Tag: Protests

Anti-Wall Street protests shut down US port

One of the United States’ busiest sea ports remained closed early Thursday after anti-Wall Street protesters marched on it at the climax of a...

PEPCO employees protest dissolution

Thousands of power company employees took to the streets against the proposed dissolution of the Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) and the privatisation of...

Regular staff protests against ‘discrimination’

The Joint Action Committee of the regular employees of federal government hospitals have threatened to use all possible means, including protest marches and demonstrations,...

Protests

Litany of complaints

The episode over the higher secondary examinations in the Punjab becomes a case in point for more than one argument against the scheme of...

BISE nukaat-i-agenda

Are you one of those people who worry about evil computers taking over the world? Do you feel that basic pen-and-paper record keeping is...

‘Violent’ end to Australia’s Occupy protests

Riot police broke up week-long anti-capitalism protests in Sydney on Sunday, with demonstrators claiming they were forcibly evicted from their city campsite in violent...

Syrian leader names new governors as protests mount

Syria’s under-fire president Sunday appointed two new governors in flashpoint provinces that have seen staunch protests against his regime, as security forces reportedly killed...

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Greek anti-austerity protests turn violent

Violence broke out in central Athens for a second straight day on Thursday as thousands of Greeks protested against government austerity measures, hours before...

At least seven killed in Sanaa protests

At least seven protesters were killed and dozens wounded on Tuesday as gunmen loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh opened fire on demonstrators in...

Clashes in Rome, NY on global day of protests

Protesters torched cars and smashed up banks in Rome while clashes erupted in New York's Times Square on a day of worldwide demonstrations against...

Protests against Qadri’s sentence block city transport routes

A day after the nuisance created by the workers of a banned outfit, the supporters of Mumtaz Qadri on Friday made it almost impossible...

Protests born on Wall Street spreading across US

Anti-Wall Street protests that took shape in New York weeks ago, prompting hundreds of arrests, have spread across the United States with one organizer...

Traffic bears the brunt of two protests

Citizens’ outrage on load shedding and rallies in support of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer’s killer impeded the city’s traffic flow, causing citizens to...

City protests in darkness

The law and order situation in the city remained tense for the second consecutive day on Monday, as the protestors remained charged over long...

FDE teachers continue protests over PM’s unfulfilled promise

All teachers working in Federal Government Colleges boycotted classes on Monday and held a protest demonstration to press the government to resolve the long-pending...