NEW DELHI: The Bangladesh government on Tuesday officially flagged objection to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee‘s recent statement on providing “shelter to helpless people”, claiming that her remarks gave room for it to be taken out of context and cause confusion between the two neighbors, local media reported.Sending an official note to New Delhi,…
At least 39 people were killed in Bangladesh as student protests against civil service hiring rules intensified. Police clashed with hundreds of protesters in Dhaka, firing rubber bullets. The demonstrators retaliated, chasing officers to the headquarters of Bangladesh Television (BTV), which they set on fire.The protests have seen several government buildings torched, according to a…
SRINAGAR: J&K Police have filed an FIR against a student of Srinagar’s Government Medical College (GMC) over an alleged blasphemous postamid protests. The absconding student has been suspended.Classes at the medical college have been suspended for three days till Saturday because of the protests by junior doctors, students as well as faculty members over the…
New York: Pro-Palestinian protests that have rocked US campuses for weeks were more muted Friday after a series of clashes with police, mass arrests and a stern White House directive to restore order. Police in Manhattan cleared an encampment at New York University after sunrise, with video posted to social media by an official showing…
GUWAHATI: Seven women shaved their heads and cycled 19km to promote peace and unity in Manipur on Friday to mark a year of the ethnic conflict in the state, reports Prabin Kalita.The women clad in black rode from Sekmai, a village on outskirts of Imphal, to historic Kangla. They carried placards reading “We want peace”,…
Prabin Kalita led seven women cycling 19km in Manipur, promoting peace amid ethnic conflict. Kuki Inpi Manipur appealed to PM Modi for separate administration, while Mallikarjun Kharge condemned Modi’s approach for damaging Manipur’s social fabric. Source link
New York City police officers stormed Columbia University late Tuesday evening in a move to end a pro-Palestinian protest that has paralyzed the Ivy League institution for nearly two weeks. The intervention by the authorities came hours after Mayor Eric Adams declared that the demonstration “must end now.”Television footage captured dozens of police officers, equipped…
NEW DELHI: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested a key accused in a case linked to the attack on the Indian High Commission in London last year. Inderpal Singh Gaba, a resident of Hounslow in the UK, has been arrested for carrying out unlawful activities during protests that took place on March 22, 2023,…
At New York University, police swept in to arrest 133 protesting students Monday night, ending a standoff with the school’s administration. At Yale University, police placed protesters’ wrists into zip ties Monday morning and escorted them onto campus shuttles to receive summonses for trespassing. Columbia kept its classroom doors closed Monday, moving lectures online and…
NEW DELHI: Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv to protest against prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the conflict with Hamas in Gaza reached its six-month mark. The protest took place at ‘Democracy Square’, a symbolic location following previous demonstrations against judicial reforms. Protesters demanded elections and called for Netanyahu’s resignation as the…
