Protests  

13 people were killed in the firing on May 22-23, 2018 when protesters were demanding the closure of Vedanta's Sterlite Copper unit. The anti-Sterlite protest turned violent, prompting the police to open fire.

 
 

BJP leaders and workers staged protests in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, against chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, for attack on party cadres in Kolkata

After the Hampi express was delayed by seven hours, several students staged protests demanding a re-exam. While the re-exam was scheduled for May 20, only 110 students have registered.

The case took a turn when the principal of a private school allegedly issued a fake date of birth certificate in favour of the accused youth. The deputy commissioner of Srinagar Shahid Choudary expressed shock over the certificate that was issued for defending the rapist.

Natives of Trincomalee in Sri Lanka called for a hartal on May 10 demanding the removal of Eastern Governor MLAM Hizbullah. Protests were staged over the allegation that Hizbullah was involved in propagating terrorism in the country.
 

An onion vendor, Guranna, killed a coolie, Veeresh, in order to obtain insurance amount for a car which had previously met with an accident. Police rushed to the scene of the crime as protests intensified, and arrested the accused

 

National general secretary of BJP Muralidhar Rao had threatened to intensify the protests in the coming days if chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao did not take responsibility for the suicide of students

Student bodies Akhila Bharata Vidyarthi Parishad, Student Federation of India, Democratic Youth Federation of India and Vishwakarma Society staged protests and demanded justice for the Raichur engineering student, who was allegedly raped and murdered

Tension broke out in Tiruvannamalai as a video of a youth speaking ill of a dominant caste in Tamil Nadu started circulating on WhatsApp

Twelve coaches of the Howrah-New Delhi Poorva Express derailed near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh early on Saturday, injuring at least 15 people. Cases have been booked against at least 1,000 people who were involved in violent protests and Section 144 has been imposed in Ponnamaravathi and 30 surrounding villages. Watch MyNation in 100 seconds.

 

Following the violence in Ponnamaravathi on Friday, the police have filed cases against 1,000 people who took part in the violent protests and prohibitory orders have been imposed in 30 surrounding villages
 

Ponnamaravathi turned violent after an audio clip of a conversation between two men from the dominant community speaking cheaply of women of another community went viral.
 

Several areas saw protests in Chennai after citizens alleged that there were hardly any bus facilities to enable them to reach their native so that they could cast votes for the by-polls and the Lok Sabha election.
 

After 100 days of protesting for the closure of the Sterlite copper plant, and after the loss of 13 lives in the protests, the people of Thoothukudi now want the plant to open. MyNation has accessed documents that reveal shocking details of funding received by organisations abroad.

Dalit leaders in Andhra Pradesh’s West Godavari staged protests demanding justice. They blocked a national highway which resulted in a traffic jam