Flights cancelled, trains disrupted, trucks and buses off the roads and shops and educational establishments closed and life screeches to a halt.
The Bharath Bandh on Monday was successful in the state. It was evident the ruling BJP ensured the bandh was a total shutdown as normal life was disrupted. The state

The BJP-led NDA and Left parties are all set to enforce a 12-hour all-India bandh on Monday over the recent hike in fuel prices, which is likely to have its maximum impact in the states ruled by these

Enacting a mid-road drama that had motorists cursing, the police on Saturday arrested the Telangana Rashtra Samithi MP, Ms Vijaya shanthi, for making an inflammatory speech exhorting party cadre to chop off the hands of those who opposed Telagana.

Top Maoist leader Azad, alias Cherukuri Raj Kumar, 55, who was in charge of Dandakaranya affairs, was shot dead by the police on Thursday night in Andhra Pradesh’s Adilabad district, bordering Maharashtra, two days after Maoists slaughtered 27 CRPF men in Chhattisgarh.

The Mumbai police claimed to have detected the serial murders and rape of minors in Kurla’s Nehru Nagar area, when they arrested 19-year-old Javed Rehman Shaikh. However, since Javed’s DNA matched with the evidence of only the third victim Nusrat Shaikh, the police suspected that there were more accused involved in the crime.

Even as ruling Congress opted to tread a middle path by asking all the stakeholders to “exercise maximum restraints” in the wake protest and firing by security forces in the Kashmir valley, the government on Tuesday claimed that there are reliable reports to suggest that anti-national elements are trying to exploit the situation in the troubled state.

No action has yet been taken on the complaint lodged by the Railways against a company which published an advertisement, showing railway minister Mamata Banerjee modelling for its brand of hawai chappal. The ad was published in a Kolkata-based newspaper, which belongs to a Trinamul Rajya Sabha MP.

The mobile phone of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi was stolen from the New Delhi IGI airport a few days ago but was recovered later allegedly from the possession of a baggage-loader who admitted that he had stolen it from Mr Gandhi’s baggage, sources said on Monday.

The main Opposition BJP on Monday announced that it will stage a nationwide protest against price rise on July 1. The party also said that it is working on a joint campaign against price rise with other like-minded parties to take on the Congress-led UPA government on the sensitive issue.

The Group of Ministers on Bhopal headed by home minister P. Chidambaram, which submitted its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday, has claimed that Dow Chemicals, which bought Union Carbide in 2001, cannot be made liable for “criminal” offences related to the 1984 gas tragedy.