Students Call For Bandh

Terming the committee formed by the Union Railway Ministry to look into the concerns raised by the aspirants of alleged irregularities in Railway Recruitment Board's NTPC stage 1 exam results as a "hoax", student unions have called for "Bihar Bandh".

Tripura's Tribal Students Federation has called off its 12-hour statewide strike on Monday to protest the alleged thrashing of two tribal students for having parked their two-wheeler on the route that Chief Minister Biplab Deb's convoy was to take.

AASU had called a 24-hours bandh after their members were arrested by the Dibrugarh police for allegedly assaulting members of the BJP-linked Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad.

Left parties in West Bengal have called for a 12-hour bandh across the state on Friday to protest a police crackdown on students and youth marching towards Nabanna, the state secretariat, on Thursday.

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh has appealed to several student organisations to withdraw their call for a 48-hourstate-wide bandh beginning from Wednesday midnight, demanding release of the arrested teachers and students of the Manipur University. The chief minister assured that any issue could be resolved through dialogue.

The BJP in West Bengal has called for a bandh on September 26, protesting the death of two students at Islampur in the Uttar Dinajpur district last Friday. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is in Milan in Italy on a government trip, however, said the party won't be allowed to organise the shutdown. The BJP and its ideological mentor Rashtriya Swa...

Several organisations including JKNPP, Jammu Province People's Forum (JPPF) and Sri Ram Sena have called for Jammu bandh today in protest against the alleged police action on outstation students at NIT in Srinagar.

The West Bengal police booked state Congress chief and lawmaker Adhir Chowdhury for attempt to murder and for assaulting government officials and preventing them from entering office during a 12-hour bandh called by his party.

As the Assam Police investigates the case of the death of a woman in Lakhimpur, the Democratic Students' Organisation (DSO) has called for a 12-hour bandh in the district today.

The Left plans 15-minute road blocks and a 12-hour bandh in the Kolkata area where 22-year-old Sudipto Gupta, a student activist who died in police custody, lived. Mr Gupta's family wants the CBI to investigate how he died after being arrested during a students' protest on Tuesday.

In Bihar, Sharad Yadav of the ruling Janata Dal (United) was arrested along with hundreds of others for trying to enforce the Bharat Bandh called by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies to protest against last week's increase in petrol prices.

Life came to a halt in the state capital today during the dawn-to-dusk bandh called by All Arunachal Pradesh Border Students' Union in protest against the state government's failure to resolve the long-pending boundary impasse with neighbouring Assam.

Terming the committee formed by the Union Railway Ministry to look into the concerns raised by the aspirants of alleged irregularities in Railway Recruitment Board's NTPC stage 1 exam results as a "hoax", student unions have called for "Bihar Bandh".

Tripura's Tribal Students Federation has called off its 12-hour statewide strike on Monday to protest the alleged thrashing of two tribal students for having parked their two-wheeler on the route that Chief Minister Biplab Deb's convoy was to take.

AASU had called a 24-hours bandh after their members were arrested by the Dibrugarh police for allegedly assaulting members of the BJP-linked Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad.

Left parties in West Bengal have called for a 12-hour bandh across the state on Friday to protest a police crackdown on students and youth marching towards Nabanna, the state secretariat, on Thursday.

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh has appealed to several student organisations to withdraw their call for a 48-hourstate-wide bandh beginning from Wednesday midnight, demanding release of the arrested teachers and students of the Manipur University. The chief minister assured that any issue could be resolved through dialogue.

The BJP in West Bengal has called for a bandh on September 26, protesting the death of two students at Islampur in the Uttar Dinajpur district last Friday. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is in Milan in Italy on a government trip, however, said the party won't be allowed to organise the shutdown. The BJP and its ideological mentor Rashtriya Swa...

Several organisations including JKNPP, Jammu Province People's Forum (JPPF) and Sri Ram Sena have called for Jammu bandh today in protest against the alleged police action on outstation students at NIT in Srinagar.

The West Bengal police booked state Congress chief and lawmaker Adhir Chowdhury for attempt to murder and for assaulting government officials and preventing them from entering office during a 12-hour bandh called by his party.

As the Assam Police investigates the case of the death of a woman in Lakhimpur, the Democratic Students' Organisation (DSO) has called for a 12-hour bandh in the district today.

The Left plans 15-minute road blocks and a 12-hour bandh in the Kolkata area where 22-year-old Sudipto Gupta, a student activist who died in police custody, lived. Mr Gupta's family wants the CBI to investigate how he died after being arrested during a students' protest on Tuesday.

In Bihar, Sharad Yadav of the ruling Janata Dal (United) was arrested along with hundreds of others for trying to enforce the Bharat Bandh called by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies to protest against last week's increase in petrol prices.

Life came to a halt in the state capital today during the dawn-to-dusk bandh called by All Arunachal Pradesh Border Students' Union in protest against the state government's failure to resolve the long-pending boundary impasse with neighbouring Assam.