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German leaders condemn far-right attempt to storm Parliament building

Senior German officials on Sunday condemned attempts by far-right protesters and others to storm the parliament building following a protest against the country's pandemic restrictions. Hundreds of people, some waving the flag of the German Reich of 1871-1918 and other far-right banners, breached a security barrier outside the Reichstag late Saturday but were intercepted by police and forcibly removed. Reich flags and right-wing extremist provocations in front of the German Bundestag are an unbearable attack on the heart of our democracy, Germany's president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said Sunday. We will never accept this. Steinmer said people had the right to express their anger about the coronavirus restrictions and to question them publicly, including with demonstrations. My sympathy ends where protesters allow themselves to be used by enemies of democracy and political agitators, he added. Police used pepper spray to drive back the protesters, who earlier in the day had ...

UP BJP MLA protest at police station over action against 'innocent' people

Gupta has alleged that police harassed people who were building the temple at Indiranagar locality

Contractual staff protest disrupts BSNL's restoration works post-Amphan

Agitators have kept about 10 small and four large exchanges under lock and key, and they are also threatening permanent BSNL employees at several locations in eight of its clusters

Over 90 held for planning to protest near Visakhapatnam's LG Polymers plant

The arrests took place early morning at around 4:30 am

Minneapolis people stand guard to protect homes as protests rage across US

Similar scenes have started to emerge across the country as the angry protests have spread, along with a heightened sense of fear and diminished confidence that police will keep the peace

In pictures: George Floyd protests around US cities, curfews imposed

40 cities have imposed curfew and about 5,000 National Guards have been activated in 15 states and Washington, DC with another 2,000 prepared to activate if needed

In pictures: Protests, violence across America over George Floyd's death

People set fire to police cars, threw bottles at police officers and busted windows of storefronts

Women's Day: Shaheen Bagh abuzz as women from across country join agitation

The women, staging the protest for nearly three months, said the support is encouraging

CAA: Protestors stage dharnas in Bihar, back Bhim Army's shutdown call

Chandrashekhar Azad had given a call for a nationwide shutdown to protest against a Supreme Court ruling over reservation in government jobs and quota in promotion

The audacity of hope

The protests over citizenship will continue to reverberate, and they will likely change India in more ways than we can imagine today

Privacy concerns over facial recognition systems aimed at ordinary citizens

Facial recognition technology can be used to identify missing children or protesting citizens, it also raises serious privacy concerns

The invisible young heroes of 2019

The math is simple: young changemakers have more time than their older counterparts to make a difference

From funds to Biryani, here's what it takes to organise an anti-CAA protest

From the maze-like neighbourhood a volunteer group of more than 100 people run the site, working in shifts and providing everything from crowd-control and food to bedding and medicines

Best of BS Opinion: Accountability of executive and need for more voices

Here's a collection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Academics, former bureaucrats, artists seek withdrawal of Citizenship Bill

In an open letter, about 600 writers, artists, activists, former bureaucrats, ex-judges asked the government not to betray the Constitution

Rare protest in Singapore flags investor anger in Hyflux debacle

The catastrophic slump of the once-vaunted water and power company, Hyflux, has stunned debtholders, who stand to lose about 90 per cent.