TIRUNELVELI: A day after leaders of the Peoples Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) called off their indefinite fast, anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant Project (KKNPP) protestors started a relay fast at Idinthakarai on Wednesday. After the government gave its nod to commence work at the Plant on March 19, 13 persons, led by PMANE coordinators S P Udaykumar and Pushparayan, started an indefinite fast at Idinthakarai. On Tuesday, talks were conducted...
11:00 AM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: Agitated MBBS students at All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Wednesday began an indefinite relay hunger strike to demand removal of its director in the wake of the alleged suicide by a first-year student. "We have called for a hunger strike too as the administration has not met all our demands yet," a protesting student said. Anil Meena (22), who belonged to Baran district in Rajasthan, was...
08:36 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Hyderabad: A year after three villagers died in police firing on a group opposing an upcoming thermal power project, the struggle by people of Kakrapalli in Andhra Pradesh's Srikakulam district is still on. The relay hunger strike by the villagers demanding scrapping of the project entered its 564th day on Wednesday while protestors also unveiled a memorial as a mark of tribute to those who died in the police firing...
02:16 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Chicago: An Indian-origin woman, who was being held at a Chicago jail for allegedly failing to show up for jury duty, has died in custody after a 15-day hunger strike. Fifty two-year-old Lyvita Gomes, a former airline trainer for Delta Airlines, died in Lake County jail on January 3, according to the Chicago Tribune. Funeral arrangements for Gomes, which have now been fixed, were earlier delayed until her relatives arrived...
02:19 PM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: YSR Congress chief Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy will end his 48-hour hunger strike on Thursday. He has been fasting for farmer rights at Armoor in Nizamabad district of Telangana. The leader has demanded a price stabilisation fund to be set by the government to provide a minimum support price for farmers. He also sought immediate relief for drought-hit farmers in the state. Meanwhile, Alleging that Jagan,...
11:07 AM, Jan 12, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Dental students have begun an indefinite hunger strike in front of the Government Dental College here. This is in protest against the indifference of the State Government to their demands regarding equalising their stipends with that of medical students. "During the last governments term, the stipend of the medical students was hiked to Rs 23,000, Rs 24,000 and Rs 25,000 for the first, second and third years. We should...
09:24 AM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: Social activist Anna Hazare's health is improving after his 288-hour fast from August 16 and his vital parameters are stable, a doctor attending on him said on Wednesday. The 74-year-old activist has started to take soft solid foods like rice and dal, said the doctor. "Three days after breaking his 12-day fast, Hazare's health is improving. He is now taking some soft solid foods like idli, rice and...
04:35 PM, Aug 31, 2011
Gurgaon: Anna Hazare was hospitalised after after he ended his 12-day fast on the Lokpal issue on Sunday and doctors said he is "very dehydrated and exhausted" but there is no cause for worry. The 74-year-old Gandhian was taken straight to Medanta Medicity hospital in Gurgaon from the fast venue at Ramlila maidan and admitted for a check-up and he will be under strict observation. "He has been admitted. He...
10:36 PM, Aug 28, 2011
Government will debate the Lokpal bills in Parliament on Friday following which Anna may break his fast. ...
10:09 PM, Aug 25, 2011
Team Anna and the government on Tuesday night had a meeting over the issue of Lokpal bill. ...
10:52 PM, Aug 23, 2011
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh government employees in Telangana region will undertake a relay hunger strike in Hyderabad on Thursday in support of the demand for separate statehood to the region. The relay hunger strike will be held at Indira Park from 10 am to 5 pm, the Telangana Non-Gazetted Officers association and other unions said on Wednesday. The Telangana Employees Joint Action Committee has already served a notice to the government...
08:35 AM, Aug 04, 2011
Manmohan Singh agreed to bring PM under Lokpal ambit but those with remote control stopped him, said Anna. ...
09:57 PM, Jul 28, 2011
New Delhi: Anna Hazare's team on Thursday critisesed the Union Cabinet for clearing the Government's version of the Lokpal Bill with Hazare saying he will go on fast from August 16 in protest. "The Government has not betrayed me but the people of India. We will look into the PM issue later but we continue to insist that the bureaucrats are included within the purview of the bill," said Hazare....
06:37 PM, Jul 28, 2011
New Delhi: Doctors at AIIMS on Monday called for an indefinite hunger strike after their demand for reinstatement of a former resident neurosurgeon, who has been cleared of the charges of molesting an eight-year-old boy under his treatment, was not met. Nearly 200 medicos including resident doctors, AIIMS faculty members, Karamchari Union and medical students 'gheraoed' AIIMS Director R C Deka's office and demanded immediate reinstatement of Dr Shejoy P...
11:44 PM, Jul 11, 2011
Hyderabad: Defying police, about 500 students of Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) on Monday started a "mass indefinite hunger strike" in front of Arts College at Osmania University here in support of the statehood to the region. Over 700 pro-Telangana supporters, including students, were taken into preventive custody in Telangana districts when they tried to organise a 'rasta roko' and sit-ins to express solidarity with the fasting students, police said....
10:45 PM, Jul 11, 2011
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