Pro-Kannada groups are divided over the statewide bandh protesting the assault on a KSRTC driver in Belagavi last month. Many organisations and establishments have extended only moral support.
Pandher said the decision to give the ’bandh’ call was taken by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha.
On account of the statewide Karnataka Bandh over the Cauvery water-sharing dispute, India's IT capital Bengaluru witnessed a city-wide bandh. These bandhs led to cancelation of 44 flights & a massive traffic jam. But this all came at a cost? How much did Bengaluru suffer this week? Let’s find out.
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The state government has declared a holiday for schools and colleges in Bengaluru and Mandya due to bandh, Bengaluru city police have imposed Section 144 from 12 am on September 29 to 12 am on September 30
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While pro-Kannada groups are united against releasing Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, they are divided over the bandh.
Bengaluru bandh today: Several Kannada outfits, under the banner 'Kannada Okkuta' led by Kannada activists Vatal Nagaraj have called for state-wide bandh on September 29.
Bengaluru Urban Deputy Commissioner has announced that all schools and colleges in Bengaluru will remain closed on September 26 due to the city-wide bandh; Some organizations have withdrawn support
Transport services, including app-based auto rickshaws and cabs, likely to be affected as various driver unions plan to participate in the bandh
Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah had said he would soon hold a meeting with industrialists to discuss the issue over the power hike.
The bandh began at 5 am and thousands of people, including aggrieved aspirants and their parents, came out to the streets of the capital town in the early morning hour demanding cancellation of the scheduled swearing-in of the new APPSC chairman on Friday evening.
The bandh, which commenced at 6.00 a.m., was held by Naba Nirman Krushak Sanghathan (NNKS) and passed off peacefully with no report of any untoward incident from anywhere in the state.
Hundreds of workers marched with the red flags of the labour unions and chanted anti-government slogans in India’s capital on March 29 as part of a two-day nationwide strike that began on March 28.
Talking to PTI Amarjeet Kaur, General Secretary of All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), said, "The two-day nationwide strike by the joint forum of central trade unions has begun this morning".
Carrying bamboo sticks and party flags, bandh supporters gathered at bus stands, railway tracks and other vantage points in all districts of the state since the crack of dawn, unfazed by the winter fog and chilly winds.
The North East Students' Organisation (NESO), backed by various other bodies and political parties, will observe the shutdown till 4 pm against the Bill which was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday.
Though there is a sense of confusion over the GST in Asia’s largest wholesale vegetable market, business was more or less usual, while Chandni Chowk sported a deserted look amid a bandh call to protest against GST.
The curfew imposed yesterday in Mehasana town was lifted this morning, where as the bandh call given by Sardar Patel Group after yesterday's violence in Mehasana town largely remained incident free today, police said.
Rajasthan unit of BJP has called for a state-level bandh on May 18 to protest the CBI charge sheet against Leader of Opposition Gulab Chand Kataria in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case.
Majority of ATMs have dried up in the financial capital of Mumbai and banking operations across the city were hit on the second day of the general strike called by central trade unions for various demands.
Industry body Assocham today expressed the fears that the loss to GDP due to the strike by central trade unions could be about Rs 26,000 crore, higher than its initial estimate of Rs 15,000-20,000 crore.
The market yesterday closed 134 point above at 19635.72 where it posted its biggest gains of the month, as investors purchased software service exporters and defensive shares.
The Shiv Sena on Sunday said that the party has not called any bandh in Maharashtra on Monday in lieu of Balasaheb Thackeray's demise. Uddhav Thackeray's personal secretary Milind Narvekar said that Shiv Sena has not called a bandh either in Maharashtra or in Mumbai on Monday.
Several industrial units in Maharashtra have decided to observe a state-wide bandh on October 25 demanding a rollback of the power tariff hike by the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDCL).