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Kolkata, March 11 – The Supreme Court has ordered the formation of a tribunal to hear appeals from those whose names were removed from the voter list following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. However, Aam Janata Unnayan Party chairman Humayun Kabir said on Wednesday that he is not...

Bhubaneswar, March 11 Demanding the reversal of the increase in LPG prices and smooth supply of cooking gas in Odisha, workers of the opposition BJD staged a protest in the busy Master Canteen area of the city on Wednesday.Hundreds of workers from the Biju Mahila Janata Dal, Biju Yuva Janata...

New Delhi, March 11 Hundreds of retired Army personnel from the All India Congress Committee's Ex-Servicemen Department gathered at Jantar Mantar on Wednesday to protest against what they alleged was the poor implementation of a healthcare scheme and the Agnipath recruitment model...

Islamabad, March 11 – Local police authorities in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, arrested several activists from the "Aurat March" earlier this week. These activists had gathered near the National Press Club to demand gender justice on the eve of International Women's Day. Even those who...

Imphal, March 11 Hundreds of people, mostly women, staged a demonstration here on Wednesday, demanding that illegal immigrants be identified through the National Register of Citizens (NRC) or any other exercise before the census in Manipur, police said.A scuffle broke out between demonstrators...

Taipei, March 11 – Around 300 people participated in an annual march in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, to commemorate the 1959 Tibetan uprising. Organizers warned that China's "expansion of authoritarian rule" would not be limited to just one place, according to local media.Kelsang Gyaltsen...

Khandwa (MP), March 11 The Khandwa administration has arrested a man in jail under the stringent National Security Act (NSA) after he allegedly posted offensive content on social media to disrupt communal harmony, officials said.Prabhakar Shinde, alias Prabhu (41), is accused of posting...

New Delhi/Shimla, March 10 Renewing calls for a resolution to the Sino-Tibetan conflict, Tibetan groups in India on Tuesday marked the 67th Tibetan National Uprising Day with protests and commemorations, while Delhi Police detained 24 people demonstrating outside the Chinese Embassy in the...

Hyderabad, March 10 Telangana police on Tuesday stopped Telangana Jagruti president K Kavitha from staging an indefinite fast in Khammam, and she was taken to Hyderabad.Kavitha will continue her protest at the office of her organization, Jagruti, sources said.She began an indefinite fast on...

Kolkata, March 10 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday used "art" as a symbolic form of protest against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, painting the words "SIR" and "Vanish" on the fifth day of her sit-in demonstration, alleging the deletion of genuine...

New Delhi, March 10 Several students from Dr BR Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) joined a protest organized by the Delhi unit of the Students' Federation of India (SFI) outside the university gate at Kashmere Gate on Tuesday to condemn the completion of one year since the expulsion of four...

New Delhi, March 10 – Tibetan activists staged a protest outside the Chinese Embassy here on Tuesday to mark Tibetan National Uprising Day, raising slogans demanding freedom for Tibet.Several protesters were later detained by the Delhi Police.Many Tibetan students and activists gathered near...

Kolkata, March 10 Hundreds of teachers and aspiring teachers held separate rallies near the headquarters of the state's Education Department in Salt Lake, near Kolkata, on Tuesday, demanding recruitment and pay-related issues.In one protest, around 300 aspiring teachers under the banner of the...

Kolkata, March 10 Hundreds of civil defence personnel, who are deployed for state disaster management work during calamities and in any emergency, marched towards the state secretariat, Nabanna, on Tuesday, demanding the regularisation of their services.The police, however, stopped them on...

Chandigarh, March 10 The Punjab Assembly passed a resolution on Tuesday condemning Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira for his derogatory comments about women participating in the "Mukhy Mantri Mahila Samman Yojna," under which the state government will provide Rs 1,000 per month to eligible...

New Delhi, March 10 Members of the Tibetan community and supporters gathered near the Chinese Embassy in Delhi on Tuesday and raised slogans to mark the 67th Tibetan National Uprising Day.The protest was organized by the Tibetan Youth Congress, one of the largest Tibetan organizations in...

Islamabad, March 10 – The leadership of the Aurat March, members of civil society, and rights activists have criticized the Pakistani authorities for "harassing and threatening them, and forcing them to sign unreasonable affidavits," local media reported on Tuesday.Speaking at a press...

New Delhi, March 10 The BJP on Tuesday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of being the "architect and designer" of protests aimed at "embarrassing" the country during the recently held World AI Summit, and accused him of attempting to demean and defame India.Addressing a press conference...

New York, March 10 – Two teenagers, who claimed affiliation with the Islamic State (ISIS), have been charged with using a “weapon of mass destruction” in their failed attempt to set off a deadly bomb in the city.Federal prosecutors also accused them of assisting ISIS in their Saturday attack...

New Delhi, March 10 – Union Minister Giriraj Singh launched a sharp attack on Lok Sabha Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday, claiming that he lacks vision and comparing him to the last Mughal emperor while criticizing his conduct in Parliament.Addressing reporters, Singh...