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The South Korean government has condemned Japan on Friday for laying repeated claim to the easternmost islets of Dokdo in its annual defence white paper. "(The government) strongly protests against Japan's repetition of its sovereignty claim over Dokdo, clearly an...

Angry activists on Friday rallied in the city of Akron in northern United States following yet another police shooting death of a Black man earlier this week.Jayland Walker, 25, was shot and killed Monday, after officers tried to stop...

A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the damage to public properties including that of railways and violent protests against the Centre’s Agnipath scheme.The...

Bhubaneswar: The protests against the Central government's Agnipath scheme for the recruitment in the armed forces on Friday erupted in Odisha's Cuttack city where the agitators blocked roads and had a face-off with the police. Demanding scrapping of the new...

The UK government has withdrawn the appointment of an Imam from his role as an Independent Advisor over his endorsement of a campaign to ban screenings of a new film claiming to reflect the story of the daughter of...

The process of clearing a tea garden was underway in Assam’s Cachar district on Friday for setting up a greenfield airport amid protests.More than a hundred excavators were clearing the plantation of Doloo tea estate in Lalbagh division since...

Protests erupted in the Madanpur Khadar area under the South Delhi Municipal Corporation on Thursday during an anti-encroachment drive by the civic body with people pelting stones at security personnel leaving a few injured, police said.Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)...

Protests erupted at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh on Monday with hundreds of people, including women, opposing an anti-encroachment drive of the SDMC as bulldozers rolled into the area in the presence of a huge number of police personnel, even as...

SET UP CAMP OUTSIDE PM OFFICE DEMANDING RAJAPAKSA FAMILY’S EXIT Sri Lankan protesters, who have been camping at the main beachfront outside Sri Lankan President’s Secretariat here, have now extended their protest to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s office, as they...

CorrespondentFlared tensions over the arrest of several NPP workers and supporters subsided on Tuesday after police released all of them in the afternoon.A total of 30 workers and supporters of MLA Sheikh Noorul Hassan who was elected on NPP...