Strike action News

The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has also supported the tea workers` strike.  

The BrihanMumbai Mumbai Corp told the Bombay High Court that in the past five days of doctors' agitation, 135 patients lost their lives in Mumbai's government hospitals.

The strike was called against the Jammu and Kashmir government`s decision to increase taxes on passenger vehicles.  

The strike comes as Paris is struggling to revive tourism after a string of deadly attacks, floods, and polluted air.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Delhi government termed the strike as sponsored by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The HRTC with over 2,500 buses has been making losses but has been important to the state as it connects far-flung villages with urban areas.

Officials of the HRTC said the striking employees would resume work from Wednesday midnight.

Separatist groups, including both factions of Hurriyat Conference and JKLF, had called for a strike to protest alleged beating, harassment and intimidation of Kashmiri students outside the state. 

IDBI Bank employees have decided to go on a four-day nation-wide strike from March 28 to oppose the government's move to dilute its stake in the troubled state-run lender.

Delhi`s ruling AAP on Friday urged Lt Governor Najeeb Jung to look into the situation arising out of the ongoing strike by employees of the capital`s three main civic bodies, party leader Somnath Bharti said.

Normal life was partially affected here on Saturday due to a shutdown called by traders to protest the alleged ransacking of shops in the old city by security forces while dispersing stone-pelting youths on Friday.

About 110 people, including Indians and Bangladeshis, held at three immigration detention centers in the US are on hunger strike demanding an end to their indefinite confinement and improved conditions.

Violent clashes broke out in parts of this Jammu and Kashmir summer capital on Monday in protest against a youth's killing on Saturday, leading to closure of shops and causing traffic snarls in many areas.

Life returned to normal in Kashmir Valley on Monday after three days of strikes and restrictions imposed by authorities that began on Friday as separatist groups had proposed a "solidarity march" on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the state.

The health condition of Kunal Ghosh, suspended Trinamool Congress MP who is an accused in Saradha chit fund scam, deteriorated on Friday night on the 29th day of his hunger strike following which he was admitted to the jail hospital.

The six-day-old 'rail-roko' agitation by Punjab farmers will continue till Tuesday, the union leaders announced on Monday night after talks with Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal who offered some compensation and promised to take up their demands with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

A committee headed by Transport Secretary Vijay Chhibber has been formed, in which truckers will also have representatives, to look into their demands and a report will be submitted by December 15.

Lakhs of trucks kept off the roads on Thursday as transporters went on a nationwide strike called by the All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) to oppose the toll system.

National carrier Air India is staring at yet another industrial unrest with a majority members of one of its pilots' unions favouring a strike against a Labour Ministry notification on exclusion of flight commanders from the workmen category.

Shares of Tata Steel jumped over 2 percent today following resolution of a major labour dispute at the UK arm of the company.