The Indian Youth Congress (IYC) on Tuesday staged a protest seeking the resignation of Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw over the loss of lives in a stampede at the New Delhi Railway Station last week.
A day after several students of Jamia Millia Islamia were detained and later released over their protest against show cause notices sent to two PhD scholars, they alleged on Friday that their names and other details were made public by the varsity which was a "clear violation of their privacy".
In a glaring incident, two miscreants on a motorcycle kidnapped a six-year-old boy on Thursday morning after throwing chilli powder in the eyes of his mother, who accompanied him to the school bus stop near their house in the Morar area of Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh.
The Kerala High Court on Monday orally observed that the right to protest does not grant individuals the license to block public roads or footpaths.
They demand permanent solution to the issue.
Many activists under the banner of the ‘Sakal Hindu Samaj’ held a protest in Gwalior on Tuesday. The activists declared that they would observe a ‘Black Day’ on 2 October, when the Bangladesh team is scheduled to arrive in Gwalior to prepare for the match.
Even as Bharatiya Kisan Union ( BKU) was holding a massive protest in Meerut and even forcefully entered the Paratpur police station last night over anomolies in the election process in the sugarcane committees, Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav has objected to rigging of polls in the sugarcane committee elections and has held the ruling Uttar Pradesh BJP responsible for this anti-democratic work.
Congress government in Telangana today faced spontaneous protests from the people living in areas along River Musi in Hyderabad whose houses were marked for demolition by state government officials conducting the survey for Musi Riverfront Development project.
The protest, led by the state Congress president Ajay Rai, also saw participants raising slogans against the state government over the deteriorating law and order situation.
The rally seeks to unify various tourist taxi associations across the state in their opposition to Assam cabs ferrying tourists to Meghalaya's attractions.
