Passengers rush to catch a Vypeen-bound bus at Hight Court Junction in Kochi on Saturday. | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT With the Transport department remaining non-committal on the city entry of private buses from Goshree islands despite the expiry of the revised deadline of November 1, Federation of Residents Associations Apex Council in Goshree Islands … Read more
Sanitary employees with the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation receiving medicines, at a health camp organised on Saturday. | Photo Credit: Contract employees, registered under the Andhra Pradesh Corporation of Outsourced Services (APCOS) and working with the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation, staged a protest outside the corporation office on Saturday demanding an entire day off on Sundays. The … Read more
Rayalaseema Saaguneeti Sadhana Samithi president Bojja Dasaratharami Reddy addressing the protesters at Mandlem village in Nandyal district on Sunday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement There is a groundswell of support from all the villages in Rayalaseema districts for the Siddheswaram Jala Jagarana Deekha proposed on May 31. Many villagers residing closer to the Srisailam Reservoir … Read more
Kanimozhi | Photo Credit: File Photo DMK MP and deputy general secretary Kanimozhi on Saturday sent a legal notice to BJP State president K. Annamalai asking him to tender an unconditional apology for causing “immeasurable mental agony and torture” with the allegations he made against her. In the legal notice sent through her advocate S. … Read more
Contractors who executed government works staged a protest in front of the R&B office here on April 11, demanding the State Government to clear their pending bills immediately. Stating that bills to the tune of ₹5,000 crore were pending, the contractors issued an ultimatum that they would stop the works from May 1 if the … Read more
The Bangalore Auto Drivers’ Unions’ Federation has threatened to go on a strike from Monday (March 20) if the State government fails to ban illegal operations of bike taxis in the city. The office-bearers of the federation alleged that in the city, mobile app-based aggregators are illegally running a bike taxi business by attaching white … Read more
West Bengal Government Employees stage a protest demanding a hike in Dearness allowance (DA). | Photo Credit: ANI Demonstrators picketed before the gates of State Government offices and educational institutions demanding hike in Dearness Allowance (DA) as the day-long strike called by some organisations of West Bengal Government employees began on March 10. Demonstrators squatted … Read more
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Dr. Shivaraj Patil, MLA for Raichur, in the farmers’ protest at Saath Mile Cross near Raichur on Saturday demanding Tungabhadra waters to fields at tail-end of Tungabhadra Left Bank Canal. | Photo Credit: Santosh Sagar BJP MLA Shivaraj Patil and hundreds of farmers took to the streets on Saturday demanding the Irrigation Department release water … Read more
The East division police in swift action tracked down a man and arrested him for allegedly assaulting a fish mart owner and ransacking the shop demanding protection money (hafta) from him in Banasawadi on Saturday. Based on a viral video circulated on social media, the police tracked down the area and the shop owner, identified … Read more