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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...

Streets in some of Myanmar’s main cities were nearly deserted on Tuesday as opponents of military rule held “silent strikes”, making the first anniversary of a coup that sparked deadly chaos and snuffed out tentative steps towards democracy.The United...