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December deadline for Cong to get Telangana bill passed: BJP

Mahbubnagar: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj on Saturday set December as the deadline for Congress to...

29 Sept 2013 8:40 AM IST

Activists of the hardline Islamist group Tehreek-i-Labaik Yah Rasool Allah Pakistan have virtually paralysed Pakistans capital Islamabad for weeks. (Photo: AFP)

Pakistan Police fire rubber bullets to disperse Islamist sit-in

The roughly 8,500 elite police and paramilitary troops in riot gear began clearing the 2,000 or so demonstrators soon...

25 Nov 2017 11:49 AM IST

Several people were wounded, with one man in a white tee-shirt, believed to be the knifeman, being beaten with sticks by protesters. Another man lay in a pool of blood on the pavement outside the mall. (Photo: AP)

Hong Kong mall clash ends in bloody knife attack, politician's ear...

Police said protesters had vandalised restaurant after peaceful chanting of slogans by Hong Kong people.

4 Nov 2019 9:28 AM IST

Angry protesters demanding scrapping of the amended citizenship law torched several motor bikes, pelted stones at police and damaged public buses in Northeast Delhis Seelampur area on Tuesday, in fresh violence in the national capital. (Photo: Twitter/ ANI)

CAB protesters pelted stones, police fired tear gas in Delhi's...

Police said two bikes of traffic cops were burnt by the demonstrators, adding a police booth in the area was damaged.

17 Dec 2019 4:36 PM IST

Democrats enjoy majority with 233 seats in the House of Representatives while the ruling Republican, from which Trump comes, has 197 elected representatives. (Photo: File)

Hong Kong: Protesters thank Trump over support to anti-govt protests

The protestors showed 'gratitude' for US support of anti-government protests that have roiled the financial hub for...

1 Dec 2019 3:36 PM IST

The demonstrators retaliated with a barrage of bottles and bamboo poles, as tear gas and pepper spray was fired to disperse them. (Photo: AFP)

Tear gas fired as Hong Kong riot police, protesters clash

Officers charged with batons out, detaining at least one protester.

24 Aug 2019 2:56 PM IST

Hong Kong police fired volleys of tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters on Saturday - sending tourists fleeing weeping in Kowloon - only for demonstrators to regroup and gather elsewhere during another tense, hot and restive weekend. (Photo: AFP/ video screengrab)

Watch: Police in Hong Kong fire tear gas as street protests continue

Late on Saturday they flashed laser pointers at riot police, lifted bricks and scavenged building materials to barricade...

12 Aug 2019 10:49 AM IST

The auxiliary bishop of Hong Kongs Catholic Diocese, the Rev. Joseph Ha, appealed to the protesters to avoid violence. (Photo: Representational)

Hong Kong braces for fresh clashes ahead of China's 70th anniversary

School and university students also took part in a one-day class boycott on Monday.

30 Sept 2019 1:27 PM IST

A person is arrested by Seattle Police at Cal Anderson Park, Saturday, July 25, 2020, during a Black Lives Matter protest near the Seattle Police East Precinct headquarters. A large group of protesters marched Saturday in Seattle in support of Black Lives Matter and against police brutality and racial injustice. (AP)

Protesters clash with Seattle police over feds deployment

The latest episode of violence came after police and federal agents fired tear gas and forcefully dispersed protesters...

26 July 2020 1:19 PM IST

A man poses for a picture with a cardboard cut-out of Hassan Nasrallah (L), the head of Lebanons Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah, and former Foreign Minister Gibran Bassil hung by Lebanese protesters in downtown Beirut. (AFP)

Lebanese protesters storm ministry buildings as anger grows over...

Protesters set up symbolic nooses at Beirut's Martyrs' Square to hang politicians whose corruption and negligence they...

9 Aug 2020 9:57 AM IST

$A woman holds a \Defund the Police\ sign in Portland, Oregon on July 30, 2020. (AFP)$ World

Portland sees relative peace as feds withdraw

Federal agents deployed in Portland withdrew under a deal between Oregon's governor and US officials to end escalating...

1 Aug 2020 11:01 AM IST

Farmers attempt to break barricades as they try to march towards Red Fort during Kisan Gantantra Parade amid the 72nd Republic Day celebrations, in New Delhi, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. (PTI)

Chaos ensues as protesting farmers breach barricades, police use tear...

The protesting farmers also reached Delhi's ITO area, a few kilometres away from Parliament

26 Jan 2021 1:35 PM IST