Bharat Bandh

What’s open, what’s closed: All you need to know about Bharat Bandh against Agnipath scheme

States are on high alert and have mobilised security personnel to ensure that no untoward incident takes place as several organisations have called for a nationwide bandh over the short-term contractual recruitment programme Agnipath

Several states take measures ahead of possible Bharat bandh tomorrow

Haryana, Jharkhand, Punjab and Kerala have issued guidelines and tightened security to prevent law and order issues on Monday

Explained: Why there’s a call for a Bharat Bandh today?

The All India Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation and affiliated groups have called for a nationwide strike today to protest against the Centre for not conducting a caste-based census and over the issue of reservation for SC/ST/OBCs in the private sector

Bharat Bandh Day 2: Unions continue to protest; banking, public transport hit

A joint forum of central trade unions is protesting against the government policies affecting workers, farmers, and people.

Day 1 of Bharat Bandh: Strike hits banking operations, public transport services in several states

The Confederation of All India Traders, however, has said the strike has been a ‘total flop’ in the informal sector. It also claimed there was no impact visible even in various industrial areas

Bharat Bandh: Public transport services impacted in Haryana as roadways employees join nationwide strike

Commuters had to face a tough time as the bus services remained suspended at several depots of Haryana Roadways

Two-day Bharat bandh starts today: Here's your guide to what's open and what's not

The strike notices have been given by workers' unions in the sectors such as coal, steel, oil, telecom, postal, income tax, copper, banks and insurance, among others

1,100 academicians, intellectuals support Citizenship Amendment Act, 'congratulate' Parliament for 'upholding civilisational ethos of India'

Even as the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests continued across the nation on Saturday, with the death toll in demonstrations rising to six in Uttar Pradesh and arrests in Delhi and detentions in Maharashtra, 1,100 academicians, scholars and intellectuals from various universities of India released a statement in support of the Act.

Bharat Bandh's partial success in Punjab raises questions on SFJ's role in fuelling farm unrest

As thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh were rallying at Delhi’s three interstate border points, SFJ was trying to fish in troubled waters by announcing $1 million in aid for farmers who suffered injuries or damage to property

Bharat Bandh: Roads blocked across Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi as farmers stage protest

Several trains were cancelled, highways and key roads blocked and many thousands stranded for hours on Monday as a nationwide 10-hour shutdown (Bharat Bandh) against the Centre’s three agriculture laws disrupted lives across parts of India, particularly in the north.