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Passengers exact ‘revenge’ on Delta Airlines following flight delays – Did they go too far? – Times of India

In a dramatic act of protest, a pair of passengers took their frustration with Delta Airlines to a new level by raiding the airline’s VIP lounge after experiencing significant flight delays. Their bold antics, which included loading up on free food, emptying hand sanitizer dispensers, and more, have captured widespread attention online.A video documenting the escapade has garnered over 600,000 views on TikTok.Content creator Kyle Philippi, who posted the footage, captioned it, “POV: Delta doesn’t compensate for thousands of dollars lost from delaying our flights for days so we gonna get it back in the Sky Club. This will set them back.”People loading up on free food in airline’s VIP lounge.The video’s timing seems to align with last week’s Microsoft outage, which led to Delta canceling ...
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Two women partially buried in gravel during protest in Madhya Pradesh | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Two women in Madhya Pradesh's Rewa district were half buried when a truck dumped gravel on them while they were protesting against road construction.The video of the incident doing rounds on social media platforms showed the women sitting behind the dumpster just before being half buried in gravel.According to the police officials, the incident occurred in Hinota Jorot village under Mangawa police station on Saturday and a case has been registered.Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Vivek Lal said the women, Mamta Pandey and Asha Pandey, were protesting against the road construction and got partially buried under murrum."The police are investigating the matter, and action will be taken based on evidence," he said.Meanwhile, MP congress chief Jeetendra Patwari claimed th...
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Samsung Workers Go On 3-Day Strike Over Pay & Benefits, Memory Chip Production Likely To Take A

Workers at Samsung have staged a three-day general strike against the company over pay and benefits. The protest kicked off today and will last till Wednesday. According to a report by the news agency AFP, the head of a union representing tens of thousands of employees has warned that this protest will impact memory chip production. This is a huge concern for Samsung as the tech giant is the world's largest memory chip maker and accounts for a large portion of the global output of high-end chips. Thousands of workers gathered in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi, an hour south of Seoul, outside the company's foundry and semiconductor factory. The strike was announced last week and the workers said that it was a last resort after talks broke down. It comes on the heels ...
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BJP, Congress ally protest as Karnataka uses SC/ST funds for ‘guarantees’ | India News – Times of India

BENGALURU: Karnataka govt's decision to continue using funds allocated under Scheduled Caste Plan and Scheduled Tribe Sub-Plan (SCPTSP) for the five guarantee schemes - announced in the run-up to the assembly polls in 2023 - is likely to snowball into a storm. While BJP is planning to appeal to the judiciary, Dalit Sangharsh Samiti (DSS), Congress' ally, is set to take to the streets in protest.Although senior govt officials insist "diversion" of SCPTSP funds is not unprecedented and was done even by previous govts, BJP's plan to move court and DSS' "uprising" threat could spell trouble for Congress in upcoming zilla and taluk panchayat elections in the state.Last week, CM Siddaramaiah said his govt had earmarked Rs 39,121 crore this year for SCPTSP, about Rs 3,900 crore more than what ...
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Watch: NSUI members lock NTA office in Delhi amid protest over NEET-NET paper leaks row | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Members of the National Students' Union of India -- Congress's student wing -- barged into the National Testing Agency's office in Okhla on Thursday. They were protesting against alleged irregularities in the conduct of the NEET-UG exam.The protest saw NSUI members raising slogans of "shut down NTA" inside the building. There was no immediate reaction from NTA officials regarding the incident.Visuals shared by NSUI showed scores of its members actively participating in the protest inside the NTA office.The NEET-UG exam was conducted on May 5, with around 24 lakh candidates participating. The results were announced on June 4 but were followed by accusations of question paper leaks in states like Bihar, along with other irregularities. var _mfq = window._mfq || []; _mfq.push(["...
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Indian-origin activist among three women charged for staging protest in Palestinian’s support in Singapore – Times of India

