Black Day

Delhi doctors on strike for a day to express solidarity with protesting medicos in West Bengal; emergency services to stay open

Healthcare services at private and government hospitals in Delhi are likely to be affected on Friday with scores of doctors deciding to boycott work for a day to express solidarity with their protesting colleagues in Kolkata.

Protests erupt across Assam over Citizenship Amendment Bill; AASU, 30 other ethnic organisations observe 'Black Day'

Protests erupted across Assam on Monday, with some agitators stripping in public, over the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and tabling of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) report on it in Parliament

Sabarimala protests: Hartal and violence in various parts of Kerala; BJP worker dies after being stabbed in Thrissur

Kerala witnessed widespread stone pelting, blocking of vehicles and incidents of violence and vandalism on Thursday as the Hindu outfits called for a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the state against the entry of two women of menstruating age into the Lord Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala.

CPM newspaper shuts in Tripura: Party blames BJP, says over 200 staff now jobless

A 40-year-old CPM newspaper in Tripura, Daily Deshar Katha, has been ordered closed by the government on technical grounds.

43 years since Emergency: BJP to observe 'black day' to mark 'darkest period of Independent India'

To mark the 43rd anniversary of the Emergency imposed by erstwhile prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1975, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will observe a 'black day' on Tuesday.

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi terms Peshawar school attack a 'black day' in Pakistan's history, vows to eliminate militancy

Pakistan on Saturday observed the third anniversary of Peshawar school massacre in which at least 150 people, mostly students, were killed with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi terming it a "black day".

Rahul Gandhi takes poll battle to Modi-Shah bastion of north Gujarat as Congress sees resurgence

With Hardik Patel and Alpesh Thakor having announced their support for Congress, Thakors and Patels in north Gujarat are likely to vote against BJP

Demonetisation anniversary: Opposition observes ‘black day’, stages protests across India

Opposition parties on Wednesday called for street protests to mark the first anniversary of demonetisation, which they observed it as the day of protest

Narendra Modi invited Karunanidhi to his Delhi home for treatment, says MK Stalin

The DMK on Wednesday said no politics was involved in Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting the party's ailing patriarch M Karunandihi, and said the former had invited the nonagenarian leader to Delhi for treatment.

After Manmohan Singh criticises demonetisation, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi says Congress forcing former PM to speak against note ban

Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Wednesday launched an attack on the Congress, alleging that it was forcing former prime minister Manmohan Singh by putting words into his mouth on the demonetisation issue.