NEW DELHI: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has accused the police of opening fire on its supporters during a rally in Islamabad on Sunday, as party members gathered to demand the release of their imprisoned leader and former Prime Minister, Imran Khan.In a social media post, PTI condemned what it called “heavy shelling” on peaceful protesters,…
KOLKATA: In the dead of the night at 3.45 am on Tuesday, doctors who were at a sit-in demonstration on BB Ganguly Street stood up and began singing the National Anthem. Some 300 policemen who were also present stood up as well and joined them. Though everyone stands whenever ‘Jana Gana Mana’ is sung, the…
NEW DELHI: The Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav challenged Janata Dal United to speak out if they were in favour of putting reservation in the Ninth Schedule amid state-wide sit-in protests on Sunday by the former demanding caste census in the country. “We challenge the JDU leaders to tell whether they are in favour…
Image used for representational purpose only JAMMU: BJP’s Samba district chief and its Jammu district youth wing chief resigned from the party on Saturday, alleging wrong selection and omission of candidates for J&K assembly polls.Protesting against the selection of former National Conference minister Surjit Singh Salathia from Samba, BJP Samba chief Kashmira Singh shot off…
VIJAYWADA: Students at a private engineering college in Gudivada, Krishna district, staged a midnight protest after discovering hidden cameras in the girls’ hostel washrooms. The protest was sparked by allegations that a final-year B.Tech student had been selling videos captured by the hidden cameras, with the assistance of another student. Police intervened to control the…
NEW DELHI: A video of an elderly man, dressed in saffron, facing water cannons, while holding the national flag during the ‘Nabanna Abhijan’ (March to Bengal Secretariat) protest, went viral on Tuesday. The protest was organized against the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government in connection with the rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata’s…
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday flayed the idea of “bulldozer action” as a means to justice and called it an act of “barbarism” that requires immediate attention. The grand old party also flagged, what it called the “repeated targeting of minorities” with the use of state machinery in BJP ruled states.The opposition charge comes…
MUMBAI: Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray is protesting outside his party headquarters at Dadar along with his family and other party leaders against the Badlapur sexual abuse case, wearing black masks.Following the Bombay high court order on Friday, the MVA had called off its Saturday’s statewide bandh and decided that all its politicians would wear…
NEW DELHI: In a significant legal direction, the Bombay High Court on Friday issued a restraining order against any political party or individual from calling for a Maharashtra Bandh. “We are restraining any political party or individual from proceeding with call for bandh. We will also direct the State to take all steps in terms…
NEW DELHI: Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi anguished by the “shameful” crimes against women, took strong exception to recent incidents that have raised serious concerns over women safety across the country. Referring to the latest Badlapur sexual assault, the Congress leader on Wednesday called for prompt justice to the victim and wondered why a FIR…
