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  Bharat Bandh Highlights: Public transport disrupted, shops shut in several regions across country

  India | July 09, 2025 15:21 IST

  Bharat Bandh updates: A nationwide protest, backed by 21 organisations, was called against the Supreme Court’s August 1 verdict permitting states to sub-categorise Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for internal quota allocation.

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  Bharat Bandh called for today, tomorrow; banking services likely to be hit | 10 key points

  India | March 28, 2022 0:06 IST

  The strike notices were given by workers' unions of various sectors such as coal, steel, oil, telecom, postal, income tax, copper, banks and insurance. Read ahead to know what is open, what is closed today and tomorrow amid the bandh.

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  Trade unions call for Bharat Bandh on March 28, 29; banking services likely to be affected

  India | March 27, 2022 10:26 IST

  The Joint Platform of central trade unions held a meeting in Delhi on March 22, 2022, to take stock of the preparations in various states and sectors for the proposed two-day all India strike on 28-29 March 2022.

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  Trade unions urges Nirmala Sitharaman to hike income tax ceiling, minimum wages, pension

  India | December 19, 2019 19:14 IST

  Trade unions urged the government to provide a minimum wage of Rs 21,000, a minimum pension of Rs 6,000 under Employees' Pension Scheme and tax exemption on the annual income of up to Rs 10 lakh in a pre-budget meeting with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday.

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  Trade unions reject government’s offer, refuse to call off September 2 strike

  August 30, 2016 17:30 IST

  Trade unions on Tuesday refused to call off their scheduled strike on September 2 despite the central government agreeing to some of their demands including hiking the minimum wage to Rs 350.

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  PM Modi meets trade union leaders, Team India loses to Zimbabwe: Top 5 News Headlines

  India | July 19, 2015 21:38 IST

  PM Modi meets trade union leaders, hear their views on eco policyNew Delhi: On the eve of the 46th Indian Labour Conference, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met leaders of central trade unions and heard

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  Coal strike hits production; daily loss estimated at 1.5mn tonnes

  January 07, 2015 14:20 IST

  New Delhi: The five-day strike by coal industry workers across the country entered its second day today as negotiations between government officials and union leaders failed late last night. Though Union Coal Minister Piyush Goyal

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  Labour laws reforms: Trade unions to hold protest tomorrow

  India | December 04, 2014 20:18 IST

  New Delhi:  All central trade unions including RSS-affiliated Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) will hold a nationwide stir tomorrow to protest against the “anti-worker” labour laws amendments and the Narendra Modi government's initiative to disinvest public

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  Trade unions stage march in Delhi protesting violation of labour laws

  India | December 13, 2013 9:31 IST

  New Delhi:  Thousands of workers from across the country, including those belonging to the private, unorganised as well as public sectors, marched to Parliament yesterday to push for their long-pending demands related to  remuneration, and

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  PM treats trade unions as untouchables: Gurudas Dasgupta

  Politics | February 03, 2013 6:51 IST

  Kolkata, Feb 3: Accusing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of treating trade unions as 'untouchables', CPI leader and AITUC general secretary Gurudas Dasgupta on Saturday said the two-day general strike called by them this month is