Dhaka is bracing for a day of violence on Monday, after the Jamaat-e-Islami called for a bandh across the country to protest against what they see as a victimisation of their party. The right wing extremists were caught at the centre of a controversy after students in many Bangladeshi cities, particularly in Dhaka, protested against life term given to Jamaat-e-Islami members for 1971 Liberation war crimes The protesters are demanding...
09:52 AM, Feb 18, 2013
A South Korean national has alleged that she was raped by a hotel manager in Bandhavgarh in Madhya Pradesh. An FIR has been registered in Aurangabad. ...
09:08 AM, Feb 01, 2013
Telangana Rashtra Samithi leader K Chandrasekhar Rao has announced a bandh on Saturday in protest against the government's approach towards the separate statehood demand. ...
03:25 PM, Dec 28, 2012
Unhappy over the outcome of the all-party meeting on the issue of statehood for Telangana, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has called for a shutdown in the region on Saturday. ...
02:04 PM, Dec 28, 2012
Unhappy with the outcome of the meeting convened by Centre on Telangana issue, TRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao on Friday termed it as a "futile exercise" while announcing a Telangana bandh on Saturday to protest against the government's attitude towards the demand for a separate state. ...
02:01 PM, Dec 28, 2012
In Manipur film and theatre artistes have called for a bandh protesting the alleged assault by an NSCN-IM cadre on an actress. Nearly five days since a Manipuri actress was allegedly repeatedly assaulted by a cadre of the NSCN-IM no arrests have been made yet. The actress claims the incident took place while she was hosting an event in Chandel district and security personnel from the Manipur Police and Assam...
06:46 AM, Dec 23, 2012
Protests turned violent as police burst tear gas shells to disperse agitated locals during the first day of the indefinite statewide bandh called by a film body demanding the arrest of an NSCN-IM ultra who allegedly molested a Manipuri film actress at a public function. ...
04:43 PM, Dec 22, 2012
Belgaum: In the wake of Supreme Court directing Karnataka to release 10,000 cusecs to Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Thursday said he would lead a MPs team from the Cauvery Basin to meet the Prime Minister for apprising him of the distress situation in his state. "I am leading a delegation of MPs from Cauvery basin tomorrow to hold talks with Union Water Resources Minister Harish Rawat and...
12:26 AM, Dec 07, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi student has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court challenging Section 66(A) of the Information Technology Act which was invoked to arrest two girls in Palghar, Maharashtra after they posted a comment on the bandh in Mumbai after Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's demise. The petition wants the offence under Section 66(A) of the Information Technology Act to be made non-cognizable. The Supreme...
11:19 AM, Nov 29, 2012
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena has called for bandh in Palghar on Wednesday to protest against the action on the policemen in the Facebook arrest case. The Thane Superintendent of Police and Palghar police station Sub-Inspector were suspended on Tuesday for disobeying the orders of superiors while arresting two girls for a Facebook post on Sena chief Bal Thackeray. The girls were arrested on the November 19 and released only after...
08:53 AM, Nov 28, 2012
Chennai: Tashu Kaushik considers herself fortunate to have gotten an opportunity to work in southern cinema, especially after an unsuccessful stint in Bollywood, and says to survive one needs to take success and failure in the same stride. Tashu is one of the few actresses who have worked in all the four southern language movies - Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. "I feel blessed to have worked in all southern...
01:53 PM, Nov 24, 2012
Kolar: Protests have broken out in Karnataka's Kolar district after reports that the government is planning to dump nuclear waste from the Kudankulam nuclear power plant into the defunct gold mines. Residents of Kolar observed a bandh on Friday against the move and backed by the MLAs and MPs. The bandh came two days after a government reply to the Supreme Court that waste from the Kudankulam nuclear plant will...
05:17 PM, Nov 23, 2012
Idukki: The dawn-to-dusk hartal called by CPM in Idukki to protest arrest of party leader M M Mani for his refusal to turn up for a polygraph test in connection with a case registered in the wake of his controversial speech, hit normal life in the high range district on Thursday. Mani was arrested and remanded to judicial custody on Wednesday for rejecting the police notice to undergo brain mapping...
03:21 PM, Nov 22, 2012
Trinamool Congress leader Sudip Bandhyopadhyay said the party will not reconsider its demand for a no-confidence motion. "We had not spoken to the BJP or any leader. Mamata Banerjee spoke to Gurudas Dasgupta because he had extended support," he said. ...
11:58 AM, Nov 22, 2012
Mumbai: The maximum city is expected to be back at work on Monday with the Shiv Sena ruling out a bandh in the city after the death of party supremo Bal Thackeray. The traders' associations in the city, however, are considering to observe the day as 'Shradhanjali Day'. Bal Thackeray, the torchbearer of Hindutva politics, was cremated at Shivaji Park on Sunday evening with full state honours. Lakhs of people...
07:20 AM, Nov 19, 2012
Mumbai came to a virtual standstill on Sunday as Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray was laid to rest. ...
11:10 PM, Nov 18, 2012
Mumbai: Shiv Sena on Sunday said that the party has not called any bandh in Maharashtra on Monday in lieu of Bal Thackeray's demise. Uddhav Thackeray's personal secretary Milind Narvekar said that Shiv Sena has not called a bandh either in Maharashtra or in Mumbai on Monday. However, Federation of Associations of Maharashtra (FAM) called upon its constituents and the trading community to observe a bandh in Maharashtra on Monday...
08:25 PM, Nov 18, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai came to a virtual standstill on Sunday as Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, a Hindutva mascot and flagbearer of Marathi pride, was laid to rest and lakhs of mourners joined the Marathi leader's grieving family to bid him a tearful farewell. A sea of people, unprecedented in recent memory, descended on Mumbai streets leading from Thackeray's Bandra residence Matoshree to Shivaji Park, to catch the last glimpse of...
07:23 PM, Nov 18, 2012
Mumbai: Federation of Associations of Maharashtra (FAM) has called upon its constituents and the trading community to observe a bandh in Maharashtra on Monday as a mark of respect to Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray, who passed away on Saturday. In a statement in Mumbai, FAM has appealed to all its constituents to observe 'Shradhanjali Day' on Monday. "The state of Maharashtra and the trading community has lost a true...
04:14 PM, Nov 18, 2012
New Delhi: The teenaged boy, whose purported murder had sparked off riots in Madhubani district of Bihar, has been handed over to the state police by a court here to take him back as a case of kidnapping was lodged against him. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Raghubir Singh gave Bihar police the transit remand of 17-year-old boy who was spotted by a man from the state in Mehrauli here along...
08:55 PM, Oct 17, 2012
