A lawyer, unhappy with General Pervez Musharraf, is said to have thrown a shoe at the former Pakistan President outside Sindh High Court today. According to sources, the shoe was to let the entire lawyer community's displeasure known to Musharraf, who was appe...
Lawyers in Chennai protesting the spineless resolution against Sri Lanka, picket in front of the Reserve Bank of India building. They accuse India of giving its assent to a resolution that does not accept any of their recommendations and does not hold Sri Lank...
Declare Rajapaksa a war criminal, demand lawyers from Tarapuram. The lawyers have gone on a hunger strike, to show support for the Tamil cause. Several students in Tarapuram have also gone on a strike.
Lawyers protest in front of the Madras High Court and boycott proceedings. The lawyers demand that an international probe be conducted into the alleged war crimes committed on Tamil during the civil war in Sri Lanka.
As more than a hundred detainees at Guantanamo Bay prison refuse food to protest against the authorities' misbehaviour, which include desecrating their personal belongings, US government downplays the hunger strike. Lawyers of these inmates have asked the US g...
For the second consecutive day, lawyers and the police clashed in Jaipur. The police had to use tear gas shells against the lawyers who were protesting outside a sessions court in the city. The lawyers, who have been protesting since yesterday for better pay a...
Lawyers continue to protest for the second consecutive day in Jaipur. After yesterday's police lathicharge against them, the lawyers, who have been protesting since yesterday for better pay and improved living conditions, pelted stones and vandalised private p...
Punjab and Haryana High Court lawyers clash with the police in front of the Punjab Governor's house in Chandigarh, in protest of an FIR filed against a few of their colleagues for allegedly assaulting a policeman. The police resort to lathicharge and water can...
In Jaipur, cops lathicharge lawyers who were on a protest march, demanding better pay and accommodation. Lawyers turned violent and started pelting stones at the police. Teargas shells were also fired on protesting lawyers. Rajasthan Bar Association has called...
Local police resorted to lathicharge at lawyers in Chandigarh, who wanted to storm the Raj Bhavan there. The incident occurred when Punjab and Haryana High Court lawyers tried to march to the Punjab Governor's house, to protest the FIR filed against a few of t...
Several Tamil organizations including MDMK and Tamil Desiya Iyakkam, protest in front of the Sri Lankan Deputy High Commission in Chennai. Vaiko and Pazha Nedumaran are also a part of these protests. The organizations demand that India support the UN resolutio...
There has been spontaneous anger in Nellore town over the double murder of a pharmacy college principal's wife and daughter earlier this week. Shakuntala and Bhargavi were killed in their house by three youth who had barged into with an eye on cash and gold je...
The Supreme Court will hear a petition by Mukesh, one of the suspects in the Delhi gangrape case, asking for the trial to be shifted out of Delhi. A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir will hear the petition, which seeks the transfer of the case to Mat...
Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy tours the Old city area of Hyderabad as part of 'sadbhavna yatra'. His speech makes an announcement of the measures taken by his government to help the minorities.
A man, identified as Santosh Kumar Suman, lawyer by profession, disrupted the speech of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, stripping his shirt, protesting against the latest reforms proposed by the government. Suman has also shouted slogans, asking Prime Minister ...
Lawyers in Hyderabad supporting the cause of Telangana tried to gate crash into the house of Union minister S Jaipal Reddy. They allege a pro-Andhra attitude on the part of Jaipal Reddy.
Work in courts across the country is set to be paralysed for two days as 1.7 million lawyers join a nation-wide strike called by Bar Council of India in protest against HRD ministry’s Higher Education and Research Bill. The BCI contends that the Bill is aime...
Reputed West Bengal scientist Partha Sarathi Ray, arrested for allegedly participating in a peaceful protest against the eviction of slum dwellers in Kolkata, says that he was wrongly accused.
Renowned microbiologist Partho Sarothi Ray, jailed for allegedly participating in a protest demanding rehabilitation of Nonadanga slum dwellers in Kolkata, remarks that he was falsely implicated.
Centrestage | Freedom of speech and expression in West Bengal seem to have gone for a toss with Mamata Banerjee and her cadre silencing anyone who dares to dissent.
Stepping up pressure, journalists in Bangalore staged a protest march demanding a judicial probe into the violence against mediapersons by the lawyers.
Even as Karnataka chief minister orders a judicial probe into the attacks on media persons outside a Bangalore court, journalists will take a black-ribbon march in the city today.