External affairs minister Salman Khurshid, in a last-ditch attempt to appease key ally DMK, says that the government will ask for an independent probe into the alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka. The DMK has been threatening to pull out of the govern...
Congress president Sonia Gandhi says that government of India stands for human rights issue in Sri Lanka. She said this while addressing the CPP meeting in New Delhi. Taking a tough stand on India's foreign policy, she said no country should take India for gra...
In a significantly watered down version of a resolution on Sri Lanka for alleged war crimes, the United States has now called for an internal probe and not international inquiry into the reports. In the third amended draft of the UN resolution against Sri Lank...
Algerian helicopters have attacked a group of Mali Islamist militants held up in a Saharan gas facility, reportedly killing 34 hostages and 15 of their captors. The army moved in after up to 50 captives, including dozens of foreigners, escaped. The leader of ...
As protesters lay siege to the Pakistani Parliament House, in what is one of the largest political demonstration the country's capital has seen in years, Pakistani-Canadian cleric Tahir-ul Qadri has now invited cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan to join th...
Bani Wali, a town in Libya, has been under siege for nearly twenty days by the supporters of deceased Libyan ruler Gaddafi. A man whose family is caught in the besieged city spoke to RT, and describes the atrocities that is takin place in the town.
It is one of the most heated non-political discussions ever seen on prime time on TV9. Ever since the release of 'Denekaina Ready', the protest by brahmins that followed, and Mohan Babu's arrogant response, to the cases filed against its producer Mohan Babu an...
Mohan Babu has angered the brahmins of the state. Even as the anger against him spills over into the third week, he has called in brahmins from Chennai to vouch for his character. Mohan Babu and his family are not just facing Court cases filed by brahmin assoc...
Protesters from the brahmin community staged a dharna but were arrested before they were able to lay siege to the Raj Bhavan in Hyderabad. They were demanding the arrest of 'Denekaina Ready' producer Mohan Babu and the film's hero Manchu Vishnu. The brahmin co...
A candidate participating in the army recruitment going on at Ongole's police parade grounds collapsed and died on the way to hospital. Prabhakar had entered the fourth round of the recruitment tests and was running a race when he collapsed and was given urgen...
Brahmin associations take out a rally from Khairatabad circle to the Raj Bhavan demanding deletion of scenes in Manchu Vishnu's movie 'Denekaina Ready' which they say are objectionable and insulting to their community. They raise slogans against the movie and ...
As the siege of Bani Walid continues, reports coming in from the region state that people are now stranded in the desert. A humanitarian crisis looms as these people who have been trying to flee the besieged city have no link to the outside world and are stuck...
Anti-nuclear activists, who are protesting against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP), are all set to lay siege to the Tamil Nadu assembly. Several political parties like the CPM, PMK and MDMK, along with fishermen's associations, too are part of the ...
John Rees, a political activist from the organisation Stop The War says the West-backed intervention is the root cause of the instability in Libya. He says what we are seeing now is the fruit of western intervention in Libya over a year ago. This is a continua...
Scenes from the besieged city of Bani Walid in Libya, a Gaddafi supporters' stronghold show that the city remains blockaded while the citizens complain of not having enough water or food to sustain themselves. Libya marks once year since its liberation from Ga...
Stepping up pressure against Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid, India Against Corruption activists in Chennai have laid siege to the residence of Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Napoleon. This is the ministry that stands accused of disper...
News Night | Anti-nuclear activists and people protesting against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) lay siege to sea to stop loading of fuel to the nuclear reactor. In Delhi, India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal has exhorted people to bu...
Anti-nuclear activists and people protesting against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) lay siege to sea to stop loading of fuel to the nuclear reactor. People from various walks of life like fishermen, traders, activists, cadres of political parties ...
Launching another phase of agitation against Nuclear Power Plant, People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) began a day-long siege of the plant by placing fibre boats and floating buoys in the sea. PMANE convenor Udayakumar says that the demands of the ...
To intensify their 420 day long protest against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE), is planning to lay siege to the plant. Villagers and fishermen from the coastal districts of Tutirocin, Kanyakumari and Tirune...
The anti-nuclear plant protesters have launched another agitation about 500 metres from the sea, demanding the government to scrap the KNPP project. Close to a thousand fishermen from 40 villages around the plant have staged the protest by placing fibre boats ...
The protests against the controversial Kudankulam project are likely to intensify again. Villagers in and around the site are holding a rally to reiterate their demand of shutting down the nuclear plant.