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Paris trash strike ends, smaller pension protest turnout

Paris trash strike ends, smaller pension protest turnout

Clean-up crews were set on Wednesday to start picking up debris from streets following fresh anti-pension reform protests a day earlier. CGT, the union representing sanitation workers, said it’s three-week-long strike was over Wednesday

30 March,2023 08:42 AM IST | Paris | Agencies
France braces for violence in new wave of pension protests

France braces for violence in new wave of pension protests

Fears that violence could mar the demonstrations prompted what Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin described as an unprecedented deployment of 13,000 officers, nearly half of them concentrated in the French capital

29 March,2023 07:44 AM IST | Paris | Agencies
Benjamin Pavard: Mike Maignan saved us

Benjamin Pavard: Mike Maignan saved us

France’s Pavard hails goalkeeper Maignan’s brilliance as former world champions struggle in 1-0 win over Ireland

29 March,2023 07:40 AM IST | Paris | AFP
In France, streets and fields seethe with protest

In France, streets and fields seethe with protest

Two friends, neither older than 18, whose parents took them to demonstrations when they were little, are showing Fares the ropes. “The French are known for fighting and we’ll fight,” says one of them, Coline Marionneau, also 17. “My mother goes to a lot of demonstrations ... She says if you have things to say, you should protest”

28 March,2023 07:40 AM IST | Paris | Agencies
Violent French pension protests erupt as 1M people demonstrate

Violent French pension protests erupt as 1M people demonstrate

In Paris, street battles between police and black-clad, masked groups who attacked at least two fast food restaurants, a supermarket and a bank reflected intensifying violence and drew attention away from the tens of thousands of peaceful marchers

25 March,2023 08:04 AM IST | Paris | Agencies
Anger mounts at Emmanuel Macron as unions hold new protests

Anger mounts at Emmanuel Macron as unions hold new protests

Violence has intensified in recent days in France at protests against the pension reform and his leadership

24 March,2023 08:32 AM IST | Paris | Agencies
Vijay Mallya bought properties worth Rs 330 cr in England, France: CBI

Vijay Mallya bought properties worth Rs 330 cr in England, France: CBI

Along with all the 11 accused named in the earlier chargesheets, the probe agency has added the name of Buddhadev Dasgupta, former general manager of IDBI Bank in its latest supplementary chargesheet

23 March,2023 09:23 AM IST | Mumbai | PTI
Protests continue after pension plan push

Protests continue after pension plan push

The French government survived two no-confidence votes in lower chamber of parliament proposed by lawmakers, after the president pushed the bill

22 March,2023 07:36 AM IST | Paris | Agencies

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