Page 32 - Protest

Home buyers stage protest outside builder's office over delayed deliveries

Home buyers of a housing project of Raheja Developers on Saturday staged a protest outside the company's office here over delayed deliveries of their flats. Home buyers were demanding that the builder should either hand over the houses or refund the money. They alleged that buyers of the Raheja Revanta Project at Sector 78 are awaiting for the last five years for the delivery of their homes. The buyers alleged that even after taking 90 per cent of the money for the flat, they were being misled in the name of completing the project. The local police had also reached the spot. Arjun, the president of the association of Raheja Revanta Society, said the builder sold the flats in the name of the tallest project of Delhi NCR and Haryana. They bought flats for Rs 1 crore to Rs 5 crore. After discussions with builder Nayan Raheja, buyers and the developer agreed to hold a meeting every three months. A spokesperson of Raheja Developers in a statement said that they are aggressively taking

Kerala will proceed 'no matter what' with protest-hit Adani port: Minister

The protesters say the huge project causes coastal erosion that has undermined their livelihoods, calling for a complete halt on the construction

At Shanghai vigil, bold shout for change preceded crackdown amid covid woes

The mourners in Shanghai lit candles and placed flowers. Someone scrawled Urumqi, 11.24, Rest in Peace in red on cardboard referring to the deadly apartment fire in China's western city of Urumqi that sparked anger over perceptions the country's strict COVID-19 measures played a role in the disaster. What started as a small vigil last weekend by fewer than a dozen people grew into a rowdy crowd of hundreds hours later. One woman defiantly shouted for Chinese leader Xi Jinping to resign, emboldening others. Then, before dawn, police swept in and broke up the gathering, preventing more such gatherings from happening. The Nov. 26 protest in Shanghai wasn't the first or the largest. But it was notable for the bold calls for change in China's leadership the most public defiance of the ruling Communist Party in decades. Nationalist bloggers swiftly blamed foreign black hands, and the government vowed to crack down on hostile forces. But the protest emerged spontaneously, according to 11

JNU urges all centres to install CCTVs amid campus defacement row

A day after some walls on the JNU campus were defaced with anti-Brahmin slogans, the university on Friday asked all its centres to install CCTV cameras and instructed students and staff members to remain vigilant to prevent such incidents in future. Jawaharlal Nehru University Vice-Chancellor Santishree D. Pandit visited the building in the School of International Studies (SIS)- II, whose walls were spray-painted with slogans asking members of Brahmin and Baniya communities to leave the campus and the country, and took stock of the situation. She called an emergency meeting during which several measures were discussed to improve security on the campus, sources told PTI. It was decided to shift the reading rooms situated in the SIS-I building and on the second floor of the SIS-II building to the latter's ground floor from Monday to ensure better security on the campus, they said. V-C Pandit also interacted with the students, staff and faculty members and asked them to be vigilant so

China hints at relaxing zero-Covid norm; IMF chief urges targeted policy

Police leveraging powers of the country's surveillance apparatus against protesters

China uses cops, social media censors, quiet Covid easing to stem protests

While the concessions to strict Covid Zero policies are minor, changes over the past few days have given hope to market watchers

China's Covid zero strategy: Xi holds few cards to end historic protests

Beijing says it won't set up gates to block access to Covid-hit compounds anymore

Allahabad University students protesting fee hike, gherao vice-chancellor

Allahabad University students, who have been agitating for 83 days to demand rollback of the fee hike, on Monday gheraoed the varsity's vice-chancellor. The protesters, led by student leader Ajay Yadav Samrat, gheraoed Vice-Chancellor Sangeeta Srivastava when she was moving towards her car after leaving office. Police and administration officials controlled the situation and made way for her. The agitating students also got into a heated argument with Harsh Kumar, the varsity proctor, during the protest. Samrat said the students had been agitating against the fee hike for 83 days but the vice-chancellor did not even listen to their demands. The students have alleged that the fees for undergraduate courses, which were Rs 975 a year, have been hiked over 300 per cent to Rs 4,151.

