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The workers have been protesting at Azad Maidan for the past several days, demanding improved working conditions, timely payment of salaries, revised minimum wages and maternity benefits

He was speaking at an INDIA bloc protest in Chennai on Thursday, demanding the resignation of CEC Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities in the SIR exercise

Demonstrators and riot police clashed in Albania's capital on Wednesday in a second straight day of violence triggered by student protests calling for better university conditions and Prime Minister Edi Rama's resignation. Protesters formed makeshift barricades in the capital, Tirana, while riot police responded with water cannon, after street violence overnight left 16 people arrested and government buildings badly damaged.

India’s capital New Delhi faced a near lockdown situation on Saturday, following a call of protest by Gen Z led Cockroach Janata Party. More than 30,000 security forces were deployed and over 50 metro stations were shut. Authorities imposed an internet blackout for 24 hours to suppress the movement but the protesters managed to slip through the loopholes. FRANCE 24’s team on the ground reports.

Thousands of Colombians took to the streets of cities across the country on Wednesday to protest the policies of new right-wing President Abelardo de la Espriella. The demonstrations mark the first show of force by the opposition since de la Espriella took office in August vowing to combat crime and eradicate "narco-terrorists." FRANCE 24's Ramón Campos Iriarte reports from Bogotá, Colombia.

Former BJP MP Kirit Somaiya had sought action against Imran Khan, after the actor participated in anti-CEC protest in Mumbai’s August Kranti Maidan on October 10, where protesters demanded the resignation of CEC Gyanesh Kumar

Hundreds of protesters marched through Bangkok on Thursday, 15 October, in opposition to the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank being held in the Thai capital.

AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj demanded that an FIR be filed for "criminal conspiracy" and an independent investigation be conducted into a "dangerous pattern of physical assault" on him by Delhi Police deployed at the time

Minister Laxman Savadi says Union Ministers came unprepared for meeting with sugarcane farmers in Delhi

Several Congress leaders, including party's media and publicity department head Pawan Khera, social media department head Supritya Shrinate, and Indian Youth Congress chief Uday Bhanu Chib, were also detained and later released

Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke has called for a ‘Lehra Do Tiranga’ gathering at Central Park, Connaught Place, in Delhi, on October 16

Former President Gustavo Petro joined thousands of demonstrators in Bogota in march against austerity, Israel ties.

Thousands of students in Albania are calling for better university conditions and job prospects, but buildings have been set on fire in the unrest.

Parents of the woman killed at a Uttarakhand resort are demanding that Dushyant Kumar Gautam's appointment as the Sikkim Governor be put on hold until the ongoing CBI probe into the 2022 murder case is complete

They announce that they are stopping the road blockade in public interest

Farmers in Gokak, Mudalagi, Gurlapur, Munnolli and other villages and towns began rasta roko on nearby roads as part of the protest

Farmers from Bidar, Yadgir and Vijayapura districts stage a road blockade at Ram Mandir Circle in Kalaburagi

The decision to hold the hunger strike was announced following a march to the Secretariat, organised here on Wednesday, raising various demands

ABVP members alleged that 11 students had filed sexual harassment complaints against Angomcha Bimol Akoijam

Fakira Dingaleshwara Swami, seer of Shirahatti Fakkireshwar Mutt, questions discrimination against farmers, cites quick decisions taken by Union Government on oil price hike

Two Cockroach Janta Party leaders have been jailed for five days after entering a banned protest site in India's Delhi.

Kittur Rani Channamma University postponed all the examinations scheduled on October 14

Protesters in Tirana throw bricks at the Education Ministry building as police respond with tear gas and water cannon.

Nasukarasuyama, Tochigi Pref., Oct. 14 (Jiji Press)--The assembly of a city in Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, passed a resolution Wednesday protesting against remarks by agriculture minister Kazuo Yana that road budgets had been cut for two municipalities whose mayors did not support him in February's general election. The resolution, adopted at the city assembly of Nasukarasuyama, one ...

CJP leaders Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das were detained on October 13 for allegedly breaching barricades at Jantar Mantar and demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation

CM Suvendu Adhikari had directed the police that the processionby Mamata Banerjee loyalist should not be allowed to march a single step.

The doctors also announced a work boycott, adding that no action or decision has been taken despite assurances regarding addressing salary disparity.

Unions and teachers march across Colombia on Wednesday 14 October. Who called it, where it starts, what the protest decree says and what travellers face. The post Colombia’s 14 October Strike: What to Expect appeared first on The Rio Times.