curfew

Curfew relaxed for 16 hours in Shillong

1:13 pm December 20, 2019

Shillong: Curfew was on Friday relaxed for 16 hours in Shillong, as the city limped back to normalcy after week-long protests and stray incidents of vandalisation of public property over the amended citizenship law, an official said. With the Assembly adopting a resolution on Thursday to urge the Centre for Inner Line Permit regime — […]

Baghdad curfew lifted but Iraq on alert for new protests

9:29 pm October 5, 2019

Baghdad: A curfew was lifted in Baghdad on Saturday following days of protests which have left nearly 100 dead, but tensions remained after firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr demanded the government quit. The largely spontaneous protests over chronic unemployment and poor public services that erupted in the capital on Tuesday have escalated into a broader movement […]

Thousands in bloody protests across Iraq, 28 dead

Baghdad: Shots fired as deadly Iraq protests resume despite curfew

2:26 pm October 3, 2019

Baghdad: Iraqi security forces fired live rounds on Thursday to break up protests held for a third day in Baghdad despite an open-ended curfew in effect since dawn. Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi ordered the ban on movements across the capital starting at 5:00 am (0200 GMT) to stem the popular demonstrations over widespread unemployment […]

100 booked for violating Covid guidelines in J-K's Samba

Centre to bring supplies to Kashmir; Pakistan to go to UN

6:34 am August 11, 2019

New Delhi: Authorities enforcing a strict curfew in Kashmir will bring in trucks of essential supplies for an Islamic festival next week, as the divided Himalayan region remained in a lockdown Saturday after India’s decision to strip it of its constitutional autonomy. Pakistan said that with the support of China, it will take up India’s […]

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