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  One-day strike against amended Motor Vehicle Act provisions tomorrow

  India | September 18, 2019 20:55 IST

  Commuters may face hardships in the national capital on Thursday as transport bodies have given a one-day token strike call against various provisions of the amended Motor Vehicle (MV) Act, including a steep hike in penalties for various traffic-related offences.

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  Auto Union votes for major strike against General Motors; 50,000 workers off duty

  Business | September 16, 2019 7:48 IST

  About 200 plant-level union leaders voted unanimously in favour of a walkout during a meeting Sunday morning in Detroit. Union leaders said the sides were still far apart on several major issues and they apparently weren’t swayed by a GM offer to make new products at or near two of the four plants it had been planning to close, according to someone briefed on the matter.

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  HongKong students strike on 1st day of school year

  World | September 02, 2019 12:23 IST

  The students, most of them wearing black T-shirts over their uniforms, were expected to head to the city centre for a rally in Edinburgh Place against the now-shelved extradition bill, which would have allowed the transfer of fugitives to jurisdictions with which Hong Kong lacks an extradition deal, including mainland China, the South China Morning Post reported.  

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  Ordnance factory workers call off strike

  Business | August 24, 2019 15:51 IST

  Employees of 41 ordnance factories across the country had begun a strike on August 20 against government's plans to corporatise them as private sector entities.

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  Sanitation workers at Taj Mahal end strike

  India | August 14, 2019 12:35 IST

  Alarmed over a spate of complaints from tourists regarding stinking toilets in the Taj Mahal, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) officials on Wednesday worked out a truce with the striking sanitation workers who returned to work to clean up the mess.  

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  Goa taxi operators end 7-day strike after CM Pramod Sawant assures to address demands

  India | August 09, 2019 9:31 IST

  The seven-day-old strike by tourist taxi operators in Goa was withdrawn on Thursday evening after Chief Minister Pramod Sawant assured to look into their demands following a meeting with union representatives.

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  IMA strike: Non-essential medical services affected in Jaipur

  India | July 31, 2019 21:19 IST

  The day-long strike was in protest of the Lok Sabha approving and passing the National Medical Commission Bill (NMC) 2019. In support of the protest, the Jaipur Association of Resident Doctors (JARD) has decided to go on a 24-hour strike from Thursday at 8.00 am.

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  CITU calls 2-day taxi strike in West Bengal next month

  India | July 25, 2019 9:26 IST

  Anadi Sahu, general secretary of the West Bengal unit of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), said it has become next to impossible for taxi owners to run the cabs under the existing fare rates due to steep rise in fuel prices.

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  A million auto-rickshaws to strike from midnight in Maharashtra

  India | July 09, 2019 9:42 IST

  Demanding a crackdown on illegal auto-rickshaws, aggregator services like Ola-Uber, and a steep fare hike, around a million auto-rickshaws all over Maharashtra will launch an indefinite strike from midnight

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  Delhi's health secretary writes to police chief over ambulance staff strike

  India | July 03, 2019 7:39 IST

  Health Department of the Delhi government has written to the police commissioner seeking action against a section of CATS ambulance staff who have allegedly damaged some emergency vehicles and been obstructing works of others, officials said on Tuesday.

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  Now Kolkata's yellow taxis join app cab strike

  India | July 02, 2019 22:18 IST

  Passengers seemed out of their wits in busy areas like Howrah station, Sealdah station and Esplanade, as the AITUC-affiliated Kolkata Taxi Operaors' Union called a 24-hour strike, adding to the people's woes due to the disruption of services by West Bengal Online Cab Operators' Guild (WBOCOG) and an organization of luxury taxis providing services to the government offices.

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  US cyber forces launch strike against Iranian military computer systems

  World | June 23, 2019 22:53 IST

  The cyber attacks — a contingency plan developed over weeks amid escalating tensions — disabled Iranian computer systems that controlled its rocket and missile launchers, the officials said. Two of the officials said the attacks, which specifically targeted Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps computer system, were provided as options after Iranian forces blew up two oil tankers earlier this month.

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  New Delhi: Resident doctors of AIIMS withdraw strike, to resume their duties with immediate effect

  India | June 18, 2019 10:44 IST

  Patients faced inconvenience on Monday as doctors at government and a few private hospitals in the national capital boycotted work to show solidarity with their striking colleagues in Kolkata.

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  Supreme Court to hear today plea for safety, security of doctors at government hospitals

  India | June 18, 2019 7:17 IST

  A vacation bench of Justices Deepak Gupta and Surya Kant agreed to list the matter for Tuesday after the counsel appearing for the petitioner, advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava, sought urgent hearing.

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  Odisha doctors join nationwide strike

  India | June 17, 2019 13:06 IST

  Out Patient Department (OPD) services have been affected, however, emergency services remained functional.

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  Doctors take out silent protest march in Goa

  India | June 17, 2019 12:51 IST

  Shekhar Salkar, the former chief of Indian Medical Association (IMA), Goa, who took part in the protest march, said, "Doctors were striking work in the coastal state to express solidarity with their colleagues who were recently attacked in West Bengal."

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  Won't attend meeting called by Mamata Banerjee today: Striking doctors

  India | June 15, 2019 12:21 IST

  After her visit to the state-run SSKM Hospital on Thursday, Mamata Banerjee had alleged some outsiders had entered the medical colleges to create disturbances. She had also dubbed the agitation as a handiwork of the CPI(M) and the BJP.

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  AIIMS resident doctors issue 48 hours ultimatum to West Bengal govt to meet demands of striking medics

  India | June 15, 2019 9:24 IST

  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday invited them again to meet her on Saturday evening to end the impasse in government hospitals. The doctors, who struck work for the fourth day Friday, refused to meet the chief minister, demanding an unconditional apology from her.

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  Harsh Vardhan appeals to doctors to hold symbolic protests only and continue to carry out their duties

  India | June 14, 2019 12:57 IST

  Doctors are protesting after two of their colleagues were attacked and seriously injured at the NRS Medical College and Hospital by a mob following the death of a patient. West Bengal CM alleged that opposition BJP and CPI(M) were instigating the protesters as part of a "conspiracy".

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  Doctors' strike in West Bengal: Indian Medical Association to hold protest today | 10 points

  India | June 14, 2019 11:11 IST

  The TMC and the BJP are locked in a bitter turf war in West Bengal, which has been rocked by post-poll violence, with Banerjee accusing the saffron party of trying to foment trouble in the state to topple her government. The BJP has claimed that Banerjee is targeting it as she is rattled by its major gains in Lok Sabha elections.