Kejriwal and others had held a demonstration against coal scam in front of the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's house in 2012.
Around 400 to 500 people gathered near the city Eidgah to protest against the amended Citizenship Act amid a bandh call, he said.
Sri Lanka is going through the worst economic crisis since independence in 1948. A crippling shortage of foreign reserves has led to long queues for fuel, cooking gas and other essentials while power cuts and soaring food prices heaped misery on the people.
'It was very clear that there would be violence if the verdict was not what they wanted.' 'Then why did they allow his followers to gather here in such huge numbers?'
As angry protests calling for Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's resignation grew, supporters of Sri Lanka's ruling party stormed a protest site in Colombo on Monday, attacking anti-government demonstrators and clashing with police.
How does it feel to be a doctor in Srinagar, as violence rages around you and there's a constant stream of patients being wheeled in?
'The BJP has started a war-like situation against farmers and the Jat community.'
Over a dozen persons were injured in fresh incidents of violence in parts of Srinagar, forcing the authorities to re-impose undeclared curfew restrictions in old city.
Thousands of irate anti-government protesters in Sri Lanka on Saturday stormed into embattled President Rajapaksa's official residence in central Colombo's high-security Fort area after breaking the barricades, as they demanded his resignation over the island nation's worst economic crisis in recent memory.
'The Kuki-Zo are aware of this rich resource in their areas and feel the Meitei push for ST status is because of this reason'.
A group of protesters on Saturday entered the private residence of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and set it on fire, hours after he offered to resign to make way for an all-party government amid unprecedented protests in the country for the resignation of the government led by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
One person was killed when the police and paramilitary forces opened fire to bring the mob under control in Narbal area of Srinagar, after baton charges and tear gas shells failed to disperse the crowd.On Monday morning, police swooped on the headquarters of the pro-Independence Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front at Maisuma, just hundred yards away from Lal Chowk, and arrested Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik.
Donald Trump's rally in New Mexico turned violent as protesters toppled barricades and threw rocks.
At least 19 people were killed in a stadium crush during a World Cup qualifier between Ivory Coast and Malawi in Abidjan on Sunday. A rush by spectators led to the collapse of a wall, medical officials said. Police then fired tear gas to clear the crowd, causing a stampede which also left many people seriously injured.
The Supreme Court-appointed Justice Gita Mittal committee, set up to oversee relief and rehabilitation of the victims of ethnic violence in Manipur, on Monday submitted three reports highlighting the need for reconstruction of identity documents, upgradation of compensation and appointment of domain experts to facilitate its functioning.
Journalists join pro-democracy rallies, King Gyanendra cracks down on dissent.
Protest rallies erupted in Imphal with thousands of students marching towards the centre of the city, sloganeering against the kidnapping and killing of two youths for the second consecutive day on Wednesday.
Twelve people, including two girls, were injured in running battles between protesters and police lasting several hours.
Police said it detained at least 20 supporters of the non-governmental Hindu Rights Force (Hindraf), which organised the rally, days after announcing plans that its members would march to the Parliament house along with a group of children led by the organisation's chief Wayathamoorthy's five-year-old daughter Vvaishnnavi.Hindraf member and lawyer N Surendran, however, claimed that at least 60 people, including two leaders of the organisation, have been detained.
'It is our right to protest and draw the attention of this government, which is sleeping and appears blind, as it has failed to see the pain and struggle of the jobless youth.'
What should you do in case of a chemial attack, a tear gas attack or a terrorist attack? How should you protect yourself and your family in case of a natural calamity: be it floods, earthquake or a tsunami? What precautionary steps you should take if there is -- God forbid -- a war between Indian and Pakistan tomorrow?
The Maharashtra government has framed rules to prevent honour killings, 'khap panchayat' diktats, mob lynching as well as violence, and asked the director general of police to apprise personnel across the state force of their implementation, an official said on Friday.
The medicos are considering legal experts and will move the Supreme Court against the government decision on Wednesday.
Hundreds of dismissed Uttar Pradesh policemen went on a rampage in Etwah town in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday to protest against the annulment of their services by the Mayawati government. The policemen damaged police vehicles, indulged in heavy stone pelting and burnt the effigy of Mayawati. The police had to resort to lathi charge and fire tear gas shells at the mob to disperse them.
Arson and clashes broke out between groups of two communities in Sehra on Friday even as police resorted to cane-charge, lobbed tear-gas shells and opened fire in the air to disperse them, officials said.
The Karnataka government has suspended mobile and Internet services in Dakshina Kannada district on Thursday night for the next 48 hours after two persons were killed in police firing during violent protests in Mangaluru against the controversial citizenship law. The decision to suspend Internet from 10 pm was taken in order to prevent misuse of social media platforms to disturb peace and tranquillity, and for maintaining law-and-order situation, according to a notification.
A day earlier, the properties of two people accused of rioting were demolished in Saharanpur where stone-pelting had taken place as well.
A curfew has been clamped in the area.
The police action came when an estimated 400 agitators moved from the scheduled venue of protest at Jantar Mantar triggering a scuffle between the two sides.
Several protesters and police personnel were injured in clashes. The BJP alleged that a party worker identified as Ullen Ray was 'beaten to death' by the police during a baton charge.
Thousands of Hong Kong citizens want the region's 2017 leadership election to include a range of candidates, not just those approved by China.
Most of the Kuki MLAs irrespective of their party affiliations are unlikely to attend the Manipur assembly session slated to be called from August 21 in view of the continued ethnic violence, according to leaders from the community.
Authorities on Sunday imposed curfew-like restrictions in parts of Srinagar to prevent members of the Shia community from taking out Muharram processions on the eighth day of the 10-day mourning period, officials said.
Shops and all commercial establishments were closed down in Dadar after the clashes escalated and traffic was being diverted in the area, they said.
Thailand's embattled Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Monday rejected opposition's two-day ultimatum to quit, saying she is willing to do "anything" to end spiralling violence but cannot accept the unconstitutional demand to hand over power to an unelected council.
The students then courted mass arrest and were subsequently taken away in police buses.
Ppolitical experts in Colombo said the ministers came under intense pressure from the public over the government's alleged "mishandling" of the economic crisis, triggered by the shortage in the foreign exchange reserve.
Lala Chand, the ASI, was suspended from service and subsequently arrested following the death of Kewal Ram on Friday after he was slapped by the policeman for disobeying his orders, a senior police official said.
