The government is churning out one hazardous bill after another. This time it is a bill called the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage, and it`s coming up for a vote in a couple of days. The bill lets U.S. corpora
A 50,000 strong melee of workersof the UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) will be going on an indefinite boycott of work Wednesday morning in protest ofthe handing over of power distribution in Agra city to a private company. A delegatio
Tribals living around Chhotaraipur hills in Ganjam district have united against rampant stone quarrying, complaining that it is destroying the environment and habitats of wild animals. A Bhubaneswar-based company is quarrying the hill to u
The Prime Minister`s Office has apparently blocked faxes coming from GreenPeace after the global NGO helped activists send to the PMO their protest petitions against the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill. “We have sent 7,000 fa
Thousands of Pasmanda (OBC and Dalit) Muslims will protest on Monday at Parliament against religious discrimination and suicide deaths of weavers. Janata Dal (U) MP Ali Anwar Ansari who is spearheading the movement has put three main demands – SC s
Traditional rag pickers belonging to the informal sector held simultaneous rallies across Delhi on Wednesday to demand official recognition of their right to collect waste. The rallies, organised by a number of non-governmental organisations, were
A BJP legislator along with veteran Gandhians and hundreds of farmers from Mahuva taluka in Bhavnagar district were detained on Thusrday from near Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad ahead of a rally organised to protest the cement plant coming up in Ma
Against the backdrop of the two-month long agitation by teachers demanding payment of arrears, the Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday announced a six-month long ban on strikes in all 12 state universities and 460 government-aided degree colleges
A school teacher on Thursday completed 14 years of protest outside the District Magistrate`s office in Muzaffarnagar demanding freeing of government land worth Rs.90 crore, which had allegedly been grabbed by political mafias and said he will cont
Here is the full text of a petition letter from Saleem Kidwai, Nivedita Menon, Mary John, V. Geetha, Shilpa Phadke and 13 other teachers and academics from universities across India. The petition has been published in the Hindustan Times and s
Two housewives here have challenged an amendment to the Income Tax Act under which those with investments even below the limit to attract income tax were required to furnish a Permanent Account Number (PAN) alongwith form 15G to avoid unnecessary
The activists of Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) on Wednesday staged a demonstration in front of the Raj Bhavan here protesting against the proposed surrender policy for return and rehabilitation of militants from Pakistan occupi
Striking employees of various ministries in Uttarakhand on Wednesday decided to continue their month-long stir demanding pay hike after failure of their talks with the government. "As our talks with the state government has fai
Doctors and medical students from Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Delhi held a silent protest in New Delhi on Thursday against the Bachelor of Rural Medicine and Surgery (BRMS) course proposed by the Health Ministry to meet the demands of healthcare profes
Expressing concern over the steep price rise of essential commodities, job cuts and other issues, the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) on Thursday announced that it will organise a nationwide Satyagraha on March 5. "The two-day meet of t
The ongoing agitation for separate Vidarbha state will be intensified further by launching a mass contact programme and a `Jail Bharo` agitation from February 8-22, the Vidarbha Rajya Sangram Samiti (VRSS) announced in Nagpur on February 2.
Thousands of people have raised a banner of revolt against control of mafias over two prominent rivers of Allahabad- Ganga and Yamuna. Inhabitants of the these river beds have found their livelihood threatened by mafias who have virtually monopoli
Inadequate parking space, narrow and congested roads, absence of a sub-way or foot-overbridge to connect popular mall, Great India Place are some of the problems that plague the traders as well as the visitors who crowd Sector 18 market in Noida.
