Protesters
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Protesters flash 'Hunger Games' sign at Thai PM
World | Nov 19, 2014, 01:12 PM ISTBangkok: Five Thai university students have been detained by police and soldiers after giving a three-fingered salute inspired by “The Hunger Games” to junta leader-cum-prime minister in a daring move protest.The students, wearing T-shirts showing
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Hong Kong activists clash with police, 4 arrested
World | Nov 19, 2014, 11:08 AM ISTHong Kong: Tension spiked at democracy protests that have gripped Hong Kong for nearly two months as police arrested four men early Wednesday after a small group of activists tried to force their way into
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Hong Kong official warns protesters to face arrest
World | Nov 11, 2014, 11:07 AM ISTHong Kong: Pro-democracy protesters camped out on main streets in Hong Kong for more than six weeks face arrest after a court authorized police to help bailiffs clear them from occupation sites, a senior government
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Protesters take over airport in Mexican city
World | Nov 11, 2014, 09:04 AM ISTMexico City: Hundreds of students, teachers and relatives of the 43 education students who disappeared in September in the city of Iguala took over the airport on Monday in Acapulco city of Mexico without being
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Hong Kong police clear protesters out of tunnel
World | Oct 15, 2014, 06:52 AM ISTHong Kong: Hundreds of Hong Kong police officers moved in early on Wednesday to clear pro-democracy protesters out of a tunnel outside the city government headquarters, clashing with protesters in the worst violence since the
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HK police warn protesters not to charge buildings
World | Oct 02, 2014, 02:54 PM ISTHong Kong: Hong Kong police warned of serious consequences if pro-democracy protesters try to occupy or surround government buildings, as they have threatened to do if the territory's leader doesn't resign by midnight Thursday.The warning
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Protesters spend peaceful night in Hong Kong
World | Sep 30, 2014, 06:41 AM ISTHong Kong: Protesters spent a peaceful night singing as they blocked streets in Hong Kong in an unprecedented show of civil disobedience to push demands for genuine democratic reforms.But officials announced that schools in some
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US riots: Protesters again take to Missouri city's streets
World | Sep 25, 2014, 06:27 AM ISTWashington: More than six weeks after a white police officer shot and killed black teenager Michael Brown, protesters again poured into the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, overnight, with acts of vandalism and at least two
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4 injured as protesters clash with police near Manipur Bhawan
India | Aug 17, 2014, 07:17 AM ISTNew Delhi: Four persons including two policemen were injured when a group of protesters clashed with police near Manipur Bhawan here last evening. Around 200 protesters had gathered at Manipur Bhawan in New Delhi district
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FIFA World Cup: Police and World Cup protesters clash
Football | Jun 12, 2014, 07:46 PM ISTSao Paulo: Brazilian police have clashed with anti-World Cup protesters trying to block the main highway leading to the stadium that hosts the opening match of the tournament. Images aired by the Globo TV network
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Protesters force Thai PM to flee meeting after 3 killed
World | May 15, 2014, 03:59 PM ISTBangkok: Anti-government protesters today forced acting Thai premier to flee a meeting, hours after a grenade and gun attack on their camp left three persons dead even as the army warned of using force to
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Kejriwal spends the night on street, threatens to flood Rajpath with protesters
India | Jan 21, 2014, 01:06 PM ISTNew Delhi: On the second day of his protest, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday upped the ante, threatening to flood Rajpath, the venue of Republic Day celebrations, with lakhs of supporters demanding action
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Protesters disrupt FIFA visit to stadium in Brazil
Football | Oct 09, 2013, 12:33 PM ISTSao Paulo: A group of about 50 protesters vandalized part of the construction site of a World Cup stadium and chanted anti-FIFA slogans during an inspection by organizers in Brazil on Tuesday. FIFA Secretary General
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Protesters stone Asaram ashram in Jaipur, Supporters manhandle mediapersons
India | Oct 07, 2013, 08:55 PM ISTJaipur: A group of 50 to 60 protesters on Monday morning stormed the Asaram ashram here, ransacking the place, and broke glasspanes of rooms. Police officials said, the protesters also broke windowshields of several cars
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Rape incident: Protesters demand DSP's removal
India | May 02, 2013, 08:29 AM ISTBikaner (Rajasthan), May 2: Former state finance minister Manik Chand Surana and BJP MLA Vishwanath Meghwal demanded closing down Khajuwala police station and removal of its Deputy Superintendent of Police, with their protest against the
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Delhi protests rage, barricades broken at Sonia house
India | Apr 22, 2013, 07:37 AM ISTNew Delhi, April 22: Dozens of BJP women activists Sunday marched to Congress president Sonia Gandhi's house and broke barricades on the way to denounce the brutal rape of a five-year-old as protests raged for
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Protesters throng AIIMS where raped girl is admitted
India | Apr 20, 2013, 07:35 AM ISTNew Delhi, April 20: Over 100 protesters Friday thronged the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) where the five-year-old girl, who was raped for two days in captivity, is admitted.The angry protesters were stopped
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Protesters stall rail traffic on Amritsar-Pathankot section
India | Apr 19, 2013, 11:38 AM ISTBatala, Apr 19: Protesters stalled rail traffic on Amritsar-Pathankot section Thursday evening demanding that a case of abetting suicide be registered against a police inspector after a 55-year-old man ended his life allegedly due to
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Protesters march in Philadelphia against Wharton snub to Modi
World | Mar 24, 2013, 10:19 PM ISTWashington, Mar 24: About 200 Indian-Americans marched in protest against the controversial withdrawal of an invitation to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to speak at the Wharton India Economic Forum.Marching under the banner of a
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Damini gangrape: 35 protesters shave off their heads at Jantar Mantar
India | Jan 04, 2013, 04:25 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jan 4: About 35 men had their heads tonsured in public at Jantar Mantar in central Delhi Friday, protesting that the government was not keeping women safe in the country."I shaved off my