The Sri Lankan government on Friday termed the violent demonstration near President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s residence over the current economic crises as “an act of terrorism” and blamed “extremist elements” linked to opposition parties for the incident. Police fired tear gas and water cannons at the protesters after they pulled down a steel barricade placed near the president’s residence. A statement …
Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Singh Tikait will address three rallies in Madhya Pradesh from Monday to drum up support for his protest against the Centre's three agri marketing laws, a functionary of his outfit said. Tikait had led a BKU protest against a power plant in Jaithari area, which turned violent, leading to injuries to policemen and torching of …
Eager to get home to South Philadelphia before curfew — about an hour's walk — I left Monday's Black Lives Matter protest a few minutes before the police decided to tear-gas the peaceful crowd. It was a repeat of what is happening in city after city — most notably in Washington, where President Trump had a peaceful crowd gassed because …
A brawl over a trivial issue turned violent at the Benaras Hindu University campus on Thursday with two groups of students hurling petrol bombs and stones at each other, police said. A fight broke out between the two groups of students, who live in the Lal Bahadur Shastri and Birla hostels, in the morning which turned violent in a few …