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The agitation against the ECI is aimed at covering up Rahul Gandhi’s failures, he says
Police in India’s capital detained opposition leader Rahul Gandhi for a second day as lawmakers staged an unannounced protest march demanding the resignation of the country’s chief election official.
The Election Commission of India has responded to the INDIA bloc’s protest in Delhi, saying the Opposition’s request for a meeting outside the Commission’s headquarters was unusual and could not be accepted under established procedures.
Tokyo, Oct. 7 (Jiji Press)--Okinawa Governor Genta Koja, at a meeting with Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Wednesday, lodged a protest following the murder and robbery allegedly committed by a U.S. Marine in the southernmost Japan prefecture earlier this month. At the meeting, held at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo, Koja urged Koizumi to ensure that effective measures to preven...
The move comes hours after Delhi Police detained around 260 INDIA bloc protesters, including 10 MPs, during a demonstration demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation
After police appeared to have broken up the Opposition’s march against the Election Commission of India, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi improvised by turning the All India Radio campus in the national capital into the unlikely centre of an all-day sit-in that lasted well past sunset
Party demands allotment of two-cent plots to eligible poor families; Municipal Commissioner says applications are being verified and land availability examined
Indian police detained several opposition lawmakers in the capital of New Delhi on Tuesday for trying to breach barricades during a protest march to demand the resignation of the election chief over a controversial revision of voter lists. The march presents a fresh political challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi midway into his third term, just months after similar protests forced the resignation of his education minister over exam paper leaks. Parties opposing Modi’s government along with...
Protesters are demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Students allege that police assaulted them during confrontation and tore their clothes while trying to control protesters
The principal Opposition party is also likely to reach out to other parties outside the INDIA bloc, like the DMK and AAP, and invite them to join the planned protest march in Delhi
On October 7, Bihar leaders of the INDIA bloc will launch an Aakrosh March against the CEC, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah at the block level.
Naha, Okinawa Pref., Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)--Okinawa Governor Genta Koja summoned Lt. Gen. Benjamin Watson, head of U.S. forces in Japan, to the prefectural government office to protest the arrest of a Marine on suspicion of murdering a woman in the southern Japan prefecture. Koja said that the incident caused "great anxiety" among local residents and was "absolutely unacceptable," and demande...
The union staged a demonstration outside the TDB headquarters, demanding that the traditional appointment procedure be followed.
Education Minister Edouard Geffray said on Sunday about 500 schools likely to be fully or partially closed on Monday.
“I have just spoken to Vivekanand Patil. October 6, I will go and sit with the students participating in the MPSC agitation in Pune,” Aaditya Thackeray
“Thousands of students from different parts of Maharashtra have been taking to the streets and are even prepared to face arrest to press for their demands linked to the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC),” says Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut
Annamayya district Collector, who organised the event, calls reports of a protest “meaningless and ridiculous”; the I&PR officer who faced the crowd says a camera zooming in on the youngsters set them off
The party of Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan began a march toward Islamabad from the country’s northwest after talks with the government broke down over demands including access to the jailed leader.
On Sunday, October 4, confrontations took place in New Delhi between protesters who were trying to reach Jantar Mantar seeking removal of CEC Gyanesh Kumar, and the Delhi Police, who had heavily barricaded the area
They hoist black flags to mark their opposition to the proposal. They demand that the govt. return the lands belonging to Srinivasapuram, build new houses for 15,000 fishermen along the Marina Loop Road, and discuss the matter with them
Police in Moscow detained about 60 people at a rally on Sunday held by Russia’s Kremlin-friendly Communist Party, the party said. The party said in a statement that the detentions happened as the rally was ending and that its Moscow branch was working to get those who were detained – mostly young people – released. The rally marked the anniversary of the Kremlin’s 1993 crushing of a parliamentary uprising. The Telegram news channel Ostorozhno Novosti said protesters chanted slogans including...
The allegations were made after police detained dozens of protesters demanding the resignation of the election chief over changes to voter rolls.