The protest began at 6 am and was observed simultaneously in all district headquarters, with the main demonstration held at Dighalipukhuri in Guwahati.
The Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) will launch a 3-day hunger strike in Kargil in support of their charter of demands including statehood for Ladakh.
In an appeal to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, six senior leaders of the resettled Bru community in Tripura have demanded urgent action on long-pending issues of food security, land rights, and access to welfare schemes.
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has extended an invitation to the Leh Apex Body (LAB) and the Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) for talks in New Delhi on 28 July on granting Sixth Schedule status to Ladakh and other demands.
The lane leading to Malandi village is still cloaked in an eerie silence, broken only by the occasional cry of a mother whose world was shattered on 23 June.
Environmental activists began a relay hunger strike in the Rajasthan capital here on Thursday, even as deadlock with the government over their demand to save the green forest grove in "Dol Ka Badh" continued since last Sunday.
Social activist and self-proclaimed ‘Gorkha yoddha’ Bhabesh Bhujel began a symbolic walk from Kalimpong to Darjeeling on Tuesday, demanding the resignation of the Darjeeling MP and Hill MLAs over the long-standing demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland and separation from Bengal.
The ASHA workers, under the banner of Kerala ASHA Health Workers’ Association (KAHWA), resorted to the hunger strike after two rounds of talks with the state government failed.
Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor ended his hunger strike on Thursday as the Patna High Court started hearing the plea filed by Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) aspirants, and supported by the Jan Suraaj Party.
The indefinite hunger strike by two junior doctors at North Bengal Medical College and Hospital entered its eighth day, with no signs of a resolution. The strike was initiated by postgraduate trainees, Souvik and Aloke, to press for the implementation of a 10-point charter of demands.
