Supplies

Transporters strike day 3: Govt refuses to budge even as truckers plan protest

Transporters continued their nation-wide strike for the third consecutive day today, disrupting supply of goods to various parts of the country.

Nepal calls in Indian envoy as bilateral unease over new constitution remains

The simmering unease in the Indo-Nepal ties over Nepal's new Constitution was underlined on Friday with the government in Kathmandu calling in the Indian envoy to raise the issue of "obstruction" in the supply of essential goods

One million people wounded in Syria's civil war, says WHO

One million people have been wounded during Syria's civil war and diseases are spreading as regular supplies of medicine fail to reach patients, the World Health Organisationsaid.

Campa Cola: Residents thwart attempts of BMC to cut off supplies

Defiant Campa Cola residents today thwarted attempts by municipal authorities to cut off essential supplies to the illegal flats, blocking their entry into the compound by locking up the gates and forming human barricades.

US halts cargo shipment from Afghanistan through Pak

The United States has temporarily halted shipment of its "retrograde cargo" from Afghanistan in view of the anti-America demonstrations in Pakistan which it believes puts at risk the safety and security of the truckers.