Rohtak: People from Jat community stage a demonstration to press for Special Backward Class (SBC) status in Rohtak on Feb 20, 2016. (Photo: IANS) By Amulya Ganguli Just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi described MNREGA…
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) Over 250 surgeries were rescheduled at various government hospitals in the city on Friday as nurses across the country went on mass casual leave, demanding inclusion of their salaries under…
Chandigarh, Feb 26 (IANS) The death toll in the nine-day violent Jat agitation demanding job quotas in Haryana has touched 30, the state police chief said on Friday. Director General of Police Y.P. Singhal said…
Gurgaon, Feb 26 (IANS) Traders in Haryana’s Rewari district on Friday observed a shutdown seeking stringent action against those who looted and set fire to businesses of non-Jats during the Jat job quota protests. Traders…
Chandigarh, Feb 26 (IANS) The death toll in the nine-day long violent Jat reservation agitation in Haryana has touched 30, the state police chief said here on Friday. Haryana’s Director General of Police (DGP) Y.P….
By Mudita Girotra Rohtak (Haryana), Feb 25 (IANS) The arson and fury of Jat protests may be over but the orgy of violence has left behind deep scars that residents of Rohtak town say are…
Imphal, Feb 25 (IANS) Rights activist Irom Sharmila, who has been on a 15-year-long hunger strike to press for the abrogation of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, has said she would continue her fast…
Patna: Lawyers stage a demonstration to press for removal sedition charges against JNU leader Kanhaiya Kumar in Patna, on Feb 22, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) More than 200 lawyers marched silently…
Ahmedabad, Feb 24 (IANS) A strike by a section of workers at the Tata Motors’ Nano plant at Sanand near here entered the second day on Wednesday. Assistant Labour Commissioner M.S. Patel said the striking…
Imphal, Feb 24 (IANS) Plying of buses and trucks from Manipur to Nagaland was affected on Wednesday morning after a Naga students’ body announced an indefinite ban on vehicles to protest against alleged harassment of…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Representatives of various organisations of farmers on Wednesday staged a protest here against what they termed anti-agriculture policies of the central government, and demanded a reasonable hike in Minimum Support…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) A high-level committee set up by the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) administration to inquire into an event organised on the campus, which has triggered international headlines, has been broad based…
Chandigarh, Feb 24 (IANS) Haryana remained calm on Wednesday, with people pouring out of their homes in violence-hit districts and supplies of essential commodities restored. Shops and business establishments, which survived the wrath of the…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Jawaharlal Nehru University students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, who are facing sedition charges for allegedly raising anti-India slogans on the varsity campus, were grilled for five hours in police…
New York, Feb 24 (IANS) A group of activists gathered here outside Apple’s flagship store to protest against the FBI’s attempt to install software with backdoors in all of Apple’s iPhones. With posters saying “Don’t…
New Delhi: People participate in a march organised from Ambedkar Bhawan to Jantar Mantar to condemn the “institutional killing” of 26-year-old scholar of the University of Hyderabad (UoH), Rohith Vemula; in New Delhi, on Feb…
New Cooch Behar: The members of Greater Coochbehar Peoples’ Association(GCPA) disrupt railway services to press for their demands at the New Cooch Behar railway station in West Bengal on Feb 21, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Kolkata,…
Rohtak, Feb 23 (IANS) Angry traders on Tuesday hurled shoes towards former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda when he arrived in this Haryana town to meet with people who had suffered heavy losses during the…
New Cooch Behar: The members of Greater Coochbehar Peoples’ Association(GCPA) disrupt railway services to press for their demands t the New Cooch Behar, West Bengal on Feb 21, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Guwahati, Feb 23 (IANS)…
Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) A section of students at Jadavpur University here took out a torch rally on Tuesday calling for consolidation of campus democracy against fascist expansion in the wake of recent events at…