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Santiago high school students were the spark. Rejecting a fare hike, they jumped over subway toll barriers on October 18, 2019. Students filled the streets all over. Police action led to injuries and arrests. Some 1.2 million people occupied Plaza Italia in Santiago a week later. After three months, on January 18, Santiago marchers arriving from three plazas demonstrated outside the Moneda Palace, the seat of Chile’s president. Protests took place in 19 other cities.

The political temperature has risen spectacularly in Delhi, which will go to polls on February 8. The National Capital Territory is not that quite significant in terms of electoral strength — as it has a 70 member legislative assembly and sends 7 and 3 representatives in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha respectively.

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is coming to India on a four-day visit on February 7. Reports from Colombo suggest that that during his talks with Prime Minister Modi, defence and maritime security will get priority.

It is all too well that the proposal to include income earned by NRIs, especially those working in the Arabian Gulf countries, for the purpose of determining tax liability has met with a premature death. Otherwise, it would have created serious problems both in terms of tax administration as well as compliance.

Auckland: Riding on Navneet Kaur's brace Indian Women hockey team outclassed hosts New Zealand 3-0 to end their tour on high here on Wednesday.

The just-concluded two-day bank strike on January 31 and February 1, 2020, as per the reports reaching AIBEA headquarters, was a resounding success. Let me take this opportunity first of all to congratulate all our unions and members for this splendid unity and effective implementation of the strike call.

Boris Johnson was accused of “dancing to Donald Trump’s tune” today for downplaying fears a US trade deal would undermine food safety standards. The PM said that he shares the US President’s “optimism,” and insisted that their deal would have “enormous potential” and would be “governed by science and not by mumbo-jumbo.”Mr Johnson condemned critics as “naive and juvenile anti-Americans” who should “grow up.”

Des Moines, Iowa—Either force of habit, or the need to self-medicate after months and months of political ad inundations, and door knocks at all hours, led Mr. and Mrs. Ingersoll to find comfort and warmth inside the Royal Mile pub.

One year after her dramatic entry into politics, the Congress is still waiting for Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s magic to surface. When she was inducted last year as AICC General Secretary, the party believed that she was their “Brahmastra” and would restore the party to its old glory. After the passage of one year, many Congressmen feel that she had not delivered as much as the party expected.

Pune: Prajnesh Gunneswaran opened his campaign with a stunning win over Germany's Yannick Maden at the third edition of Tata Open at Mhalunge Balewadi Stadium in Pune on Tuesday.