Strike over killings shuts down Indian state
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KOLKATA, India  - A strike over the killing of protesters by police in eastern India shut schools, offices, and businesses on Wednesday, bringing another political headache for a troubled communist-led state government.
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A general strike is held in Indian-controlled Kashmir in protest at the planned execution of a Kashmiri man.
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Business in Indian Kashmir&#39;s main commercial hub halted Friday as traders heeded calls by Islamic militants to strike over Britain&#39;s award of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie.
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Operations of global software companies, financial institutions and government offices in India's main technology hub shut on Wednesday after activists called a strike over a border dispute with a neighboring state.
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An Indian tribal group calls off protests after a week of violence over demands for government benefits.
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SRINAGAR, India, November 17 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ruled out Wednesday, November 18, redrawing India&#39;s borders with Pakistan as a solution to their dispute over Kashmir, as India started pulling out an
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A two day general strike called by the political opposition has shut down much of Bangladesh. The strike is the latest protest against a grenade attack on a political rally that killed 20 people and injured more than a hundred.
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Mexico's mine union said almost all of the country's mines and metals plants were shut on Monday as workers took part in a one-day national strike in memory of 65 men killed by a coal shaft explosion a year ago.
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India has halted all arms sales and transfers to Burma, a development that could increase international pressure on the military junta that brutally crushed the pro-democracy "Saffron Revolution" led by monks this fall.
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New Delhi, Aug 28 (PTI) The All India Motor Transport Congress today called off their seven-day old &#39;indefinite&#39; truckers strike after it reached an agreement with the Government on the contentious issue of service tax and various other demands.
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A dawn-to-dusk strikeÂ call to protest a tribunal order on sharing of river waters brought work at Bangaloreâs IT companies, including outsourcing companies, to a halt Monday.
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Israel was paralysed by a general strike as trade unions imposed a shutdown in protest at local authorities' failure to pay thousands of staff amid a budget clampdown by the right-wing government.
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SRINAGAR, India  - Indian soldiers killed two  militants after a fierce gunbattle in Kashmir's main city  Wednesday, as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh began a  visit to promote peace in the disputed region.
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Shops, schools, offices and businesses across Bangladesh were shut on Monday for the fourth time in a week as a dawn-to-dusk strike called by the opposition in protest
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LUCKNOW, India  - Police closed the Taj Mahal and placed parts of Agra city under curfew on Wednesday after Indian Muslims burned trucks and battled police to protest the deaths of four community members hit by a lorry.
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Indian troops shot dead two rebels who had infiltrated into Indian Kashmir from the Pakistan-controlled zone, while two separatists and nine other people were detained in the region, officials said.
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Organisations in the restive Manipur on Saturday called off their month-long shutdown to press the demand for the withdrawal of a controversial anti-terror law.