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Bandh cripples life in Kasaragod
Kāsaragod :: India | 9 days ago
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Business establishments and educational institutions remained closed while vehicles kept off the roads affecting normal life, police said, adding no untoward incident was reported from any part of the district so far...Another worker had died after unknown...
Tags: India, Kāsaragod, Indian Union Muslim League, Muslim League, Bandh, Kerala state assembly election, Kodiyeri, Communist Party of India, Politics
Workshop calls for more power for women
Imphāl :: India | 9 days ago
Credibility The Manipur State Commission for Women, inaugurated a 4 Day Workshop for Capacity Building for the Empowerment of Women this evening at Women and Children Development Ashram Changangei, Ucheckon, Imphal. The workshop was inaugurated by Tamil Nadu State...
Tags: private schools, India, Imphāl, Tamenglong, Senapati, Imphal bombing, Manipur, North East India, Tamenglong district, Imphal, Resolution, Politics, Education, Imphal Free Press, Environment, United States Congress, Meitei people, Public Health Engineering Department, Women's rights, Irom Chanu Sharmila, Social Issues, Welfare, DRDA, Bandh, Nungba, Thoubal district, Thoubal, Manipur University
Hartal, bandh culture should end, says Shashi Tharoor
Thiruvananthapuram :: India | 10 days ago
Credibility A few persons may not be interested in going to offices and schools on a hartal day. But do they have any right to prevent others from going to work," Tharoor, the Thiruvananthapuram MP, said. He said Jawaharlal Nehru had the same view on agitations like...
Tags: Shashi Tharoor, Sarath Fonseka, General Fonseka, India-Sri Lanka, India, Thiruvananthapuram, Military of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Chief of the Defence Staff, D. A. Rajapaksa, Sinhalese people, Sri Lankan people, Year of birth missing, Politics, War Conflict, Malayali people, Bandh, Jawaharlal Nehru, Hartal, Civil disobedience, Indian independence activists, Nehru-Gandhi family, Mahinda, K. Karunakaran, Tharoor, Politics of Kerala
BJP bandh in Delhi against price rise has partial impact
New Delhi :: India | 11 days ago
Credibility Braving chilly weather, BJP workers led by their leaders staged demonstrations in various parts of the capital, holding placards and raising slogans against the city government for "failing" to curb inflation and increasing bus and metro fares. Markets...
Tags: BJP, India, New Delhi, Malhotra, Elections in India, Bandh, Civil disobedience, Bharatiya Janata Party, Politics
Mamata Banerjee has her feet in two boats
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has her feet in two boats – one is in New Delhi as Railway Minister and the other in West Bengal as the tormentor-in-chief of the CPM led left front Government. When her Trinamul Congress won in the Lok Sabha elections,...
Tags: Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, Buddhadev Bhattacharya, Lok Sabha elections, bandh, road blockages, terror, violence
Maharashtra will stop on 13th October 2009
Maharashtra is the financial capital of India and, whosoever rules this state handles hundreds of crores of rupees and sets standards for conducting business. Naturally, all political parties eye the delicious pie and want to exploit their stay in the...
Tags: assembly elections, bandh, polling booth
Who benefits from bandhs?
Bandh is a sudden, usually unplanned, stoppage of life in large cities – especially in West Bengal. The sufferers are long distances passengers who are coming into the city by train. The trains are stopped at in-between stations where basic facilities...
Tags: bandh, long distance train passengers, stranded, airport, public property
World Environment day and pollution in Kolkata
Today is World Environment day. A report has appeared in the media on the count of the Respirable Particulate Matter (or RPM) for Kolkata. The count was taken on a particular day in March 2009 - it was 135 microgram per cubic meter of gas when measured...
Tags: Mamata Banerjee, pollution, gherao, bandh
The one millionth English word
Shakespeare would have turned in his grave as would those staunch Englishmen who still believe in what is known as Queen’s English. There was a time when Indian words entered the official English dictionary and there was excitement in the air –...
Tags: William Shakespeare, queens english, internet, bandh, gherao, defriend, noob, choconomics
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