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.
Train services were disrupted in the Sealdah-Hasnabad division as BJP workers squatted on rail tracks at Bhyabla station in North 24 Parganas district and at South 24 Parganas' Taldi railway station.
Normal life was disrupted in Srinagar on Monday due to a strike called by a religious-cum-separatist organisation against the alleged rape of a three-year-old girl in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Social activist Anna Hazare's indefinite hunger strike entered the fifth day on Sunday even as villagers blocked a state highway in support of his agitation in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, leading to traffic jams in the area.
Emergency services at Safdarjung Hospital here were affected on Sunday as the resident doctors stayed away from work alleging one of their colleagues was manhandled by a Delhi Police head constable's son who had come for treatment.
For nearly seven hours, the negotiations went on but failed to break the deadlock.
BEST employees began the indefinite strike on Tuesday over various demands, including higher salaries and merger of the budget of the loss-making undertaking with that of the BMC.
Agitators blocked the railway tracks and raised slogans. Buses and auto-rickshaws were kept off roads during the strike.
The employees came forward for the strike after the BEST administration failed to come up with any concrete solution to resolve their long-pending demands.
With the failure of conciliation talks, about 10 lakh bankers in private and government banks will go on strike on December 26 protesting against the merger of Bank of Baroda, Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank, the All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) said on Thursday.
The strike was called off after an order by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday.
In comparison to Delhi, fuel rates in bordering states like Uttar Pradesh and Haryana are cheaper, he said.
Thousands of members of the affiliated associations will also go on strike, he added.
Because of low prices in states like UP and Haryana, customers are deserting the petrol pumps in Delhi leading to huge drop in sales, Singhania said.
According to the Roadways union leaders, the government buses have started to go off roads in some depots across the state Tuesday evening.
After senior officials of the central bank held a series of meetings with the union leaders, the logjam ended on Monday.
In Mumbai, school going children faced suffered the most as over 8,000 buses and 40,000 buses across Maharashtra remained off roads in support of the strike called by the All-India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC).
The council members have been protesting over a number of issues, including pay-scale revision, modification of DMRC Staff Council as an employees union, proper guidelines for sacking of an employee and that too in extreme conditions
The JRL (Joint Resistance Leadership), comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, and Mohammad Yasin Malik, called for a complete shutdown on Monday, a JRL spokesperson said in a statement.
Delhi IAS Association agrees to have a word with CM Arvind Kejriwal. CM Kejriwal has assured that safety of IAS officers will be kept in mind.
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