Quami Insaaf Morcha, a permanent sit-in agitation started on the Chandigarh-Mohali border by a host of Sikh bodies to demand the release of “Bandi Singhs”, or Sikh prisoners, Sikh political prisoners languishing in jails after having served their terms. These people were jailed in the 1980s and 1990s, the period of militancy in Punjab. Quami...
Bathinda doctors staged a protest on the AIIMS campus alleging that policemen had beaten up their colleague.
Employees of the Municipal Corporation today held a protest and burned the effigy of the Secretary, Local Government Department outside the National Institute of Sports (NIS) to press for enhancement in government contribution to their New Pension Scheme accounts and others. They had been protesting demanding that the increment in their annual salary be done...
Employees of the Health Department today staged a massive protest outside the civil surgeon’s office here in support of the ongoing strike by ministerial employees in the state. Members of health employees’ unions such as the Medical Laboratory Technicians Association, Multipurpose Health Supervisors Union, Multipurpose Health Workers Union, ANM-LHV Union, Staff Nurses Union, Class Four...