Later in the course of the day, another man was doused in flammable liquid and set alight after arguing with protesters, reported BBC. Shortly before 8 a.m., videos emerged of a traffic police officer firing three shots at close range at two black-clad men in the middle-class residential area of Sai Wan Ho, where a group of protesters were blocking traffic
Telangana state police have detained TSRTC employees while they were on a protest march on Saturday. The Telangana State Road Transport Corporation employees were protesting near Tank Bund in Hyderabad.
The nearly 800-member strong Indian Commercial Pilots' Association (ICPA), whose members fly narrow-body planes, has decided to work towards bringing all the unions at the airline under a common platform to oppose privatisation of the airline.
The government said if the employees continued their stir, it would go ahead with the plan to permit private bus operators to run services in 5,000 of the total of 10,400 routes, leading to a situation where the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation virtually ceased to exist.
Neeraja, a conductor working in Sathupally Depot took the extreme step on Sunday night, police Commissioner Tafseer Iqubal said.
On the direction of the Telangana High Court, the TSRTC management on Saturday held talks with the leaders of striking employees but it failed to break the impasse.
Blaming the RTC management for the failure of talks held on Saturday, employees union's leader Aswathama Reddy said they were willing to sit on the negotiating table anytime before the court hearing.
The strike, alongside an indefinite fast by five doctors in the premises of Government Rajiv Gandhi General Hospital here, continued to be on.
Congress Legislature Party leader M Bhatti Vikramarka alleged that there is a conspiracy to make RTC unavailable to people. CPI said its state Assistant Secretary K Sambasiva Rao would launch an indefinite fast from Saturday in support of the strike by Telangana State Road Transport Corporation employees and other demands, including safeguarding RTC.
Mir offered the government to accept their demands so that they could withdraw the call for the countrywide strike.
The management of state-owned Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) told the Telangana High Court on Monday that it has no money to pay salaries for September to the striking employees.
The state-wide bandh called by striking Telangana State Road Transport Corporation employees in support of their demands, passed off peacefully on Saturday, barring stray incidents of pelting of stones at buses.
With no breakthrough achieved since its oral directive three days ago, the Telangana High Court virtually set an ultimatum of October 28 on Friday for the state road transport corporation (TSRTC) and the striking employees' unions for holding talks and settle their disputes.
Terming the strike illegal, the company claimed that the employees were offered the best package revision.
Over 200 striking lifeguards protested near a temple in North Goa's Mapusa town on Monday, demanding regularisation and steady payment.
The 55-year-old aerospace major has about 20,000 employees in 5 production complexes in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Koraput in Odisha, Lucknow and Nashik in Maharashtra and 4 research and development (R&D) centres across the country.
The employees' unions of the city-headquartered HAL have served notice at all locations of the Defence PSU to go on the indefinite strike from October 14 with regard to the settlement of wage revision effective from January 1, 2017.
Police said they were probing why the driver took the extreme step. Srinivas Reddy, working in the Khammam depot, who was part of the group of employees on a state-wide strike for the last died of burn injuries, hospital sources said.
Telangana RTC strike: Telangana government has sacked 48,000 employees of the Telangana State Roads Transport Corporation(TSRTC) with Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao calling the strike -- 'unpardonable crime'.
Hundreds of passengers were stranded at bus stations across the state and people travelling to their destinations for Dasara and Bathukamma festivals faced severe inconvenience as over 10,000 buses remained confined to the bus depots.
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