hunger strike

Malda (West Bengal), March 30 Members of the pro-Bengal advocacy group 'Bangla Pokkho' began a hunger strike on Monday in Malda district, demanding that the names of all voters who were removed during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls be included in the supplementary list...

Chandrapur, March 10 Activist Bandu Dhotre was forcibly taken to the hospital by police after his hunger strike against a proposed iron ore mine in the Tadoba tiger corridor in Chandrapur district, Maharashtra, entered its seventh day, although the protest continued on Tuesday.Dhotre launched...

Hyderabad, March 10 Telangana police on Tuesday stopped Telangana Jagruti president K Kavitha from staging an indefinite fast in Khammam, and she was taken to Hyderabad.Kavitha will continue her protest at the office of her organization, Jagruti, sources said.She began an indefinite fast on...

New Delhi, March 10 Several students from Dr BR Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) joined a protest organized by the Delhi unit of the Students' Federation of India (SFI) outside the university gate at Kashmere Gate on Tuesday to condemn the completion of one year since the expulsion of four...

Hyderabad, March 10 – Police in Khammam, Telangana, detained Telangana Jagruti president K Kavitha on Tuesday, who had been on an indefinite fast since Monday night, demanding justice for families displaced from a land parcel in the town.Police forcibly moved her to Hyderabad, but she...

Kolkata, March 9 – Following the lead of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, North Bengal Development Minister Udayan Guha began a hunger strike in Dinhata on Monday to protest what he described as the arbitrary removal of names from the electoral rolls of West Bengal following the Special Intensive...

New Delhi, March 7 Student leaders and activists on Saturday alleged that university administrations across the country are increasingly responding to student dissent through "suspensions, expulsions, and intimidation," reflecting a broader attempt to curb democratic student politics in...

Chandrapur, March 7 Activist Bandu Dhotre's hunger strike, protesting the proposed Lohardongri iron mine project in the Tadoba corridor, which connects the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve to surrounding forests in Chandrapur district, entered its third day on Saturday.Dhotre claimed support from...

Thiruvananthapuram, February 28 A group of government doctors in Kerala has announced that they will march to the DME office on Monday, alleging that authorities are trying to suppress their ongoing indefinite protest.The Kerala Government Medical College Teachers' Association (KGMCTA) said in...

Nashik, February 26 A group of farmers, who were on a hunger strike demanding minimum support prices (MSP) for onions and maize, briefly blocked the Mumbai-Agra national highway in Nashik district of Maharashtra on Thursday, officials said.The farmers had been agitating for the past four days...

Panaji, February 26 Opposition legislators in Goa met Governor P Ashok Gajapathi Raju on Thursday, requesting him to convene a special session of the assembly to discuss a controversial provision of the Town and Country Planning Act.MLA Viresh Borkar of the Revolutionary Goans Party (RGP) has...

Panaji, February 24 Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant was unable to persuade RGP MLA Viresh Borkar to end his fast-unto-death demanding the repeal of a provision in the Town and Country Planning Act that allows the conversion of land in tribal areas into a "settlement zone."Sawant met the...

Panaji, February 24 Viresh Borkar, an MLA from the Revolutionary Goans Party, rejoined the protest on Tuesday against the alleged misuse of a section in the Town and Country Planning Act to convert a tribal area into a "settlement zone".The agitation, which began on February 20, is now in its...

Panaji, February 24 MLA Viresh Borkar of the Revolutionary Goans Party, who has been on an indefinite hunger strike demanding the repeal of a provision in the Town and Country Planning Act, has been shifted to the hospital after his health deteriorated.Opposition parties, led by Borkar, have...

Thiruvananthapuram, February 22 The Mahila Congress has announced a five-phase agitation against alleged price increases and anti-women policies of the Kerala government.As part of the first phase of the protest, a 24-hour-long hunger strike will be held in front of the state Secretariat here...

Thiruvananthapuram, February 22 The Mahila Congress has announced a five-phase agitation against alleged price increases and anti-women policies of the Kerala government.As part of the first phase of the protest, a 24-hour-long hunger strike will be held in front of the state Secretariat here...

Kohima, February 16 The agitation launched by ad hoc teachers in Nagaland to press their demand for service regularization entered its 10th day on Monday, with the demonstrators rejecting the government's request to withdraw the strike.Members of the All Nagaland Adhoc Teachers’ Group (ANATG)...

Faridabad, February 14 More than 40 inmates at Neemka Jail here went on a hunger strike after their weekly phone calls were reduced and they allege that their protests were met with abuse and threats.The inmates detailed their grievances in a note that has surfaced online on Saturday. Jail...

Kohima, February 13 The All Nagaland Ad-hoc Teachers Group (ANATG)-2015 Batch on Friday put its indefinite hunger strike on hold while continuing its agitation for the long-standing regularization of service for its 1,166 members, as the protest entered its ninth day.The decision was made...

Kohima, February 13 The All Nagaland Ad hoc Teachers Group (ANATG)-2015 batch shifted its hunger strike to the Directorate of School Education on Friday, intensifying the protest to demand the regularisation of services for its 1,166 members.The agitation entered its ninth day on Friday, which...