Transport services across Andhra Pradesh were hit Tuesday as supporters and opponents of a separate Telangana state stopped trains and buses even as an all-party meeting on the Telangana issue took place in New Delhi.
Railway authorities cancelled 89 trains as a precaution while state-owned Road Transport Corp (RTC) partially suspended bus services.
The rail and road [...]
Silliguri, Dec 29 (ANI): An organisation spearheading the campaign for a separate Gorkhaland state here on Monday demanded that the next round of tripartite talks should be held at the political level.
The decision was taken at the central committee meeting of the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM).
GJM is demanding a new state of ‘Gorkhaland’ to [...]
Dantewara (Chhattisgarh), Dec 25 (ANI): Maoists blocked a National Highway in Dantewara region of Chhattisgarh on Thursday to protest the Operation ‘Green Hunt’anti- launched by security forces.
The rebels felled down trees and dug up the roads at several places on the NH-221.
The road blockade crippled traffic, leaving several trucks and buses stranded.
The Maoists also [...]
Lalgarh (West Bengal), Dec 18 (ANI): The Lalgarh area here is under turmoil after reports that featured the death of two CPM supporters by suspected Maoists.
The Maoists had gunned down a CPM supporter at Baita, about 10 kilometers from Jhargram town
In the Bandhgora area here, the [...]
Jammu, Dec 13 (ANI): Over two dozen people including women, children and media persons were injured when the police resorted to a baton charge on the audience, at the Maulana Azad Stadium on Saturday night.
They were there to witness much-hyped VRV Mega Event’s ‘Jazzy-B star night presentation.’
The whole event turned into a messy affair [...]
Hyderabad, Nov 30 (IANS) Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao continued his ‘fast unto death’ in jail for the second consecutive day Monday as the day-long shutdown called by TRS to protest his arrest paralysed normal life in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh.
Chandrasekhara Rao, who was arrested near Karimnagar town Sunday before he [...]
Hyderabad, Nov 30 (IANS) Normal life came to a grinding halt in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh as Monday’s day-long shutdown called by Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) to protest the arrest of its chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao evoked total response.
Schools, universities, colleges, shops, business establishments and petrol pumps remained closed in all the 10 districts [...]
New Delhi, Nov 24 (ANI): Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Ajit Singh has threatened to launch road blockade in Uttar Pradesh if the state government fails to resolve the issue with sugarcane growers in the next two days.
Talking to reporters here on Monday, Singh said: “We are giving two days time to the mill [...]
Agra, Nov 10 (ANI): Police baton-charged protestors as a demonstration against rising prices turned violent here on Monday.
A road blockade by the protestors almost brought the city to a halt. The protestors began stone pelting when the police tried to remove the blockade.
Some of the protestors also vandalised a liquor shop. Some two-wheelers were [...]
Shillong, Nov 5 (IANS) Following a series of protests by environmentalist and political groups, the Meghalaya government has put on hold the infrastructure development work in the area where uranium is proposed to be mined.
The decision came after the government held separate meetings here Wednesday night with Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) and the Coordination Committee [...]
Shillong, Oct 29 (IANS) The Khasi Students Union (KSU), a dominant student-youth body, has temporarily suspended its road blockade against uranium mining in Meghalaya after the government invited it for talks, officials said here Thursday.
The KSU was to begin its third phase of a night road blockade Thursday to protest proposed uranium mining in the [...]
Bhubaneswar, Oct 19 (IANS) Bowing to the demands of angry farmers, the Orissa government Monday decided to form a joint committee to assess the crop loss in those areas where farmer suicides have been reported.
‘We have decided to form a committee of divisional officers of the agriculture and revenue department to asses the crop loss. [...]
Bhubaneswar, Oct 19 (IANS) Farmers staged a 12-hour road blockade on a national highway in Orissa Monday to protest farmer suicides in Jharsuguda district, bringing vehicular traffic to a halt.
The agitation coincided with yet another farmer suicide in Pipilkani village in Lakhanpur block of Jharsuguda district where the farmer suicides had been reported on Oct [...]
Hyderabad, Oct 18 (IANS) A woman agriculture officer in Andhra Pradesh committed suicide alleging mental harassment by a legislator, a minister said Sunday.
B. Rajeswari Sunday died of burn injuries at a corporate hospital, where she was undergoing treatment after she set herself ablaze four days ago.
Minister for Small Industries D.K. Aruna said action would be [...]
Shillong, Oct 15 (IANS) A two-night blockade in Meghalaya, called by the Khasi Students Union (KSU) to protest a proposed uranium mining project, turned violent Wednesday night with many vehicles set on fire by protesters, police said Thursday.
The KSU, an influential students’ union of the northeast India, blocked traffic from 7 p.m. Wednesday till 5 [...]
Bhopal, Sep 17 (IANS) Taking serious note of the Dindori police firing incident in which three people were killed, the Madhya Pradesh government has suspended two officials for alleged dereliction of duty, official sources said Thursday.
The incident occurred Tuesday evening in Parsel village of Dindori district, over 350 km from here, when authorities sought to [...]
Bhopal, Sep 16 (IANS) A strike was observed Wednesday in Dindori town of Madhya Pradesh where three people were killed in police firing after a mob blocked traffic and pelted stones at police injuring 11 cops, officials said.
The incident occurred Tuesday evening in Parsel village of Dindori district, over 350 km from here, when authorities [...]