SIMGAPORE: Three Singaporean women, including an Indian-origin activist, were charged in court here on Thursday for organising a procession of about 70 people that delivered letters to the presidential palace in support of the Palestinian cause without a permit earlier this year. Those charged included Annamalai Kokila Parvathi, 35, and two women of Malay ethnicity, Siti Amirah Mohamed Asrori, 29, and Mossammad Sobikun Nahar, 25.All were charged under the Public Order Act for organising an assembly or procession without a permit on February 2, along the perimeter of the Istana, a prohibited area, Channel News Asia reported.Annamalai, a known civil activist, is said to have abetted the alleged offence by engaging Mossammad, Siti Amirah and others in her commission.The three accused were ...
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BJP’s East Champaran zila parishad member shot dead, ‘land dispute’ suspected – Times of India

MOTIHARI: Three motorcycle-borne criminals shot dead member of East Champaran zila parishad and BJP functionary, Suresh Yadav (38), near Chandmari roundabout on Wednesday while he was coming out from Chandmari society complex. He was taken to a private nursing home where he was declared brought dead by the doctors. Police sent the body for postmortem to the sadar hospital.Police said prima facie land dispute appears to be the reason behind the killing. After getting information, SP Kantesh Kumar Mishra rushed to the spot and directed the police officers to scan the CCTV footage of nearby shops at Chanmari roundabout and other establishments to identify the assailants. The police recovered a motorcycle, which was used in the crime, as one of the assailants abandoned his bike and fled on ...
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‘Part of parliament burned’: What led to violent protests in Kenya? – Times of India

Massive chaos has grappled the Kenyan capital Nairobi as police fired tear gas and water cannons to control the crowd that hit the streets to protest against the proposed tax hikes.In the deadly stir that has rocked Kenya, five people were shot dead and 31 injured, several NGOs including Amnesty Kenya reported in a joint statement.The demonstrators had largely been peaceful over the past week but the clashes erupted in Nairobi on Tuesday, with crowds throwing stones at police, breaching barricades and forcing their way into Parliament premises. The agitations became intense to the extent that thousands of protesters, who entered the premises set on fire part of the parliament building, which prompted the legislators to evacuate it. In retaliation, the Kenyan cops shot fires and rubber b...
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NEET gets messy

What went wrong with entrance exams like NEET this year and how it affected the ambitions of millions of studentsA protest by students’ organisations in Hyderabad, Jun. 18; (Photo: ANI) There seems to be no end to the troubles at the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts major entrance examinations in the country and holds the fate of millions of students in its hands. Over three million have been left hanging with the controver­sies surrounding two big examinations—the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Undergraduate) or NEET-UG, the gateway for admissions to medical courses in India, and the University Grants Commission-National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET), the key qualification for those hoping to find teaching jobs in colleges or to get junior researc...
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Thousands rally in Armenia against PM – Times of India

YEREVAN: Thousands of Armenians took to the streets in the capital Yerevan on Sunday in a fresh protest against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's concessions to arch foe neighbour Azerbaijan.The protests began in April, when the Caucasus nation's government agreed to hand back to Baku territory it had controlled since the 1990s.On Sunday, several thousand protesters gathered in Yerevan's central Republic Square, outside government headquarters, an AFP reporter at the scene said.But Pashinyan's rule remains unshaken, despite a challenge mounted by influential archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan.In his address to the rally, Galstanyan called Pashinyan "a beggar" who sought to secure peace with Azerbaijan "at the price of his own people's humiliation."He urged parliament to convene for an extraord...
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China lodges protest against PM’s reply to Taiwan’s wish | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: China Thursday lodged a protest with India for PM Modi’s acknowledgement of Taiwan Prez Lai Ching-te congratulatory message on X in which Modi had said he’s looking forward to closer ties as “we work towards mutually beneficial economic and technological partnership”. Chinese foreign ministry urged India to resist Taiwan’s “political calculations'” and not do anything to violate the “one-China principle”.Lai had said in his message he wanted to enhance the partnership and expand collaboration on trade, technology and other sectors to contribute to peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific.China, which opposes any political contact between Taiwan and countries with which Beijing has diplomatic relations, said it had protested with Indian authorities and that India is familiar w...
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