letter to BS: Shaheen Bagh protesters should voluntarily withdraw agitation

What explains the fact that after a four-month-old child met with an untimely death his protesting parents attributed it to "supreme" sacrifice?

The Bard of Jaffrabad

"This is why we're protesting, we are neither terrorists nor anti-nationals, but patriots who love India and the secular ideals it has always upheld," a protestor told the author

Stanford University students come out in solidarity with CAA-NRC protesters

The protestors decried the use of force against university students in India and also expressed solidarity with the women protestors of Shaheen Bagh

Probe police action against anti-CAA protesters: Rahul, Priyanka to NHRC

The party leaders met the NHRC officials here and highlighted the alleged brutalities committed by the Uttar Pradesh police on agitators during the anti-CAA stir.