Chennai Beach Protests

Several BJP leaders have been detained in Chennai for taking out a protest to demand the arrest of a Congress-affiliated orator accused of making a controversial speech against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah earlier this week.

Peaceful protests were held across the country today, with political parties, students and the civil society coming together against the contentious citizenship law. In Delhi, the Congress held protests at Rajghat, the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi, which was attended by senior leaders of the party, including Sonia Gandhi, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, M...

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld Madras High Court's order banning protests at the Chennai's Marina Beach. The high court had earlier said that it is a tourist place and if protests are allowed it will create law and order problems.

Normal life in Tamil Nadu was badly hit on Thursday, after opposition parties in the state, led by the DMK, called for a shutdown protesting Centre's failure to set up the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) within six weeks of the Supreme Court's February 16 order. Traffic on key roads in Chennai came to a standstill. Sea of protesters of the DMK and o...

Hundreds of people on Saturday gathered at theMarinabeachin Chennai and staged a flash protest urging the Centre to immediately set up the Cauvery Water Management Board in compliance with a February 16 Supreme Court order on the decades-old river water-sharing dispute.

Chennai's Marina Beach has been a favourite with protesters. But for more than a decade, protests, demonstrations, agitations etc have been totally banned along the shoreline. The Chennai Police yesterday reiterated its ban on protests or unlawful gathering on the Marina Beach and warned of arrests if protesters are found assembling here.

Governor C Vidyasagar Rao is expected to arrive in Chennai at around 3.30 pm today and will immediately meet AIADMK chief VK Sasikala along with party legislators who want her to be sworn in as Tamil Nadu's next Chief Minister. On Wednesday, Ms Sasikala bundled 131 of her party's 134 legislators in buses and sequestered them in small groups in hote...

The Nadukuppam fish market near the Marina Beach in Chennai is in ashes. Around 200 families now have no place to sell their fish. The community says the police themselves set the market on fire on Monday as local people from the area gave shelter to protesters after police started forcefully evicting them from the beach - the venue of the week-lon...

Amid reports that people in Chennai are planning to protest against "recent police excess" at Marina beach, the police has said that the stretch is out of bounds for any kind of demonstration.

On a day when Chennai's hold on a massive, peaceful protest loosened suddenly, the videos tumbled out in quick succession - men and women in police uniforms setting autorickshaws on fire, vandalising property, raising their lathis or batons high above their heads and bringing them down with crashing force on parked vehicles. Within minutes, the vid...

The people's participation in the Republic Day celebrations in Chennai was at an all-time low today following a boycott campaign on social media in the wake of Monday's violence in the city. A large number of seats along the Beach Road - next to the Marina Beach, which witnessed week-long protests on Jallikattu -- were empty.

For nearly the entire week of the Jallikattu protests on Chennai's Marina's Beach, I was present and reporting. It felt like an extended picnic, day and night. A rare occasion of collective strength and joy and hope was being celebrated.

The National Human Rights Commission has issued notices to the Tamil Nadu government and the state police over reports of "unprovoked excesses" committed by the forces in quelling the pro-Jallikattu protests in Chennai.

A frenzied crowd on rampage, booing, catcalling and shrieking, setting fire to bikes and a vehicle outside the Ice House Police station - the closest to Chennai's Marina beach, where the protest against Jallikattu was being held.

Actor Kamal Haasan said today that a series of videos uploaded on social media that show policemen indulging in arson in Tamil Nadu has left him "shocked". NDTV cannot verify the authenticity of the videos, which have been tweeted by Kamal Haasan and other celebrities like actor Arvind Swamy.

Several BJP leaders have been detained in Chennai for taking out a protest to demand the arrest of a Congress-affiliated orator accused of making a controversial speech against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah earlier this week.

Peaceful protests were held across the country today, with political parties, students and the civil society coming together against the contentious citizenship law. In Delhi, the Congress held protests at Rajghat, the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi, which was attended by senior leaders of the party, including Sonia Gandhi, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, M...

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld Madras High Court's order banning protests at the Chennai's Marina Beach. The high court had earlier said that it is a tourist place and if protests are allowed it will create law and order problems.

Normal life in Tamil Nadu was badly hit on Thursday, after opposition parties in the state, led by the DMK, called for a shutdown protesting Centre's failure to set up the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) within six weeks of the Supreme Court's February 16 order. Traffic on key roads in Chennai came to a standstill. Sea of protesters of the DMK and o...

Hundreds of people on Saturday gathered at theMarinabeachin Chennai and staged a flash protest urging the Centre to immediately set up the Cauvery Water Management Board in compliance with a February 16 Supreme Court order on the decades-old river water-sharing dispute.

Chennai's Marina Beach has been a favourite with protesters. But for more than a decade, protests, demonstrations, agitations etc have been totally banned along the shoreline. The Chennai Police yesterday reiterated its ban on protests or unlawful gathering on the Marina Beach and warned of arrests if protesters are found assembling here.

Governor C Vidyasagar Rao is expected to arrive in Chennai at around 3.30 pm today and will immediately meet AIADMK chief VK Sasikala along with party legislators who want her to be sworn in as Tamil Nadu's next Chief Minister. On Wednesday, Ms Sasikala bundled 131 of her party's 134 legislators in buses and sequestered them in small groups in hote...

The Nadukuppam fish market near the Marina Beach in Chennai is in ashes. Around 200 families now have no place to sell their fish. The community says the police themselves set the market on fire on Monday as local people from the area gave shelter to protesters after police started forcefully evicting them from the beach - the venue of the week-lon...

Amid reports that people in Chennai are planning to protest against "recent police excess" at Marina beach, the police has said that the stretch is out of bounds for any kind of demonstration.

On a day when Chennai's hold on a massive, peaceful protest loosened suddenly, the videos tumbled out in quick succession - men and women in police uniforms setting autorickshaws on fire, vandalising property, raising their lathis or batons high above their heads and bringing them down with crashing force on parked vehicles. Within minutes, the vid...

The people's participation in the Republic Day celebrations in Chennai was at an all-time low today following a boycott campaign on social media in the wake of Monday's violence in the city. A large number of seats along the Beach Road - next to the Marina Beach, which witnessed week-long protests on Jallikattu -- were empty.

For nearly the entire week of the Jallikattu protests on Chennai's Marina's Beach, I was present and reporting. It felt like an extended picnic, day and night. A rare occasion of collective strength and joy and hope was being celebrated.

The National Human Rights Commission has issued notices to the Tamil Nadu government and the state police over reports of "unprovoked excesses" committed by the forces in quelling the pro-Jallikattu protests in Chennai.

A frenzied crowd on rampage, booing, catcalling and shrieking, setting fire to bikes and a vehicle outside the Ice House Police station - the closest to Chennai's Marina beach, where the protest against Jallikattu was being held.

Actor Kamal Haasan said today that a series of videos uploaded on social media that show policemen indulging in arson in Tamil Nadu has left him "shocked". NDTV cannot verify the authenticity of the videos, which have been tweeted by Kamal Haasan and other celebrities like actor Arvind Swamy.