Showing posts with label Protests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Protests. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 July 2016

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One more youth was killed on Wednesday in a clash between a stone-pelting mob and security forces in Kashmir, taking the toll in the five-day unrest to 35, even as Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti expressed "great sadness and sorrow" over the deaths and promised a "healing touch".
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Controversial Mumbai-based Islamic preacher Zakir Naik has cancelled his media interaction on Thursday for the third time.
"It is very difficult to do a press conference. We will announce another conference soon. Naik himself is willing to come and share information with people," official spokesperson of Naik's Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) told on Thursday.
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The ruling by the Hague's Permanent Court of Arbitration(PCA) in favour of Manila over itsSouth China Sea dispute with China must be respected, an official statement by the Philippines said.
The statement also outlined the issues Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay is set to discuss during the upcoming Asia-Europe meeting (ASEM) on Friday and Saturday in Mongolia, EFE newsreported.
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Wednesday, 25 May 2016

Protests turn violent outside Trump's rally in New Mexico; clashes erupt

Donald Trump's rally in New Mexico turned violent as anti-Trump demonstrators clashed with police, hurling rocks and burning clothes at officers, the latest scuffle to hit the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's campaign.
The "unlawful assembly" went on rampage, lighted fires and threw rocks at the police officers and their horses outside Trump's rally at a convention centre in New Mexico's Albuquerque. The police resorted to launching smoke bombs to disperse the violent crowd which overturned barricades and hurled rocks.
The protesters disrupted the 69-year-old New York-based real estate tycoon's speech several times yesterday. Most of the protesters were escorted out one by one.
"Go ahead, get them out of here," Donald Trump told one of them.
However, the police had a tough time in controlling the demonstrators who were protesting against the policies and rhetorics of Trump.
"This is an unlawful assembly," Albuquerque police spokesman Simon Drobik told protesters over a loudspeaker.Read more.

Triple Talaq: Patriarchy not just a 'women's issue', marriage no holy cow

From academic jargon, the word 'patriarchy' has come a long way in the Indian public sphere. But it has a long way to go yet ...