Normal life was affected in Kashmir Valley on Sunday following a strike called by hardline Hurriyat Conference to protest the killing of a three-year-old boy by unidentified gunmen in Sopore.
'Caught in the middle of a war in a foreign country was hardly something any of us had envisaged.'
The Hurriyat faction led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani, supported by the Kashmir high court bar association, the Dukhtaran-e-Millat, traders and several other groups, gave the strike call.
Year by year, our cities remain defeated in the face of weather conditions, costing us time, money, resources and often lives, observe Amit Kapoor and Bibek Debroy.
The brutal rape and murder of an eight-year-old Bakerwal girl has polarised the normally peaceful town of Jammu, with the local Bar association calling for a bandh against what it termed the "targeting of minority Dogras" while the state police had lodged a case against lawyers who allegedly tried to prevent it from filing a chargesheet against the accused.
The 48-hour nationwide strike called by central trade unions hit normal life across Kerala on Wednesday with workers from varied sectors, including transport and banking, staying away from work to protest the UPA government's economic and labour policies.
Over 42,000 BEST employees are participating in the strike called to demand revise pay scale.
Restrictions have been imposed in five police station areas of Srinagar, a police official said.
'It is not possible for us to hold talks with the government with conditions attached,' All India Motor Transport Congress secretary general, J M Saksena, said.
Thousands of truckers stayed off the roads for the fifth day on Wednesday to protest a new service tax, disrupting movement of goods and pushing up prices.
The Delhi government had earlier threatened to impose the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) to ensure smooth functioning of the Metro and appealed to the employees not to resort to strike.
Normal life in several parts of the Kashmir Valley was affected due to a strike call given by Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front as authorities clamped restrictions in two police station areas of the city to foil the launch of separatist outfit's 'Quit Kashmir' movement.
The nationwide indefinite strike by truckers, demanding stable fuel prices and fewer levies, entered the tenth day on Wednesday amidst reports of a vertical split in the striking union.
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Withdrawing the strike call given last week, the Bombay Taximen Union Taxis has said that taxis will ply on Mumbai roads on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
All India Motor Transport Congress had given a call to boycott supplies to Goa from Thursday onwards.
All the operations of All India Motor Transport Congress will be shut and trucks will go off the road from April 5, AIMTC President G R Shanmugappa said in New Delhi.
Government employees in 13 districts of coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema launched an indefinite strike on Tuesday protesting the proposed bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
Prohibitory orders clamped following lifting of curfew remained in force in Srinagar and other major towns of the Kashmir Valley on Monday even as normal life was affected in the wake of a strike called by separatists to protest against recent preventive detentions.
The Association, which claims to represent around 125,000 app-based taxis in the the Delhi-NCR, demands that fares be increased from existing Rs 6 per km to around Rs 20 per km.
Maoists in Nepal are protesting the government crackdown on their cadres.
Pilgrims at the ongoing Maha Kumbh mela in Allahabad faced a tough time on Wednesday due to the nationwide strike called by central trade unions which has brought movement of Uttar Pradesh roadways buses to a standstill.
An end to the indefinite strike by truck operators, which entered the seventh day, appeared in sight with Finance Minister P Chidambaram agreeing to meet them on the issue of levy of 10 per cent service tax.
A few hundred soccer fans were stranded in Johannesburg on Monday after the Netherlands-Denmark game in Soccer City when bus drivers went on impromptu strike.
Agnihotri will be in charge of Jal Shakti, transport, and language, arts and culture departments while Chief Minister Sukhu has kept with himself finance, general administration, home, planning, personnel and other portfolios which have not been allotted to any minister, the notification stated on Tuesday.
New Transport Secretary Philip Hammond, who held separate talks with both sides, said the judgement was good news for passengers.
Trade unions reiterate the call for countrywide general strike on September 2 against the "anti-worker and anti-people policies" of the government.
Transcripts of Prem Panicker's chat on Thursday.
Air France pilots went on a four-day strike over pay cuts on Saturday that could disrupt transport plans for football fans on the second day of Europe's soccer championship.
A strike called by separatists to protest the attack on senior Hurriyat leader Fazal Haq Qureshi evoked a partial response in the city on Saturday.
Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday imposed restrictions on movement of people in parts of Srinagar following a strike call by separatist groups protesting against landing of army in the Valley on this day in 1947.
Most of the shops, business establishments, petrol pumps and offices were shut in and around the Lal Chowk city centre and in many areas elsewhere in the city, while government offices witnessed thin attendance, officials said.
'What's happening in Gaza is another ethnic cleansing, a repeat of what happened in 1948.' 'That is why people do not want to evacuate. Either you evacuate or you die.'
India is one of the few countries in the region that enjoys good relations with both Israel and Saudi Arabia, and IMEC would allow it to recreate the old Spice Route to Europe. All this is in jeopardy now, notes Rajeev Srinivasan.
Union says move to privatise four more airports violates Tripartite Panel recommendations that govt accepted long back
The 24-hour nation-wide general strike called on Thursday by Centre of Indian Trade Unions and others is likely to make a noticeable impact on life in West Bengal.
Bus and minibus operators in West Bengal called off their 48-hour strike on the second day on Wednesday with immediate effect following the state government's assurances of sympathetically considering their demands
Auto rickshaw and taxi unions in New Delhi went on a strike on Tuesday to demand a hike in fares and protesting the government's directive to install the global positioning system in their vehicles. The demand for a fare hike has been gaining momentum for some time now.
India's biggest carmaker Maruti Udyog Ltd on Wednesday said domestic sales grew 32.2 per cent at 42,480 units in August 2004 as its compact cars notched up impressive numbers.
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