China defends zero-Covid policy amid massive protests; Reports 40k cases

China on Monday dismissed concerns over its controversial zero-COVID policy in the face of unprecedented demonstrations, which have spread to Beijing even as it reported close to 40,000 coronavirus cases and authorities scrambled to contain the fresh surge in infections and protests against the Xi Jinping regime. The protests, which comes nearly a month after President Xi was elected as the ruling party's top leader for a third consecutive term, have spread to Shanghai, Beijing and many parts of the country in the last few days against the stringent policy under which cities and localities are kept under prolonged lockdowns and isolations. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian also defended the arrest of a BBC journalist covering the demonstrations in Shanghai, maintaining that the scribe did not present his media credentials. "What you mentioned does not reflect what has happened," Zhao told a media briefing when asked, given the widespread display of anger and frustration

Vizhinjam protests: FIR filed against 3,000 people; 36 cops injured

The protests are expected to cast shadow on the completion of the first phase of the project in December 2023

'Down with Xi': Open defiance as public protests erupt across China

China's rare public protests opposing stringent Covid lockdowns turned political on Sunday with protestors shouting slogans against President Xi Jinping and the ruling Communist Party

Tension deepens at Adani's Vizhinjam port after protesters stop trucks

The Adani Group attempted to move heavy vehicles into the port on Saturday following a court directive this week that construction work must resume, but protesters blocked them from entering

To 'make Amazon pay', Indian trade unions join Black Friday protest

Agitation part of global campaign against e-commerce firm

Amazon's Black Friday: Several Indian trade unions to join protests

The campaign is being coordinated by an international coalition of trade unions, with the support of environmental and civil society groups

West creating 'baseless, fallacious' atmosphere: Iran Minister on protests

Mahsa Amini was not killed, she passed away. We have seen the atmosphere created by some western media with regard to the development in Iran, the minister said

Foxconn apologises for pay dispute at China factory in Zhengzhou

The company that assembles Apple Inc.'s iPhones apologised on Thursday for what it said was a technical error that led to protests by employees over payment of wages offered to attract them to a factory that is under anti-virus restrictions. Protests erupted on Tuesday in the central city of Zhengzhou after employees complained Foxconn Technology Group required they do extra work to receive the higher pay promised by recruiters. Foxconn is trying to rebuild its workforce after thousands of employees walked out last month over complaints about unsafe conditions. Videos on social media showed police in white protective suits kicking and clubbing protesting workers. Foxconn, the biggest contract assembler of smartphones and other electronics for Apple and other global brands, blamed the dispute on a technical error in the process of adding new employees. It promised they would receive the wages they were promised. "We apologise for an input error in the computer system and guarantee

China expands lockdown as Covid cases hit record high, mass testing ordered

China is expanding lockdowns, including in a cental city where factory workers clashed this week with police, as its number of COVID-19 cases hit a daily record. People in eight districts of Zhengzhou with a total of 6.6 million residents were told to stay home for five days beginning on Thursday, except to buy food or get medical treatment. Daily mass testing was ordered in what the city government called a war of annihilation against the virus. During clashes on Tuesday and Wednesday, Zhengzhou police beat workers protesting over a pay dispute at the biggest factory for Apple's iPhone. Across China, the number of new cases reported in the past 24 hours was 31,444, the National Health Commission said Thursday. That is the highest daily figure since the coronavirus was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019. The daily average of reported cases is steadily increasing. This week, authorities reported China's first COVID-19 deaths in six months, bringing the

Foxconn offers staff $1,400 to leave after protests in China's iPhone city

Apple Inc.'s main global production partner said in an online notice the sum, to be paid out in two installments, will help smooth the journey home for employees

Protesting workers beaten over pay dispute at Chinese iPhone factory

Police beat workers protesting over a pay dispute at the biggest factory for Apple's iPhone, whose new model is delayed by controls imposed as China tries to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases. Foxconn, the biggest contract assembler of smartphones and other electronics, is struggling to fill orders for the iPhone 14 after thousands of employees walked away from the factory in the central city of Zhengzhou last month following complaints about unsafe working conditions. China's status as an export powerhouse is based on factories such as Foxconn's that assemble the world's consumer electronics, toys and other goods. The ruling Communist Party is trying to contain the latest wave of outbreaks without shutting down factories and the rest of its economy as it did in early 2020. Its tactics include closed-loop management, under which workers live in their factories with no outside contact. Foxconn offered higher pay to attract more workers to the Zhengzhou factory to assemble the iPhone

Violent protests erupt at Apple's biggest iPhone-making plant in China

Hundreds of workers at Apple's main Foxconn plant in China clashed with security personnel, as tensions boiled over after almost a month under tough restrictions intended to quash a Covid outbreak