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ASP to oppose demolition of houses in Lucknow’s Haider Canal vicinity

ASP chief Chandra Shekhar Azad (HT FIle Photo)
Updated on Jul 20, 2024 07:42 AM IST

'Burning the metro': Chile election divides voters between protest and order

People protest against the Chilean government in Santiago on November 19, 2021, ahead of Sunday's general election. (Photo by Ernesto BENAVIDES / AFP)
Published on Nov 20, 2021 06:38 PM IST

Greta Thunberg patents own name and ‘Fridays for Future’

Greta Thunberg said Wednesday she has registered both her own name and her “Fridays For Future” global protest movement as trademarks
Updated on Jan 30, 2020 06:46 AM IST

16 killed as fire hits Sudan factory: Doctors

A doctors committee linked to the country’s protest movement said at least 16 people were killed and more than 90 injured.
Published on Dec 03, 2019 07:11 PM IST

What China must learn from the recent elections

Thanks to the unprecedented urban unrest in Hong Kong in the past six months, the present elections immediately became a contest between the Beijing-backed government and the protest movement. The latter won all but one of the 18 district councils and about 60% of the popular vote
Updated on Nov 26, 2019 08:46 PM IST

Twitter, Facebook accuse China of using fake accounts to undermine Hong Kong protests

Anti-extradition bill protesters react as they watch a documentary protest video during a protest outside Siu Hong station in Hong Kong, China, August 20, 2019.
Updated on Aug 21, 2019 09:35 AM IST

Hong Kong’s discontent fuels creative art

A woman holds up a cartoon depicting police feigning ignorance of thugs attacking protesters as she joins protesters during a second day of sit-in protest at the airport in Hong Kong.
Updated on Aug 11, 2019 07:47 PM IST

Opinion| The future of dissent

Technology had been enabling protestors — to organise and express solidarity. But in Hong Kong last month, protestors used separate burner phone numbers to communicate with each other, there were advisories to wear masks and large goggles to confound facial recognition tech, and people even bought one-way metro tickets with cash instead of using cards that were linked to their identities
Updated on Jul 19, 2019 09:08 PM IST

Protestors blame UN peacekeeping forces as death toll increase to 17 in Sudan’s Dafur

The UN-African Union peacekeeping mission deployed in Darfur since 2007 said it had sent a team to Al-Dalij to investigate.
Updated on Jun 14, 2019 12:22 PM IST

Pakistani parliamentarian leading Pashtun protest movement held after violent clashes

Mohsin Dawar, a parliamentarian leading the Pashtun protest movement, was taken into custody North Waziristan.
Updated on May 31, 2019 11:08 AM IST

Sudan’s PM says ‘voice of demonstrators should be respected’

In this, Dec. 23, 2018 handout photo provided a Sudanese activist, people chant slogans and attack a national security vehicle during a protest, in Kordofan, Sudan. The protest on Sunday was the latest in a series of anti-government protests across Sudan, initially sparked by rising prices and shortages.
Updated on Feb 03, 2019 07:09 AM IST