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AAI employees to go on hunger strike against proposed privatisation of 6 airports

The Airports Authority Employees Union (AAEU) has also warned that staff would go on mass casual leave from 28 December

1 min read9 Dec 2018
Politics

Hardik’s popularity on the wane?

The absence of a crowd near the youth leader's residence in Ahmedabad where he sat on a fast from 25 August for 19 days show that his popularity is on the wane

3 min read20 Sep 2018
Politics

Is Hardik Patel’s call for hunger strike from next month a bid to revive quota stir in Gujarat?

Although there has been a buzz in political circles that Hardik Patel might contest the Lok Sabha elections, the Patidar leader is yet to make his stand clear

2 min read24 Jul 2018
Politics

Delhi Metro employees threaten strike from 30 June

If Delhi Metro employees' 'eight-point demand' is not met by 29 June, they will go on complete hunger strike and work in that condition

2 min read28 Jun 2018
Politics

7th pay commission: Railway employees union calls 72-hour relay hunger strike

Railway employee's union are protesting against non-implementation of the provisions of the seventh pay commission and the attempted privatisation of the national transporter

1 min read8 May 2018
Opinion

The politics of fasting in India after Gandhi

A series of fasts has put the spotlight on a form of non-violent protest popularized by Mahatma Gandhi during the movement to free India from the colonial rule of the British

3 min read23 Apr 2018
Politics

Congress risks forfeiting mileage over slip-ups during hunger strike

The embarrassment started with the circulation of a photo of Congress leaders eating before joining the hunger strike in Delhi

1 min read10 Apr 2018
Politics

Rahul Gandhi says Narendra Modi is ‘casteist’, BJP calls Congress fast a ‘farce’

Rahul Gandhi led Congress' nationwide day-long fast outside Rajghat against caste-based violence, communalism and non-functioning of Parliament for which he blamed BJP, but the latter has termed the fast a 'farce'

3 min read9 Apr 2018
Opinion

How the Anna Hazare stir rekindled hopes of Indian farmers

Through the medium of Anna Hazare, the voice of the farmers has reached the nation's highest quarters

4 min read1 Apr 2018
Politics

Andhra special status: YSR Congress MPs to go on indefinite fast, says Jagan Mohan Reddy

YSR Congress chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy says his party MPs will resign on the last day of ongoing Parliament session, will sit on an indefinite hunger strike demanding for special status for Andhra Pradesh

2 min read31 Mar 2018
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