Hundreds Of Activists Arrested

An activist accused of starting rumours with his social media posts and a television journalist who reported on a railway ministry meeting on special trains for migrants have been charged by the Maharashtra government over a gathering of hundreds at Mumbai's Bandra station last evening, which raised a huge coronavirus scare. An FIR for rioting has ...

Hundreds of climate change activists chanting "rebellion!" blocked traffic in downtown Amsterdam on Monday morning, defying a ban by police who said they would make arrests to prevent them from disrupting commuters.

A 55 year-old man has been arrested following a protest at U.S. President Donald Trump's golf course in Scotland on Friday, Scottish police said, after a an activist used a powered parachute to get within a few hundred yards of the president.

Hundreds of people were seen on Thursday wearing t-shirts printed with the image of JNU student union president Kanhaiya Kumar at the protest rally in Delhi against his arrest, few of which were sold while some were distributed for free.

A day after the 'chalo assembly' agitation, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti or TRS has called for a Telangana bandh today in protest against the arrest of its workers. CPI, a strong supporter of the separate Telangana stir, however, differed with TRS in calling for bandh, saying the decision was unilateral.

Pro-Telangana parties' march to the Andhra Pradesh assembly was foiled today by the police who took into preventive custody around 1400 activists, including senior leaders of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and BJP, and blocked all roads leading to the legislature.

Hundreds of activists and politicians involved with a demonstration demanding a new state of Telangana were arrested today in and around Hyderabad. The city turned into a fortress to keep the march from reaching the Andhra Pradesh Assembly. K Chandrasekhar Rao, leader of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the party fronting the movement, has call...

Police in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh have reportedly arrested hundreds of activists of various political and non-political organisations to prevent them from reaching Hyderabad for Friday's march to the state legislative assembly.

Over 1,100 pro-Telangana activists including leaders of TRS and TJAC were taken into preventive custody at various places in the region during the 'Sadak Bandh' (road blockade) agitation along the Hyderabad-Bangalore highway (NH-7) today.

Israel deployed hundreds of police on Sunday at its main airport to detain activists flying in to protest the country's occupation of Palestinian areas in defiance of vigorous Israeli government efforts to block their arrival.

Russian riot police on Tuesday arrested top opposition leaders and hundreds of activists who were seeking to stage a protest rally against alleged ballot rigging in favour of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's ruling party during the parliament election.

An activist accused of starting rumours with his social media posts and a television journalist who reported on a railway ministry meeting on special trains for migrants have been charged by the Maharashtra government over a gathering of hundreds at Mumbai's Bandra station last evening, which raised a huge coronavirus scare. An FIR for rioting has ...

Hundreds of climate change activists chanting "rebellion!" blocked traffic in downtown Amsterdam on Monday morning, defying a ban by police who said they would make arrests to prevent them from disrupting commuters.

A 55 year-old man has been arrested following a protest at U.S. President Donald Trump's golf course in Scotland on Friday, Scottish police said, after a an activist used a powered parachute to get within a few hundred yards of the president.

Hundreds of people were seen on Thursday wearing t-shirts printed with the image of JNU student union president Kanhaiya Kumar at the protest rally in Delhi against his arrest, few of which were sold while some were distributed for free.

A day after the 'chalo assembly' agitation, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti or TRS has called for a Telangana bandh today in protest against the arrest of its workers. CPI, a strong supporter of the separate Telangana stir, however, differed with TRS in calling for bandh, saying the decision was unilateral.

Pro-Telangana parties' march to the Andhra Pradesh assembly was foiled today by the police who took into preventive custody around 1400 activists, including senior leaders of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and BJP, and blocked all roads leading to the legislature.

Hundreds of activists and politicians involved with a demonstration demanding a new state of Telangana were arrested today in and around Hyderabad. The city turned into a fortress to keep the march from reaching the Andhra Pradesh Assembly. K Chandrasekhar Rao, leader of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the party fronting the movement, has call...

Police in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh have reportedly arrested hundreds of activists of various political and non-political organisations to prevent them from reaching Hyderabad for Friday's march to the state legislative assembly.

Over 1,100 pro-Telangana activists including leaders of TRS and TJAC were taken into preventive custody at various places in the region during the 'Sadak Bandh' (road blockade) agitation along the Hyderabad-Bangalore highway (NH-7) today.

Israel deployed hundreds of police on Sunday at its main airport to detain activists flying in to protest the country's occupation of Palestinian areas in defiance of vigorous Israeli government efforts to block their arrival.

Russian riot police on Tuesday arrested top opposition leaders and hundreds of activists who were seeking to stage a protest rally against alleged ballot rigging in favour of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's ruling party during the parliament election.