An empty bus was set ablaze by Congress supporters in Bhubaneswar and they also pelted stones at a few public transport vehicles. ...
11:25 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Hyderabad: Telangana auto drivers in the twin cities have called for a 24-hour bandh from Monday midnight to protest against the governments decision of allowing 20,000 new autos in the city. Speaking to mediapersons here on Sunday, the Telangana Auto Drivers Joint Action Committee convener Mohd Amanullah Khan demanded the withdrawal of the GO permitting new autos. He said that in 2002, the government had restricted new autos citing limited...
03:37 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Around 200 protesters on Monday were taken into custody for picketing near government offices, torching an empty college bus and pelting stones at a few vehicles during a state-wide bandh which disrupted train and road traffic and hit normal life. The bandh has been called by Congress against alleged police crackdown on partymen during a rally on September 6. More than a dozen trains were stopped at several railway...
11:54 AM, Sep 10, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Life came to a standstill in Odisha on Monday as Congress called for a statewide bandh to protest against the police action against partymen on Thursday when they protested over coalgate outside the state Assembly. According to reports, most schools and colleges are shut. Trains and other modes of public transport have been disrupted. A college bus was torched by a few protesters and a few vehicles were pelted...
09:01 AM, Sep 10, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Elaborate security arrangements have been made in Odisha in view of the state-wide bandh by Congress on Monday. Security personnel have been deployed at all sensitive areas across the state, a senior police officer said. In the state capital here, about 51 platoons of security forces (about 1700 personnel) have been deployed at different pockets while special vigil is being maintained near vital installations, he said. The bandh has...
01:41 AM, Sep 10, 2012
Guwahati: The North East Students Organisation (NESO), the apex student body of the region, has called a 12-hour bandh in all states of the region, except Assam, on Thursday to protest against influx of migrant labourers and others into the region from other states. There will be bandhs in other states while a central rally would be held in Guwahati on Thursday to be participated by constituent student organisations of...
06:14 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Bangalore: An hour into classes on Tuesday, students of PU and degree colleges were told that classes would be suspended in view of all-India college bandh. Activists of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and Youth Against Corruption (YAC) ensured an effective college bandh. Classes were suspended at National College, Jayanagar, at 11.30 am, when ABVP activists barged in and forced to end the classes. Similar scenes were seen at Government...
02:41 PM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP's nationwide protest over the coal blocks allocations will begin on Friday. The party, after stalling Parliament for seven days over the issue, gave a call for a nationwide protest over the matter. The party has been demanding that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was the Coal Minister during the period in which the allocations were made, resign. The three-day protest across 40 towns and cities in...
07:27 AM, Aug 31, 2012
Guwahati: Accusing the BJP and the AIUDF of making provocative statements, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday asked all political parties and outfits to refrain from calling bandhs as such actions were inflaming passions in violence-hit areas. "I am not happy about the way in which BJP and All India United Democratic Front (AIDUF) and some other outfits are conducting themselves. I appeal to them not to make any...
02:03 AM, Aug 29, 2012
Guwahati: The Army on Tuesday staged flag marches at various places in BTAD as the AAMSU-sponsored day-long Assam bandh turned violent with government officials and mediapersons attacked leading to imposition of curfew in some areas. Assam IGP (BTAD) SN Singh told PTI "Flag marches by the Army are on at various places. The situation in the Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) is tense but under control." The death toll in...
08:10 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Hyderabad: The YSR Congress party has called for a three-day bandh in the state to protest against the ongoing power crisis in the state. The protest will be launched on Tuesday and end on Friday. The state is facing an unprecedented shortfall of almost 50 million units per day of power. The Congress government imposed a five-hour power cut in major cities including capital Hyderabad to tide over the deficit,...
10:06 AM, Aug 28, 2012
Guwahati: Normal life was paralysed in Assam by a 12-hour bandh called by the Bajrang Dal to protest the violence in the lower Assam districts where the situation was calm with no fresh incident reported on Monday. Bandh supporters burnt tyres and pelted stones at vehicles in different parts of the state following which the police took nearly 500 of them into preventive custody in Guwahati, Golokgunj and Agomoni in...
12:27 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Guwahati: Normal life was affected in lower Assam districts on Thursday due to a day-long bandh called by a Muslim outfit to protest against the recent violence. Official sources said shops, schools, business establishment and financial institutions remained closed while there was less traffic on the national highway. Train movement, however, was not affected. The bandh has been called by new outfit Muslim Yuva Parishad. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi...
11:12 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Statue and its immediate environs were literally sealed off to the public on Wednesday after the CPM laid a day-long siege to the Secretariat, paralysing work there and triggering traffic jams on city roads.The CPM organised the blockade, inaugurated by party state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, demanding food security and steps to curb price rise. It was ironical that the blockade came just a day after the Supreme Court refused...
08:35 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Kochi/Thiruvananthapuram: The Left trade unions plan to inflict more pain on the public with 72-hour strikes has been viewed with concern by members of the public, including legal experts, and leaders of other political parties. Coming down heavily on the left trade unions for such drastic steps, they have demanded legislation to prevent such strikes. Such extreme measures are seen only in north-eastern states and terror-affected areas, said BJP state...
12:04 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Everyone would have seen many brothers and sisters celebrating Rakshabandhan onscreen, but here is how it plays behind the scenes. ...
03:04 PM, Aug 03, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The dawn-to-dusk hartal called by the CPM hit normal life hard in the district, with incidents of violence being reported from various areas. Shops, business establishments and educational institutions remained closed, while government offices registered thin attendance. Two KSRTC employees were manhandled at Nedumangad and hartal supporters damaged the glass pane of a Maruti car in Maranelloor. In Kattakkada, four different cases were registered, including an attack on the...
02:56 PM, Aug 03, 2012
New Delhi: On Raksha Bandhan day, it is traditionally the brothers who shower presents on their sisters but 34-year-old Asha chose to give a priceless gift to her sibling who was battling for his life, one of her kidneys. 42-year-old Sriniwas Thakur, a resident of Faridabad, was suffering from high blood pressure for a long time and was admitted to Asian Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. Doctors diagnosed...
03:50 AM, Aug 03, 2012
Chennai: For every person who branded Raksha Bandhan a North Indian festival, weve got a simple suggestion - go outside and take a look around. Admittedly, the money-for-rakhi routine may still be something that only immigrants from Northern India follow. But the practice of simply tying a rakhi on someone a girl considers a brother is universal. There are so many women in the city who have tied a rakhi...
01:55 PM, Aug 02, 2012
On Raksha Bandhan day, every sister is out there tying rakhis on their brothers. But if you are Anna Hazare, then you have hundreds of sisters across the nation wanting to tie a Rakhi on your wrist. Former top cop and activist Kiran Bedi is one such who tied the thread that symbolizes sibling love on Hazare's wrist. Kiran Bedi "Anna Hazare's wrist is full of rakhees! Tied by several...
12:44 PM, Aug 02, 2012
