The proposed blockade has been supported by about 30 local commercial vehicle owner and operator associations in Kolasib district. File. | Photo Credit: RITU RAJ KONWAR Truckers and other commercial vehicle operators in Mizoram’s Kolasib district have called for a four-day strike from October 23 to protest the dilapidated condition of National Highway-306, the State’s … Read more
**EDS: TO GO WITH STORY** Kozhikode: A man looks at a notice pasted outside the closed OPD ticket counter at a hospital, amid a strike by doctors across Kerala after a doctor was attacked at a government-run hospital, in Kozhikode, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. (PTI Photo)(PTI10_09_2025_000305B) | Photo Credit: – Kozhikode Outpatient (OP) services at … Read more
Representative image. File | Photo Credit: PTI Workers of a tea garden in north Bengal staged protests demanding a bonus ahead of Durga Puja. The protests were held by workers of the Nagaisuri tea garden in Jalpaiguri district on September 26 and 27, who sought 20% of their wages as bonus. Police resorted to a … Read more
S. Ramadoss. File | Photo Credit: M. Samraj Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) president S. Ramadoss on Wednesday (September 24, 2025) said the Vanniyar Sangam, the parent body of the PMK, would organise protests in all district headquarters across the State in the first week of December, demanding the immediate implementation of a 10.5% internal reservation … Read more
Rahul Chakradhari is a pharmacist and a permanent employee at a Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Rasela, a village in Chhattisgarh’s Gariaband district close to the Odisha border. However, the current circumstances have forced him to go beyond the scope of his duties. He isn’t just dispensing medicines; he is also prescribing them in some … Read more
The Ernakulam Central police on Saturday booked journalist Siddique Kappan and 10 others on charges of unlawful assembly after they allegedly organised a protest meet in solidarity with Kochi-based journalist Rejaz B. Sheeba Sydeek, who was booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) by the Nagpur police in May for reportedly criticising Operation Sindoor. … Read more
Several thousand residents of Washington DC marched on Saturday to demand US President Donald Trump to end the deployment of National Guard troops patrolling the city’s streets. Participants in the “We Are All DC” march included undocumented immigrants and supporters of Palestine. Protesters shouted slogans criticising Trump and carried signs with messages such as “Trump … Read more
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday restrained Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil and his associates from holding demonstrations at Azad Maidan in Mumbai without prior permission. Noting that “public places cannot be occupied indefinitely”, a Division Bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Sandeep V. Marne observed that while the right to protest is … Read more
A group of staff nurses protesting against an attack by junior doctors on MNO at ACSR Government General Hospital in Nellore on Monday night. | Photo Credit: ARRANGEMENT After the intervention of Superintendent K. Madhavi, the staff nurses resumed the patient care services from Tuesday morning An argument between a male nursing orderly (MNO) and … Read more
Karnataka BJP leader R. Ashok. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party leader and the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly R. Ashok, on Thursday (July 31, 2025) termed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s protest meeting against alleged ‘votes theft’ in Bengaluru next week, as a “pre-scripted diversion”, timed to deflect the … Read more