Lucknow Bandh

Samajwadi Party workers came out on the streets of Uttar Pradesh today, raising slogans in support of the ''Bharat Bandh'' called by agitating farmers to press for repeal of the centre's farm laws, leading to clashes with police at many places.

The two-day Bharat bandh called by 11 major trade unions is costing the country about 26,000 crores, according to the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham).

The Uttar Pradesh police, badly outnumbered during violence and vandalism in Noida yesterday, were out in full force today, the second day of the Bharat bandh or strike. They have so far registered 64 cases and arrested 100 people, for the violence, which factory owners claim caused losses of about Rs 600 crore.

Mulayam Singh Yadav, crucial to the survival of the UPA government, has provided the ruling coalition with one of the first pieces of good news it has received this week. Mr Yadav has decided to remain on his home turf of Lucknow to protest against the new reforms introduced by Dr Manmohan Singh last week. In Delhi, Left leaders and the bJP have...

Samajwadi Party and BJP workers on Thursday staged demonstrations and stopped trains at a number of places in Uttar Pradesh in support of the bandh called by them against FDI in multi-brand retail and hike in diesel prices.

The bandh called by NDA, Left and Samajwadi Party (SP) to protest the petrol price hike by the Centre today evoked a good response in the initial hours in Uttar Pradesh with business establishments remaining closed in most parts of the state.

Criticising the Congress-led UPA government for hiking the price of petrol, BSP chief Mayawati said the party would observe a day-long bandh in Uttar Pradesh on May 31 to protest the steep hike.Addressing a meeting of the state's ministers, MPs, MLAs and office bearers, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister on Wednesday asked them to make the masses awa...

Criticising the Congress-led UPA government for hiking the price of petrol, BSP chief Mayawati on Wednesday said the party would observe a day-long bandh in Uttar Pradesh on May 31 to protest the steep hike.Addressing a meeting of the state's ministers, MPs, MLAs and office bearers, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister asked them to make the masses awa...

A number of Samajwadi Party (SP) workers were today injured in police lathicharge when they broke barricades and marched towards Rajbhawan to protest fuel price hike here during Bharat Bandh.The SP workers broke barricades put by the police near the party headquarter and tried to forcibly march ahead leading to lathicharge by police injuring a numb...

In Lucknow, BJP leaders Arun Jaitley and Muqtar Abbas Naqvi have courted arrest after a lathicharge on party workers outside the party's office. Hundreds of BJP protesters had gathered in support of the nation-wide bandh against rise in prices. There were reports of a lathicharge on Samajwadi Party workers outside their party office too a...

Buses burnt in Lucknow; flights cancelled in Kolkata. The 12-hour Bharat bandh called by the Left-led 13- party front against spiralling prices is forcing cities to a stop.

Samajwadi Party workers came out on the streets of Uttar Pradesh today, raising slogans in support of the ''Bharat Bandh'' called by agitating farmers to press for repeal of the centre's farm laws, leading to clashes with police at many places.

The two-day Bharat bandh called by 11 major trade unions is costing the country about 26,000 crores, according to the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham).

The Uttar Pradesh police, badly outnumbered during violence and vandalism in Noida yesterday, were out in full force today, the second day of the Bharat bandh or strike. They have so far registered 64 cases and arrested 100 people, for the violence, which factory owners claim caused losses of about Rs 600 crore.

Mulayam Singh Yadav, crucial to the survival of the UPA government, has provided the ruling coalition with one of the first pieces of good news it has received this week. Mr Yadav has decided to remain on his home turf of Lucknow to protest against the new reforms introduced by Dr Manmohan Singh last week. In Delhi, Left leaders and the bJP have...

Samajwadi Party and BJP workers on Thursday staged demonstrations and stopped trains at a number of places in Uttar Pradesh in support of the bandh called by them against FDI in multi-brand retail and hike in diesel prices.

The bandh called by NDA, Left and Samajwadi Party (SP) to protest the petrol price hike by the Centre today evoked a good response in the initial hours in Uttar Pradesh with business establishments remaining closed in most parts of the state.

Criticising the Congress-led UPA government for hiking the price of petrol, BSP chief Mayawati said the party would observe a day-long bandh in Uttar Pradesh on May 31 to protest the steep hike.Addressing a meeting of the state's ministers, MPs, MLAs and office bearers, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister on Wednesday asked them to make the masses awa...

Criticising the Congress-led UPA government for hiking the price of petrol, BSP chief Mayawati on Wednesday said the party would observe a day-long bandh in Uttar Pradesh on May 31 to protest the steep hike.Addressing a meeting of the state's ministers, MPs, MLAs and office bearers, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister asked them to make the masses awa...

A number of Samajwadi Party (SP) workers were today injured in police lathicharge when they broke barricades and marched towards Rajbhawan to protest fuel price hike here during Bharat Bandh.The SP workers broke barricades put by the police near the party headquarter and tried to forcibly march ahead leading to lathicharge by police injuring a numb...

In Lucknow, BJP leaders Arun Jaitley and Muqtar Abbas Naqvi have courted arrest after a lathicharge on party workers outside the party's office. Hundreds of BJP protesters had gathered in support of the nation-wide bandh against rise in prices. There were reports of a lathicharge on Samajwadi Party workers outside their party office too a...

Buses burnt in Lucknow; flights cancelled in Kolkata. The 12-hour Bharat bandh called by the Left-led 13- party front against spiralling prices is forcing cities to a stop.